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May 2006
Is there a decline in verbal working memory over age?
In this study, the new standard computerized version of the reading span test was used to investigate the development of verbal working memory over age. A significant higher reading span and faster reaction times were expected for the young adults compared to the old adults, based on the processing resource theory (Just & Carpenter, 1992) and the theory of cognitive aging (Salthouse, 1994, 1996), and this hypothesis was confirmed. The new methodology made it possible to test whether there was an age-related increase in intrusion errors, which could be expected based on the inhibition theory of cognitive aging (Hasher & Zacks, 1988). The results showed that older adults made more intrusion errors than young adults thereby confirming the inhibition theory. Finally, the analysis of the memory-pattern showed a clear recency-effect for the young-, but not for the old adults. Interestingly, this has never been reported in literature before. Although more research is needed before any firm conclusions can be drawn, this decline in recency-effect shows that there are larger age-related effects in short term memory span than was expected on the basis of aging theories so far. (more...)Posted on May 2006
Electronic publishing: The future is here
So, you’ve completed your research, you’ve written up your article and now you’re ready to submit it to a peer review journal. You send your manuscript to the editor of the journal, the editor forwards your manuscript for review to other scientists in your field, and, based on the feedback from reviewers, he/she decides whether your work will be published or not. (more...)Posted on May 2006
May 2006
Formation Conditions of Corporate Social Responsibility in Organizational Culture
Māra Vidnere and Jānis Strautmanis Māra Vidnere Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy Imantas 7. līnija 1, Riga (Latvia) LV-1083 Tel.: + 371 7808010, Fax: +371 7 808 034 Email: mvidnere@navigator.lv Jānis Strautmanis Banking Institution of Higher Education K.... (more...)Posted on May 2006
Effect Of Chronic Disease On Romantic Partner Choice
Loredana Ruxandra Gherasim, Andreea Mihaela Mihalca Abstract Background: Interpersonal attraction is influenced by many factors like physical attraction, similarity or proximity. The impact of chronic illnesses on romantic relationships hasn’t been studied very deeply. Method. An experimental study was completed... (more...)Posted on May 2006
May 2006
WWU Researcher Explores 'Trust' in Internet Consumerism
Drew Weidenbacher at (360) 393-9266 or dweidenbacher@qwest.net; George Cvetkovich, (360) 650-3544, or George.Cvetkovich@wwu.edu May 23, 2006 BELLINGHAM – Using his own experience on Wall Street along with mentoring by one of the nation's leading experts on "trust," Western Washington University... (more...)Posted on May 2006
May 2006
Destructive Emotions: How can we overcome them?
by Daniel Goleman
Reviewed by Mihaela Popa Chraif
MA degree - DAFI (Capital Markets Management and Stocks– ASE)
Student at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bucharest
“Most of the human dramas and suffering are the effects of destructive emotions, as the hate feeds violence and the strong needs feed the dependence. One of our greatest responsibilities as human beings full of compassion for our co-habitants is to reduce the human losses caused by those destructive emotions.”
(Dalai Lama, 28 august 2002) (more...)
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May 2006
Project management - a practical approach for educational and scientific research funds
Projects are conceived and completed by people. People are at the beginning, at the end, and center of projects. They apply both implicit, tacit knowledge and established theories drawn from science and practical observation to perform both everyday actions and to innovate and solve technical problems. But we still seem to lack a coherent theoretical foundation that explains how leadership engages people fully and effectively. (more...)Posted on May 2006
May 2006
The Role of Organisational Innovation in Corporations
The article stresses the question of organisational innovations in the field of SME in CEEC. For the analysis, examples of characteristic phenomena are chosen which mirror the strengths and weaknesses, the opportunities and threats of CEEC in transition economies. Besides various economic images, three fields will be presented in which the EU exercises little direct influence. These three fields cover 1) education, 2) science and research, and 3) SME. They are seen to be essential terrain for initiating national and corporate competitive advantages. Education is the basis of future human resources; science and research open potential sources of development for new products and service. A national culture of SME-carried economy can be seen as an effective structure to implement such innovation. (more...)Posted on May 2006
The Link between the Mathematical Game Theory and the Transactional Analysis. A New Kind of Psychological Game Comes into Being in New Interpersonal Relations.
MGT studies human games to find the best strategies for gaining a concrete advantage. TA studies human games to get the answer to the question why people make efforts in order to suffer, (to win negative payoffs), and how these people can be helped to give up these daily repeated games. These cause sufferings for all participants, and are the causes of many psychological diseases. However both describe the human conflicts, suffering having a sense of lost in MGT, apparently MGT games and TA games are in contrast with each other. Studying the evolution (the degeneration) of MGT games, we can observe that the majority of human conflicts start off with a “Prisoners Dilemma”, goes on with the “Chicken! Game” and degenerates into a “Dollar Auction Game”. (more...)Posted on May 2006
May 2006
Instructional Clarity: The Effect of Bilingualism and Instructor's Preparation
Abstract The study focused on bilingualism and preparation of teachers that affected the teacher’s clarity. Twenty monolingual and bilingual participants of various preparation, in the first phase of the study, were randomly assigned to two groups: high and low preparation. Participants read the same lecture and presented it a week later. Two independent coders analyzed the lectures against the Vagueness Terms Checklist. Eighty participants in the second phase were randomly assigned to four lecturing conditions. The tape-recorded lectures, chosen in the first phase, were presented to junior undergraduate students. Students rated the lecture on an 11-item response form. Results of this study were analyzed using a two-way analysis of variance and post-test design. Bilingualism showed significant statistical results. (more...)Posted on May 2006
May 2006
Our interviewee is Dr. Ulrich von Hecker, PhD, researcher and lecturer in social psychology at Cardiff University. His research interests are in the area of social cognition, in particular the link between cognition and emotion. Dr. von Hecker studies how social schemata shape the way we perceive groups and social relations around us and involving us, and how social perception is affected by states of dysphoria and depression. He is also interested in power processes in small groups, and in the way we use language in the attributions of interpersonal events. His most recent project is on the neural correlates of generative reasoning in subclinical depression. (more...)
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