Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and re...

The built environment has been postulated to have an impact on neighborhood crime rates, however, measures of the built environment can be subjective and differ across studies leading to varying observations on its association with crime rates. Here, we illustrate an accurate and straightforward approach to quantify the impact of the built environment on neighborhood crime rates from high-resol...

Understanding intentionality is a necessary feature of joint activities involving interdependent agents. This challenge has increased alongside the deployment of autonomous systems that are to some degree unsupervised. This research aims to reduce the number of intentionality recognition breakdowns between people and autonomous systems by designing systems to support the awareness of informatio...

Estimating primary productivity over time is challenging for plant ecologists. The most accurate biomass measurements require destructive sampling and weighing. This is often not possible for manipulative studies that involve repeatedmeasures over time, or for studies in protected areas. Estimates of aboveground plant biomass using allometric equations or linear regression on single plant trait...

OBJECTIVES The purposes of this study were 1) to determine compliance with a pedometer and mobile phone- based physical activity diary, and 2) to assess concordance between self-reported daily steps recorded and transmitted by a mobile phone and pedometer-measured daily steps in sedentary women. METHODS In this 3-week pilot clinical study, 41 sedentary women who met all inclusion criteria wer...

Two event-contingent diary studies investigated whether people of diVerent attachment styles value partners for diVerent reasons (e.g., self-esteem regulation, closeness). In Study 1, preoccupied individuals more positively regarded partners when they provided help with selfregulatory functions, and they did so to a greater extent than either secure or dismissing-avoidant individuals. In Study ...

(in press). Unraveling affective dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: A theoretical model and empirical evidence. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. … Kuppens, P. (in press). Unraveling affective dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: A theoretical model and empirical evidence. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2 ABSTRACT Although emotion dysregulation has consistently been c...

This paper reports a diary-based qualitative study on college students’ reading habits with regard to print and electronic media. Students used a form to record information about their reading practices for twelve days, including length of reading event, location, format used and the purpose of reading. Students tended to use print for academic and long-form reading and to engage with it more d...

Everyday situational factors may substantially affect individuals’ success or failure in remembering to perform deferred tasks (i.e., prospective memory). We designed a diary study to explore the types and dimensions of prospective memory situations in everyday life that have not been well examined in laboratory investigations. Eight participants recorded intentions for a week. Results suggest ...

The authors evaluated emotional avoidance as a mediator of the relation between attachment avoidance (i.e., fear of dependency) and emotional disclosure and rumination as a mediator of the relation between attachment anxiety (i.e., fear of rejection) and emotional disclosure. Two operational definitions were used for each of three variables – emotional avoidance, rumination, and emotional discl...