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Test anxiety, birth order, and quality of feedback as variables affecting cognition in conformity situations
(1967)Considerable interest has centered around test anxiety in recent years, as a personality variable relating to situational, physiological and other personality variables (Sarason, 1960). Of special interest has been the ... -
Interest groups and political party organization: the Japanese parties in the constituencies
(1980)This study examines the linkages between interest groups and the constituency organizations of the five major Japanese political parties in Hyogo prefecture. While the close relationship between parties and particular ... -
Developmental process and outcome in preterm children: a transactional study
(1986)Data were gathered on 38 low and very low birthweight preterm and 45 matched fullterm mother-child pairs at five timepoints during infancy, and at four years. Age was corrected for prematurity in infancy, but not at age ... -
Ethnic differences in alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking patterns
(1989)The beliefs and attitudes about the effect of alcohol consumption upon behavior were compared using self-report measures of alcohol outcome expectancy, attitude toward drinking, and level of drinking habit within four ... -
Development and validation of the Washington resilience scale
(1991)The dissertation research was an attempt to develop and validate a new self-report measure of psychological resilience. The construct of resilience has its roots in the areas of vulnerability and stress-resistance. Prior ... -
The contribution of leadership experience and self-efficacy to group performance under evaluation apprehension
(1992)This study explored the role of leadership experience, defined both as a content-based activity and a time-based measure, on group performance and leadership self-efficacy. The content-based experiences of task-relevant ... -
Preferential same-sex imitation by toddlers
(1995)In the experiment reported here, 18-month-old toddlers (n = 60) and 24-month-old toddlers (n = 60) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: observing same-sex models, observing opposite-sex models, or a control ... -
Suppressive specialization: implications for generalization and interference in connectionist networks
(1995)Three experiments were conducted to investigate the relationship between generalization and interference in connectionist networks. Specific modifications to the traditional error-back propagation learning algorithm are ... -
The adaptive significance of multiple mating in female mink (Mustela vison) and its effects on the mating system \ by Melissa Anne Fleming
(1996)Female multiple mating is common in mammals, but studies of its advantages are often constrained by our limited understanding of the reproductive physiology underlying it. The reproductive physiology underlying female ... -
Maternal influence in the development of body image and dieting in young girls
(1996)Dieting and eating disorders are serious and increasingly prevalent problems in today's Western world. These behaviors can lead to both serious medical and psychological problems, particularly in young, growing children. ... -
Majority influence in negotiation
(1996)A social identity model of majority influence in negotiations is presented, which considers the effects of various social identifications on the processes of integrative and distributive bargaining. Two-faction negotiations ... -
A prospective study of prenatal cocaine exposure: language, play, and global cognitive abilities in 2-year olds
(1996)The relationship between prenatal cocaine exposure and 2-year developmental outcome was examined in a sample of 200, 2-year-old children followed prospectively from birth. Adverse cocaine effects were hypothesized to emerge ... -
Discounting and independence in preferences between health sequences
(1997)Decision analysts and cost-effectiveness analysts in the health domain often use discounted Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) as a measure of utility. These analysts commonly assume a positive discount rate: health ... -
Female-female territorial aggression and its hormonal control in the song sparrow
(1997)The function, seasonality and hormonal control of aggression among male conspecifics have been well studied in many taxa. In most cases, female-female intraspecific aggression has been less well studied. Male song sparrows ... -
The active and passive voice are equally comprehensible in scientific writing
(1997)The passive voice is typically thought to be wordy, impersonal, and difficult to read. Although early studies examining the passive voice appeared to show that passive voice sentences are harder to process and less preferred ... -
The pattern of anatomical connections in visual area V2 of Macaque monkey
(1997)In visual area V2, cytochrome oxidase (CO) histochemistry reveals a pattern of alternating densely labeled thick and thin stripes separated by lightly labeled interstripe regions. These stripe-like compartments have been ... -
Analytic limitations of unconscious language processing
(1997)Cognitive theorists have traditionally assumed that, due to analytic limitations, unconscious cognitive systems play only a minor role in language comprehension relative to conscious systems. The following research sought ... -
Parent-child communication about the cancer experience in families of pediatric cancer patients
(1997)Examined in 35 parent-child dyads how parents and their children receiving treatment for cancer perceive their parent-child communication about the cancer experience, how demographic/social/medical variables relate to the ...