Recently added articles from Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs:
Measuring the value of nonwage employee benefits: building a model of the relation between benefit satisfaction and value.
Nov 01, 2006; ... COMPENSATION IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR in the design, implementation, and maintenance of organizations. However, compensation includes not only wages paid to employees but also nonwage benefits such as medical insurance and a retirement plan (Henderson, 2000; Perman, 1984). Wages and benefits ...
Psychologists versus psychologists: evaluating the claims of psychologists who publicly criticize their profession.
Nov 01, 2006; ... PUBLIC ATTACKS AGAINST MENTAL HEALTH practitioners over the past 40 years have been made sporadically by professionals in the field. Most notable have been the criticisms made by psychiatrists Thomas Szasz and R. D. Lang. However, beginning in the early 1990s, the detractors have increased ...
Creativity, intelligence, and personality: a critical review of the scattered literature.
Nov 01, 2006; ... THE CULTURAL VALUE PLACED ON CREATIVITY in the arts, sciences, technology, and political endeavors is immense. Creative people have received adulation throughout history (Nettle, 2001). Some researchers have argued that creativity constitutes humankind's ultimate resource (Toynbee, 1964) ....
Using epistemic ratios to evaluate hypotheses: an imprecision penalty for imprecise hypotheses.
Nov 01, 2006; ... AN IMPORTANT PURPOSE OF STATISTICAL procedures in science is to provide a way of deciding, at least tentatively, how much to favor or not favor particular hypotheses. Psychology, in particular, is dominated by the standard null hypothesis significance-testing procedure, which includes the ...
The cognition of deception: the role of executive processes in producing lies.(Report)
Aug 01, 2006; ... DECEPTION IS A DIFFICULT TASK. In any moment that a person must deceive--from the most benign little white lie to the most immoral deceit--he or she must control many processes to produce a lie. Behaviorally, there are the vocal, facial, and bodily expressions and gestures to control. For ...