Background: Humans interact with multiple stimuli across several modalities each day. The "redundant signal effect" refers to the observation that individuals respond more quickly to stimuli when information is presented as multisensory, redundant stimuli (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: To determine whether transdiagnostic risk, represented as elevations in one high-risk personality trait, interacts with behavior-specific risk, represented as elevated expectancies for reinforcement from either drinking or smoking, to account partly for early adolescent drinking and smoking behavior.
Design: Multiple regression analysis.
Setting: Twenty-three public schools in two school systems in the United States.
Multisensory environments facilitate behavioral functioning in humans. The redundant signal effect (RSE) refers to the observation that individuals respond more quickly to stimuli when information is presented as multisensory, redundant stimuli (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Social media has increasingly become a venue for health discourse and support, particularly for vulnerable individuals. This study examines user-generated content of an online Reddit community targeting individuals recovering from opiate addiction.
Methods: 100 Reddit posts and their comments were collected from the online community on August 19, 2016.