Recently added articles from The Psychological Record:
Reviving the Milgram obedience paradigm in the era of informed consent.(Stanley Milgram)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the 1960s Stanley Milgram (1963, 1965a, 1965b, 2004) conducted a series of experiments that explored the conditions under which people could be induced to harm and potentially kill someone they did not know on the orders of a person who occupied a position of authority in a prestigious ...
Does Stevens's power law for brightness extend to perceptual brightness averaging?(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The relationship between the physical magnitude of a stimulus (e.g., luminance, weight, sound pressure) and the corresponding experienced magnitude (brightness, heaviness, loudness) has been the focus of intense scientific study since the founding of experimental psychology in the mid 19th ...
Exclusion learning and emergent symbolic category formation in individuals with severe language impairments and intellectual disabilities.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A series of papers published over the last 10 years has described a theoretically inspired program of research to study lexical processes by bridging disciplinary boundaries between psycholinguistics, behavior analysis, and developmental disabilities research (Wilkinson, Dube, & McIlvane, ...
Electrophysiological activity generated during the Implicit Association Test: a study using event-related potentials.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the use of so-called implicit methodologies across many different areas of psychology. Among the most influential of these is the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). The IAT involves presenting two ...
Derived comparative and transitive relations in young children with and without autism.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The emergence of novel or untrained behavior has captured the attention of behavioral researchers since the 1970s because of its obvious implications for educational training (e.g., Sidman, 1971). Put simply, the emergence of educationally significant skills and the generalization of these ...
Temporal discounting of hypothetical monetary rewards by adolescents, adults, and older adults.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The term temporal discounting refers to the tendency of individuals to prefer smaller sooner rewards (SSRs) over larger later rewards (LLRs). For example, if presented with the choice between $85 now and $100 in 1 year, some people would choose $85 now. Those who choose the SSR can be ...
Reexamination of the association between anonymity and self-interested unethical behavior in adults.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Anonymity has several effects on human behavior. In the fields of social psychology and economics, anonymity has long been examined in connection with self-interested behavior (Kerr, 1999), antisocial behavior (Silke, 2003; Spivey & Prentice-Dunn, 1990; Zimbardo, 1969), and unethical ...
The empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: a theoretical approach to cognitive and emotional empathy in autistic development.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that continues to fascinate researchers, challenge clinicians, and distress affected families. Empathy is a set of processes and outcomes at the heart of human social behavior. Fascination with autism is often interwoven with the study of ...
Mind and Its Evolution: A Dual Coding Theoretical Approach.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... PAIVIO, ALLAN (2007) Mind and Its Evolution: A Dual Coding Theoretical Approach Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Pp. xii + 517. ISBNs 0-978-0-8058-52-2, 0-8058-5259-X (cloth) This book's title, hereafter referred to as Mind, conceals that it is above all ...
Allan Paivio's response to Delprato's review of Mind and its evolution: A dual-coding theoretical approach.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Professor Delprato's review focuses on comparisons of Mind and Its Evolution: A Dual-Coding Theoretical Approach with Kantor's and Skinner's behavioristic analyses of "mentalistic" phenomena, touching as well on other cognitive theoretical approaches to the key issues. I associated ...
The Power of Reinforcement: A Review.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... FLORA, S.R. (2004) The Power of Reinforcement: A Review New York: State University of New York Press 269 pp. ISBN: 0-7914-5915-2 This review describes Stephen Ray Flora's (2004) The Power of Reinforcement, including its content, strengths, ...