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"What free time?" A Daily Study of Work Recovery and Regulatory Focus among Student-Employees
(2016-08-18)
Student-employees face incredible demands on their time and resources, yet little
research exists assessing the degree to which they are able to recover from their
demands. The current study aimed to determine the ...
The Influence of Iron Deficiency on Declarative, Procedural, and Working Memory
(2018-12-14)
Previous research has found that iron deficiency (ID) is associated with deficits in cognition, including aspects of memory. However, little has been done to identify specific aspects of memory that are negatively affected, ...
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 ...
Stimulating Exploration in Complex Task Learning via Pre-Practice and Intermittent Knowledge Enrichment
(2019-08)
A growing body of scholarly literature points to the importance of exploratory behavior in the acquisition of complex skills. The purpose of this laboratory study, in which 257 undergraduate students (64% male) learned to ...
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 ...
A COMPARISON OF THE EVOKED ACTIVITY FROM OSCILLATING AUDITORY TONES: AMPLITUDE-MODULATED (AM) TONES AND BINAURAL BEATS (BB)
(2018-12)
This study compares the neural response to binaural beat (BB) and amplitude-modulated tone (AM) auditory stimulation using power, phase-locking, and functional brain connectivity as assessed by electroencephalography (EEG). ...
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 ...
Playing for keeps: a psychological measure of the probability of retaining a free agent in professional basketball
(2018)
Existing research has provided insights into what drives individuals to voluntarily leave a job and join a different organization. This framework for understanding voluntary turnover has never been tested in the context ...