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If At First You Don't Try, Don't Expect Others To Help You Succeed: How Effort and Excuses Influence Reactions To Poorly Performing Teamamtes
(2012)
This lab experiment using psychology undergraduate students as participants investigated how the timing of low effort behaviors and excuses influence the attributions, emotions, and behavioral intentions a teammate makes ...
The interactions of wearable computers and cognitive processes: Can cognitive theory help wearables improve human performance and mitigate device distraction?
(2015-05)
The prevalence of smart devices and wearable computers is steadily increasing (IDC,
2014a; 2014b). Despite this, there is little research on the interaction of these devices and cognitive processes such as attention, ...
How Judgments of Learning Can Create Illusions of Episodic Memory
(2014-05-09)
Metacognitive judgments made during learning derive from several types of information. These metacognitive cues often reflect intrinsic properties of the to-be-learned material, such as encoding fluency and processing ...
Working Memory and the Time Course Influence on Visual Attention
(2011)
Working memory and attention are closely related concepts. Capture of visual attention by working memory (WM) contents has generated much interest in recent years. However, there is a lack of literature related to the time ...
THE ACHILLES HEEL OF PSYCHOLOGY: HOW CONVENIENCE SAMPLING AFFECTS PARAMETER ESTIMATES
(2013)
Many have commented on potential problems associated with using under- graduate psychology students as research participants (e.g. Arnett, 2008; Hen- rich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010; Highhouse & Gillespie, 2009; Rosenthal ...
ONLINE MEMORY UPDATING: INVESTIGATING DIRECTED FORGETTING
(2013)
Memory updating, defined as the replacement of outdated information with new information, is be achieved by both increasing the likelihood of remembering the new information and reducing proactive interference caused by ...
Improving Study Strategies Through Testing Experience
(2017-05-12)
Prior research on the Testing Effect has shown that testing previously learned material can result in greater long term memory performance than if the material was restudied (Roediger & Karpicke, 2007). Although the testing ...
Univariate Bootstrap Sampling Procedures Using Prior Information
(2010)
Analyses that test nonzero correlations and incorporate prior information can help accumulate knowledge and advance research at a faster pace than typical analyses that disregard previous studies and continue to test ...
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A FATIGUE COUNTERMEASURE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SHIFTWORKERS
(2010)
Due to increasing 24-hour a day operations, a growing population of employees work non-traditional hours. Often associated with extended work periods, variable work schedules, and extensive night work, these schedules ...
Creativity training: An examination of training content, format, and activity type
(2011)
Previous research indicates that creative performance can be enhance through the employment of creativity training, in particular training focused on the improvement of creative problem solving skills. In the current study, ...