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The outcomes of three models of counselling and consulting
This empirical investigation evaluated the outcomes of three models of counselling with students in the elementary school who were identified as having Learning and behavioral problems. It was hypothesized that m...
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Clinical effects of fenfluramine on children with autism: A review of the research
A review of research studies published to data on the effects of fenfluramine on children with autism is presented. The current status of the fenfluramine research on children with autism is assessed. The revi...
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Nonadversary Problem Solving by Machine
Almost all artificial intelligence programs can be said to be doing some form of problem solving whether it be interpreting a visual scene, parsing a sentence, or planning a sequence of robot actions. In this ...
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Empirical studies of Posture-Gesture Mergers
This study describes four experiments which support the hypothesis that Posture-Gesture Mergers (PGMs) accompany verbal expressions that are truthful, relaxed, sincere, or authentic. PGMs are defined as body m...
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Contemporary approaches to psychological assessment
Clinical and Experimental Psychiatry is een nieuwe serie in de reeks Monograph series die tot stand komt onder auspiciën van het Department of Psychiatry of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medi...
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Spouse similarity in attitudes, personality, and psychological well-being
The study of the origin of spouse similarity is interesting because the extent to which spouse similarity reflects genetic resemblance between husbands and wives affects the genetic structure of a population. ...
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Gender and Sexual Risk
Two hypotheses are evaluated in thisinvestigation of gender differences in the attitudinaland behavioral correlates of sexual risk. The“difference in magnitude” hypothesispredicts that the same factors are imp...
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Sustainable Wildlife Utilization in Africa: A Contest between Scientific Understanding and Human Nature
Human attitudes towards resource use are rooted in genetically determined behavior, which has been evolutionarily selected to maximize the reproductive success of individuals. In traditional African societies,...
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(En)Gendering Sustainable Development
Sustainable development will not be possible without a thorough analysis and revision of the gendered dimensions of international development. Gender bias is a universal phenomenon, but it is worse in poorer c...
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Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Discounting Delayed and Probabilistic Rewards
In order to assess the cross-cultural generality of monetary decision-making processes, American, Chinese, and Japanese graduate students were studied on two tasks: In the delay discounting task, participants ...
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Kindheitsforschung — ein Blick in die Zukunft
Vor zwei Jahren fand in Siegen eine überaus anregende Tagung statt. Dort war ich, wie heute, eingeladen, um einige abschließende Überlegungen zu einem geplanten Forschungsprojekt „Lernbiographien“ anzustellen....
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Attention, Learning, and Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This study compared attention and declarative memory in a sample of combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD, n = 24) previously reported to have reduced concentrations of the hippocampal neuronal...
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A methodology for the capture and analysis of hybrid data: A case study of program debugging
This article describes a methodology for the capture and analysis of hybrid data. A case study in the field of reasoning with multiple representations—specifically, in computer programming—is presented to exem...
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Parental Dysphoria and Children’s Adjustment: Marital Conflict Styles, Children’s Emotional Security, and Parenting as Mediators of Risk
Dimensions of martial conflict, children's emotional security regarding interparental conflict, and parenting style were examined as mediators between parental dysphoria and child adjustment. A community sampl...
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The Role of Family Functioning in Bipolar Disorder in Families
Investigated the association between family functioning and conflict and their links with mood disorder in parents and with children’s risk for bipolar disorder. Participants were 272 families with a child bet...
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Synergy of stimulus-driven salience and goal-directed prioritization: Evidence from the spatial blink
In the spatial blink paradigm, participants search for a target of a designated color in a rapidly presented stream of letters at fixation. Target identification is typically impaired if a peripheral distracto...
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Estimation of the Nonlinear Random Coefficient Model when Some Random Effects Are Separable
A method is presented for marginal maximum likelihood estimation of the nonlinear random coefficient model when the response function has some linear parameters. This is done by writing the marginal distributi...
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Precedence-effect-induced enhancement of prepulse inhibition in socially reared but not isolation-reared rats
Attention to a prepulse presented shortly before a startling stimulus enhances prepulse inhibition (PPI) of startle in normal people, but not in schizophrenics. Fear conditioning for the prepulse enhances PPI ...
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Onset capture requires attention
We studied exogenous cuing caused by an uninformative abrupt onset during a time when subjects were under the influence of the attentional blink. In two experiments, we found a reduced impact of exogenous cuin...
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An Investigation of Mental Health and Personality in Swedish Police Trainees upon Entry to the Police Academy
This study aimed at personality and mental health status of Swedish police trainees considering gender differences; and at relationships between personality and mental health. 103 individuals were investigated...
