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Probabilistic Visual Search
(2013)
In the present dissertation I examine whether participants are able to use cues that provide probabilistic target information. On each trial, participants are presented with a search array and are asked to find a target ...
Forgiveness and the Pursuit of Communication Goals in Transgression Discourses
(2010)
In social psychology, forgiveness has been treated almost exclusively as a phenomenon that involves only two parties - namely, victims and their offenders. The present research takes a broader perspective by assuming that ...
The Role of Gender Expectations and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors on Teaching Evaluations
(2010)
Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) are a much-discussed and debated construct in the literature. When examining behaviors not explicitly detailed in job descriptions, ambiguity and subjective expectations about ...
Facilitative Influences on Organizational Planning
(2015-07-13)
Planning is one of the most important aspects of performance in organizations. The present study investigates a number of facilitative influences on organizational planning, including the threat of external pressure in the ...
Exploration and Exploitation Effort as Mediators between State-Level Goal Orientation and Complex Performance
(2017-05)
Organizational success depends on a workforce that can effectively solving the problems posed by rapid changes in modern marketplaces. In this study, we use achievement goal theory and self-regulation theories to better ...
Follower Mental Models and Outstanding Leadership
(2015)
Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic (CIP) leaders use different mental models to understand and interpret the world. The present study uses this framework to gain a better understanding of how outstanding leaders ...
It's not my fault, but I know how you feel: Influences of leader empathy on trust repair following an integrity-based trust violation
(2014-05)
Prior research on trust repair has focused primarily on investigating verbal and substantive responses to breaches of trust. Although consistently implicated in violations, the role of affect in the repair process has been ...
Climate for Creativity: The Use of Storytelling to Influence Climate Perceptions
(2014-12)
Storytelling may represent an effective approach to organizational communication. The present study examines the efficacy of a storytelling intervention intended to influence perceptions of organizational climate, where ...
APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE PRINCIPLES WITHIN AN ONLINE STATISTICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
(2016-12)
Three experiments were conducted in order to further investigate optimal learning procedures within an online statistical learning environment. Experiment 1 exposed learners to retrieval practice learning conditions with ...
Investigating the Antecedents of Time Banditry: Climate, Personality, and Commitment
(2010)
Time banditry has recently been introduced as a distinct construct in the counterproductive work behavior literature. An employee is engaged in time banditry when he or she pursues non-task related activities during work ...