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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Understanding the Results of Multiple Linear Regression: Beyond Standardized Regression Coefficients
(2013)Multiple linear regression (MLR) remains a mainstay analysis in organizational research, yet intercorrelations between predictors (multicollinearity) undermine the interpretation of MLR weights in terms of predictor ... -
Verb Production and the Semantic Interference Effect
(2002)In three experiments, we explored the semantic interference effect in verb production with the picture-word interference paradigm. Experiments 1 and 3 addressed whether there is an effect of semantically related distracters ...
