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Identity management strategies in Northern Ireland.

Social identity theory suggests that individuals and groups use different identity management strategies to cope with threatened identities. In October 1998, the authors developed 5 identity management strategy scales for use in the changing political ...
Ulrike Niens, Ed Cairns (J Soc Psychol, 200206)
identity-management-strategies-northern-ireland.asp

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Violent comic books and judgments of relational aggression.

This study investigated the effects of reading extremely violent versus mildly violent comic books on the interpretation of relational provocation situations. One hundred and seventeen introductory psychology students read either an extremely violent ...
Steven J Kirsh, Paul V Olczak (Violence Vict, 200206)
violent-comic-books-judgments-relational-aggression.asp

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Effects of fixed ratio schedules of reinforcement on exercise by college students.

Response-contingent reinforcement was expected to increase the time spent riding a stationary exercise cycle by college women. A single-subject experimental design was used. Three college-age women rode a stationary cycle until they were either too tired ...
Steven L Cohen, Sara Chelland, Kevin T Ball, Linda M LeMura (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
effects-fixed-ratio-schedules-reinforcement-exercise-college-students.asp

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Disturbance effect of music on processing of verbal and spatial memories.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the disturbance effect of music on performances of memory tasks. Subjects performed a verbal memory task and a spatial memory task in 4 sound conditions, including the presence of vocal music, instrumental ...
Makoto Iwanaga, Takako Ito (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
disturbance-effect-music-processing-verbal-spatial-memories.asp

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Hemispheric asymmetry in accessing word meanings: concrete and abstract nouns.

The present experiments investigated hemispheric differences in the brain in accessing concrete and abstract word meanings. For this purpose, an automatic semantic priming paradigm was used with a short stimulus onset asynchrony between prime and target ...
Naoki Shibahara, Brennis Lucero-Wagoner (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
hemispheric-asymmetry-accessing-word-meanings-concrete-abstract-nouns.asp

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Eye movement assessment of emotional processing in anxiety.

Eye fixations of participants high or low in trait anxiety were monitored during reading of context sentences predicting threatening or nonthreat events, followed by sentences in which a target word represented the predictable event or an inconsistent ...
Manuel G Calvo, Pedro Avero (Emotion, 200206)
eye-movement-assessment-emotional-processing-anxiety.asp

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The Psychological Mindedness Scale: factor structure, convergent validity and gender in a non-psychiatric sample.

Although the concept of psychological mindedness (PM) originated in the psychoanalytic literature, its use has been expanding beyond the realm of assessing suitability for, or psychic change following, psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. For example, since ...
Merton A Shill, Mark A Lumley (Psychol Psychother, 200206)
psychological-mindedness-scale-factor-structure-convergent-validity.asp

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Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition.

Three experiments examined the role of intragroup social influence in intergroup competition. In the context of a mutual fate control situation, participants in Experiment 1 demonstrated more intergroup competition in the presence than in the absence of ...
Tim Wildschut, Chester A Insko, Lowell Gaertner (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200206)
intragroup-social-influence-intergroup-competition.asp

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Colors associated with styles of love.

Colors associated with different love attitudes were examined using the Hendrick and Hendrick Love Attitudes Scale for six love styles. 143 college students rated the extent to which each love style reminded them of 12 colors. As expected, Lees ...
Felix Neto (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
colors-associated-styles-love.asp

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Relation between PROP (6-n-propylthiouracil) taster status, taste anatomy and dietary intake measures for young men and women.

Previous studies have related 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) taster status to preference for, and consumption of various (bitter-tasting) foods recognized for their cancer-preventive properties. The aim of this study was to examine PROP taster status in ...
Carol A Yackinous, Jean-Xavier Guinard (Appetite, 200206)
relation-prop-n-propylthiouracil-taster-status-taste-anatomy-dietary.asp