Austin McNeill Brown

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Strategies for eliciting proximal and distal thoughts of social death?

Terror Management Theory experiments often manipulate death thoughts. However, less has been done to elicit thoughts of social death. What are some possible strategies to manipulate social death...

21 August 2019 4,451 0 View

What is the best review of SURP metrics (substance use risk and personality)?

I am looking for the best review regarding the use of SURP measures and a copy of the metric as well.

29 October 2018 638 1 View

For future reference, what is the best statistical means of deriving predictive conclusions from categorical data?

Given a set of categorical answers on a report how can the data be best analyzed to derive some degree of linkages, and even predictive capacity from such data. For example: Linking insurance...

04 May 2018 2,268 4 View

If you were to create a substance use risk prevention program to give to an entire first year class of college students, how would you build it?

If you had a chance to create an entirely new prevention model for first year college students, what key ideas, prevention models, research, and methods would you use?

13 February 2017 3,554 2 View

What is a well established survey to measure mid and trait level changes over time?

Is there a preferable measure to use in examining deep personality trait changes over time?

22 July 2016 5,975 5 View

Is the "Problems From Substance Use" scale (Ouimette, Finney, & Moos. 1999) still used?

What is a good metric for measuring consequences and problems from substance use? Is the PFSU scale (1999) still utilized and if not, what are some good ways to measure problems related to...

19 March 2016 9,051 6 View

What differentiates tobacco dependency from typical substances of abuse like alcohol?

It is clear that the experience of addiction to tobacco is different from the experience of addiction to alcohol, or something like cocaine. If we agree that addiction is socially constructed...

18 December 2015 6,535 6 View

Is there a standard etiquette to utilizing surveys built by other researchers, especially if you modify them?

I am building a social support survey utilizing three established surveys, and adding three of my own questions. I am tailoring this survey to examine a specific population of college students...

10 December 2015 2,376 4 View

Which studies provide the best evidence for TMT the role of Mortality Salience?

I am writing a section of a paper titled "Evidence for Terror Management Theory". While I have read most of the evidence for TMT and the role of MS, I am having trouble finding comprehensive...

24 November 2015 4,063 3 View

What are a few good strengths-based assessment tools?

I am looking at a way to better assess strengths of individuals within a collaborative organization, how can I best evaluate their individual strengths through a single deploy-able metric?

11 November 2015 7,055 6 View

What is the best way to measure baseline death anxiety in static samples?

I am wanting to generate a pre-test of death anxiety in subjects without using any mortality salience primer. My hypothesis is that people who fit DSM criteria for active substance abuse will...

31 October 2015 7,792 6 View

What are the leading articles comparing taper-to-abstinence medication assisted treatment for opioid dependency, vs MAT with no definitive timeline?

I am looking for a long term outcomes study comparing outcomes of taper-to-abstinence vs replacement with either no timeline or patient defined timelines.

07 October 2015 2,181 5 View

Does anyone know of any studies which link long term recovery from substance abuse and individual improvement in socioeconomic status?

I am looking at public policy dealing with child abuse and neglect, specifically the role of DCF in dealing with opiate-dependent parents. What I am wanting to show is that long term...

06 October 2015 6,043 3 View

I want to publish a theoretical paper on addiction but it is 37 pages long, any tips for scaling it for publishing?

My working theoretical paper for my Critical Existential Failure of Addiction and Recovery is very long and heavily sourced. Aside from the background introduction, are there any tips for scaling...

06 August 2015 2,358 8 View

What are the strengths and drawbacks of utilizing hierarchical clustering in order to examine multi-domain measurements?

Utilizing the scores from several domain specific metrics, I have run hierarchical clustering to determine where specific domain scores from different metrics tend to cluster. My questions are1.)...

01 January 1970 8,318 3 View