Olivia E. Gunther’s research while affiliated with McGill University and other places

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Comparison of concordance and predictive validity of head injuries from parental reports and medical records
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July 2024

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Objective: To examine agreement between parental reports of head injury and evidence of head injury in medical records and to compare these two measures in predicting early conduct disorder (CD). Design and setting: Parent survey data was compared with records of child head injury from the National Health Services Register (Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec, RAMQ) administrative database. Participants: Children (N = 685) ages 6-9 with and without CD. There were 147 children with RAMQ recorded head injury and 39 children with parent-reported head injury. Main measures: Indication of one or more head injury before 6 years of age as reported by parents and/or as noted in medical data. Early CD (present by age 9) according to parents and/or teachers. Results: Results indicated poor agreement between the two forms of reporting κ = .161 (95% CI, .083 to .239), p < 0.001. Medical data significantly predicted the presence of CD in children, with a RAMQ coded head injury suggesting a child was 1.88 times more likely to have CD. Parent reports of head injuries did not significantly predict CD. Conclusion: Medical data should be prioritized in research addressing pediatric head injury, given that parent reports may fail to capture incidence of injury and therefore may be less predictive of other known correlates of head injury.


Multiple regressions with orthogonal contrasts.
Addressing Behavior and Policy Around Meat: Associating Factory Farming With Animal Cruelty “Works” Better Than Zoonotic Disease
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... Most relevant to the current research is work on the 'meat-paradox', which relies on a specific form of cognitive dissonance stressing the importance of the personal and behavioral commitment in dissonance arousal (Bastian & Loughnan, 2017; but see Rothgerber, 2020). Literature on the meat-paradox demonstrates that when people experience psychological con ict between their meat-eating practices and the harm experienced by animals in the meat production process, it increases their moral discomfort and guilt, and people try to reduce their responsibility by reducing their intentions to eat meat (e.g., Earle, Hodson, Dhont, & MacInnis, 201 ;Gunther, MacInnis, Hodson, & Dhont, 2023;Kunst & Hohle, 201 ), but people also engage in dementalization mechanisms to reduce the negative emotions raised by their consumptions (Bastian, Loughnan, Haslam, & Radke, 2012). When people face objectifiedanimals (i.e., meat-animals) and the moral implications of eating them, then denying the ualities that make those animals morally relevant, namely their capacity to think and feel, is an efficient way to minimize and rationalize the harm animals experience during the meatproduction process (Loughnan, Bastian, & Haslam, 2014). ...

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Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial ☆
Addressing Behavior and Policy Around Meat: Associating Factory Farming With Animal Cruelty “Works” Better Than Zoonotic Disease