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Previous research suggests that individuals abused as children are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior during adulthood. The present study examined early maladaptive schemas as mediators of the child abuse-risky sexual behavior relationship among 653 college women. Self-report surveys assessed three forms of child abuse: Sexual, physical, and emotional, and assessed early maladaptive schemas within two domains: Disconnection/rejection and Other-Directedness. Disconnection/rejection schemas fully mediated the relation between child emotional abuse and number of sexual partners and partially mediated the relationship for sexual and physical abuse. However, when frequency of specific risky sexual acts (e.g., sex without contraception) was examined in the previous six months, only abandonment was a partial mediator. Implications for intervention and future research are discussed.

This work demonstrates an interface, Creative Help, that assists people with creative writing by automatically suggesting new sentences in a story. Authors can freely edit the generated suggestions, and the application tracks their modifications. We make use of a Recurrent Neural Network language model to generate suggestions in a simple probabilistic way. Motivated by the theorized role of unpredictability in creativity, we vary the degree of randomness in the probability distribution used to generate the sentences, and find that authors' interactions with the suggestions are influenced by this randomness.