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An examination of international crises: The effect of decision maker stress on crisis management, attributes, and outcomes in non-protracted conflict and protracted conflict crises.
(2007)
In the field of foreign policy analysis, there is a long history of research examining factors that impact decision making in conflicts, wars, and crises. The following research project is an attempt to add to this body ...
The Impact of Fillers on Lineup Performance
(2017)
Filler siphoning theory posits that the presence of fillers (known innocents) in a lineup protects an innocent suspect
from being chosen by siphoning choices away from that innocent suspect. This mechanism has been proposed ...
Toward a theoretical construct of the factors of deceptive communication.
(2000)
This study constitutes the fourth phase of a research program designed to explore the factors that influence the choices people make regarding deceptive communication. The research program leading up to this study produced ...
Turning Points: Finding Experiential Forks in the Path to Wisdom and Virtues
(2016-07)
This article was published as the lead article in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project e-Newsletter 06 (July 2016).
Self-Control: The Linking of Self, Motivation, and Virtue
(2015-03-14)
The key issue our team will be exploring is the role played by self-control in the development and expression of virtue. In particular, we are interested in the self-regulating function of people’s self-narratives ...
“You just can't save them all”: understanding mathematics teachers’ teaching self-efficacy development through the lens of attribution beliefs
(2021-11-09)
The purpose of this study was to explore how mathematics teachers in urban schools serving disadvantaged communities develop their teaching self-efficacy and how teachers’ attribution beliefs were related to their ...
The effect of intermittent forgetting upon learning and productivity within production systems.
(2000)
This dissertation addresses the effects of intermittent forgetting upon the learning and industrial production process. This work can apply to any process in which learning must occur and may re-occur at a later point in ...
Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
Students' stress: The relationship of college students' stress variables to goal orientations, academic self-concept, and achievement variables.
(1997)
Results revealed that Academic Self-Concept was the most influential and predictive of GPA. Cognitive Appraisal Strategies and Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors had strong influences on Academic Self-Concept. Furthermore, ...
The application of music history and music theory in keyboard study to facilitate the development of beginning stages of critical thinking.
(1997)
Each weekly session was video-taped. Written observations by the researcher were organized under these headings: amount of dialogue between the researcher and student, the student's interest in the workbook activities, ...