Recently added articles from North American Journal of Psychology:
Implementation intentions and generative strategies in prospective memory retrieval.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Many of the tasks in our daily lives are prospective memory (PM) tasks. In a PM task, we form an intention to be completed later. Examples of PM tasks would be remembering to give a message to a friend, or remembering to take a dose of medication after a certain interval of time. The key ...
Dream lab for introductory psychology.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Dream theories and characteristics are identifiable learning objectives for undergraduate students across a wide array of curricula in the higher education setting (Bryson, 2002; 2003; Bryson, Mastin, Pilgreen, & Bryson, 2008). Introductory psychology courses, in particular, provide an ...
The influence of a conservative religion on premarital sexual behavior of university students.
Jun 01, 2009; ... "The fact remains that, until quite recently, scientific research on sexuality has been taboo and therefore to be avoided or at best marginalized" (Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, & Michaels, 1994, p. 36). Two early landmark studies looking at sexual behavior in the United States were Sexual ...
Self-injury in the schools: an exploratory analysis of Midwest school counselors' knowledge and experience.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Self-injurious behaviors are not a new phenomenon. Favazza (1988) first studied "self mutilation" after an October 1985 broadcast of the Phil Donahue show discussing self-abuse. Prior to Favazza's research, self-injurious behaviors had been examined within diagnostic criteria for disorders ...
Distinguishing between early and late onset delinquents: race, income, verbal intelligence and impulsivity.
Jun 01, 2009; ... In 1993, Terrie Moffitt proposed a dual taxonomy of adolescent delinquent behavior. She proposed that life course persistent antisocial behavior was characterized by neurological deficits in executive functions, which then result in behavioral impulsivity, and deficits in verbal ...
Effects of peppermint and cinnamon odor administration on simulated driving alertness, mood and workload.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Past research indicates that the presence of peppermint and cinnamon odors during human performance assessment can dramatically influence motivation, task performance, and alertness. In a series of studies, Warm and colleagues investigated the efficacy of certain odors to enhance ...
Humor styles as mediators of the shyness-loneliness relationship.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Individuals adjust and adapt to the demands of social interaction in a variety of ways that may be more or less adaptive. For example, some individuals use humor in a way that facilitates positive social interaction while still others may manifest shyness or loneliness in response to ...
An interview with Christian Ambler: traumatic brain injury in sports.(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Christian Ambler, PhD, is a neuropsychologist with interests in the neuropsychological sequelae of brain injury, executive dysfunction, neuro-developmental disorders, and medical disorders. Dr. Ambler has worked in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford ...
Political orientation, hostile media perceptions, and group-centrism.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... News media play a major role in political campaigns (Hansen & Benoit, 2007). Coupled with the recent increase in perceived divisions between Democrats and Republicans in United States politics (Seyle & Newman, 2006), the issue of fairness in American political news media has understandably ...
The hindsight bias and attitudes toward police deception in eliciting confessions.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... At the 2006 annual convention of the American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41), Dr. Saul Kassin chaired a session on police interrogations and false confessions. In his own segment of that session (Kassin, 2006, March), he described a series of controversial court cases in which ...