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In the last 25 years, there is no issue in personality psychology which has been as hotly debated as that of consistency.
Spurred by reports in 1980 detailing the ineffectiveness of long-term treatment with benzodiazepines, the authors of this volume began a study to investigate the reasons behind the addiction, quickly adopting a psychological approach to treatment.
While this monograph indicates that the ability to think abstractly declines slightly with age, there are a number of variables determining abstract thinking and its relation to intelligence over the life-span. This monograph defines abstraction from all angles of thought, contrasting it with high-order thinking and stereotyped thinking;
1 History of Solvent Abuse The practice of deliberately inhaling various gases or vapors in order to induce an altered state of mood or sensibility is not new. Following the synthesis of nitrous oxide by Sir Joseph Priestley in 1776, the potential uses of the gas were explored in depth by Sir Humphrey Davy.
Stephan This is a book about the two social psychologies-psychological social psychology and sociological social psychology--written by social psychologists from both disciplines.
Hope has been called the "life blood of the soul", an indispensable condition for human existence. In the first of four studies, Averill, Catlin, and Chon delineate four classes of rules that help constitute hope in Western societies.
This volume reports recent results of investigations into the role of attributional processes in self-presentation. The volume casts a wide net with work of interest to both clinicians and cognitive theorists.
40.) In the first chapter, "Experimental Research and the Distinctive Features of Accounting Settings," Robert Libby presents an encompassing and knowledgeable summary of the changes that have taken place during the last decade in human information processing research in accounting and experimental economics as it relates to those issues.
Since the establishment of the first alcohol education course (ABC) for young offenders in 1981, this fono of service delivery has been expanded across the United Kingdom. Prerelease young offenders were randomly assigned to either a no-intervention control group or a behavioral ABC group.
In our opinion, past research has failed to make important conceptual distinctions which has resulted in an underestimation of the potential utility of parent-teen communication. First, we wanted to identify important conceptual and methodological points that future researchers can consider in exploring this important area of inquiry.
Whereas studies of violence have ranged from genetic, cultural to Situation effects, and have been pursued through empirical and nonempirical methods over the past several decades, nonviolence did not become a favorite area of study among social scientists.
Large Group Awareness Training: An Historical Context Groups associated with the human potential movement have been a controversial feature of American life during the last three decades.
This research monograph describes a new approach to the measurement of thinking processes. Traditionally, thinking has been defined in terms of the logical thought processes which lead to warranted conclusions. Current tests of critical thinking reflect the "logical" approaches to measuring thinking;
"Double Take" is a drug education package produced by the Department of Health and Social Security (United Kingdom). Rather, the investigators were interested in the ways in which teachers themselves chose to adopt and integrate the package within existing courses and with the restrictions of pupils in their schools.
Evaluation of Performance: A Judgmental Approach presents a theoretical analysis of the emotional significance of self-evaluative reactions and their relevance in explaining unipolar depression.
In the context of interpersonal interaction, it is possible to characterize human beings as complex sources of information. According to information integration theory, a stimulus is characterized hy two parameters: scale value and weight.
Language and Learning in the Cooperative Classroom reports the results of an experiment on the effects of cooperative learning. Do pupils who study with the Group-Investigation method display more extensive verbal interaction with their peers than pupils who study with the Whole-Class method?
One of the liveliest areas of research in the social sciences is reading. What are the best ways to approach instruction for different groups of readers-young beginning readers, poor readers with learning problems, and teenage and adult illiterates?
I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. The focus of Volume One was on happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole, so-called global indicators of subjective well being.
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