This study was designed to examine the self-fulfilling nature of the social stigma of loneliness. It was hypothesized that individuals (perceivers) would be less warm and friendly in dyadic conversations with persons ...

Two experiments evaluated the utility ofreconstructing exclusion and inclusion responses which are used in the process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991) from simultaneous subject responses about fame and recollective ...

The relative merits of in-patient and out-patient treatment of substance abuse have been widely debated. For severe, chronic clients, the best form of treatment may be intensive in-patient care. Less severe clients may ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a measure of children's copying speed {conditions: making X's in boxes, copying unfamiliar alphabet-like figures, writing pronounceable nonsense syllables, and copying ...

Communication affects many areas of daily life. Therefore, support programs to assist persons with developmental disabilities should identify individuals who would especially benefit from communication training. Forty ...

This study compared the self-esteem of a group of twenty-one socially and behaviourally competent learning disabled (LD) children, aged 8-12, with that of a group of fifteen socially and behaviourally competent normally ...

The present study investigated the concurrent validity and testretest reliability of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT; Kaufman & Kaufman, 1990) by comparing it to the full scale administration of the Wechsler ...

The present research investigated the integration of meaning and sensory information within episodic memory. Early research (e.g. Morris, Bransford & Franks, 1977; Stein, 1978, as well as Tulving & Thomson, 1973; Fisher ...

Body image disturbance is an important aspect of both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. To date, there has been little agreement on how to define and measure this. The current study views body image as a complex concept ...