Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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A comparison of reported experiences associated with different styles of hypnosis
(1981)Reported experiences were compared for subjects undergoing a traditional style of hypnosis, a cognitive behavioral style of hypnosis, and a "waking imagination" procedure similar to hypnosis but explicitly labeled "non- ... -
A cross-cultural study of social perception …
(1968)Introduction: Wherever social relations or interpersonal relations are involved, social perception runs as an undercurrent, either implicitly or explicitly. Perhaps the primary importance of social perception derives from ... -
A test of interactional power theory : the effects of sibling-status upon dependence, power, and influence success in sibling pairs
(1976)The application of interactional power theory to sibling relationships was tested in a study of sibling pairs in middle childhood. Hypotheses were posed about sibling-status effects upon influence success, power, and dependence. ... -
An attributional analysis of the effects of target status and presence of ulterior motives on children's judgments of two types of ingratiating behaviors
(1978)The study examined children's evaluations and attributions in response to ingratiating acts directed at different targets in the presence or absence of an ulterior motive. According to an attributional analysis of ingratiation ... -
An experimental investigation of learning and performance in children with academic disabilities
(1968)A distinction between learning and performance has long been traditional in theoretical and experimental formulations of general learning theory. More recently a similar or parallel distinction has developed in the literature ... -
Animistic thinking in children
(1966)The objectives of the study were based on constructs which were originally described and studied by Piaget and some of which were studied subsequently by other authors with contradictory results. The four major objectives ... -
Anxiety as a determinant of differential responsivity to reward and punishment
(1952)Reward and punishment have been studied in the laboratory for their relative effects on learning processes and on perceptual processes they have been studied in the classroom for their relative effects on learning and ... -
Attention, attachment and motivation in schizotypy : a review and extenstion of research with the continuous performance test
(1995)Most contemporary schizophrenia research indicates that a heritable neurointegrative deficit may be a vulnerability marker for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Researchers often measure this deficit in terms of impaired ... -
Avoidance learning to stimulus objects presented following shock
(1973)An earlier informal experiment by Hudson (1950) in which rats learned to avoid a bundle of pipe cleaners presented only following shock is replica.ted and extended. Five groups of 20 Ss each received a single shock each ... -
COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN RESPONSE TO PROMOTION AND PREVENTION FAILURE: A STUDY OF MALADAPTIVE RUMINATION AND ITS AFFECTIVE CONSEQUENCES
(2007-07-13)Theories of self-regulation have not adequately specified the psychological events and processes that cause an emotional response following acute failure to be prolonged and intensified. Research on repetitive thought suggests ... -
Cognitive structure: a comparison of two theories and measure of integrative complexity ...
(1970)This study was intended to assess the generality of a particular type of cognitive structure characteristic, that of integrative complexity. Pursuant of this, the theories of H. M. Schroder and O. J. Harvey were com- pared, ... -
Conformity behavior of schizophrenic subjects to maternal figures
(1961)Recent clinical studies of schizophrenia have been aimed at clarifying the nature of the relationship that has existed between the schizophrenic patient and other members of his family. The majority of these investigations ... -
Coping with traumatic events : a theoretical model and a study of recovery from rape
(1985)The study of coping with stress has been disjointed, lacking a coherent model. The present work proposes a theoretical framework for understanding coping based on approach and avoidance. Approach and avoidance are discussed ... -
Determination of relationships between distributions of stimuli and distributions of judgments under instructions of differing specificity
(1954)INTRODUCTION: Basic to the judging process is the relating of a given item to a group of items* The simpler case of judging is one in which an item is compared with another which is simultaneously present while the more ... -
Disordered Eating and Binge Drinking among College Students
(2008-12-02)The overarching goal of this study is to enhance the current understanding of how college students with disordered eating experience alcohol. The study focuses on negative consequences, drinking behaviors, alcohol expectancies, ... -
Effects of age and curing on retrieval from semantic memory
(1979)Elderly subjects are known to perform less well than young subjects on laboratory tests of recall from episodic memory. Although the elderly report increased difficulty in recalling information from semantic memory, experimental ... -
Emotional Modulation of Cognitive Skill Learning.
(2007-12-13)In this set of studies the modulation of feedback-based cognitive skill learning was investigated by modulating a probabilistic classification learning (PCL) task to be either emotional or neutral. In the current task, based ... -
Explaining Discrepant Findings for Performance-approach Goals: the Role of Emotion Regulation During Test-taking
(2008-04-25)The study of achievement goals has begun to examine the underlying mechanisms that link goal orientations in order to develop a more accurate model that explains achievement outcomes. Currently, performance-approach goal ... -
Expressive Control and Emotion Perception: the Impact of Expressive Suppression and Mimicry on Sensitivity to Facial Expressions of Emotion
(2008-05-28)Recent studies have linked expressive suppression to impairments in interpersonal functioning, but the mechanism underlying this relationship has not been well articulated. One possibility is that the individual who engages ... -
Eye contact and intimacy
(1974)The meeting of the eyes is a potent form of communication. The eyes are able to convey many subtle nuances of feeling by their complex capacity for expression. Their stimulus configuration has made them highly noticeable; ...
