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Phonological planning during sentence production: beyond the verb
(2011-11-04)The current study addresses the extent of phonological planning during spontaneous sentence production. Previous work shows that at articulation, phonological encoding occurs for entire phrases, but encoding beyond the ... -
Phonological planning during sentence production: beyond the verb
(2011-11)The current study addresses the extent of phonological planning during spontaneous sentence production. Previous work shows that at articulation, phonological encoding occurs for entire phrases, but encoding beyond the ... -
Positive Smoking Outcome Expectancies Mediate the Association between Negative Affect and Smoking Urge among Women During a Quit Attempt
(2014)Ecological momentary assessment was used to examine associations between negative affect, positive smoking outcome expectancies, and smoking urge during the first 7 days of a smoking quit attempt. Participants were 302 ... -
The Problem of Too Many Statistical Tests: Subgroup Analyses in a Study Comparing the Effectiveness of Online and Live Lectures
(2013)The more statistical analyses performed in the analysis of research data, the more likely it is that one or more of the conclusions will be in error. Multiple statistical analyses can occur when the sample contains ... -
Promoting Tobacco Cessation and Smoke-Free Workplaces Through Community Outreach Partnerships in Puerto Rico
(2014)Background: Puerto Rico (PR) has a lower smoking prevalence than the United States (14.8% vs. 21.2%, respectively); nevertheless, the five leading causes of death are associated with smoking. There is a need to implement ... -
Prosocial knowledge mediates effects of agreeableness and emotional intelligence on prosocial behavior
(2016)We present two studies that replicate and extend predictions made by implicit trait policy theory about the association between basic traits, knowledge, and behavior. Study 1 examined relations between personality traits, ... -
Psychosocial Mechanisms Linking the Social Environment to Mental Health in African Americans
(2016)Resource-poor social environments predict poor health, but the mechanisms and processes linking the social environment to psychological health and well-being remain unclear. This study explored psychosocial mediators of ... -
The Representation of Concrete and Abstract Concepts: Categorical Versus Associative Relationships
(2014)In 4 word-translation experiments, we examined the different representational frameworks theory (Crutch & Warrington, 2005; 2010) that concrete words are represented primarily by category, whereas abstract words are ... -
Role of features and categories in the organization of object knowledge: Evidence from adaptation fMRI
(2016)There are two general views regarding the organization of object knowledge. The feature-based view assumes that object knowledge is grounded in a widely distributed neural network in terms of sensory/function features ... -
The Role of Working Memory Capacity and Interference Resolution Mechanisms in Task Switching
(2015)Theories of task switching have emphasized a number of control mechanisms that may support the ability to flexibly switch between tasks. The present study examined the extent to which individual differences in working ... -
Semantic and Syntactic Interference in Sentence Comprehension: A Comparison of Working Memory Models
(2017)This study investigated the nature of the underlying working memory system supporting sentence processing through examining individual differences in sensitivity to retrieval interference effects during sentence comprehension. ... -
Statistically Adrift: Why A Central Conclusion in Academically Adrift is Faulty
(2012)One of the most cited findings reported in the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Arum and Roska is that 45 percent of the students did not show a statistically significant gain in critical ... -
Syntactic agreement attraction reflects working memory processes
(2016)Does producing syntactic agreement rely on syntactic or memory-based retrieval processes? The present study investigated the extent to which syntactic processing deficits and working memory (WM) deficits predict susceptibility ... -
Teaching the Biological Consequences of Alcohol Abuse through an Online Game: Impacts among Secondary Students
(2012)Amultimedia game was designed to serve as a dual-purpose intervention that aligned with National Science Content Standards, while also conveying knowledge about the consequences of alcohol consumption for a secondary school ... -
Teammate familiarity and risk of injury in emergency medical services
(2016)Objective: We investigated the association between teammate familiarity and workplace injury in the emergency medical services (EMS) setting. Methods: From January 2011 to November 2013, we abstracted a mean of 29 months ... -
Temporal characteristics of semantic perseverations induced by blocked-cyclic picture naming
(2009-03)When unimpaired participants name pictures quickly, they produce many perseverations that bear a semantic relation to the target, especially when the pictures are blocked by category. Evidence suggests that the temporal ... -
There Is Time for Calculation in Speed Chess, and Calculation Accuracy Increases With Expertise
(2016)The recognition–action theory of chess skill holds that expertise in chess is due primarily to the ability to recognize familiar patterns of pieces. despite its widespread acclaim, empirical evidence for this theory is ... -
Thinking Ahead: Assuming Linear Versus Nonlinear Personality-Criterion Relationships in Personnel Selection
(2014)Recent studies suggest that the form of some personality-performance relationships may be curvilinear, meaning that traditional top-down selection is inefficient in capitalizing on underlying personality-performance ... -
Time, Space and Memory for Order
(2014-03)Information about the order of items in a sequence can be conveyed either spatially or temporally. The current investigation examines whether these different modes of presentation map onto compatible mental representations ... -
Trait Complex, Cognitive Ability, and Domain Knowledge Predictors of Baccalaureate Success, STEM Persistence, and Gender Differences
(2013-08)Prediction of academic success at post-secondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, ...
