Publications by authors named "S D Lorimer"

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  • The study investigates how anticipated regret and anticipated relief affect men's intentions and behaviors related to testicular self-examination (TSE).
  • Researchers found that anticipated counterfactual relief and anticipated regret positively predict TSE intentions, while anticipated temporal relief has a negative effect.
  • The findings suggest that focusing on counterfactual emotions can help improve interventions promoting preventive health behaviors like TSE.
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Background: The evolution of warfare has resulted in a surge of high-energy blast injuries predominantly involving the lower extremities. Once thought to impact only forward-deployed military, such mechanisms of injury are becoming a harsh reality even in civilian territory. Proficiency in surgical techniques for extremity damage control is vital for surgeons, regardless of specialty.

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People's emotional states are influenced not just by events occurring in the present but also by how events have unfolded in the past and how they are likely to unfold in the future. To what extent do young children understand the ways in which past events can affect current emotions even if they are no longer ongoing? In the current study, we explored children's ability to understand how others feel at the cessation of events-as events change from being present to being past. We asked 97 4- to 6-year-olds (40.

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Case: A 15-month-old boy who was being followed for developmental dysplasia of the hip because of breech presentation was discovered to have a solitary infantile myofibroma in the left femoral neck. The patient was avoiding weight-bearing on the affected extremity; thus, stabilization of the femoral neck was performed using a proximal femur locking plate. Postoperatively, he achieved all gross motor developmental milestones.

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Objective: Anticipated regret has been found to predict vaccination intentions and behaviours. We examined whether anticipated relief also predicts seasonal influenza vaccination intentions and behaviour. Given claims about differences in their antecedents and function, we distinguished between counterfactual relief (relief that a worse outcome did not obtain) and temporal relief (relief that an unpleasant experience is over).

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