'Advances in Psychology Research' presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum.

Contents: The evaluation of processing functions in working memory; Working memory, inhibition and reading skill; Optimising the durability and generalisability of knowledge and skills; Short term forgetting: charting its course and its implications for long term remembering; Coaches and teachers at the crossroads of emerging patterns and direct perception; Social and personality psychology in the culture of cyberspace; Preference for freedom of choice: opportunity for choice, efficacy of choice, and number of alternatives; Accurately estimating age: implications for controlling youth access...

Contents: Cognitive Psychology -- Memory and connectivity in immune and neural network models; Expectancy-learning and evaluative learning in human classical conditioning: differential effects of extinction; Development of the ability to judge relative areas: young children's spontaneous use of superimposition as a cognitive tool; Counting in mentally retarded adolescents; Foundations of human causal reasoning. Behavioural Psychology -- Computer-mediated communication: a tool for public health; A barrier for healthy activity; The role of differentiated group experience in the course of...

Advances in Psychology Research presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Contents: Behavioral Psychology -- The development of alcohol habits in a Swedish male birth cohort; Exploring the instrumental versus non-instrumental aspects of procedural fairness: The usefulness of a person x situation approach; Assessment of death anxiety among Chinese: A study of reliability and validity; Teachers' beliefs about creativity; Biological Psychology --...

Contents: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Perception without Awareness: The Qualitative Differences Approach; Explaining Consciousness at Multiple Levels; Precision of Warm's Weighted Likelihood Estimation of Ability for a Polytomous Model in CAT; Computer Preparedness: A Study of Computer Use Self-Efficacy Among DECA Students in Kentucky. BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY: Mutual Versus One-Sided Physical Aggression. Findings from a General Population Survey of Aggression among Adults; Proximity, Compatibility, and Noncomplementarity in Subjective Probability; Satisfaction with Romantic Relationships and a...

Presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Contents: Preface; COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- The Relational Premises of Jung's Theory of Psychological Value and the Embodied Symbol; 'His' and 'Her' Marriage: Differences in Spousal Perceptions of Marital Life in Late Adulthood; BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY -- Multiple Personality, Multiple Persons and the Human Animal; Predicting Well-Being Outcomes in Later Life: An Application of Classification and Regression Tree;...

Presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Contents: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- Explicit and Implicit Processes of Metacognition; Proximity, Compatibility, and Non-Complementarity in Subjective Probability; BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY -- Autonomic Substrates of Heart Rate Reactivity in Adolescent Males with Conduct Disorder and/or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY -- Maintaining Attention to a Narrative Event; Interpersonal Support and...

Contents: Preface; COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; Mind-Brain Reductionism and the Reality of the Mental; Positive-Negative Asymmetry in the Human Information Search and Decision-Making: Five Basic and Applied Studies on Voting Behaviour; Mathematical-Programming Approaches to Test Item Pool Design; Proximity, Compatibility, and Non-complementarity in Subjective Probability. BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGY: Risk Factors for Loneliness in Adulthood and Old Age: A Meta-Analysis; Why are Symmetrical Faces Attractive?; Inter- and Intra-cultural...

Contents: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY -- Gifted Brain and Twinning: Integrative Review of the Recent Literature; The Influence of Vocal and Instrumental Background Music on the Cognitive Performance of Introverts and Extraverts. BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGY - Socialising Prosocial Behaviour in Children: The Roles of Parents and Peers; Telling Lies to Strangers or Close Friends: Its Relationship with Attachment Style; Jim Morrison, Pop Culture's Tragic Hero: A Lifestyle Analysis; Marketing Success: Self-Concept and Individual Antecedents in Marketing Simulations; Development of Overall Workload Index; The...