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Test-taking anxiety among nursing & general college students.

This study examined whether nursing students experience an unusual amount of debilitative anxiety in academic achievement, compared to general university students and provided senior psychiatric nursing students with a hands-on experience in research. A ...
Thomas Brewer (J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv, 200211)
test-taking-anxiety-nursing-general-college-students.asp

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Causal capture: contextual effects on the perception of collision events.

In addition to perceiving the colors, shapes, and motions of objects, observers can perceive higher-level properties of visual events. One such property is causation, as when an observer sees one object cause another object to move by colliding with it. ...
Brian J Scholl, Ken Nakayama (Psychol Sci, 200211)
causal-capture-contextual-effects-perception-collision-events.asp

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Relations of strength training to body image among a sample of female university students.

College women enrolled in a strength training class were evaluated before and after the class using a combination of physical fitness measures, including weight, percentage of body fat, body circumference, and strength measures. Forty-nine subjects ...
Christine Ahmed, Wanda Hilton, Keenan Pituch (J Strength Cond Res, 200211)
relations-strength-training-body-image-sample-female-university.asp

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Are facial displays social? Situational influences in the attribution of emotion to facial expressions.

Observers are remarkably consistent in attributing particular emotions to particular facial expressions, at least in Western societies. Here, we suggest that this consistency is an instance of the fundamental attribution error. We therefore hypothesized ...
José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, Pilar Carrera, James A Russell (Span J Psychol, 200211)
facial-displays-social-situational-influences-attribution-emotion.asp

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The differential functions of imagery and verbal thought in insomnia.

Individuals with insomnia were exposed to a stressor (speech threat) prior to getting into bed and were instructed to think about the speech and its implications in either images (Image group, n = 14) or verbal thought (Verbal group, n = 17). ...
Julia Nelson, Allison G Harvey (J Abnorm Psychol, 200211)
differential-functions-imagery-verbal-thought-insomnia.asp

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In conversation: high school students talk to students about tobacco use and prevention strategies.

The purpose of this multi-site qualitative study is to explore how adolescents talk about tobacco use. Sixty-six students in four high schools became co-researchers and led focus group interviews with 205 fellow students. From the interviews, the authors ...
Vicki L Plano Clark, Dana L Miller, John W Creswell, Kristine McVea, Rob McEntarffer, Lynn M Harter, William T Mickelson (Qual Health Res, 200211)
conversation-high-school-students-talk-students-tobacco-prevention.asp

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Trunk orientation induces neglect-like lateral biases in covert attention.

The purpose of this study was to resolve a paradox in the literature on the effects of body orientation on spatial attention. Neuropsychological studies have found that real or simulated trunk rotation relieves contralesional inattention in patients with ...
Jefferson D Grubb, Catherine L Reed (Psychol Sci, 200211)
trunk-orientation-induces-neglect-like-lateral-biases-covert-attention.asp

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Synesthetic color experiences influence memory.

We describe the extraordinary memory of C, a 21-year-old student who experiences synesthetic colors (i.e., photisms) when she sees, hears, or thinks of digits. Using three matrices of 50 digits, we tested C and 7 nonsynesthetes to evaluate whether Cs ...
Daniel Smilek, Mike J Dixon, Cera Cudahy, Philip M Merikle (Psychol Sci, 200211)
synesthetic-color-experiences-influence-memory.asp

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"Markov at the bat": a model of cognitive processing in baseball batters.

Anecdotal evidence from players and coaches indicates that cognitive processing (e.g., expectations about the upcoming pitch) plays an important role in successful baseball batting, yet this aspect of hitting has not been investigated in detail. The ...
Rob Gray (Psychol Sci, 200211)
markov-bat-model-cognitive-processing-baseball-batters.asp

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Person perception across the menstrual cycle: hormonal influences on social-cognitive functioning.

Womens reactions to men shift during the menstrual cycle. For example, during the phase of high conception risk, women prefer men with masculinized facial features. A favored explanation for this effect is that women display an enhanced sensitivity to ...
C Neil Macrae, Kym A Alnwick, Alan B Milne, Astrid M Schloerscheidt (Psychol Sci, 200211)
person-perception-across-menstrual-cycle-hormonal-influences-social.asp