Browsing by Subject "Social Sciences"
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51 properties of 125 words: A unit analysis of verbal behavior
(Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980-01-01)Values for 125 words were obtained for 51 scales including measures of orthography, pronunciation, imagery, categorizability, association, number of attributes, age-of-acquisition, word frequency, goodness, emotionality, ... -
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building.
(Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 2017-07)The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological research conforms to this model. ... -
Acting Out: Qui pro Quo in the Context of Interwar Warsaw
(East European Politics and Societies, 2013-05-01)In the turbulent context of interwar Polish politics, a period bookended by the right-wing nationalists' repression of an ethnically heterogeneous state, several popular high-quality cabarets persisted in Warsaw even as ... -
Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists
(Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1982-01-01)Subjects learned a list containing both high-frequency (common) and low-frequency (rare) words after learning five lists of either high-or low-frequency words. As predicted by adaptation-level theory, preexposure to lists ... -
African American professionals in higher education: experiencing and coping with racial microaggressions
(Race Ethnicity and Education, 2020-07-03)Using a Critical Race Theory lens, we explored how African American professionals in both HBCUs and PWIs (4-year and 2-year institutions) experienced and coped with racial microaggressions. The participants in this study ... -
Aging and distraction by highly familiar stimuli during visual search
(Developmental Psychology, 1983-07-01)P. Rabbitt's (1965, 1968) theory regarding age-related changes in cognition proposes that aging is accompanied by a decreased ability to ignore irrelevant information (perceptual noise). The present experiment examined age ... -
Aging and the development of automaticity in visual search
(Developmental Psychology, 1980-09-01)The rate of short-term memory search has previously been reported to be slower for older individuals than for college-age Ss (F. I. Craik, 1977). Current research has suggested that after extensive practice with the same ... -
Archival research in Africa
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Bargaining with the devil: States and intimate life
(Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2014-01-01)Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women's rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women's rights activists often invite and ... -
Beginnings of a theory of autobiographical remembering
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Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion
(Policy Studies Journal, 2019-05-01)Policy feedback scholarship has focused on how laws and their implementation affect either organizations (e.g., their resources, priorities, political opportunities, or incentive structures) or individuals (e.g., their civic ... -
Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study
(Comparative Political Studies, 2016-11)© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In 2015, Comparative Political Studies embarked on a landmark pilot study in research transparency in the social sciences. The editors issued an open call for submissions of manuscripts that ... -
Caring and thriving: An international qualitative study of caregivers of orphaned and vulnerable children and strategies to sustain positive mental health
(Children and Youth Services Review, 2019-03-01)© 2018 Background: Child well-being is associated with caregiver mental health. Research has focused on the absence or presence of mental health problems, such as depression, in caregivers. However, positive mental health ... -
Chains of Love? Global Production and the Firm-Level Diffusion of Labor Standards
(American Journal of Political Science, 2018-07-01)©2018, Midwest Political Science Association Under what conditions does the global economy serve as a means for the diffusion of labor standards and practices? We anticipate variation among internationally engaged firms ... -
Characteristics and Constraints in Ballads and Their Effects on Memory
(Discourse Processes, 1991-04-01)Four sets of ballads, chosen as a sample of an oral tradition as it existed in North Carolina in the early 1900s, were examined in order to determine whether ballad characteristics used in combination are sufficient to account ... -
Climate science strategy of the US National Marine Fisheries Service
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Comparing Stakeholder Perceptions With Empirical Outcomes From Negotiated Rulemaking Policies: Is Participant Satisfaction a Proxy for Policy Success?
(Marine Policy, 2016)Evaluation of natural resource management policies often is made difficult by lack of robust or long-term data on the resource. In the absence of empirical data, natural resource policy evaluation may rely on expert ... -
Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
(Public Choice, 2015-09)© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The competition for global capital has led to interjurisdictional competition between countries, states and cities as to who can offer the most attractive incentives to firms. ... -
Contribution of Subsidies and Participatory Governance to Fishers’ Adaptive Capacity
(Journal of Environment and Development, 2016-12-01)© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The need for strengthening fishers' adaptive capacity has been proposed in the literature as an important component of effective fisheries governance arrangements in the presence of rising numbers ...
