Recently added articles from The Journal of Psychology:

The influence of group discussion on performance judgments: rating accuracy, contrast effects, and halo.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Palmer, Jerry K. ... PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL is a critical aspect of the criterion problem (Feldman, 1994), which has been a primary topic in the field of industrial and organizational psychology for several years (Austin & Villanova, 1992). Numerous researchers have examined various aspects of the performance ...

Stability of harassment in children: analysis of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth data.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Beran, Tanya ... ON NOVEMBER 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was swarmed and beaten by eight teenagers under a bridge in Saanich on Vancouver Island, Canada (CBC News, 2005). Police found her body in a waterway 8 days later. On April 20, 1999, 12 students and a teacher were killed by two male students at ...

Forgiveness: a China-Western Europe comparison.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Paz, Regina ... FORGIVENESS IS A CENTRAL TOPIC in everyday life (Worthington, 2005). From the personal level to the international level, the quality of individuals' relationships with others is largely determined by their willingness to forgive the persons or groups who have intentionally or ...

Time perspective, depression, and substance misuse among the homeless.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Pluck, Graham ... HOMELESSNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH a range of medical, psychological, and social problems. Mortality rates are many times higher among homeless compared with securely housed populations (Cheung & Hwang 2004). Homeless people report high levels of loneliness, which is related to their having ...

Partner effects of Mexican cultural values: the couple and parenting relationships.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Yu, Jeong Jin ... LATINOS FORM THE FASTEST GROWING ethnic minority group in the United States, and among them approximately 65% are of Mexican origin (U.S. Census Bureau, 2003). Nevertheless, the population of Mexican origin is still underrepresented in empirical studies of family relationships ....

Exploring epistemological beliefs of bilingual Filipino preservice teachers in the Filipino and English languages.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Bernardo, Allan B.I. ... INCREASING EVIDENCE SUGGESTS that students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning influence important aspects of their academic performance (Hofer, 2001). These beliefs, which researchers have referred to as epistemological beliefs, relate to students' levels of understanding, ...

How does culture influence the degree of romantic loneliness and closeness?(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Seepersad, Sean ... ONE COMMONLY HELD SOCIETAL BELIEF is that loneliness is caused by a lack of a romantic partner and is cured by being in a romantic relationship. Weiss (1989), for example, documented this belief in his research and commented that romantic relationships seemed to be an antiloneliness pill ...