Achievement

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It feels like yesterday: self-esteem, valence of personal past experiences, and judgments of subjective distance.

Supporting predictions from temporal self-appraisal theory, participants in 3 studies reported feeling farther from former selves and experiences with unfavorable implications for their current self-view than from equally distant selves and experiences ...
Michael Ross, Anne E Wilson (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200205)
feels-like-yesterday-self-esteem-valence-personal-past-experiences.asp

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Ability evaluation by proxy: role of maximal performance and related attributes in social comparison.

Four experiments tested the effects of information about a proxys related attributes and maximal effort in social comparisons of ability. In Study 1, a proxys prior performance at maximal effort exerted systematic effects on participants personal ...
René Martin, Jerry Suls, Ladd Wheeler (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200205)
ability-evaluation-proxy-role-maximal-performance-related-attributes.asp

133.

General and specific traits of personality and their relation to sleep and academic performance.

Few studies have examined the links between personality variables and sleep and their combined effect on specific real-world outcomes. Participants in this study completed numerous personality, sleep, and performance measures; we examined the ...
Elizabeth K Gray, David Watson (J Pers, 200204)
general-specific-traits-personality-relation-sleep-academic.asp

134.

Psychometric properties of a kindergarten behavior rating scale to predict later academic achievement.

The design and description of the psychometric properties of a Kindergarten Behavior Rating Scale used to predict later academic achievement were based on a survey of past literature on efficient predictors of school failure which indicated a need for a ...
Alain Cadieux, Paul Boudreault (Psychol Rep, 200204)
psychometric-properties-kindergarten-behavior-rating-scale-predict.asp

135.

Day-to-day relationships between self-awareness, daily events, and anxiety.

Every day for 3 weeks, 41 participants provided measures of their state private and public self-consciousness (self-awareness, SA), and anxiety, and they described the events that occurred each day. Multilevel random coefficient modeling analyses found ...
John B Nezlek (J Pers, 200204)
day-day-relationships-self-awareness-daily-events-anxiety.asp

136.

Stimulation seeking and intelligence: a prospective longitudinal study.

The prediction that high stimulation seeking 3-year-olds would have higher IQs by 11 years old was tested in 1,795 children on whom behavioral measures of stimulation seeking were taken at 3 years, together with cognitive ability at 11 years. High ...
Adrian Raine, Chandra Reynolds, Peter H Venables, Sarnoff A Mednick (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200204)
stimulation-seeking-intelligence-prospective-longitudinal-study.asp

137.

The effects of frequency of encouragement on performance during maximal exercise testing.

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of frequency of verbal encouragement during maximal exercise testing. Twenty-eight participants (12 males, 16 females) aged 20.9 +/- 1.5 years (mean +/- s) performed a maximal exercise test (VO2max) on a ...
Joseph L Andreacci, Linda M LeMura, Steven L Cohen, Ethan A Urbansky, Sara A Chelland, Serge P Von Duvillard (J Sports Sci, 200204)
effects-frequency-encouragement-performance-maximal-exercise-testing.asp

138.

Young adult outcome of children with "situational" hyperactivity: a prospective, controlled follow-up study.

To examine the importance of symptom pervasiveness in ADHD, we conducted a prospective, 12-year follow-up study of boys (ages 6-12) considered hyperactive at school and home (Pervasive ADHD), boys considered hyperactive by teachers but not parents ...
Salvatore Mannuzza, Rachel G Klein, John L Moulton (J Abnorm Child Psychol, 200204)
young-adult-outcome-children-situational-hyperactivity-prospective.asp

139.

Change detection in multi-voice music: the role of musical structure, musical training, and task demands.

This study evaluated the relationship between primitive and scheme-driven grouping (A. S. Bregman, 1990) by comparing the ability of different listeners to detect single note changes in 3-voice musical compositions. Primitive grouping was manipulated by ...
Edward J Crawley, Barbara E Acker-Mills, Richard E Pastore, Shawn Weil (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200204)
change-detection-multi-voice-music-role-musical-structure-musical.asp

140.

Measuring needs with the thematic apperception test: a psychometric study.

Three apperception theories that explain how people respond to Thematic Apperception Test cards are proposed: a simple apperception theory, an apperception theory with a dynamic component, and an apperception theory with 2 types of responses. Each theory ...
Francis Tuerlinckx, Boeck Paul De, Willy Lens (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200203)
measuring-needs-thematic-apperception-test-psychometric-study.asp