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Learning and performance effects of accurate and erroneous knowledge of results on time perception.

Performance feedback (also known as knowledge of results or KR) has both performance and learning effects on many tasks. Earlier studies have demonstrated performance but not learning effects on time perception tasks. In this experiment, we dissociate ...
Lawrence J Ryan, Troy B Robey (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200207)
learning-performance-effects-accurate-erroneous-knowledge-results.asp

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Religious obsessions and compulsions in a non-clinical sample: the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS).

The present investigation reports on the development and psychometric evaluation of the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity (PIOS), a 19-item self-report scale measuring religious obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Factor analysis yielded a two factor solution ...
Jonathan S Abramowitz, Jonathan D Huppert, Adam B Cohen, David F Tolin, Shawn P Cahill (Behav Res Ther, 200207)
religious-obsessions-compulsions-non-clinical-sample-penn-inventory.asp

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No within-object advantage for detection of rotation.

It is known that in a detection task the type of rigid transformation to be detected (reflection vs. translation) interacts with the type of display (closed vs. open contours). The advantage for closed contours found with reflection is believed to be a ...
Marco Bertamini, Jay Friedenberg, Laurence Argyle (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200207)
object-advantage-detection-rotation.asp

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Human group choice: discrete-trial and free-operant tests of the ideal free distribution.

Ideal free distribution theory predicts that foragers will form groups proportional in number to the resources available in alternative resource sites or patches, a phenomenon termed habitat matching. Three experiments tested this prediction with college ...
Gregory J Madden, Blaine F Peden, Tetsuo Yamaguchi (J Exp Anal Behav, 200207)
human-group-choice-discrete-trial-free-operant-tests-ideal-free.asp

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Relationship of body composition to body-fatness estimation in Japanese university students.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between self-estimated whole body size and fatness and whole body and regional composition, and the relationship between self-estimated whole body fatness and self-estimated regional fatness in Japanese university ...
Shigeho Tanaka, Yukako Itoh, Komei Hattori (Obes Res, 200207)
relationship-body-composition-body-fatness-estimation-japanese.asp

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Correspondence between supervisors and trainees in their perception of supervision events.

The focus of this study is on how the participants in 16 supervisory dyads perceive the content and process in a supervisory session, and on the meaning they attach to supervisory events. A central issue is to what degree the participants in each dyad ...
Sissel Reichelt, Jan Skjerve (J Clin Psychol, 200207)
correspondence-supervisors-trainees-perception-supervision-events.asp

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The "big five" and hypnotic suggestibility.

A recent approach to personality measurement argues that the essential personality traits are encompassed by 5 basic factors: openness/intellect, conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, and extraversion. This study used the Big Five Inventory to ...
Benita K Nordenstrom, James R Council, Brian P Meier (Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 200207)
big-five-hypnotic-suggestibility.asp

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Fundamentally misunderstanding visual perception. Adults belief in visual emissions.

The authors reviewed research about a profound misconception that is present among college students, namely, the belief that the process of vision includes emanations from the eyes, an idea that is consistent with the extramission theory of perception, ...
Gerald A Winer, Jane E Cottrell, Virginia Gregg, Jody S Fournier, Lori A Bica (Am Psychol, 200206-07)
fundamentally-misunderstanding-visual-perception-adults-belief-visual.asp

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Contemporary measures of approach and avoidance goal orientations: similarities and differences.

BACKGROUND: In response to a resurgence of interest in and demonstrated utility of the approach-avoidance goal distinction, a number of researchers (Elliot & Church, 1997; Midgley et al., 1998; Skaalvik, 1997) have developed instruments to assess ...
Michaela Smith, Joan Duda, Justine Allen, Howard Hall (Br J Educ Psychol, 200206)
contemporary-measures-approach-avoidance-goal-orientations.asp

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Comparison of sleep/wake habits of university students with or without a habit of self-awakening.

Several studies have reported that some people have the ability to awaken from sleep without using external means. This ability is called self-awakening. The present study investigated the sleep/wake habits of university students with or without a habit ...
Noriko Matsuura, Mitsuo Hayashi, Tadao Hori (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 200206)
comparison-sleep-wake-habits-university-students-or-habit-self.asp