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Implications of Reflected Appraisals of Interpersonal Insecurity for Suspicion and Power
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In three studies, the authors tested a model positing that chronically insecure individuals often believe that their relationship partners view them as highly insecure. In turn, because of expectations regarding the social consequences of expressing insecurities, these reflected appraisals of insecurity are thought to predict suspicion of partners’ authenticity and feelings of powerlessness within relationships. Results supported these predictions. Self-esteem, attachment anxiety, neuroticism, proclivity for anger, and proclivity for hurt feelings predicted reflected appraisals of insecurity independently of whether ...
Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lemay, E. P., Dudley, K. L. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Thoughts Versus Deeds: Distal and Proximal Intent in Lay Judgments of Moral ResponsibilityEmail this article to a colleague.
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The authors propose that two central ingredients in lay models of intentionality are (a) "distal intent" (the actor’s mind is focused on a broader goal) and (b) "proximal intent" (the actor’s mind is focused narrowly on the act itself). Study 1 established that participants rate an actor with both forms of intent more responsible than an actor with only one form of intent or neither form of intent. In Study 2, when the actor had only distal intent, participants with a high-level construal rated the actor more responsible than did those with a low-level construal. In Study 3, when the actor had only distal inten...
Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Plaks, J. E., McNichols, N. K., Fortune, J. L. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Reviewers for 2008-2009: AcknowledgmentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Internet Use and Psychological Well-being: A Meta-AnalysisEmail this article to a colleague.
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CyberPsychology & Behavior , Vol. 0, No. 0.
Source: CyberPsychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Virtual Reality Cues for Binge Drinking in College StudentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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CyberPsychology & Behavior , Vol. 0, No. 0.
Source: CyberPsychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Looking Online for the Best Romantic Partner Reduces Decision Quality: The Moderating Role of Choice-Making StrategiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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CyberPsychology & Behavior , Vol. 0, No. 0.
Source: CyberPsychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Effects of 3D Virtual Haptics Force Feedback on Brand Personality Perception: The Mediating Role of Physical Presence in AdvergamesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: CyberPsychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Multimodality and Interactivity: Connecting Properties of Serious Games with Educational OutcomesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: CyberPsychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Psychopathy and Axis I psychiatric disorders among criminal offenders: relationships to impulsive and proactive aggressionEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examined the relationships of impulsive aggression (IA) and proactive aggression (PA) to psychopathy and symptoms of several Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Axis I disorders in a sample of criminal offenders. Results replicated prior findings from community samples of a broad relationship between psychopathology and IA. PA was related only to psychopathy. An interaction was found whereby IA was associated with impulsive-antisocial traits of psychopathy only for individuals with moderate to high levels of generalized anxiety. Results indicate that assessing and treating several Axis I disorders in offenders may...
Source: Aggressive Behavior - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marc T. Swogger, Zach Walsh, Rebecca J. Houston, Sarah Cashman-Brown, Kenneth R. Conner Source Type: journals
Primate conservation: integrating communities through environmental education programsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Environmental education has evolved over the years to respond to the varied complexities found in the different localities where it is practiced. In many parts of the world where biodiversity is rich, social conditions are poor, so educators have included sustainable development alternatives to better the environment and the livelihoods of local communities. Primate conservation education programs, which are often based in areas that face such challenges, have been a vanguard in creating means to integrate people with their natural environment and thus conquer supporters for the protection of natural habitats. In the searc...
Source: American Journal of Primatology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzana M. Padua Source Type: journals
Ways of coping and sense of belonging in the face of a continuous threatEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examined the contribution of ways of coping and sense of belonging to stress responses among students in a conflict zone. Students at a college situated in an area exposed to continuous threat were divided according to their place of residence: locations inside and outside of the conflict zone. Rate of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was similar to rates in previous studies conducted among Israelis who had been exposed to terror. Acceptance as a way of coping and sense of belonging contributed to reducing PTSD symptoms, whereas use of alcohol and seeking support contributed to increasing stress responses. T...
Source: Journal of Traumatic Stress - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Orit Nuttman-Shwartz, Rachel Dekel Source Type: journals
Environmental Contributions to the Stability of Antisocial Behavior over Time: Are They Shared or Non-shared?Email this article to a colleague.
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We examined adolescent self-reported antisocial behavior in a 3.5 year longitudinal sample of 610 biological and adoptive sibling pairs from the Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS). Results revealed that 74-81% of shared environmental influences present at time 1 were also present at time 2, whereas most non-shared environmental influences (88-89%) were specific to a particular assessment period. Such results provide an important constructive replication of prior research, strongly suggesting that shared environmental contributions to antisocial behavior are systematic in nature.
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Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burt SA, McGue M, Iacono WG Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: journals
The Warrington Recognition Memory Test for Words as a Measure of Response Bias: Total Score and Response Time Cutoffs Developed on "Real World" Credible and Noncredible Subjects.Email this article to a colleague.
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Several studies have examined the usefulness of the Warrington Recognition Memory Test-Words as a measure to detect suspect effort, although samples have generally been small and/or comprised of simulators rather than "real world" credible and noncredible patients. The current study examined the Warrington Recognition Memory Test-Words total score and response time of "real world" noncredible patients (as determined by motive to feign, failure on >2 independent measures of response bias, low cognitive scores inconsistent with normal ADLs; n = 190) versus credible patients (as determined by no motive to feign, failur...
Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kim MS, Boone KB, Victor T, Marion SD, Amano S, Cottingham ME, Ziegler EA, Zeller MA Tags: Arch Clin Neuropsychol Source Type: journals
Examination Of Various Wms-Iii Logical Memory Scores In The Assessment Of Response Bias.Email this article to a colleague.
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The assessment of response validity during neuropsychological evaluation is an integral part of the testing process. Research has increasingly focused on the use of "embedded" effort measures (derived from standard neuropsychological tasks) because they do not require additional administration time and are less likely to be identified as effort indicators by test takers because of their primary focus as measures of cognitive function. The current study examined the clinical utility of various WMS-III Logical Memory scores in detecting response bias, as well as the Rarely Missed Index, an embedded effort indicator deriv...
Source: The Clinical Neuropsychologist - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bortnik KE, Boone KB, Marion SD, Amano S, Ziegler E, Victor TL, Zeller MA Tags: Clin Neuropsychol Source Type: journals
What's to Say for Secret Relationships?Email this article to a colleague.
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You know you've been writing too much about relationships, when dating agencies start befriending you on twitter! Nonetheless, after making my last post a discussion of the bright side of rebound relationships, I will not yet withdraw myself from the topic, but give it one more go by writing this post about the effects of being in secret romantic relationships; which turn out to be quite negative...Few people fully appreciate the psychological cost of secrets, although psychologists for a while now have been able to demonstrate that"being a keeper of any type of important personal secret is detrimental to well-being".One s...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel R. Hawes Tags: Relationships anita kelly cognitive level colorado state university dating agencies elephant exact thoughts Fears health illustration monograph personal secret pink elephant psychologists rebound relationships romance roman Source Type: consumer
Reflections on Language and Social Psychology Research From ICLASP11, Tucson, ArizonaEmail this article to a colleague.
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This introductory essay outlines the rationale for this special issue. It reports on the background to the International Conferences on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASPs) and establishes the importance of a special issue representing the work from ICLASP11, held in Tucson, Arizona, in the summer of 2008. After describing the keynote presentations at the conference, specific articles making up the special issue are introduced. Finally, the future of the conferences is addressed with the announcement of the location for ICLASP12 (Brisbane, Australia).
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pitts, M. J., Harwood, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Conflict-Initiating Factors in Intergenerational RelationshipsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examined American young adults’ written accounts of intergenerational communication with a focus on factors that initiate conflict. Analysis of the conflict scenarios in intergenerational relationships revealed seven types of initiating factors. Results also indicated that the type of relationship with older adults was associated with the frequency distribution of five of the seven initiating factors. Specifically, young adults perceived they were criticized and rebuffed by nonfamily elders more frequently than by family elders, whereas young people tended to disagree with and rebuff family elders more tha...
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zhang, Y. B., Lin, M.-C. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Is Your Language a Social Clue? Lexical Markers and Social IdentityEmail this article to a colleague.
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This research deals with the interplay between language use and social identity. Social lexical markers used by two leaders of two opposed groups (French and American presidents) on the Second Gulf War were identified. Experimental texts were constructed on this basis and were read by French participants. The authors compared two types of social identity activation, either indirect (in-group vs. out-group lexical markers) or direct (in-group vs. neutral priming). Attitude and intergroup perception were measured on three groups (French, American, and Iraqi). Whereas no effect of direct activation was observed, results notab...
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mange, J., Lepastourel, N., Georget, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Linguistic Accommodation and the Salience of National Identity Markers in a Border TownEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study tests the extent of speakers’ linguistic accommodation to members of putative in-groups and out-groups in a border locality where such categorizations can be said to be particularly accentuated. Variation in the speech of informants in dialect contact interactions with separate interviewers is analyzed for evidence of speech accommodation in the form of phonological convergence or divergence. The data do not support a straightforward interpretation of accommodation, and findings are considered in terms of evidence required for such an account. Implications for the notion of salience in explanations of cont...
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Llamas, C., Watt, D., Johnson, D. E. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Convergence and Contact in Milwaukee: Evidence From Select African American and White Vowel Space FeaturesEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study investigates vowel dynamics (raising of vowel qualities and elongation of diphthongs) to test accommodation by Black speakers in southeastern Wisconsin toward White speakers. Results reveal that Black—White contact—either synchronically in an interview or diachronically from historical employment and housing discrimination—influences vowel-quality position and diphthong elongation in vowel space.
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Purnell, T. C. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
False Faces and Broken Lives: An Exploratory Study of the Interaction Behaviors Used by Male Sex Offenders in Relating to VictimsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examines the use of self-presentation strategies and manipulation by male sex offenders in grooming a victim for a sexual relationship. The study finds that male sex offenders use multiple categories of self-presentation strategies in their interactions with victims with the supplication strategy being present in a majority of reports of such interactions. Furthermore, the research reveals that the male sex offender uses manipulation to isolate and groom the victim for a sexual relationship in conjunction with coercive tactics to ensure the victim does not reveal the true nature of their relationship to other pe...
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Campbell, A. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Reverse Linguistic Stereotyping: Measuring the Effect of Listener Expectations on Speech EvaluationEmail this article to a colleague.
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The linguistic stereotyping hypothesis holds that even brief samples of speech varieties associated with low-prestige groups can cue negative attributions regarding individual speakers. The converse phenomenon is reverse linguistic stereotyping (RLS). In RLS, attributions of a speaker’s group membership trigger distorted evaluations of that person’s speech. The present study established a procedure for ascertaining a proclivity to RLS for individual listeners. In addition to RLS, variables reflecting degree of multicultural involvement (e.g., proportion of friends who are nonnative speakers, amount of language ...
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kang, O., Rubin, D. L. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Evaluating the Speech of Younger and Older Adults: Age, Gender, and Speech SituationEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examines how listeners arrive at judgments of speech as irrelevant or off-topic (off-target). Older adults and college students evaluated a set of narratives ascribed to speakers differing in age and gender and presented as conversations or interviews.The results show that young and old adults bring different understandings of age and situation to the evaluation task. Older evaluators judged narratives more on-target than younger evaluators. Differences between evaluator age groups were also observed in the effects of speaker age and speech situation: Younger evaluators judged older speakers more on-target than ...
Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Odato, C. V., Keller-Cohen, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Hope, Rage and Fort HoodEmail this article to a colleague.
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Greetings Welcome to my blog. My name is Tony Scioli (pronounced "showli"). I am a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who has been studying hope for several decades. For the past 10 years I have been working on a new theory of hope. Along the way, I've written two books on the topic as well as conducting a number of related experiments and developing tests to measure hope and hopelessness. Starting today, I will be blogging on hope for Psychology Today (Hence the title for this post, "Hope for Today"). In this first post, my intention was to devote most of this blog to giving you a sense of my general perspe...
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anthony Scioli, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Media Politics Psychiatry 20th century catchphrases clinical psychologist construction view emotion emotions feeling tone Fort Hood hopelessness human beings introductory remarks living in the moment Psychology T Source Type: consumer
The Mysteries of Pair Bonding (Part II)Email this article to a colleague.
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In Part I, we looked at the neurochemical reality that lies behind our instincts to fall in (and out of) love. We saw that our ancestors may have been pair bonders for a very long time, implying that pair bonding serves important ends for our species. We observed that the same bonding behaviors that effortlessly strengthen our pair bonds also reduce stress and increase well-being.
In this article we'll look at a hidden pair-bonder vulnerability that causes misery both in and out of the bedroom. Namely, the tendency to pursue excess. This hazard came to light when scientists offered amphetamines to two v...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marnia Robinson Tags: Relationships addiction amphetamines appendage bonders brain levels chimps circuitry cleaver cravings dopamine drug trip exaptation instincts intense stimulation limbic brain love addiction oxytocin pair bond pair bon Source Type: consumer
Workplace Violence -- How to recognize its warning signalsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Last week's shooting at Fort Hood was a criminal act of senseless violence against innocent victims who'd done nothing to harm their assailant. As the FBI, army officials, police investigators and forensic psychologists continue to piece together the events and motives behind this brutal act, many of us scratch our heads wondering what could have led a seemingly quiet, caring army psychiatrist to snap and decimate his own colleagues.In the world of psychology, it can be tempting to analyze and diagnose criminal behavior as if it were ultimately understandable or even excusable. Nothing excuses the senseless killing of anot...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Crowley Tags: Work academic settings afganistan army officials assailant criminal act criminal behavior detecting potential violence. warning signs forensic psychologists Fort Hood Fort Hood shootings innocent victims jason rodriguez loner m Source Type: consumer
Social Networking and the New MeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Two recent events; I just published a new book, Relational Being, and my grand-daughter has just told me how thrilled she is at the number of friends she has on Facebook. The two events are related in an important way: There are now over three hundred million users of Facebook, half of whom log on every day of the week. There are also some 340 million people who read blogs, six million users of twitter, and millions of additional folks who spend an hour or two on email each day. These are only samples of the range and numbers currently engaged in some form of social networking. Now consider the kinds of thoughts spinning t...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Social Life Spirituality colleagues david riesman email grand daughter hundred million lonely crowd music nbsp new me personality styles relational being self-image sixty years social influence Social networ Source Type: consumer
The Top Five Mistakes in Law School Personal StatementsEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's law school application time and my office is located next to the office of our pre-law advisor for Liberal Arts Career Serivces, Tatem Oldham. I see a steady stream of students meeting with Tatem trying to decide everything from whether they should go to law school in the first place to determining which law school is the best choice. As she is every year at this time, Tatem is immersed in personal statements: good, bad, and ugly.Law schools base their admission decisions on several factors: your grade point average, your LSAT scores, your background and experiences, and your personal statement or essay.The personal s...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katharine Brooks, Ed.D. Tags: Work admission decisions admissions application time boston college famous quote grade point average law school law school application law school personal statements law schools lawyers liberal arts career lsat scores personal Source Type: consumer
Introversion and the Energy EquationEmail this article to a colleague.
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For the most part, what we "know" about introversion is still more theory than fact. We talk about introverts losing energy in social interactions but what, exactly, is that energy? What is energy directed outward? Or inward? We know what we think we mean when we talk about such things, but how do you measure them in a way that scientists can get a grip on? Nobody has figured that out yet.With that in mind, I learned of another interesting theory developed by Jennifer Grimes, a graduate student of cognitive sciences at University of Central Florida who started looking at introversion while she was an undergraduate at Welle...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophia Dembling Tags: Personality Carl Jung central florida cheek cognitive sciences continuum energy energy investment energy model extent extroversion extroverts graduate student introversion introversion and extroversion jennifer grimes jonat Source Type: consumer
Poaching And The Heart Of LoveEmail this article to a colleague.
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Deer hunting opener occurred here in Minnesota this past Saturday. Hundreds of Minnesotans out in the woods trying their best to bag a Bambi.
And for some, their best entailed poaching.
Poaching typically involves the placement of highly enticing deer delectables --- a feeder dispensing corn, a field scattered with pumpkins --- so that the unsuspecting prey will get all caught up in the moment and won’t notice that they are in a truly unhealthy situation.
A couple years ago a young man came into my office here at the University wanting to talk about his love interest of the past 5 months. He was ...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John R. Buri, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships 5 months bambi corn crumbs deer hunting egotistical feeder first night hostess love interest Love; Relationships; Marriage; Intimacy nbsp parking lot pumpkins rude people suggestion unsuspecting prey waitr Source Type: consumer
Linear and network trajectories in creative lives: A case study of Walter and Roberto Burle Marx.Email this article to a colleague.
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Two major trajectories appear in the creativity literature: linear trajectories, marked by acquisition of expertise through extensive practice leading to unique mastery; and network trajectories, wherein the creator is productive in several enterprises that interact. Between these poles are creators whose fields require understanding beyond a single domain. Both expertise and network aspects are needed in creativity. This case study focuses on how Walter and Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian brothers who represent opposite ends of the continuum, embroidered their lives and included aspects from the opposite poles. Walter, repr...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cohen, LeoNora M. Source Type: journals
Empirical relationships between beauty and justice: Testing Scarry and elaborating Danto.Email this article to a colleague.
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Elaine Scarry (1999) proposes a correspondence between engagement with beauty and a sense of justice. Parallel to Scarry, Arthur Danto (2003) posits that 20th century artists avoided producing beautiful works because of an offended sense of justice. In Study 1, the relationship between justice reasoning (DIT2; Rest et al., 1999a) and engagement with beauty (Diessner et al., 2008) is examined; there is a significant raw correlation (r = .23; p < .05; N = 132), which reduced to a nonsignificant r = .01 when Openness to Experience was partialed out. Study 2 examines the relationship between fairness as a character strength (c...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diessner, Rhett; Davis, Lisa; Toney, Brett Source Type: journals
Review of Critical issues and practices in gifted education: What the research says.Email this article to a colleague.
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Reviews the book, Critical issues and practices in gifted education: What the research says edited by Jonathan A. Plucker and Carolyn M. Callahan (see record 2008-01728-000). Over the years, gifted education has received substantial criticism in and beyond the research literature (e.g., Grant, 2002; Sapon-Shevin, 1993). Criticisms have fallen into several camps. One group of critics describes gifted education as elitist and suggests that there should not be special programs for high-achieving students. Others criticize how giftedness is defined and more frequently how gifted students are identified, and even suggest that g...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Worrell, Frank C.; White, Lionel H. Source Type: journals
Editors’ introduction.Email this article to a colleague.
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This editorial introduces the current issue of Psychology, Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. The issue begins with a picture of a building designed by the great Frank Gehry. Once inside, you will find a smorgasbord of insightful and thought-provoking work. This work includes a piece by the legendary Jerome Singer followed by a study by Anemone Cerridwen and Dean K. Simonton that studies how sex in the movies affects critical and financial success. It also includes articles by Adalet Gunseral, Thalia R. Goldstein, LeoNora Cohen, and more. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Smith, Jeffrey K.; Smith, Lisa F.; Kaufman, James C. Source Type: journals
Researching imaginative play and adult consciousness: Implications for daily and literary creativity.Email this article to a colleague.
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This article reviews 60 years of the author’s and others’ psychometric, observational, and experimental studies that shed light on literary genres employing interior monologues or streams of consciousness. Attending to human phenomena like daydreaming and fantasy may be likely to enhance our everyday problem-solving abilities as well as our aesthetic enjoyment of creative novels and dramas built around characters’ “private” thoughts. Literary examples from works by Ian McEwan, Orhan Pamuk, and Shakespeare are considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Singer, Jerome L. Source Type: journals
Sex doesn't sell—nor impress! Content, box office, critics, and awards in mainstream cinema.Email this article to a colleague.
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Although it is commonly assumed that “sex sells” in mainstream cinema, recent research indicates a far more ambiguous relation between strong sexual content and financial performance. Moreover, such content may not be justified by either critical evaluations or movie awards. The literature even suggests that cinematic sex may reflect long-term gender biases in the film industry. The current study investigates these issues by addressing two questions. First, what is the impact of sex and other graphic content on the central criteria of cinematic success? Second, to what extent is such content contingent on the proportio...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cerridwen, Anemone; Simonton, Dean Keith Source Type: journals
Creative expression in virtual worlds: Imitation, imagination, and individualized collaboration.Email this article to a colleague.
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Internet use has increased dramatically in the past two decades, including the use of three-dimensional virtual environments in which individuals represent themselves via avatars and can develop and share creative content within those worlds. The authors examine the content of virtual worlds with particular attention to tools that allow expressing individuality, objects that appear to imitate real world content, as well as those that break from real world constraints. The authors also introduce the construct of individualized collaboration. Unlike face-to-face group activities in real world settings, in which the ambient c...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ward, Thomas B.; Sonneborn, Marcene S. Source Type: journals
A qualitative case study of the impact of environmental and personal factors on prominent Turkish writers.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study investigates environmental factors that impact the lives of highly creative writers, specifically, novelists in a specific sociocultural context, Turkey. A qualitative multiple case study where the participants were four highly acclaimed Turkish novelists—Yasar Kemal (b. 1923, male), Adalet Agaoglu (b. 1927, female), Mario Levi (b. 1957, male), and Latife Tekin (b. 1957, female)—was conducted. Interviews with the participants, as well as other printed documents related to the participants were used as data sources. The constant comparative method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Lincoln & Guba, 1985) was used as the...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gunersel, Adalet Baris Source Type: journals
The pleasure of unadulterated sadness: Experiencing sorrow in fiction, nonfiction, and "in person."Email this article to a colleague.
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We often experience intense emotions when we enter fictional worlds in film and literature and often shed real tears. The goal of this study was to determine whether emotional reactions (sadness and anxiety) to fiction are distinguishable from emotional reactions to fact. Fifty-nine young adults rated their sadness and anxiety levels in response to 4 film clips, 2 presented as fiction, 2 as nonfiction, and in response to the recall of an actual sad event personally experienced. Participants experienced equivalent levels of sadness and anxiety in response to films presented as fictional or factual. They also experienced equ...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goldstein, Thalia R. Source Type: journals
From Speech Worrier to Speech Warrior: How to Give a Better SpeechEmail this article to a colleague.
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I'm sure you've read advice on how to become a better public speaker. Classic counsel is to know your subject and practice your speech. While this instruction is considered timeless for a reason, I add this thought: Whatever. I'm taking these two as an automatic given. Here's what you really need to appreciate, those subtle nuances most speakers never think to contemplate and use. Here we go. <!--break-->
1. Oral briefings by their name and nature are just that: brief segments of information transfer. Here, time limitations are paramount and you're correct to offer data in a direct bottom-line format. If people seek ...
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Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.Email this article to a colleague.
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The Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice is intended to recognize outstanding practitioners in psychology. Nominations are considered for psychologists working in a wide variety of institutional practice settings (e.g., schools, military, state hospital, Department of Veterans Affairs). Services provided to diverse client groups or patient populations, including but not limited to children/adolescents/adults/older adults, urban/rural/frontier populations, minority populations, and persons with serious mental illness, are considered. The 2009 recipient of the award is Eduardo S. Moral...
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Eduardo S. Morales, recipient of the Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice, is cited for his leadership in and contributions to institutional practice through obtaining and implementing research and service grants and creating agencies and programs for Latinos, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, and ethnic minorities in the areas of substance abuse, HIV, and prevention. Morales is also recognized for his contributions to the profession as president of APA’s Division 12, Section VI, and of Division 45; as a member of various APA boards and committees; and as cochair of ...
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Contextual community prevention theory: Building interventions with community agency collaboration.Email this article to a colleague.
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Translation from research to practice faces numerous problems that include replicating effectiveness, fidelity to the protocol and processes, and adaptations to different types of target populations. Working collaboratively with existing service providers can speed up the time for development and can ease the implementation of empirical randomized trials. Contextual community prevention theory is an innovative approach that focuses on changing behaviors of community members by creating a visible institutional presence that draws and pulls the targeted population into the organization’s activities and interventions. The r...
Source: American Psychologist - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Morales, Eduardo S. Source Type: journals
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.Email this article to a colleague.
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The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs (BPA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. A qualified candidate must demonstrate exemplary performance in working with an underserved population in an applied setting or have developed an innovative method for delivering health services to an underserved population. The 2009 recipient is Julie E. Braciszewski. Provided here are a citation, biog...
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APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Julie E. Braciszewski.Email this article to a colleague.
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Julie E. Braciszewski, recipient of the APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology, is cited for her noteworthy efforts to decrease mental health and academic service disparities among low-income, urban African American youth. Braciszewski recognizes that educational achievement is the clearest and most reliable route to breaking the cycle of persistent poverty. She has substantially contributed to research in understanding the needs of inner city children and the processes that contribute to their risk and success. In addition to the citation, a biography and selected bibliography of Bra...
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2009 award winners: Distinguished International Contributions.Email this article to a colleague.
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Announces the recipients of the 2009 Distinguished International Contributions awards. Included are the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology (Judith V. Torney-Purta) and the International Humanitarian Award (Michael G. Wessells). For each recipient a citation, biography, and selected bibliography are provided, along with the awardee's paper, a version of which was presented at the American Psychological Association's annual convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
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Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.Email this article to a colleague.
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The Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology is given to individuals who have made sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge in psychology. The 2009 recipient is Judith V. Torney-Purta. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Torney-Purta's work are provided. Also provided is her paper, entitled "International psychological research that matters for policy and practice," a version of which was presented at the American Psychological Association's annual convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
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Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith V. Torney-Purta.Email this article to a colleague.
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Judith V. Torney-Purta, recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, is cited for leadership of rigorous research on the development of democratic attitudes and civic knowledge among adolescents from more than 30 countries that has served as a catalyst for education and youth policy reform. Torney-Purta led research projects that are prime examples of international collaboration. She drew on these experiences in contributing to an initiative on international collaboration among behavioral and social scientists sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for the Interna...
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After a brief history of the Committee on International Relations of the American Psychological Association, 3 points are made about international psychological research that matters. First, it matters when the definition of the research problem area and the findings can potentially be reflected in policy change, in the practice of educators or psychologists, or in the mindsets of a new generation of researchers. Person-centered analysis of adolescents’ social and political attitudes has this potential and can complement variable-centered analysis. A cluster analysis of the IEA Civic Education Study’s data in 5 Western...
Source: American Psychologist - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Torney-Purta, Judith V. Source Type: journals
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The International Humanitarian Award recognizes extraordinary humanitarian services and activism by psychologists, including professional and volunteer work conducted primarily in the field with underserved populations. Award recipients are psychologists who, by their extraordinary service at a difficult time, improve the lives and contribute to the well-being of people in a large or small geographic area anywhere in the world. The 2009 recipient of this award is Michael G. Wessells. Along with a citation, biography, and selected bibliography, Wessells' paper, entitled "Do no harm: Toward contextually appropriate psychosoc...
Source: American Psychologist - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: No authorship indicated, Source Type: journals
