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Behavior Modification (34)5 2010
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Academic Medicine (85)5 2010
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This paper extends Lumsden's fluctuation model to the graded response case and, from the resulting basic scaling model, develops a one-dimensional item response theory graded response model (GRM). Under some additional assumptions, it follows that the item category response functions (ICRFs) can be...
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PMID: 19159504
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American Psychologist (64)8 2009
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A significant number of earlier (1929-1987) and more recent (1991-2009) history of psychology textbooks have reported on the 1917 founding of the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP). Although only G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924) was mentioned as the founder, the JAP had three financial founders: Hall, J...
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PMID: 19827707
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Social Science and Medicine (67)11 2008
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In this study, Barber's [(1961). Resistance by scientists to scientific discovery. Science, 134, 596-602] analysis of scientists' resistance to discoveries is examined in relation to an 18-year controversy between the dominant cognitive-behavioral paradigm or zeitgeist and its chief rival - eye move...
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PMID: 18950925
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Clinical Medicine (8)3 2008
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Science in Context (21)1 2008
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Journal of Rheumatology (34)5 2007
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Psychological Methods (12)1 2007
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Studies that combine moderation and mediation are prevalent in basic and applied psychology research. Typically, these studies are framed in terms of moderated mediation or mediated moderation, both of which involve similar analytical approaches. Unfortunately, these approaches have important shortc...
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PMID: 17402809
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Psychological Methods (12)1 2007
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Most empirical tests of mediation utilize cross-sectional data despite the fact that mediation consists of causal processes that unfold over time. The authors considered the possibility that longitudinal mediation might occur under either of two different models of change: (a) an autoregressive mode...
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PMID: 17402810
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Journal of Personality Assessment (89 Suppl 1) 2007
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This article examines data collected for the study by Greenway and Milne (2001), which investigated the association between the Capacity for Control and Stress Tolerance cluster of the Rorschach Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 1995) and the ability of individuals to take control of their internal s...
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PMID: 18039163
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Starting in the 1870s, American jurists deciding cases of trademark infringement began advancing arguments that the ordinary purchaser was an unwary one, easily deceived by imitations. Embedded within their legal decisions was a vision of the typical consumers' habitual behavior and cognitive abilit...
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PMID: 17912710
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Alfred Binet is internationally recognized as the "father" of the first intelligence test as well as the most faithful French representative of laboratory experimentalism. A historical analysis of his work is therefore necessary to get to a thorough comprehension of 20th century psychology. The pres...
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PMID: 17333631
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American Psychologist (61)8 2006
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Presents the citation for John P. Campbell who received Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology "for his many different contributions to the field of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology." A brief profile and a selected bibliography accompany the citation. ((c) 2006 A...
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PMID: 17115812
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American Psychologist (61)8 2006
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Presents the citation for Mark G. Baxter, who received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology (animal learning and behavior, comparative) "for insightful and incisive contributions in studies of learning, memory, attentional processing, executive function, an...
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PMID: 17115814
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I attempt to identify the key outstanding questions in behavioural ecology and suggest that researchers must make greater use of model organisms and evolutionary genetics in order to make substantial progress on these topics....
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PMID: 16815435
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Psychological Reports (98)3 2006
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We review a random sample of 457 articles published in the last four years in journals with the highest impact factor in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR Social Sciences Edition) of the Institute for Scientific Information. The goals are to know how often count variables appear in psychological app...
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PMID: 16933680
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Behavior Modification (30)3 2006
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I university in the Southeast participated in the case study during the Spring 2002 season. The PST intervention resulted in enhanced emotional self-regulation skills and improved golf performance. Directions for future research into the IZOF model and implications for practical application of the m...
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PMID: 16574814
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We are increasingly considering culture as the context of diversity and, in the process, becoming a cultural community psychology. Our recent progress is discussed and a suggestion to accelerate our progress through greater collaboration with cultural psychology(4) is offered. The development of a c...
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PMID: 16680532
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No individual in the early history of American psychology is more identified with the promotion of applied psychology than Hugo Münsterberg, whose books and articles on applied topics such as industrial psychology, forensic psychology, psychotherapy, and educational psychology made him one of the m...
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PMID: 16551192
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Ethics & Behavior (16)1 2006
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Exercise psychology encompasses the disciplines of psychiatry, clinical and counseling psychology, health promotion, and the movement sciences. This emerging field involves diverse mental health issues, theories, and general information related to physical activity and exercise. Numerous research in...
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PMID: 17036424
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Ethics & Behavior (16)1 2006
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From their own practices, the authors offer insight into potential ethical dilemmas that may frequently develop in an applied psychology setting in which sport psychology is also being practiced. Specific ethical situations offered for the reader's consideration include confidentiality with coaches,...
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PMID: 17036422
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American Psychologist (60)8 2005
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The Journal of Applied Psychology's call for theoretical models and conceptual analyses brought a terrific response. The first set of articles accepted in response to the call appeared in the December 2004 issue. This installment contains the second set of articles.
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PMID: 16316263
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Sport psychiatrists face a number of systemic and intra-psychic issues when treating professional athletes. Although only a modicum of literature exists to aid sport psychiatrists, there are several steps they may take to become an integral part of an athletic organization and to be successful in th...
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PMID: 16169454
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Interventions for children with autism based upon Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) has been repeatedly shown to be related both to educational gains and to reductions in challenging behaviours. However, to date, comprehensive training in ABA for teachers and others have been limited. Over 7 months,...
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PMID: 16144826
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Beginning around 1879, a Neoscholastic psychology developed, an experimental psychology with a soul. Opposed to materialism, it sought to renew Scholastic philosophy by incorporating the findings of the natural sciences. Neoscholastic psychology is an important chapter in the history of the relation...
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PMID: 15997486
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The Henriques' article, "Psychology Defined" (this issue), reflects an underlying philosophy of science that emphasizes coherence as its truth criterion. The taxonomic efforts that result are of unknown value when viewed from other philosophical positions. From the point of view of functional contex...
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PMID: 15470734
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Cognitive psychology has made numerous contributions to clinical psychology, and these contributions are considered especially with reference to the anxiety disorders. It is argued that there are four major contributions that can be identified. First, the cognitive approach has led to the developmen...
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PMID: 15022269
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Barriers present at more than one site were (1) workload during patient visits (8 of 8 sites), (2) time to document when a CR was not clinically relevant (8 of 8 sites), (3) inapplicability of the CR due to context-specific reasons (9 of 26 patients), (4) limited training on how to use the CR softwa...
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PMID: 14527974
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This study examines factors associated with the implementation and short-term outcomes in dissemination sites of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), an intensive, short-term, family- and community-based treatment for serious antisocial behavior in youth. Participants were 666 children and families served b...
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PMID: 14672501
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There has been insufficient effort in most areas of applied psychology to evaluate incremental validity. To further this kind of validity research, the authors examined applicable research designs, including those to assess the incremental validity of test instruments, of test-informed clinical infe...
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PMID: 14692841
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Gerontologist (43)5 2003
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Over the past four decades the environmental context of aging has come to play an important role in gerontological theory, research, and practice. Environmental gerontology (EG)--focused on the description, explanation, and modification or optimization of the relation between elderly persons and the...
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PMID: 14570958
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We initially acquired a three-dimensional facial image from a young black (Negroid) male volunteer, using our optical laser scanning system. This image was then used as a template over a Caucasian skull to produce a reconstruction using facial criteria applicable to white (Caucasian) males. The othe...
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PMID: 14655960
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Interest in the problem of method biases has a long history in the behavioral sciences. Despite this, a comprehensive summary of the potential sources of method biases and how to control for them does not exist. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine the extent to which method biases i...
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PMID: 14516251
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Psychiatric Services (54)8 2003
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Psychological Bulletin (129)4 2003
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Psychologists have primarily investigated scientific creativity from 2 contrasting in vitro perspectives: correlational studies of the creative person and experimental studies of the creative process. Here the same phenomenon is scrutinized using a 3rd, in vivo perspective, namely, the actual creati...
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PMID: 12848217
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Dentistry today (22)6 2003
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The authors demonstrated that the most common statistical significance test used with r(WG)-type interrater agreement indexes in applied psychology, based on the chi-square distribution, is flawed and inaccurate. The chi-square test is shown to be extremely conservative even for modest, standard sig...
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PMID: 12731720
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Reinforcers lose their effectiveness when they are presented repeatedly. Traditionally, this loss of effectiveness has been labeled satiation. However, recent evidence suggests that habituation provides a more accurate and useful description. The characteristics of behavior undergoing satiation diff...
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PMID: 14768663
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Ergonomics (44)14 2001
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Developments in the Society are outlined since the early history was described by Edholm and Murrell. Major changes in the Society's operation and the context in which these changes took place are given. The changes in research directions, growth in educational facilities for professional education...
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PMID: 11900417
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Ergonomics (44)14 2001
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Ergonomics is now fairly routinely used in industry. Managers often initiate contact with ergonomists. The paper argues that many ergonomists have abandoned some fundamental ergonomics principles and have unwittingly succumbed to 'sitting complacently in the manager's toolbox'. It is also argued tha...
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PMID: 11900419
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Ergonomics (44)14 2001
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We can broaden our understanding of people and situations, learning 'why' as well as 'how and what' people do. Second, by identifying with the emotional as well as intellectual concerns of sponsors and colleagues from other professions, we inspire trust and confidence, adding value to our collective...
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PMID: 11900418
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This article presents a review of research published by Spanish Faculty from the area of basic psychology in the decade 1989-1998. It provides information about research on basic psychological processes commonly studied under the labels of experimental and cognitive psychology, plus a number of topi...
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PMID: 11723639
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American Psychologist (56)11 2001
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The practice of professional psychology generally has consisted of assessment and intervention. This article describes the functioning of one practitioner's activities. For assessment, the model described emphasizes point predictions and actuarial approaches whenever those are available. The discuss...
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PMID: 11785146
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American Psychologist (56)11 2001
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Behavior Modification (25)5 2001
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The effects of smoothing (i.e., temporal averaging) on the detection of intraindividual interdependency from between-subjects aggregated (i.e., multiple) bivariate time series were examined. A simple moving average smoother was applied to different types of simulated processes that included error. T...
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PMID: 11296715
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A number of authors have raised concerns over the external validity of psychological research. This study examined the extent to which empirical articles include human participants from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Articles published over a 5-year period in 14 selected journals representing 3 applied...
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PMID: 11142545
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American Psychologist (55)11 2000
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Reflecting on the events that culminated in her receiving the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice, Canter, an independent practitioner, discusses the road she traveled to become a clinical psychologist and to become involved in professional organiza...
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PMID: 11280940
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American Psychologist (55)11 2000
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Anaesthesia (55)9 2000
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Nebraska history (81)2 2000
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Psychology (51) 2000
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This chapter reviews empirical findings on the importance of assessing individual differences in human behavior. Traditional dimensions of human abilities, personality, and vocational interests play critical roles in structuring a variety of important behaviors and outcomes (e.g. achieved socioecono...
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PMID: 10751977
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American Psychologist (54)8 1999
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