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Personality compatibility and group cohesion among musicians
(1992)
Tliis study examined the relationship between personality compatibility and cohesion
among 50 musical groups (191 subjects). Two novel approaches were used; (1) aggregated
ratings of personality; and (2) Neuroticism as ...
Physical fitness, health, and cardiovascular recovery from psychological and physiological stress in women
(1991)
The present study examined the relationship of fitness
and exercise to psychological state, health behaviours,
and cardiovascular recovery from stress in a sample of
79 females aged 17-36 years. The study was conducted
during ...
Dietary restraint : the role of causal attributions
(1995)
Previous studies have indicated that restrained and unrestrained eaters
exhibit dififerent eating patterns in response to preloading or no preloading. After
a preload, restrained eaters tend to exhibit counterregulatory ...
Subject-generated internal imagery coupled with relaxation as a treatment for chronic pain
(1995)
The chronic pain experience is a multifaceted phenomenon
involving sensory, cognitive, affective, motivational and behavioral
dimensions. There has been no single consistently successful method of
pain control and ...
Gender differences in mathematics anxiety : a function of response bias, math background or socialization?
(1990)
Previous research has found that females are more
vulnerable to experiencing mathematics anxiety. The
present study examined two explanations for the gender
difference, the ”sex-role" hypothesis, which suggests
that ...
Risk-sensitivity in a rat population under interval schedules of reinforcement : open and closed economies
(1995)
A group consisting of eight male Hooded rats was tested for
risk-sensitive foraging preferences in an eight station
operant arena, under conditions of open and closed economies.
The group could choose to forage at either ...
Evaluation of the efficacy off a compu-check-form for reducing computational and clerical errors on WAIS-R protocols
(1993)
A systematic procedure for checking computational
and clerical components of scoring (Compu-Check-Form;
CCF) was developed and evaluated for the Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale - Revised (WAIS-R; Wechsler, 1981).
Senior ...
Social facilitation of extinction in rats
(1991)
Theories of resistance to extinction such as the generalized
decrement theory (GDT) have been largely based on research
involving isolated individuals. In the natural environment however,
extinction, like acquisition ...
Medication compliance among breast cancer patients on long-term adjuvant chemotherapy
(1991)
Treatment compliance refers to performing behaviours which follow a
course of treatment that has been agreed upon by the patient and the
health care professional. Noncompliance can result in prolongatiorr of
current ...
Interpreting the situation : the relationship of gender stereotypes and adherence to attitudes and beliefs to reactions to wife abuse
(1991)
This study examined the relationship of gender stereotypes and cultural beliefs
with responses to victimization. When women are victimized in a marital
violence context, intervention likelihood and attributions about ...