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Impetus beliefs as default heuristics: dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge about motion.

30 Aug 2001 We examined the extent to which findings from the literature on naive physics and representational momentum studies are consistent with impetus beliefs postulating imparted internal energy as a source of motion. In a literature review, we showed ...
rec_pub_11700895-impetus-beliefs-default-heuristics-dissociation-explicit-implicit.htm


Anxious adults vs. cool children: children's views on smoking and addiction.

30 Aug 2001 Tobacco addiction represents a major public health problem, and most addicted smokers take up the habit during adolescence. We need to know why. With the aim of gaining a better understanding of the meanings smoking and tobacco addiction hold for ...
rec_pub_11478539-anxious-adults-vs-cool-children-children-s-views-smoking-addiction.htm


The effects of apology and perspective taking on interpersonal forgiveness: a dissonance-attribution model of interpersonal forgiveness.

30 Jul 2001 The author investigated (a) the effects of a victim's perspective taking and a transgressor's apology on interpersonal forgiveness and (b) forgiveness as a mode of dissonance reduction. Before the participants read a scenario describing a situation ...
rec_pub_11577848-the-effects-apology-perspective-taking-interpersonal-forgiveness.htm


Person theories and attention allocation: preferences for stereotypic versus counterstereotypic information.

30 May 2001 How do people respond to information that counters a stereotype? Do they approach it or avoid it? Four experiments showed that attention to stereotype-consistent vs. -inconsistent information depends on people's implicit theories about human traits. ...
rec_pub_11414372-person-theories-attention-allocation-preferences-stereotypic-versus.htm


To do or not to do: desirability and consistency mediate judgements of regret.

30 May 2001 In 4 studies, the authors demonstrated that when errors associated with action were inconsistent with decision nakers' orientation, they were undesirable and produced more regret than did errors associated with inaction. Conversely, when errors ...
rec_pub_11414370-to-desirability-consistency-mediate-judgements-regret.htm


Student nurses' experiences of caring for patients in pain.

30 May 2001 Poor pain assessment contributes to inadequate pain relief. Studies in the United States have shown that while student nurses become more sensitive to psychological distress during training, they become less sensitive to pain. However, a recent ...
rec_pub_11245865-student-nurses-experiences-caring-patients-pain.htm


A psychophysiological examination of cognitive processing of and affective responses to social expectancy violations.

29 Apr 2001 Several models of person perception predict that expectancy violations have both affective and cognitive consequences for the perceiver. Although extant evidence generally supports these claims, the temporal resolution of traditional self-report ...
rec_pub_11437301-a-psychophysiological-examination-cognitive-processing-affective.htm


A randomized trial of a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program.

30 Mar 2001 OBJECTIVE: As psychoeducational eating disorder prevention programs have not been shown to reduce bulimic pathology, we developed and evaluated a dissonance-based intervention for high-risk populations. METHOD: Young women (N = 87) with body image ...
rec_pub_11262503-a-randomized-trial-dissonance-based-eating-disorder-prevention-program.htm


Do amnesics exhibit cognitive dissonance reduction? The role of explicit memory and attention in attitude change.

27 Feb 2001 In two studies, we investigated the roles of explicit memory and attentional resources in the process of behavior-induced attitude change. Although most theories of attitude change (cognitive dissonance and self-perception theories) assume an ...
rec_pub_11340922-do-amnesics-exhibit-cognitive-dissonance-reduction-role-explicit.htm


The role of risk and benefit perception in informed consent for surgery.

27 Feb 2001 BACKGROUND: Informed consent relies on patients' ability to understand risk information. Evidence suggests that people may extract the gist of any risk information to make medical decisions. Existing evidence also suggests that there is an inverse ...
rec_pub_11310947-the-role-risk-benefit-perception-informed-consent-surgery.htm

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