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More than a feeling: An examination of mixed emotional expressions on leader evaluations and follower performance
(2019-05)
Leader emotional expressions are a central component of effective leadership and have received substantial attention in the leadership literature due to the interpersonal effects of emotion. This laboratory study (N = 266) ...
A Kin Selection Model of Suicide Risk
(2012)
Suicide has rarely been considered from an evolutionary perspective, likely because it appears prototypically maladaptive, and certainly appears to have no adaptive function. The current theory proffers a potential adaptive ...
Briding the GAPS: An Evaluation of the Group Activated Probability of Success Model of Stereotype Threat
(2010)
The authors developed the Group Activated Probability of Success (GAPS) model to replicate the relationship between the performances of minority group members that are impacted by stereotype threat and to examine the impact ...
Application of Artificial Neural Networks, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, and Multilevel Logistic Models in a Supervised Learning Environment to Investigate Differences in Classification Performance when Predicting College Enrollment
(2018-05)
The use of data mining algorithms for applied practice is becoming commonplace in many industries. The application of these models to the domain of educational data and practice could provide significant gains in understanding ...
DISPROPORTIONALITY IN SPECIAL EDUCATION: SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT DISPROPORTIONALITY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
(2015-05-08)
African American students experience school failure in many different ways and a disproportional number are placed into special education. Disproportionality in special education is an issue that needs to be investigated ...
The effect of leader moral disengagement and influence tactics on follower cognitions and ethical sensemaking
(2014-12)
During times of organizational crisis followers often rely on their leader’s experience and knowledge to provide ethical guidance. However, crises also provide leaders increased opportunity to influence followers to commit ...
Environmental influences on idea selection, refinement, and creativity
(2016-12)
Creative ideas rarely translate into successful innovations. This study investigated three factors hypothesized to influence idea selection, refinement, and creativity—the source of ideas as well as the goals and climate ...
Ability-Growth Interactions in the Acquisition of a Complex Skill: A Spline-Modeling Approach
(2010)
While investigating how the relationship of abilities and skill acquisition changes over the course of training, researchers have unknowingly obscured the very relationship they sought to examine by relying on analyses ...
An Examination of Skill Acquisition, Adaptive Functioning, and Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention Effectiveness for Children At-risk For Autism at Early Foundations Project DATA
(2014-05-09)
Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by communication and/or social deficits with restricted and repetitive behaviors. Treating autism is very costly, both financially and emotionally. Early Intensive Behavioral ...
Workload History and Anticipation: Effects on Task Performance and Subjective Stress
(2011)
Though previous research has demonstrated that a sudden change in workload can have negative performance outcomes, there has been little examination of factors that could minimize these effects. The purpose of the present ...