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Age, acculturation, cultural adjustment, and mental health symptoms of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese immigrant youths.

This study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrant junior high and high school students (N = 319) investigated the association between age, acculturation, cultural adjustment difficulties, and general mental health concerns. Hierarchical regression ...
Christine J Yeh (Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol, 200302)
age-acculturation-cultural-adjustment-mental-health-symptoms-chinese.asp

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Attitudes towards science and alternative medicine of medical, economics and business, and electrical engineering students in Split, Croatia.

AIM: To assess attitudes of students at the Split University Schools of Medicine, Economics and Business, and Electrical Engineering towards science and alternative medicine. METHODS: There were 275 respondents surveyed for their opinion on science and ...
Zoran Dogas, Goran Kardum, Lina Miric, Vana Sevo, Tihana Tolic, Anita Ursic, Petra Vasiljevic, Sandra Zekic (Croat Med J, 200302)
attitudes-towards-science-alternative-medicine-medical-economics.asp

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They look like my kind of people--perceptions of smoking images in youth magazines.

Ten years ago research showed that pro-smoking images were prevalent in British youth magazines, whereas there was little coverage of smoking and health. Since then there has been a great expansion in the number of youth magazines, and particularly those ...
Lynn MacFadyen, Amanda Amos, Gerard Hastings, Edward Parkes (Soc Sci Med, 200302)
look-like-my-kind-people-perceptions-smoking-images-youth-magazines.asp

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Overrating pornography as a source of sex information for university students: additional consistent findings.

This study is an empirical investigation of how 175 university students obtained their knowledge of sexual matters and whether pornography functioned as an important source. Analysis indicated that pornography does not play an important role in the ...
Lawrence C Trostle (Psychol Rep, 200302)
overrating-pornography-source-sex-information-university-students.asp

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Do people still report dreaming in black and white? An attempt to replicate a questionnaire from 1942.

In the 1940s and 1950s many people in the United States appear to have thought they dreamed in black and white. For example, Middleton (1942) found that 70.7% of 277 college sophomores reported "rarely" or "never" seeing colors in their dreams. The ...
Eric Schwitzgebel (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
people-still-report-dreaming-black-white-attempt-replicate.asp

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Fantasy proneness, creative capacity, and styles of creativity.

The Creativity Styles Questionnaire-Revised was used to measure graduate psychology students (N=173) self-perceptions of creative capacity and styles of creativity (beliefs about and strategies for going about being creative). Participants also completed ...
Susanna A Lack, V K Kumar, Salvador Arevalo (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
fantasy-proneness-creative-capacity-styles-creativity.asp

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Semantic priming effect of metaphor constituent terms.

Camac and Glucksberg reported there was no priming effect between constituent terms of a metaphor and argued that there was no prior similarity or association between the constituents. However, their study had several limitations. An important one was ...
Keiko Nakamoto (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
semantic-priming-effect-metaphor-constituent-terms.asp

188.

College students choices of study strategies.

For a closed-book examination, study strategies that could promote deep processing correlated positively with scores but were not likely to be used by the 46 students. For an open-book, open-note examination, strategies that might have led to confusion ...
L Mark Carrier (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
college-students-choices-study-strategies.asp

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Covariation of sex differences in mental rotation with body size.

Sex difference in mental rotation ability was reconsidered. The Vandenberg-Kuse figures were administered to 120 male and 76 female students from the Medical School of BlackSea Technical University in Trabzon, Turkey to assess the mental rotation ...
Uner Tan, Mukadder Okuyan, Tugba Bayraktar, Ahmet Akgun (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
covariation-sex-differences-mental-rotation-body-size.asp

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Effect of air pollution on peak expiratory flow rate variability.

Exposure to air pollution affects pulmonary functions adversely. Effect of exposure to pollution on diurnal variation of peak flow was assessed in healthy students. Three hundred healthy age-matched nonsmoker students were studied. They were categorized ...
Virendra Singh, Rakesh Khandelwal, A B Gupta (J Asthma, 200302)
effect-air-pollution-peak-expiratory-flow-rate-variability.asp