Recently added articles from North American Journal of Psychology:

Attitudes of business students toward management generation cohorts.

Jun 01, 2008; Tomkiewicz, Joseph ... Conflicts among generations of organizations' employees have been increasingly recognized as diversity factors that may lead to reduced organizational productivity and other measures of effectiveness. Thus, the primary purpose of this research was to evaluate empirically whether younger ...

Effects of exposure to public figures' use of psychologists on attitude towards help-seeking behavior.

Jun 01, 2008; Fauteux, Dominic J. ... One-hundred-and-eighty-one university students and members of the general population were presented with either general information about psychology or with examples of well-known people who had sought professional psychological assistance for mental health issues or for performance ...

A psychometric evaluation of an existing attitude scale toward education.

Jun 01, 2008; Askew, John ... The Attitude toward Education Scale developed by Glassey in 1945 was administered to two samples of participants from two different geographical areas of the United States. The scale had no previous reliability or validity data. There were two goals: (1) to determine if such a dated ...

Involuntary memory.(Book review)

Jun 01, 2008; McCutcheon, Lynn E. ... Mace, J. H. (Ed.). (2007). Involuntary memory. Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020. Paperback, $40. ISBN number 1405136383. Ten chapters, 233 pages. I'm running alone on a trail that wends its way through a wooded area. Suddenly the lyrics to an old doo ...

Pornography use and recall of sexual and neutral words.

Jun 01, 2008; Corbeil, Marie-Elaine M. ... This study examined the relationship between pornography use and memory for sexual and neutral words. One hundred and five undergraduates read two mixed lists of 13 sexual and 13 neutral words and were tested for recall. They also completed a questionnaire measuring how frequently they ...

Cross-cultural differences in perceiving sexual harassment: demographic incidence rates of sexual harassment/sexual aggression in Latin America.(Survey)

Jun 01, 2008; Merkin, Rebecca S. ... This descriptive study reports on perceptions of sexual harassment and sexual aggression incidences in Latin America using data from the People's Security Surveys (PSS) conducted with 8108 employees (approximately 48% male and 52% female) from three Latin American countries--Argentina, ...

A look at the excessive hypothesis of the Pharisee Effect: The "Ten Commandments Judge" in the Alabama Republican Primary.

Jun 01, 2008; Powell, Larry ... The Pharisee Effect is a phenomenon that occurs when religious appeals in political disputes go too far, thus leading to a backlash and voter rejection of the candidate. This study analyzed the unsuccessful 2006 Alabama gubernatorial campaign of Roy Moore--the "Ten Commandments ...

Simulated driving performance is worse with a passenger than a simulated cellular telephone converser.

Jun 01, 2008; Rivardo, Mark G. ... Evidence that cellular telephone conversations hinder driving performance is plentiful. However, why they should be more dangerous than passenger conversations has not been adequately explored. A passenger's ability to share situation awareness with the driver may reduce the negative ...

A reflective conversation with John Hattie.(Interview)

Jun 01, 2008; Shaughnessy, Michael F. ... Dr. John Hattie is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Some of his current research involves developing measurement applications for formative and summative assessment in schools, synthesizing meta-analyses on teaching and learning, the validation of models ...

An interview with Stanley Pogrow: new findings on the nature of transfer and its critical role in accelerating the learning of disadvantaged students.(Interview)

Jun 01, 2008; Shaughnessy, Michael F. ... Stanley Pogrow is currently a professor of Educational Leadership at San Francisco State University where he specializes in large-scale reforms to reduce the learning gap and accelerate the learning of children born into poverty. He is the developer of the Higher Order Thinking Skills ...

Psychometric study of a Chinese version of the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale.

Jun 01, 2008; Ho, Sammy K. ... This study sought to ascertain the internal consistency and factor structure of a Chinese translation of the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS; Thorson & Powell, 1993a). Based on earlier findings on Hong Kong participants, the instrument was revised, followed by translation and ...

Social connections at sporting events: attendance and its positive relationship with state social psychological well-being.

Jun 01, 2008; Wann, Daniel L. ... The current investigation examined the state social psychological health (i.e., social life satisfaction and loneliness) of individuals while they attended a sporting event and while they were at their place of residence. Based on the Team Identification--Social Psychological Health Model ...

Eyewitness testimony in civil litigation: retention, suggestion, and misinformation in product identification.(Survey)

Jun 01, 2008; Terrell, J. Trent ... Although expert testimony regarding eyewitness memory is now common in criminal trials, eyewitness testimony is also critical in civil litigation. This is particularly true in product liability cases involving alleged exposure to toxic substances like asbestos. Witnesses in these cases ...

Procedural justice, mood, and prosocial personality influence on organizational citizenship behavior.

Jun 01, 2008; Wright, Chris W. ... The present study was designed to clarify the influence of two commonly cited antecedents to organizational citizenship behavior: procedural justice and mood. One hundred twelve undergraduate psychology majors participated in a laboratory experiment in which same-gender pairs of ...

Academic and personal dishonesty in college students.

Jun 01, 2008; Zimny, Susan T. ... Three studies used self-report measures to examine predictors of dishonesty across the personal and the academic domains of college students' lives. Dominance analysis methods (Azen & Budescu, 2003) determined the relative importance of predictors from a range of variables. High levels of ...

Psychological adjustment profiles of talented professional baseball players: pitchers versus hitters.

Jun 01, 2008; McCutcheon, Lynn E. ... A previous study compared baseball players who had brief careers in the Major Leagues with controls who had never been professional athletes on then-and-now measures of sport motivation, adjustment to important adult roles, and psychological well-being. The purpose was to see how well ...