Intolerance of Uncertainty Moderates the Relation Between the Choice to Access Health Information and Post-Choice Distress Among Individuals Prone to Health Anxiety.

Access to health information has steeply grown, mainly through the availability of online health information. Associated with a number of potential benefits, accessing health information can be non-adaptive and particularly for individuals prone to health anxiety. For those individuals, accessing health information often serves as reassurance seeking to assuage health concerns.

Efficacy of smoking cessation therapy alone or integrated with prolonged exposure therapy for smokers with PTSD: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is related to an increased risk of smoking cessation failure. In fact, the quit rate in smokers with PTSD (23.2%) is one of the lowest of all mental disorders.

Explicit beliefs about aggression, implicit knowledge structures, and teen dating violence.

This study examined whether explicit beliefs justifying aggression and implicit knowledge structures theorized to facilitate aggression both contributed to between-subjects differences in teen dating violence (TDV). In addition, this research examined the contribution of explicit and implicit cognitions in the prediction of within-subjects changes in TDV over a 6-month period. Participants were 147 14- to 17-year-olds (48 % female) recruited from courts and agencies providing services to adolescents in trouble because of antisocial behavior.