Browsing College of Psychology and Liberal Arts by Issue Date
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LOCUS-OF-CONTROL IN AN INTERACTIONIST APPROACH TO BEHAVIOR
(1982)The impetus for this empirical study is: 1) to provide further construct validity for the I-E scale; and 2) to advance the locus-of-control construct as an important concept in the growing theoretical model of interactionism. ... -
MCMI - III Profiles of Combat Veterans: Predictors of Educational and Vocational Impairment
(1998-07)This study investigated the ability of four selected scales on the MCMI-III, Passive Aggressive, Avoidant, Antisocial and PTSD to determine the amount of variance contributed by each of the scales as predictors of educational ... -
When Personality Traits Need a Frame of Reference: Enhancing the Predictive Validity of Non-cognitive Measures.
(2003-12)The reconsideration of personality among personnel specialists is partly due to the discovery of the five-factor model of personality or the "Big Five" (Costa, 1996). In the years following the acceptance of this taxonomy, ... -
The epidemiology of soccer heading in competitive youth players
(2009)We administered neurocognitive batteries to 49 youth soccer athletes (9–15 yr), who were selected from competitive soccer teams in Central Florida. We collected observational data on soccer heading, self-reported soccer ... -
Evaluating the Due Process and Crime Control Perspectives Using Rasch Measurement Analysis
(2011-07)Background: The biases jurors possess may influence everything from the interpretation of case evidence to impressions of the defendant to, ultimately, verdict and recognition of this has led to a number of juror ... -
Sports neuropsychology with diverse athlete populations: contemporary findings and special considerations
(2012)This paper aims to familiarize readers with the contemporary scientific literature available on sports concussion as it relates to populations divergent from adult males who play football and hockey. Herein, we focus on ... -
Obama as anti-American: Visual folklore in right-wing forwarded e-mails and construction of conservative social identity
(2012-03)This paper investigates the group-building potential of forwarded e-mails through a visual analysis of negative images about President Barack Obama. We argue that these e-mails are a form of political digital folklore that ... -
Global organizational psychology: internationalizing the training curriculum
(2012-12)Due to the rapid of globalization in the Information Age, students must become adept at navigating the complex and ambiguous nature of the global business environment. One major roadblock for training students to become ... -
Pleading innocents: laboratory evidence of plea bargaining's innocence problem
(2013-05-12)We investigated plea bargaining by making students actually guilty or innocent of a cheating offense and varying the sentence that they would face if found ‘guilty’ by a review board. As hypothesized, guilty students ... -
Caregiver Impact of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessing Stress, Sense of Competence, and Relationship Satisfaction
(2014-01)While the impact of psycho-social variables has been evaluated for children with chronic illness and related disabilities, questions remain unanswered for families affected by ASD. Participants included 68 primary caregivers ... -
Satisfaction with Ability and Reported Functional Impairment in Cancer Survivors with Chronic Illness-Related Fatigue
(2014-01)Long-term consequences of cancer have assumed more importance than ever before as cancer survival rates have increased over the past few decades. As a result, cancer has been conceptualized more recently as a chronic ... -
The Effect of Group Level Factors on Affective Convergence in Teams: an agent Based Mode
(2014-05)Previous research supports the idea that affective convergence occurs in teams. The phenomenon of group affect has been well documented, however the group level conditions through which affective convergence emerges has ... -
Is 'How'm I Doin'?' a Universal Question? Unpackaging Cultural Differences in Feedback Seeking
(2014-05)The feedback literature is based on the premise that given a favorable context and a drive to reduce uncertainties, all individuals should seek self-relevant performance information. However, this framework has only been ... -
Comparing rapid scene categorization of aerial and terrestrial views: A new perspective on scene gist
(2015)Scene gist, a viewer's holistic representation of a scene from a single eye fixation, has been extensively studied for terrestrial views, but not for aerial views. We compared rapid scene categorization of both views in ... -
Long-term Effects of Response Cards on Student Engagement and Academic Performance by Students with Disabilities
(2015-05)This study examined the effects of response cards on student engagement and academic performance during math instruction. Students in a middle school classroom for students with emotional and behavior disorders (EBD) received ... -
The Impact of Relational Training of Preferred Food and Non-Preferred Food to Arbitrary Symbols on Implicit Relational Tasks
(2015-05)The Mixed-Trial Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (MT-IRAP) is a tool for measuring implicit behavior (i.e., biases or beliefs the individual is unaware of or intends to conceal from the public) among individuals. ... -
Decreasing Bouts of Prolonged Sitting Among Office Workers
(2015-05)Health care costs of preventable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and obesity are higher than ever, and indicate the need for behavioral interventions. Research has shown that individuals who ... -
Not so bad: Avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex
(2015-06-09)The dorsal anterior cingulate (adACC) and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) play a central role in the discrimination and appraisal of threatening stimuli. Yet, little is known about what specific features of threatening ... -
Why simpler arguments are better
(2015-08-20)In this paper, I argue that, other things being equal, simpler arguments are better. In other words, I argue that, other things being equal, it is rational to prefer simpler arguments over less simple ones. I sketch three ...