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Predicting Scientific Creativity: The Role of Adversity, Collaborations, and Work Procedures
(2012)
There is little doubt that career experiences are held to contribute to scientific achievement, however this relationship has yet to be thoroughly investigated in terms the effects on scientific creativity. In the present ...
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 ...
Promoting Adaptive Performance through Learner-Controlled Practice Difficulty and Individualized Challenge: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach
(2012)
In any learner-controlled, active learning environment, the choices one makes can influence both the objective training difficulty and individualized levels of trainee challenge faced during learning. Despite research ...
LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE: A HISTORIOMETRIC STUDY OF LEADER SUCCESS IN FIELDS REQUIRING CREATIVITY
(2012)
In recent years there has been a marked increase in the study of the influence of leadership on creativity, and the effects of this relationship on organizational performance. While a number of explanations have been ...
GREEBLES AND BRONCOS: A TEST OF EXPERTISE IN THE CROSS-RACE EFFECT
(2012)
People are more accurate at recognizing faces of individuals of their own race than individuals of another race; this well-replicated phenomenon is known as the cross-race effect (CRE). The reasons underlying the CRE are ...
When Moral Foundations Collide: An Examination of Liberals' and Conservatives' Reactions to Cross-foundational Moral Trade-offs
(2012)
Two studies extended previous research on Moral Foundations Theory (MFT; Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009) by examining the extent to which political ideology moderates the psychological reactions to various types of moral ...
Adaptive Performance, Cognitive Ability and the Moderating Effect of Task Characteristics
(2012)
An adaptive individual can be characterized as an individual who displays a general propensity to perform well in complex environments that are often unpredictable and ambiguous (Schunn & Reder, 2001). Lang and Bliese ...
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 ...
Leader-Facilitated Emotion Management in Context: Empathy & Skill
(2012)
The balance between leader emotional skills and ability is not well understood. Leaders who recognize and understand emotions appear in the research as more competent and successful. Applying emotion management strategies, ...
Social Cognitive Dynamics of Popularity and Indirect Aggression: The Role of Social Goals and Social Intelligence
(2012)
This study investigated the social goals of adolescents and their use of indirect aggression. Additionally, it examined how gender, peer status (i.e. perceived popularity) and individual differences in social intelligence ...