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Advances in Psychology Research presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Contents: Preface; COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Revisiting the Efficacy of the Glass Estimator of Effect Size for Practical Significance; Remembering, Knowing and Schematisation: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives; Emotional Sharing and Secrecy Among Indian and English Adolescents; Asymptotic Biases of Least Squares Estimators in Structural Equation Modelling; BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGY: Maternal Influences on Infant Behavioural Development in Western Lowland Gorillas; Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact and the Development of Emotion Regulation; Social and Emotional Loneliness in Childhood; Measurement Characteristics and Interviewer Effects in Assessing Empathy; Measuring the Emotion-Perception Component of Emotional Intelligence; A Consumer Response Model for Negative Word-of-Mouth Communication; The Validity of the Defence Mechanism Test: A Review of Empirical Studies; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolution and the Problem of Altruism: Current and Historical Perspectives; Index
Advances in Psychology Research presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Contents: Preface; Cognitive Psychology -- Disruptive Effects of Bizarreness in Free and Cued Recall for Self-Performed and Other-Performed Acts: The Costs of Item-Specific Processing; The External Validity of the Scale of Self-Perception for Pre-School Children Generalisation and Transfer: The Role of Specific Cases; Evidence Against Units of Perception; Automatic Processes in Face Recognition. Behavioural Psychology -- Anxiety/Aggression - Driven Depression: A Paradigm of Functionalisation and Verticalisation of Psychiatric Diagnosis; Accepting or Rejecting Medical Treatment: A Comparison of Self and Spouse-Focused Decisions; Studying Delay of Gratification in Animals; Transfer of Learning: The Same Mechanism Governs Formation of Associations between Stimuli in Three Procedures in Rats: Two Concurrent, Matching (or Non-matching)-to-Sample, and Same-Different Discriminations; Intake Situations Associated with Substance Abuse in a Mexican Student Sample; Cardiac Rehabi
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Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces--social, political, and institutional--dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description.