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The Influence of Work-Family Balance Based Realistic Job Previews on Job Decisions in Academia
(2011)
The present study utilized a realistic job preview to influence expectations of workfamily
balance. Using graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM), participants viewed a preview about ...
Why Does Content Desirability Impact Subjective Video Quality Ratings and What Can Be Done About It?
(2011)
This study attempted to determine why users who like a product (in this case, film clips)
rate the product higher in quality (in this case, video quality). In this study, film clips
were located that were high or neutral ...
Assessing the Usability of the Straight-Party Voting Ballot Option for Paper, Punch Card, and Electronic Voting Systems
(2011)
The straight-party voting ballot option (SPVBO) is a voting provision available to a
sizable minority of United States voters-approximately 71 million voters across 16 U.S.
states. In recent years, researchers have begun ...
Employee Turnover: The Effects of Workplace Events
(2011)
This research was designed to extend the unfolding model of voluntary turnover by examining the most commonly reported turnover decision path. Specifically, the purpose of the current investigation was to explore how ...
The positive and negative effects of testing in lifelong learning
(2011)
Formal classroom learning is a lifelong pursuit. Many older adults return to school to advance their careers, learn new skills, or simply for personal fulfillment. As such, methods for improving learning should be considered ...
The Generalizability of Knowledge as Measured by a Single-Response Situational Judgment Test Across Domains
(2011)
The current investigation examined the consistency of two different types of procedural knowledge as measured by a single-response Situational Judgment Test (SJT) across three different professions, including those of a ...
A Usability and Real World Perspective on Accessible Voting
(2012)
The HAVA (Help America Vote Act) mandated that all polling places provide privacy and independence to voters. DREs (Direct-Recording Electronic voting systems) have been assumed to be the solution to providing accessible ...
Implications of differences of echoic and iconic memory for the design of multimodal displays
(2012)
It has been well documented that dual-task performance is more accurate when each task is based on a different sensory modality. It is also well documented that the memory for each sense has unequal durations, particularly ...
The effect of secondary tasks and stimulus type on ratings of telephone hold workload
(2011)
Auditory progress bars (APBs) are aural stimuli designed to convey time progression. To investigate the relationship of APBs and workload ratings during a telephone holding context, two APBs were tested alongside ...
Semantic and syntactic interference in sentence comprehension and their relationship to working memory capactiy
(2012)
This study investigated the nature of the relationship between working memory (WM) and sentence processing by examining interference effects in sentence comprehension and relating those to performance on a set of WM tasks, ...