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"That's not what friends do!": Elementary school children's reactions to interpersonal violations.
(2006)
Little is known about how children respond to interpersonal violations by best friends; therefore the goal of the present study was to examine children's reactions to violations in detail. When confronted with problematic ...
Organization of parent knowledge.
(2005)
The present study explored the association between organization of knowledge about parents and the types of relationships that adult children have with them. This study demonstrated that for fathers, types of relationships ...
Development and validation of a scale measuring willingness to forgive.
(1999)
Long studied within the realm of religion and philosophy, forgiveness recently has emerged as an area of study within psychology, and research has burgeoned in the last decade. Early attempts to measure forgiveness suffered ...
Computer-mediated communication in collaborative writing.
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to determine if using computers to communicate during group writing tasks is an effective mode of communication. Three-person teams wrote term papers in one of the following media styles: ...
Toeing the party line: Identity misclassification and behavorial inflexibility in political decision making.
(2007)
Although social role norms serve as helpful guides to appropriate social behavior, they can also limit people's behavioral flexibility. When role violators expect to be mistaken as a member of a devalued out-group (i.e., ...
The effects of risk-taking and responsibility on adolescent sexual behavior: Is the effect mediated by military background?
(2004)
Adolescent sexual behavior was investigated within a framework of three independent variables. Previous research has identified that adolescents share a propensity for risk-taking. Other research has indicated that adolescents ...
The effect of incongruent information on schematic processing in person memory.
(1983)
Results showed that the introduction of information that is highly incongruent with a schema makes information supporting the schema more memorable than it is when only congruent information is heard. This pattern of results ...
Stereotyping in Black and White: Differences in stereotype knowledge and stereotype use.
(1997)
This study examined the content of stereotypes about Blacks and Whites, and the use of those stereotypes when confronted with ambiguous behaviors by a member of the stereotyped group. In study 1, both Black and White ...
Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol use: DF analysis of NLSY kinship data.
(1997)
DF analyses by race produced interesting findings. Each of the groups--Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics--differed from each other in some form. In each case, the c$\sp2$ and h$\sp2$ estimates were small to moderate for both ...