Typologies of coping in young adults in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

abstract：:In three experiments, we examined whether general suggestions of non-occurrence -suggestions that experienced events did not occur- would lead participants to claim that events they witnessed never happened. Participants viewed a video depicting the investigation of a child kidnapping case and subsequently were expose...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Azad T,Lindsay DS,Zaragoza MS

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence exists that Westerners rely on similarities to organize their perceptual experiences (descriptive style) and on dispositions to explain human behavior, whereas Far East Asians rely on functional relationships (relational style) and situational details. The present research challenged this dichotomy by investi...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Pilotti MAE,Salameh MH,Abdulhadi EJY,Al Ghazo R

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study analyzed the effect of simple-categorization dominance on the evaluation of crossed-categorization target from the perspective of observer (other) and actor (self). With a focus on the young-poor target, in Study 1 and Study 2, participants were assigned to observer or actor perspective and were rand...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Song J,Ruan Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Judgments of learning (JOLs) are usually higher for high-frequency words than for low-frequency words, which has been attributed to beliefs about how word frequency affects memory. The main goal of the present study was to explore if identifying word frequency as a relevant cue is necessary for it to affect JOLs. The ...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Mendes PS,Luna K,Albuquerque PB

更新日期：2021-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The verbal descriptions of an environment elicit a spatial mental model, in which the linear disposition of the described objects might be related to the properties of the description. In particular the direction from which the environment is encoded might shape the spatial mental model, as a consequence of a cultural...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Santoro I,Sors F,Mingolo S,Prpic V,Grassi M,Agostini T,Murgia M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social Reference Theory is relatively new in explaining and predicting social behaviors. Sophisticated empirical observations are needed to support and refine the theory. The theory proposes that (1) Any perception must be understood in the context of a reference; (2) without a reference, no perception exist...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Zhao S,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ezekiel's adjusted R2 is widely used in linear regression analysis. The present study examined the statistical properties of Ezekiel's measure through a series of Monte Carlo simulations. Specifically, we examined the bias and root mean squared error (RMSE) of Ezekiel's adjusted R2 relative to (a) the sample R2 statis...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Hittner JB

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many previous studies have demonstrated the SNARC effect-i.e., participants are faster to respond with their left/right hand to small/large numbers. However, there is a debate on whether it is based on working or long-term memory (i.e., relative or absolute magnitude). Here, we examined the flexibility of the spatial-...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Yu S,Li B,Zhang S,Yang T,Jiang T,Chen C,Dong Q

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite previous evidence showing a positive relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and quality of life (QoL), associating older adults' emotional processing with several health indicators, few studies have explored both the IE and the a mechanisms through which they affect QoL. This cross-sectional study an...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Luque-Reca O,Pulido-Martos M,Lopez-Zafra E,Augusto-Landa JM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how different types of feedback in multiple-choice testing influence long-term retention. Participants completed an initial multiple-choice test on general-knowledge questions. Then, they were randomly placed into one of the following four conditions: feedback displaying the original question and four ...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Jang Y,Marshall E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study was to investigate relationships between personal beliefs about memory, metacognitive beliefs, and actual memory performance. One hundred thirty-seven participants' (aged 20 to 60 years) metacognitive beliefs were measured using the Metacognition Questionnaire (MCQ-30), memory beliefs wer...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Irak M,Çapan D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:College students read two 600-word passages, and then were tested for recognition of verbatim sentences from the passages, as well as paraphrased and distractor sentences. In different groups, a target passage was read once, or twice with the readings being immediately successive (massed), or separated by an interveni...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Terry WS

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transitory changes of primacy and recency in successive single-trial free recall were investigated in three experiments. A trial-by-trial analysis of the serial position curves indicated a pronounced primacy and a moderate recency on the very first recall trial. The primacy reduced and the recency increased rapidly af...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Huang IN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of three experiments, using 48 albino rats as Ss, manipulated the intensity and duration of inescapable treatment shock. Subsequent testing on the acquisition of an FR-3 lever-press response to terminate test shock showed no interference effects whether test shock was the same, less intense, or more intense t...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Young AG,Speier AH

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier experiments have shown that responding for sensory change may be enhanced in a causally structured environment. In the present study further complexity was introduced but this did not produce increased responding. In addition, different environments and sensory changes were compared. It was found that the leve...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Glow PH,Winefield AH

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A location-cuing paradigm was used to study the effects of cue probability on the allocation of visual attention. A cue was used to indicate the likely location of a target (out of 4 possible target locations), with 8 cue-target onset intervals, ranging from 0 to 233 ms. There were 3 blocked proportions of correctly c...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Gottlob LR,Cheal M,Lyon DR

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of verbalization and method of task presentation on children's optional shift behavior are reported. Ninety-six kindergarten boys and girls made optional shifts consistent with the dimension verbalized in original learning. However, many children shifted directly to the cue actually reinforced in original ...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Roodin PA,Offenbach SI

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation assessed the usefulness of a limited capacity information processing model for evaluation of stress. The assumption is that the task of anticipating an impending aversive event requires a portion of the limited capacity. Thus, such stress can be measured by a performance decrement in a concurrent ta...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Sachs DA,Martin DW,Moyer PN

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments with isopods, Armadillidium vulgare, were reported. In Experiment I, two groups of five Ss each learned to run a T maze to escape light and heat. Both original learning (OL), and relearning (RL) the next day, were to a criterion 9/10 correct. Between OL and RL one group was immobilized (I), and the oth...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Hicks RE,McDaniel JW,Hensley JH

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correlational analysis was performed to determine the relationship of anagram solving to both transition probability and word frequency. The results revealed that an index that combines solution-word and anagram transition probability by subtracting the latter from the former is significantly related to problem solu...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Gavurin EI,Devito C

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the helping behavior of participants with high (High-P; 15 males, 13 females) and low (Low-P; 14 males, 16 females) psychopathic traits without their awareness. In the first of three tests, we found Low-P participants offered more help to an apparently lost female confederate than High-P participan...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Mahmut MK,Cridland L,Stevenson RJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inattentional blindness occurs when individuals are engaged in an attention-demanding task and fail to detect unexpected objects in their visual field. Two experiments examined whether certain unexpected objects are more easily detected than others. The unexpected objects were animate and threatening (e.g., snake), an...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Calvillo DP,Hawkins WC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults (n = 20) and second-grade children (n = 20) named pictures while trying to ignore words printed inside the pictures. The words were either high or low associates of the pictures, and picture-word pairings either crossed or did not cross conceptual category boundaries. It was found that Ss at both ages experienc...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Guttentag RE

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lawyers will frequently use complex-question forms, such as multifaceted questions (single questions that contain both a true and a false proposition), when cross-examining witnesses, and prior research has shown that use of such questions reduces testimonial accuracy. The present study extends this research by using ...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Chrobak QM,Rindal EJ,Zaragoza MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Likert-type scales are commonly used when assessing attitudes, personality characteristics, and other psychological variables. This study examined the effect of varying the number of response options on the same set of 28 attitudinal items. Participants answered items using either a 4-point scale (forced choice), a 5-...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Nadler JT,Weston R,Voyles EC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2D:4D digit ratio (henceforth, 2D:4D) is accepted as a marker of prenatal testosterone, demonstrating gender differences. The present study reveals that 2D:4D shows not only gender differences but also individual differences in personality and risk-taking behavior. We measured individual participants' 2D:4D, struc...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Kim Y,Kim K,Kim TH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that we are capable of judging ratios of subjective intensities is widely used in psychology. Here, experimental results are reported that more stringently verify prior findings that people respond to sensory intensity differences while they execute the task of judging sensory intensity ratios. This ver...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Masin SC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multisensory response enhancement (MRE), occurring when the response to a visual target integrated with a spatially congruent sound is stronger than the response to the visual target alone, is believed to be mediated by the superior colliculus (SC) (Stein & Meredith, 1993). Here, we used a focused attention paradi...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Makovac E,Gerbino W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "magical" number of 4 has been demonstrated to limit much of human information processing. The relevant evidence is briefly reviewed. It is proposed that the organization of processing structures is based on interconnected bidirectional pairs, with every element paired with every other one. The limit arises becaus...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Mandler G

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal is to demonstrate that potential performance theory (PPT) provides a unique type of methodology for studying the use of heuristics under time pressure. While most theories tend to focus on different types of strategies, PPT distinguishes between random and nonrandom effects on performance. We argue that the u...

journal_title：The Journal of general psychology

authors： Rice S,Trafimow D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00