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Transfer of hypothesis testing strategy in fault diagnosis
(1993)
Transfer of training is the degree to which a skill or principle learned in one environment can be applied in another environment. Most research that demonstrates transfer relies on the use of hints or explicit instructions ...
Social-collaborative complexity of work: Implications for ability test validities
(1993)
The social, collaborative, interpersonal, and interdependence demands of jobs, referred to as social-collaborative complexity (SCC), are rapidly expanding in the work place. One implication for human resources research is ...
Semantic priming of lexical and conceptual representations: Manipulating depth of processing of the prime
(1993)
Researchers often assume that automatic semantic priming effects found in lexical decision tasks are due to spreading activation at a conceptual knowledge level. Recent research questions this assumption by demonstrating ...
Rules of origin and negotiations of preferential trade agreements: The domestic preparations
(1993)
The first part of the thesis addresses the effect of rules of origin regulations on the use of domestic factors of production in the country of origin. In the case of a firm that is a perfect competitor in the final product ...
Macroeconomic effects of restrictions on foreign security ownership
(1993)
This dissertation consists of two papers on international capital movements. The first part theoretically analyzes the macroeconomic effects of restrictions imposed by official authorities on foreign investment. The main ...
Spontaneous recovery of "lost" information: The case for retrieval inhibition
(1993)
Eight experiments were conducted to investigate the phenomenon of spontaneous recovery, or memory improvement over time without repeated testing. While this phenomenon has been previously studied within the verbal learning ...
"The darker the berry...'': An investigation of skin color effects on perceptions of job suitability
(1993)
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of skin color on subsequent ratings of job suitability and to evaluate the influence trait based stereotypes have on these ratings. Results showed that the effect of ...
Effects of prior impressions, time pressure, cognitive complexity, and cognitive ability on information gathering and decision making strategies
(1993)
Using a computerized information display board, subjects gathered information regarding applicants and subsequently evaluated the applicants. Results showed that subjects with prior impressions operated under a confirmatory ...
Life-time wage profiles in the female labor market
(1993)
The study finds evidence of a cohort effect in female to male wage differentials caused by a greater earnings growth across generations. This imply a steeper female wage profile than is commonly accepted in the literature. ...
Symbiotic transfer, arbitrage, and equilibrium
(1993)
We lay a unified foundation for a theory of general equilibrium by proving the existence of an equilibrium for a grand model which covers all the well-known general equilibrium models under the convexity and continuity ...