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Predicting Objective Measures of Performance
(2009-02-23)
In todays competitive job market, many organizations use various selection procedures in order to hire the best possible employees. Most selection tools such as structured interviews, mental ability tests, and personality ...
Evaluation of a School-Based Peer Mediation Program: Assessing Disputant Outcomes as Evidence of Success
(2009-02-23)
Peer mediation programs are frequently employed by school systems nationwide to help decrease rates of violence and promote constructive problem-solving methods. The current literature regarding evaluation of these programs ...
Neurobehavioral Consequences of Aging and Chronic Methylmercury Exposure: Interactions with Dietary Selenium
(2008-09-09)
Methylmercury (MeHg), although a well-described toxicant to the adult and developing nervous system, is inadequately understood in adult onset, low-level chronic exposure. Among the known effects are somatosensory deficits ...
The Effectiveness and Transportability of Group Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) with Community Families
(2008-09-09)
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a behavioral intervention that incorporates both operant learning and play therapy techniques to treat child disruptive behavior problems. Efficacy research indicates that PCIT ...
The percentile IRT schedule: High rate behavior as a tool for examining the toxic motor effects of methylmercury
(2008-09-09)
Methylmercury exposure has become a topic of interest in both the toxicology literature and among the general media within the last decade. Concern about methylmercury’s toxicity has grown with the discovery that ...
The Refinement of a Multidimensional Computer Based Implicit Association Test as a Measurement of Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities
(2009-07-01)
Currently, persons with disabilities (PWDs) account for approximately one-fifth of the adult US population (Steinmetz, 2006). Legislation has been passed to help protect PWDs (e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act). ...
The Differential Outcome Effect with Typical Adult Humans
(2009-07-02)
A mechanism that affects nonhuman animal learning is expectation, as explored with experiments that produce the differential outcome effect (DOE). To obtain the DOE, animals are trained using a differential outcomes procedure ...
The opportunity for alternative reinforcement shortens bout length in BALB/c C57BL/6 mice
(2008-09-09)
A recent mathematical model has been suggested to partition response rate into two independent components that are estimated through a log survivor analysis of inter-response times. One component is thought to tap motivational ...
A Systematic Evaluation of Variables Underlying Response Effort Manipulations
(2009-02-23)
A number of studies have investigated the effects of manipulating the physical effort required for an individual to emit a response. This research overwhelmingly shows that as force requirements increase, response rates ...
Risk Style, Regulatory Focus, and the Situation in Risky Choice Decision Making
(2009-12-15)
The present study investigated how two individual differences (risk style and regulatory focus) and three situational manipulations (order of problem context, order of frame, and order of chance) influenced participant ...