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A disposition-behavior congruity model of perceived freedom
(Elsevier, 1977-07)
Three experiments were conducted to test a disposition-behavior congruity model of perceived freedom. The model was applied to attributions of freedom to actors who possess one of several dispositions and who can choose a ...
When is a family a family? Evidence from survey data and implications for family policy
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
This article examines the correspondence between common assumptions about the American family and actual patterns. The assessment is based on national data on individuals, households, and families. Findings indicate that ...
Proximal Peer-Level Effects of a Small-Group Selected Prevention on Aggression in Elementary School Children: An Investigation of the Peer Contagion Hypothesis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
Examined peer contagion in small group, selected prevention programming over one school year. Participants were boys and girls in grades 3 (46 groups, 285 students) and 6 (36 groups, 219 students) attending school in ...
Autobiographical Misremembering: John Dean is not Alone
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-06)
Survey respondents were asked to provide knowledge responses to public events and names that occurred as long ago as the 1930s and as recently as the 1980s. Respondents made errors that reflect the use of semantic and ...
The use of informal and formal help: Four patterns of illness behavior in the black community
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1984-12)
Exploring the ecological foundations of memory in psychotherapy: Interpersonal affordance, perception, and recollection in real time
(Elsevier, 1994)
Recent evidence suggests that memory narratives are fallible cognitive and social constructions. Yet, the literature lacks specific frameworks for guiding clinicians' inquiry into such narratives. We propose one such ...
What a person thinks upon learning he has chosen differently from others: Nice evidence for the persuasive-arguments explanation of choice shifts
(Elsevier, 1975-09)
Small shifts in choice occur even without discussion, when individuals merely know each other's preference. This appears to support an interpersonal comparison explanation of group induced shifts in choice and to refute ...
The dilution effect: Nondiagnostic information weakens the implications of diagnostic information
(Elsevier, 1981-04)
In a series of studies, subjects were asked to make predictions about target individuals. Some subjects were given information about the target which pretest subjects had judged to be "diagnostic"--that is, had judged to ...
Wither participation and empowerment?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-02)