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August 2007
Implicit organizational behavior: What employees aren’t aware of may be important!
Have you ever lacked an explanation for why you thought or did something? Compelling findings from research conducted by social-cognitive psychologists suggests that human attitudes and behaviors sometimes occur implicitly. That is, they occur outside people’s awareness and control. For example, seeing an elderly person automatically elicits stereotypic attitudes (e.g., forgetfulness) and behaviors (e.g., slower motor movements) associated with old age (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996). (more...)Posted on August 2007
August 2007
The Institute of Psychology- Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca
The Department of Psychology has been founded in the same time with the Upper Dacia University in 1919 at Cluj. Professor Florian Stefănescu Goangă has been the founder of the Institute of Experimental, Comparative and Applied Psychology. (more...)
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August 2007
The 29th ISPA Colloquium “Meeting Individual and Community Needs”
This year the annual ISPA Colloquium took place between 24-28 July in the beautiful town of Tampere, in Finland. The theme, “Meeting Individual and Community Needs”, has reunited school psychologists, scholars and practitioners, from more than 35 countries. (more...)Posted on August 2007
August 2007
Excellence through diversity: Interview with a prolific researcher
Broadly speaking, researchers can be classified into two groups: those that focus on one specific area of research and others that publish across many topics. For this issue’s interview, we talked to Dr. Timothy Judge, professor and researcher in I/O psychology/business/organizational behavior that publishes across various areas from selection to work-family conflict. (more...)
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August 2007
SPAARS Approach: Integrated cognitive model of emotion of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
SPAARS (Schematic, Propositional, Analogical and Associative Representational Systems) is the integrated cognitive model of emotion proposed by Power & Dalgleish (1997). In SPAARS, emotions are described as appraisal based against an individual’s goals and this makes the theory functional in nature. The theory proposes two routes for the generation of emotions, namely a direct one in which the appraisals have become automatized and the other where these are still not automatized. (more...)Posted on August 2007
Psyched out by numbers: Altruism and the dangers of methodolatry
Try to remember the last time you helped someone. It may have been a relative, a friend, or a stranger on the street. Helping may have been easy, or may have involved considerable effort. The question is: why did you help? Was it to benefit the other person, or to benefit yourself? ‘Of course I helped to benefit the other person’, most people would say. If this is what you think, you believe in altruism – a term coined by Comte (1851), referring to the motivation to help others without personal gain. But now, think again: could it be that you helped simply to avoid the consequences of refusing to help? (more...)Posted on August 2007
ANALYSIS OF IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY Determining the Accuracy of Eyewitness Identifications Using Statement Analysis
Statement analysis has been used for years to determine the accuracy of statements. The Judgement of Memory Characteristics Questionnaire was revised in the current study to assess the accuracy of eyewitness identifications. Participants watched a video of a theft then identified the perpetrator from a line-up. Two statements were obtained: descriptions of the perpetrator and post-identification statements. The characteristics present in descriptions did not predict identification accuracy. However, analysis of the characteristics present in post-identification statements resulted in two predictive factors: Quality of Description and Amount of Detail. (more...)Posted on August 2007
POOR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT & ADJUSTMENT OF ADOLESCENTS
Present investigation is to compare the adjustment pattern of adolescents living in physically deprived environment. Children who have insufficient fresh air to breath, open ground to play and healthy environmental surrounding are quite unable to promote social and psychological interaction and develop ultimately inferiority complex and a feeling of inadequacy in them. (more...)Posted on August 2007
Work Motivation Patterns Underlying Workaholism Components
This study examined motivation patterns associated with workaholism components (work involvement, feeling driven to work, joy in work) identified by Spence and Robbins (1992). Data were collected from 211 Norwegian journalists using anonymous self-report questionnaires. Two motivation patterns were considered: intrinsic and extrinsic. Journalists scoring higher on intrinsic motivations reported greater work involvement and greater work enjoyment; journalists scoring higher on extrinsic motivations reported lower work enjoyment. The motivation patterns were independent of levels of feeling driven to work because of internal needs. (more...)Posted on August 2007
August 2007
Stereotypes Revised - Theoretical Models, Taxonomy and the Role of Stereotypes
Traditionally social psychologists had been “stereotypical” about stereotypes. Especially the early work in this field presented stereotypes as misleading, extreme and destructive in the context of inter-group relations. Such a position is explained by the fact that most researchers focused initially on the study of antagonistic groups that shared a past of conflict, exploitation and violence (Brigham, 1971). As a result, a common belief at that time was that inter-group harmony can be enhanced by eliminating stereotypes (Taylor, 1981). (more...)
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August 2007
Regulating the Psychological Therapies – From Taxonomy to Taxidermy
Denis Postle, the author of this book, is not the typical therapist or writer. He epitomizes the creative personality with a history of two decades as an accomplished documentary film-maker, who decided to use his talent and devotion to make psychotherapy a fit home for the human spirit. (more...)
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