Dental Cavity Grading: Comparing Algorithm Reliability and Agreement with Expert Evaluation.

Aim: The current study introduces a novel, algorithm-based software developed to objectively evaluate dental cavity preparations. The software aims to provide an alternative or complement to traditional, subjective assessment methods used in operative dentistry education.

Materials And Methods: The software was tested on cavity preparations carried out by 70 participants on artificial molar teeth.

A moderated mediation analysis on the influence of social support and cognitive flexibility in predicting mental wellbeing in elite sport.

The purpose of this study was to examine the mechanism by which social support influences mental wellbeing. Using the thriving through relationships model to provide a theoretical underpinning, cognitive flexibility was hypothesised as a mediator. Additionally, the research examined the consistency of this pathway between elite athletes, retired athletes, and non-athletes.

Primary and Secondary Psychopathic Traits: Investigating the Role of Attachment and Experiences of Shame.

Primary and secondary psychopathic traits have been documented in the general population and previous research has shown their link to adult insecure attachment and shame. However, there has been a gap in the literature examining the specific role of attachment avoidance and anxiety, and experiences of shame in the expression of these psychopathic traits. This study aimed to explore the associations between the attachment dimensions of anxiety and avoidance, in addition to characterological, behavioral and body shame with primary and secondary psychopathic traits.

Difficulties in facial emotion recognition: taking psychopathic and alexithymic traits into account.

Background: Alexithymic and psychopathic traits are closely associated, but distinct constructs. Both have been associated with facial emotion processing deficits reflecting empathy deficits, however the underlying mechanism contributing to these deficits is not well-understood.

Methods: This study investigated facial emotion recognition performance in a non-clinical sample (N = 110) including both male and female participants, with varying levels of psychopathic and alexithymic traits.

Physiological reactivity to fear moderates the relation between parenting distress with conduct and prosocial behaviors.

This study investigated whether the associations between parental distress with conduct problems (CPs) and prosocial behaviors (PBs) are moderated by children's skin conductance (SC) and heart rate (HR) reactivity to fear. Participants were 147 Greek-Cypriot children (M  = 7.30, 44.