Kathleen Malley-Morrison

Boston University | BU · Psychological and Brain sciences

Purpose This study aim to examine the themes of moral disengagement (MD) and engagement in reasoning regarding a putative governmental right to kill innocent civilians when fighting terrorism. Design/methodology/approach In total, 147 participants from Israel, 101 from the USA and 80 from South Africa provided quantitative rating scale responses a...

The mechanisms linking childhood maltreatment and eating pathology are not fully understood. We examined the mediating role of limbic system dysfunction in the relationships between three forms of childhood maltreatment (parental psychological maltreatment, parental physical maltreatment, and parental emotional neglect) and eating disorder symptoms...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine associations between fear of terrorism and several predictors (gender and nationality) and outcomes (moral disengagement, authoritarianism, aggression and social anxiety) in the USA and South Korean young adults. Of particular interest were the potential moderating and mediating roles of moral diseng...

Most African societies are predominantly collectivist in nature with social relations forming their core basis of group identity. The affinity for that which protects the interests and identity of the group has come to be not just the source of strength for these societies, but also their bane, especially in the context of the development of the Af...

Childhood maltreatment has many deleterious outcomes; however, trait resilience as well as emotion regulation strategies, including suppression and reappraisal, may mediate between childhood maltreatment and later perceived stress. For this study, 267 college students (183 females and 84 males; M age = 19.77, SD = 2.29) completed self-report measur...

Presents an obituary for Sherri McCarthy (1958–2017). A Professor of Educational Psychology at Northern Arizona University–Yuma, Sherry was instrumental in establishing their Human Relations Graduate Program. She was a fellow of Division 52 (International Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and active in Divisions 2 (Teaching of P...

Studies have explored associations between spontaneous (i.e., automatic responses without external instructions on how to regulate emotion) emotion regulation strategies and physiological (e.g., respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA), psychological, and behavioral responses under various stress conditions (e.g., Egloff et al., 2006; Volokhov et al., 20...

The aim of the study was to examine sex differences in spontaneous emotion regulation strategies, physiological, psychological, and behavioral responses to Trier Social Stress Test

Reviews the book, The Global Hillary: Women's Political Leadership in Cultural Context edited by Dinesh Sharma (see record 2017-08021-000 zfxteuvusdyycv ). Hillary Clinton is often labeled a feminist by the book’s chapter authors, yet there is remarkably little discussion of her policy proposals and how these would actually improve women’s lives. T...

Previous research has indicated that childhood maltreatment is predictive of psychiatric symptoms in adulthood. Among the potential intervening factors in this relationship are affective reactions in the victims, neurodevelopmental problems, and resilience. The purpose of this study was to test, in a nonclinical low-risk sample, an integrative deve...

A sample of 1,043 participants from 3 regions in the Global South (South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America) responded to the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression and Peace Survey (PAIRTAPS). Participants' descriptions of what they would want to do if directly exposed to 3 specific human rights violations (torturing a prisoner...

The main goal of this study was to compare differences within and between ethnic groups in their perspectives on what constituted child maltreatment and how severe (extreme, moderate, or mild) they perceived different types of maltreatment to be. A sample of 150 European American, Korean American, and Korean college students completed a survey aski...

Growing up in the United States is a risky business for large numbers of children—particularly children of the poor and children of color, who disproportionately become involved in the child welfare system. Many children face extreme violence within families and communities; for example, in 2009, nearly 2,500 of the nation’s children were killed by...

Reviews the book, Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It by Owen Everett (2013). This short but engaging book is the product of an international conference held in 2012 by activists committed to resisting the militarization of youth. From chapter to chapter, covering a total of 32 countries from Africa, the Middle East, Eur...

This chapter introduces the International Handbook of Peace and Reconciliation, the second volume in a series being published by Springer; the first volume was the International Handbook of War, Torture, and Terrorism. This chapter begins by describing the Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace (GIPGAP) and interna...

This chapter provides an overview of the major themes found in qualitative responses of more than 3,400 participants from eight different regions of the world to items related to peace, reconciliation, protest, and apology from the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression and Peace Survey. In general, participants from all regions gave more...

Gender-sensitive treatment of anger presupposes gender differences in anger. However, such differences have been the subject of stereotypy as much as scholarship. This chapter reveals that males and females differ far more in anger expression styles than in the experience of anger. Gender differences in anger also occur as a function of the context...

This online resource provides information and instruction on empirically supported interventions for anger in various clinical contexts, including substance abuse, PTSD, the intellectually disabled, borderline personality disorder, children and adolescents, and others. Ten chapters focus on specific populations, while two additional chapters discus...

Reviews the book, Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace edited by Peter T. Coleman and Morton Deutsch (see record 2012-18164-000 ). This book is, in the reviewer's opinion, a testament to advances in knowledge concerning conflict resolution and peace building. It presents social psychological paradigms generating serious empirical efforts t...

Reviews the book, The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse by Niza Yanay (see record 2012-26296-000 ). As a psychoanalyst, Yanay places responsibility for violence on individual unconscious processes as well as on the agents of power who manipulate them. She describes basic conflicts in the political unconscious between love and hate,...

How do ordinary people from different regions around the world define peace and reconciliation? What factors do they think are necessary for promoting reconciliation between countries? Do they believe that individuals have a right to protest against war and in favor of peace? Do they believe that apologies can improve the chances of reconciliation?...

Armed conflict, on domestic or foreign soil, impacts people’s daily lives and shapes policy around the world. Millions live with the threat of terrorism, whether from random sources or known enemies. And the acceptability of torture is debated by politicians and public alike. The International Handbook of War, Torture, and Terrorism synthesizes his...

This article summarizes current knowledge concerning child abuse in the United States. It discusses major approaches to assess the incidence and prevalence of child abuse, including the national family violence surveys (NFVS), national incidence studies (NIS), and national child abuse and neglect data system (NCANDS) surveys. It mentions the estima...

Reviews the book, APA handbook of intercultural communication by David Matsumoto (see record 2009-22545-000 ). Authors publishing a handbook with the institutional authority of the American Psychological Association (APA) on a subject as multivalent and contested as culture and communication ought to be commended out front for their bravery. The im...

Sibling abuse has been studied much less extensively than other forms of family violence in the United States; moreover, research on how sibling abuse is viewed in different ethnic-minority groups has been rare. Convenience samples of Native American (n = 25), Latino/Hispanic (n = 45), African American (n = 30), European American (n = 78), Asian Pa...

Orientations towards apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation were investigated from an ecological world-view approach in 543 men and women. Participants completed the Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation Scale, the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression Scale, the Revised Conflict Tactic Scales, an attachment measure and several demog...

Reviews the book, The aid triangle: Recognizing the human dynamics of dominance, justice, and identity by Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart C. Carr, and Eilish McAuliffe (see record 2010-14021-000 ). Before the worldwide recession—indeed, before the formalization of the goals themselves—the very concept of international humanitarian aid had already been c...

Reviews the book, Staying with conflict: A strategic approach to ongoing disputes by Bernard Mayer (see record 2009-03451-000). The term conflict resolution has been used as a synonym for a number of related forms of intervention such as dispute resolution, mediation, and negotiation. Traditionally, the underlying assumption common to all these p...

This paper analyses the consequences of the United Nations' failure to resolve the Western Sahara dispute. The UN Secretariat's lack of transparency in its early effort to get the conflicting parties to agree to hold a referendum to decide the territory's future strengthened the persistent distrust of the UN. Also, the comparatively low human cost...

If child custody decisions are based on erroneous beliefs, family courts may not be acting in the best interests of children. This study examined family court professionals' beliefs about family violence. Respondents (N = 410) of diverse professions, including child custody mediators, evaluators, and therapists, family law attorneys and judges,...

Reviews the book, A nation of wimps: The high cost of invasive parenting by Hara Estroff Marano (see record 2008-06556-000). The Broadway Books press release for Hara Estroff Marano's A nation of wimps: The high cost of invasive parenting describes the book as a dire warning to American parents that because of their overinvolvement in their chil...

The current authors respond to Renshon and Suedfeld's rebuttal (see record 2007-19681-001) of the current author's review (see record 2007-09143-001) of Renshon and Suefeld's book Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and strategy in an age of terrorism(see record 2007-01104-000). In style and substance, Renshon and Suedfeld's Point refl...

Since the 1970s, researchers and public health and/or social policy communities have devoted increasing attention to family violence. Although officially reported crime figures for family violence appear to be declining, rates continue to be high in broadly defined racial and/or ethnic minority groups. More careful assessments of the potential role...

Reviews the book, New Developments in Child Abuse Research , edited by Stanley M. Sturt (see record 2006-09695-000 ). The reviewer questions several editorial decisions with regard to this volume, noting that some of the chapters contribute to ongoing research endeavors, and some address issues related to judicial approaches to child abuse. It is f...

Reviews the book, Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines by John R. Baldwin, Sandra L. Faulkner, Michael L. Hecht, and Sheryl L. Lindsley (see record 2005-12997-000 ). This three part book is about definitions of culture rather than about culture. It is written much more from communications and anthropological perspectives than fro...

The purpose of this exploratory study was to analyze Russian perceptions of elder abuse as reflected in their examples of abusive behavior from an adult child to an aging parent. Also of interest was the possibility of gender differences in the Russian perspectives on elder abuse. The convenience sample consisted of 21 Russian participants (10 male...

This introduction to the special issue on international perspectives on elder abuse presents basic elements of a cognitive-ecological approach to elder abuse. It also describes the research project out of which the current set of studies emerged, and provides a rationale for the five case studies (Japan, Germany, African Americans, Israel and Brazi...

The population of the world is aging rapidly—a development that the World Health Organization (2004) has labeled as “a demographic revolution.” According to its statistics, there are currently 600 million people in the world over the age of 60, a figure that will double by 2025 and double again by 2050. Within this age group, the numbers of the “ol...

Reviews the book "Emotional Intelligence: An International Handbook" by Ralf Schulze and Richard D. Roberts (Eds.) (see record 2005-06828-000). This book is organized into four major sections. The first section (Introduction) contains chapters focusing primarily on contextual and theoretical issues related to the construct of emotional intelligenc...

Reviews the book by Lalumière et al (see record 2005-00308-000 ) which examines why some men are prone to rape, offers probable causes for this inclination, and provides a comprehensive review of scientific studies of coercive sex. The authors are critical of many current conceptions of male rape; moreover, they view interventions based on these co...

Norbert Ross, in his book Culture and Cognition: Implications for Theory and Method (see record 2004-00245-000 ), argues that it is time to bridge the gap between psychology (particularly cognitive psychology) and anthropology to better understand the ways in which cultural processes influence thought and reasoning. In his view, there is a critical...

Every two years, exit polls become the most widely analyzed, written about, and discussed data-set in the United States. Although exit polls are known for their use in predicting elections, they are in fact the best tool for explaining election results. Exit polls are taken from actual voters, whereas pre-election polls that tally people's intended...

The dissertation is the oldest consistent requirement for becoming a doctor in most academic disciplines in the United States. The dissertation, which has its roots in the 19th Century German educational system, is the central requisite for the highest level of educational attainment, the doctor of philosophy (Rosenberg, 1962). It is distinguished...

This article discusses the research on abuse against men in intimate relationships with a primary focus on the effects of this abuse. We begin by discussing the incidence of physical aggression against men, then address methodological and conceptual issues associated with the incidence data. We next review studies assessing the effects of aggressio...

The contribution of attachment styles to social intimacy and expectations of friends was investigated in Caucasian American and Korean young adults. Koreans scored higher on preoccupied attachment, lower on intimacy, and lower on friendship expectations. In regression analyses, secure attachment contributed positively and dismissive attachment cont...

In this cross-cultural study of young adults' judgments of the abusiveness and typicality of caregivers abusive behaviors toward an elderly person, data were collected from 100 Caucasian-American and 115 Korean college students. All participants completed Bartholomew's four-category measure of attachment styles as well as Mills' Elderly Caregiving...

Significant differences in the judgement of levels of normality, justifiability and abusiveness were generally found on severely physical and psychological abuse variables such as hitting and threatening. Different levels of frequencies on tolerance judgments for different variables between the different ethnic groups were found. Most of the signif...

This study examined recollections of parental acceptance and control and perceptions of the abusiveness and typicality of care-giver behaviors toward elderly adults in Korean and Caucasian American undergraduate students. American students recalled their fathers and mothers as more accepting and more controlling than did Korean students. Korean stu...

Using brief scenarios describing adult caregiver/elder parent interactions, college students made judgments about how justifiable aggressive behavior by caregivers were, the abusiveness of these behaviors, and the abusiveness of the behavior of the elderly parent. The extent of students' contact with their grandparents was obtained. Results indicat...

A model of how individuals in premarital relationships arrive at attributions for abusive partner behaviors was assessed. Evaluations of the abusiveness of partner behaviors and level of emotional commitment were of particular interest. Three categories of behaviors were examined: (a) physical abuse, (b) psychological abuse, and (c) sexual abuse. P...

ABSTRACT In response to offenses, people may: 1) forgive others overtly and directly after receiving apologies from offenders; 2) apologize to victims overtly and directly, saying “sorry”; 3) forgive offenders or apologize to victims covertly, within themselves, but not by anything they say; 4) make efforts to induce victims to forgive them by over...

SUMMARY Previous literature does not examine the dynamics between attachment style, cultural affiliation and alcohol expectancies; however, there is significant research in the individual areas and between dyads of variables. In this study, correlations were calculated from questionnaire results obtained from a psychology research methods course. R...