Recently added articles from The Psychological Record:
Technological effects on aesthetic evaluation: vermeer and the camera obscura.(Johannes Vermeer)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The painter stood Before her work She looked around everywhere She saw the pictures and she painted them She picked the colors from the air "Painter," Neil Young (2005) Aesthetics, an appreciation of the beautiful and the sublime, is used to evaluate technology (Norman, 2004) ...
The contribution of postingestive associations to alcohol self-administration.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... It is well established that certain drugs, including alcohol, function as powerful reinforcers (Thompson & Schuster, 1968). For this reason, successful strategies of substance abuse treatment should involve decreasing the reinforcing efficacy of the abused drug or increasing the ...
Extinction-induced variability in human behavior.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Neuringer (2002) argued that variability in behavior is functional, adaptive, and essential to the development of novel, complex, and efficient behavior (Dewitte & Verguts, 1999; Neuringer, Deiss, & Olsen, 2000). Neuringer asserted that variability can be changed by reinforcement and be a ...
A first test of the implicit relational assessment procedure as a measure of self-esteem: Irish prisoner groups and university students.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... A number of researchers have argued that the study of implicit cognition could be important in the analysis and treatment of human psychopathology (e.g., Wiers, Teachman, & De Houwer, 2007). Numerous methodologies have been developed that aim to provide measures of such cognitions, ...
Testing the validity of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure and the Implicit Association Test: measuring attitudes toward Dublin and country life in Ireland.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The currently most popular and well-researched measure of so-called implicit attitudes is the Implicit Association Test, or IAT (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). The core assumption underpinning the method is that individuals should respond quickly when asked to emit a similar ...