Recently added articles from The Journal of General Psychology:

A Stroop effect for spatial orientation.(John Ridley Stroop's Color-Word Interference Test )(Report)

Jul 01, 2007; Wuhr, Peter ... A PROMINENT EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGM for investigating visual selective attention in humans is the Stroop Color-Word Interference Test (1935). Stroop developed this paradigm to compare the associative strength between colors and vocal color naming responses with the associative strength ...

Children's theories of intelligence: beliefs, goals, and motivation in the elementary years.(Report)

Jul 01, 2007; Kinlaw, C. Ryan ... CHILDREN'S BELIEFS ABOUT INTELLIGENCE have been studied extensively both because of their implications for social cognition (e.g., in children's theory of mind: Yuill, 1992, 1997; in general concept development: Ruble & Dweck, 1995) and because these beliefs are posited to influence ...

Gaze as depicted in Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring.(Jan Vermeer )(Report)

Jul 01, 2007; West, Roger W. ... VERMEER'S PAINTING GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (Jacob & Bianconi, 1967) is so striking that it has inspired a popular book and a major motion picture by that name (Chevalier, 1999; Patterson, Tucker, & Webber, 2003). The painting makes a strong impression because the girl is intently gazing ...

Errata.(Correction notice)

Jul 01, 2007 ... In the April 2006 issue of the The Journal of General Psychology (Volume 133, Number 2, p. 200, 202), Figures 1 and 2 were printed incorrectly in Yuiko Sakuta and Jiro Gyoba's article, "Affective Impressions and Memorability of Color-Form Combinations." The editorial staff at The Journal ...

Alcohol consumption and computer blackjack.(gambling)(Report)

Jul 01, 2007; Phillips, James G. ... THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL--although sometimes listed as a central nervous system depressant (Craig & Stitzel, 1990)--result from a complex interplay between excitatory and inhibitory systems (McIntosh & Chick, 2006). Because researchers have linked alcohol abuse with high-risk activities such ...

How skewed are psychological data? A standardized index of effect size.

Jul 01, 2007; Malgady, Robert G. ... VIRTUALLY ALL RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL literature reports the outcomes of inferential statistical tests, as well as their accompanying descriptive statistics, such as means, standard deviations, and correlations. Little if any attention is paid to the concept of skewness. A ...

Development of an everyday spatial behavioral questionnaire.(Report)

Jul 01, 2007; Eliot, John ... MOST PEOPLE TAKE THEIR HEALTH FOR GRANTED until they get sick or break a bone. Similarly, people tend to take their spatial intelligence (e.g., Carroll, 1993; Gardner, 1993) for granted until they misjudge size, distance, direction, or positional relationships or they find themselves lost ....

Memory for actions rather than things, people, or events: a review of prospective memory.(Critical essay)

Jul 01, 2007; Goolkasian, Paula ... McDaniel, Mark A., and Einstein, Gilles O. Prospective Memory: An Overview and Synthesis of an Emerging Field. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. 280 pp., ISBN 1412924693, $44.95. IN PROSPECTIVE MEMORY, McDaniel and Einstein promise an overview and synthesis of an emerging research ...