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Age and sex differences for anxiety in relation to family size, birth order, and religiosity among Kuwaiti adolescents.

Differences in rated anxiety among 2,453 boys (n= 1,229) and girls (n = 1,224), Kuwaiti secondary school students, were reported for five age groups from 14 to 18 years. For girls at all ages but 14 years, mean rated anxiety was significantly higher than ...
Ahmed M Abdel-Khalek (Psychol Rep, 200206)
age-sex-differences-anxiety-relation-family-size-birth-order.asp

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Debilitative and facilitative perceptions of trait anxiety among students in a college golf class.

This study examined the debilitative and facilitative perceptions of trait anxiety among 94 students enrolled in a college golf class. Analyses indicated no differences in performance between those classified as debilitating interpreters, i.e., those ...
George B Cunningham, Frank B Ashley (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
debilitative-facilitative-perceptions-trait-anxiety-students-college.asp

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Externalizing and internalizing problems at school as signs of health-damaging behaviour and incipient marginalization.

This study aimed to investigate whether behavioural or emotional problems in adolescents detected by their teachers are signs of a common psychosocial maladjustment and of the beginning of social marginalization. Altogether, 171 pupils (15 years of age) ...
Eila Laukkanen, Sirpa Shemeikka, Irma-Leena Notkola, Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen, Aulikki Nissinen (Health Promot Int, 200206)
externalizing-internalizing-problems-school-signs-health-damaging.asp

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Habituation of responding for food in humans.

Habituation to repeated food stimuli has been demonstrated in various response systems across animals and humans. Patterns of responding to obtain food demonstrate many empirical characteristics of habituation, and the purpose of the present study was to ...
Michelle Myers Ernst, Leonard H Epstein (Appetite, 200206)
habituation-responding-food-humans.asp

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A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition.

Stereotype research emphasizes systematic processes over seemingly arbitrary contents, but content also may prove systematic. On the basis of stereotypes intergroup functions, the stereotype content model hypothesizes that (a) 2 primary dimensions are ...
Susan T Fiske, Amy J C Cuddy, Peter Glick, Jun Xu (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200206)
model-mixed-stereotype-content-competence-warmth-respectively-follow.asp

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"You will eat all of that!": a retrospective analysis of forced consumption episodes.

The present research was initiated to examine the prevalence of forced consumption and its role in subsequent food rejection. A forced consumption episode was defined as a situation where Person(s) A forced or demanded Person B to consume a specific ...
W Robert Batsell, Alan S Brown, Matthew E Ansfield, Gayla Y Paschall (Appetite, 200206)
will-eat-retrospective-analysis-forced-consumption-episodes.asp

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Dealing with betrayal in close relationships: does commitment promote forgiveness?

This work complements existing research regarding the forgiveness process by highlighting the role of commitment in motivating forgiveness. On the basis of an interdependence-theoretic analysis, the authors suggest that (a) victims self-oriented ...
Eli J Finkel, Caryl E Rusbult, Madoka Kumashiro, Peggy A Hannon (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200206)
dealing-betrayal-close-relationships-commitment-promote-forgiveness.asp

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A study into regional, age, and sex differences in students ratings of cartoon humor.

Funniness ratings of cartoon humour by 366 university students showed no differences for age, sex, and region of origin, except for higher scores by men on work-related items. Ratings appear to be largely uninfluenced by factors other than how inherently ...
Michael J Lowis (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
study-regional-age-sex-differences-students-ratings-cartoon-humor.asp

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Effects of speakers augmented characteristics and listeners sex on intelligibility and acceptability of synthesized speech.

16 women and 16 men as listeners provided magnitude estimation scaling responses for the intelligibility and acceptability of synthesized speech transmitted by two different individuals using a voice output communication aid (VOCA). Listeners rated the ...
Lee W Ellis, Bernard Spiegel, Barbaranne Benjamin (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
effects-speakers-augmented-characteristics-listeners-sex.asp

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Selective pressures on the once and future contents of ethnic stereotypes: effects of the communicability of traits.

It is hypothesized that traits that are most likely to be the subject of social discourse (i.e., most communicable) are most likely to persist in ethnic stereotypes over time and that this effect is moderated by the extent to which an ethnic group is the ...
Mark Schaller, Lucian Gideon Conway, Tracy L Tanchuk (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200206)
selective-pressures-once-future-contents-ethnic-stereotypes-effects.asp