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Perceptions of Aging Across 26 Cultures and Their Culture-Level Associates
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2009)
College students (N = 3,435) in 26 cultures reported their perceptions of age-related changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional areas of functioning and rated societal views of aging within their culture. There ...
Microgenetic analysis of phenomenal transparency
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2003)
Patterns of Thinking in Militant Extremism
(Sage Publications Ltd, London, 2009)
Recurrent features of the thinking pattern (or mind-set) of violent militant extremists are delineated, discussed, and related to previous research and theory. We examined extremist groups from a diverse range of continents, ...
Do personality traits predict post-traumatic stress?: a prospective study in civilians experiencing air attacks
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2005)
Background. Previous studies have suggested an association between personality traits and posttraumatic stress. These studies either focused exclusively on military veterans or assessed personality traits after the traumatic ...
The development of phonemic-iconic congruency: children's performance in naming task
(Pion Ltd, London, 2008)
In previous experiments we used choice and visualization tasks to study the development of
phonemic-iconic congruency and confirmed the phenomenon at all age-groups, starting from 5
year olds. The strength of the effect ...
The soap bubble: Phenomenal state or perceptual system dynamics?
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2003)
The Gestalt Bubble model describes a subjective phenomenal experience (what is seen) without taking into account the extraphenomenal constraints of perceptual experience (why it is seen as it is). If it intends to be an ...
The simultaneous effects of inflectional paradigms and classes on lexical recognition: Evidence from Serbian
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2009)
In this study, we investigate the relevance of inflectional paradigms and inflectional classes for lexical processing. We provide an information-theoretical measure of the divergence in the frequency distributions of two ...
Changing attitudes of high school students towards peers with mental health problems
(Medicinska Naklada, Zagreb, 2009)
Background. Stigma refers to the undesirable characteristics linked to mental illness and the adverse cognitive and behavioral consequences. Stigma causes a spiral of alienation and discrimination, leading to social isolation ...
Avoiding 'marketing myopia' in voluntary blood donation (What is wrong with the promotion of voluntary blood donation?)
(Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2006)
Symmetry, complexity and perceptual economy: Effects of minimum and maximum simplicity conditions
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2001)
According to Gestalt theory, the perceptual system works on economic principles and tends to reach the maximum efficiency (i.e., increase of quality, goodness, and accuracy) with minimum invested energy (i.e., reduction ...