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Facilitation Of Surgical Decisions Within A Functional Restoration Program For Chronic Disabling Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
(Psychology, 2013-03-20)Preventing delayed recovery is an important treatment goal in the treatment of chronic disabling occupational musculoskeletal disorders (CDOMDs). However, when CDOMD patients are potentially eligible for elective surgical ... -
Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail: The Effects of Forecasting Valence on Creativity
(2023-08-16)Forecasting is a central component of evaluating creative ideas for their success. Little is known, however, about variables that influence the effectiveness of predicting outcomes while evaluating creative ideas. Previous ... -
False And Veridical Memories And Stereotype Threat: A Cognitive Understanding Of A Social Phenomenon
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)In 1995, Steele and Aronson found that when asked to simply indicate their race prior to a memory test (Study 4) black participants performed significantly worse on a memory test than when not asked to indicate their race. ... -
Finally, My Thesis On Academic Procrastination
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)References to procrastination have been dated back to as long as 3,000 years ago. However, research on procrastination is ironically enormously behind the curve in active research on its antecedents and effects. Academic ... -
FROM HUMBLE BRAGS TO INSINCERE FLATTERY: AN EXAMINATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
(2021-08-02)The purpose of this research was to develop and validate a self-report measure of social media impression management (SMIM), which could be used to examine the prevalence rates of these behaviors among job seekers, as well ... -
Gender Differences In Emotional Labor
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)This study examined the differences in emotional labor efforts between men and women. Emotional labor refers to the incongruity between experienced emotions and displayed emotions. This "faking" or "acting" that takes place ... -
Gender Differences In Science, Math, And Engineering Doctoral Candiates' Mental Models Regarding Intent To Pursue An Academic Career
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Across university departments in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, there has been a long-standing problem of underrepresentation of women at all professorial ranks. Despite efforts over the ... -
Generations: The Dividing Line Between Preferences For Leadership Styles
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)This research examined what effects the characteristics of the Millennial generation had on the preferences for leadership style by investigating which qualities in leaders were more highly valued within this generational ... -
Great Expectations: Anticipating a Reminder Influences Prospective Memory Encoding and Unaided Retrieval
(2023-05-11)Reminders are effective ways to improve prospective memory (PM) – our ability to remember to complete a future action – but reminder use may have unintended consequences. Recent work in retrospective memory has shown that ... -
Group heterogeneity influences complex and novel outcomes
(2018-08-07)Research on diversity impacting group performance, especially creativity, has yielded varied, inconsistent outcomes. One initial issue that researchers face is identifying and measuring diversity within groups. Further, ... -
How Does A Weak Versus Strong Sense Of Self Affect People's Social And Nonsocial Involvements?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Does possessing either a strong or weak sense of self predict the number and percentage of one's self-selected social and/or nonsocial involvements? The current study is a retrospective survey study that sought to answer ... -
How Well, And How Quick, Do They Click? Initial Dyadic Interactions Between Straight Women And Gay (vs. Straight) Men
(Psychology, 2015)Past literature and popular culture have suggested that a strong, interpersonal connection quickly develops between straight women and gay men; however, research has not yet explored whether this phenomenon can be observed ... -
Human Preferences For Facial Symmetry In Dogs (Canis Familiaris)
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Previous studies on facial symmetry have documented a positive correlation between symmetry and perceived attractiveness in both human and non-human subjects. Evolutionary psychologists believe this may be evidence of a ... -
HUMILITY AND LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL: TESTING A MODERATED MODERATED MEDIATION MODEL
(2020-12-08)Despite the growing research on humble leadership, views on humility remain mixed and little is known about how humble individuals become leaders. To address this gap, this study examined how expressed humility was related ... -
Hyrbid Brainwriting: The Efficacy Of Alternating Between Individual And Group Brainstorming And The Effect Of Individual Difference Variables
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)AbstractThree studies were designed to test the efficacy of hybrid brainwriting procedures as compared to the traditional individual and group brainstorming. The hybrid brainwriting procedures were designed by alternating ... -
Identifying Associative Memory Deficits And Neurobiological Correlates Of Encoding And Performance In A National Sample Of Veterans With Gulf War Illness Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)Roughly 26-32% of U.S. veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 report suffering from chronic health problems (Golomb, 2008). Memory complaints are regularly reported by ill Gulf War veterans (GWV), but there ... -
The Impact Of An Intensive Physical Exercise Program (IPE) On Mental Processing Speed And Postural Control In Older Adults
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)One in three Americans over the age of 65 fall each year. In 2000, this equated to an annual cost of $19 billion in healthcare costs and this cost is expected to rise to $54 billion by 2020. One factor related to the ... -
The Impact Of Peer Victimization On Adolescent Inflammatory Markers
(Psychology, 2014-03-12)For years, research has linked peer victimization to various outcomes, ranging from those in the psychological realm (e.g., depression, anxiety) to physical health symptoms (e.g., frequent doctor visits, abdominal pain). ... -
Impact Of Recurrence On Prostate Cancer Survivors
(Psychology, 2013-07-22)The present study examined the impact of recurrence on health-related and prostate-specific quality of life, post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, physiological arousal to stress, and psychological distress by comparing ... -
Implications of assessor ratings of feedback seeking and receptivity behaviors on 360° ratings of worthy leadership and performance
A study was conducted to evaluate the role of a feedback-orientation-like construct (Behavioral Feedback Focus) in predicting worthy leadership, performance, and developmental outcomes in a sample of leaders who had ...