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Carol Gilligan and Social Morality: A Critique of Gilligan's Proposal for a Contextually Relative Moral Imperative of Universal Applicability.

Sassaman, William Lewis (1989)

Speaking About Metacognition: A Developing Ability in Young Children

Nathanson, Richard A. (1992)

The development of metacognition in nursery school children was examined in this study. Our computer program encouraged the acquisition of a perceptual discrimination based on the density of dots in a rectangle. Children ...

Desire understanding and prosocial behavior: the relationship between early development of theory of mind and the social processes of preschool-age children

Odessey, Rebecca; Carlson, Katharine L.; Martinez, Nicole (2003)

This study explores the relationship between desire understanding and prosocial behavior. A sample of 49 children, ranging from 3 to 5 years of age, was given a battery of desire understanding tasks. Prosocial behavior, ...

Understanding handshaking : the result of contextual, interpersonal and social demands

Huwer, Jennifer (2003)

The communicative functions of handshaking behavior were observed as a function of social context, interpersonal intimacy, and gender. Male and female participants were asked to imagine one of six levels of social context ...

Preschoolers' desire understanding and its relation to prosocial behavior

Martinez, Nicole (2003)

Theory of mind in humans allows for communication, interaction and socialization. Through the development of a theory of mind children understand first that others have desires, and after this an understanding of belief ...

The effects of competition and exercise on pain perception

Smith, Lauren D. (2004)

One of the most ubiquitous examples of stress-induced analgesia that is easily observed is the pain reduction athletes experience during competition. There is anecdotal evidence for this phenomenon but there is an omission ...

Happiness helps, but how? : does interhemispheric communication mediate the impact of positive affect on cognitive flexibility?

Fleisher, Carl A. (2004)

Numerous studies have demonstrated that positive affect has beneficial effects on cognition, mainly due to more efficient and flexible processing of information. Yet, the neural mechanism of these effects has not been ...

Inclusion and Exclusion: Implications for Stereotypic Judgments of Groups and Individuals

Nussbaum, Jane (2004)

This paper presents a broad overview of various models of the judgment process, in an effort to place the present research within a larger theoretical context. Particular attention is paid to theories proposed by Parducci, ...

Exposure to atypical exemplars : implications for stereotypic judgments of the group and the individual

Grayer, Julia (2004)

Social judgment research indicates that the direction of social judgments is dependent upon how a judge categorizes both the contextual stimuli and the target. Specifically, when a target is included in the representation ...

Request style : at home and in school

Reicher, Shira R. (2004)

Children's understanding and fulfilling of requests is essential to succeeding in the home and school environment. The current study examines differences between teachers' and mothers' request styles to determine if children ...

Is the lateral septum's inhibitory influence on the amygdala mediated by GABA-ergic neurons?

Austin, Mason (2004)

Previous studies suggest that the lateral septum and amygdala are critical in the production and regulation of anxiety. The lateral septum may express its anxiolytic properties by directly inhibiting the activity of the ...

How do you ask things of your children? : request styles at school and in the home

Wolf, Kate (2004)

The goal of this study was to examine the pattern of requests used by teachers and mothers, given that requests form a significant component of the language used with children. Naturally occurring kindergarten teachers' ...

Competition vs. Exercise-Induced Analgesia in Male and Female Athletes and Non-Athletes

Meister, Miriam (2004)

Pain sensitivity in 52 college male and female athletes and non-athletes was assessed at baseline and then after exercise and competition while workload was held constant. Subjects pedaled on a stationary bike for 20 minutes ...

Are you afraid of the dark?: Exploring death, social isolation, & cultural enlightenment

Chao, Brian (2006)

Terror management theory claims that human behavior is driven by a subtle but profound fear of personal death, a consequence of advanced cognitions. Coalitional psychology, on the contrary, claims that human behavior is ...

The Voice, A Truer Window to the Soul? : The Effects of Face/Voice Incongruency on Impression Formation

Vandersall, Ellen J. (2006)

This study examined whether impression formation is influenced by the congruency of facial and vocal information. Levels of attractiveness and maturity were manipulated to create 32 congruent or incongruent pairings on the ...

The effects of sport specific exercise on cognition : Investigating the P300 and the lateral readiness potential

Tanaka, LeeAnn (2006)

The effects of exercise on physical well-being have long been known. Recently investigations have examined whether exercise affects particular aspects of cognition but results are inconclusive, perhaps due to heterogeneous ...

Stress Induced Analgesia in Competitive Athletes

Hurwitz, Emily (2006)

Competing in athletic games can produce analgesia from a heat stimulus in male and female soccer players and female basketball athletes compared to practice and baseline assessments. Observed competition induced analgesia ...

Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Error Responsiveness in Depressive College Students

Vargas, Gray (2006)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the error responsiveness of depressive college students and to attempt to determine the contributions of emotional and cognitive processes to this response. This response was ...

The effects of aerobic fitness and athletic participation on executive control functioning and motor response selection

Cullen, Christine (2006)

The present study was conducted to analyze the effects of overall levels of physical fitness on executive control functioning, measured by accuracy and reaction time on an Erikson flankers task as well as EEG measures such ...

The Effects of Anticipatory Stress on Pain Responses in Male and Female Athletes

Nagle, Sarah (2006)

Athletic competition elicits a stress response that is both physical and psychological in nature. Additionally, following athletic competition, an increase in pain threshold (analgesia) has been observed. However, the ...

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