Browsing Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology by Title
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Egocentric organization of spatial activities in imagined navigation
(2003)Studies on spatial frameworks suggest that the way we locate objects in imagined environments is influenced by the physical and functional properties of the world and our body. The present study provides evidence that such ...
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Egocentric updating of remote locations
(2013)The study examined whether people update remote spatial locations in unfamiliar environments during physical movement. Participants learned a layout of objects from one perspective and carried out perspective-taking trials ...
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Elementary school children's ability to distinguish hypothetical beliefs from statements of preference
(2004)The authors examined students' understanding of hypotheses as beliefs that can be empirically verified. Thirty second graders and 30 sixth graders considered cases of disagreement about foods and colors that reflected ...
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Elevated fetal steroidogenic activity in autism
(2015)Autism affects males more than females, giving rise to the idea that the influence of steroid hormones on early fetal brain development may be one important early biological risk factor. Utilizing the Danish Historic Birth ...
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Embedding cognizance in intellectual development
(2015)This study examined whether cognizance of cognitive processes (i.e., awareness of the perceptual and inferential origins of knowledge) mediates between basic processing efficiency functions (i.e., processing speed, attention ...
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The emerging self: the convergence of mind, personality and thinking styles
(1999)This paper aims to integrate research and theorizing about problem solving, self and personality into a comprehensive theory. With this purpose, the paper attempts to answer three questions: how do humans become aware of ...
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Emerging Themes from Early Research on Self-Efficacy Beliefs in School Mathematics
(Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2008)Self-efficacy, an individual's belief about his or her ability to engage in a task and accomplish it, has been investigated across multiple domains of human action. Students' perceived efficacy in school mathematics in ...
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Emotion dysregulation in alexithymia: Startle reactivity to fearful affective imagery and its relation to heart rate variability
(2017)Alexithymia is associated with deficiencies in recognizing and expressing emotions and impaired emotion regulation, though few studies have verified the latter assertion using objective measures. This study examined startle ...
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Emotion processing deficits in alexithymia and response to a depth of processing intervention
(2014)Findings on alexithymic emotion difficulties have been inconsistent. We examined potential differences between alexithymic and control participants in general arousal, reactivity, facial and subjective expression, emotion ...
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Emotional avoidance and panicogenic responding to a biological challenge procedure
(2004)Healthy undergraduates high (n = 27) and low (n = 27) in experiential avoidance underwent twelve 20 s inhalations of 20% carbon dioxide-enriched air, while physiological (e.g., skin conductance, heart rate, EMG, and end-tidal ...
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Emotional dimensions as determinants of self-focused attention
(2007)Negative emotions, and particularly sadness, have been found to induce self-focused attention among both depressed and normal individuals. However, positive emotion, such as happiness, is sometimes found to have a similar ...
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Emotional dimensions reflected in ratings of affective scripts
(Elsevier Science, 2008)Emotion theories can be divided into those that propose either the existence of discrete emotions, or of basic dimensions describing affective space. Recent theories propose a hybrid of these. This study examines ratings ...
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Encoding and updating spatial information presented in narratives
(2013)Four experiments investigated whether directional spatial relations encoded by reading narratives are updated following described protagonist rotations. Participants memorized locations of objects described in short stories ...
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Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements
(Oxford University Press, 2012)This chapter analyzes the semantic consequences of crossing national borders. When crossing borders, identities change, and alterity is encountered. We ask: what are the semantic structures, or meanings, that enable alterity ...
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English as a foreign language teacher training needs and perceived preparedness to include dyslexic learners: The case of Greece, Cyprus, and Poland
(2018)This study examines the effect of demographic variables on the beliefs of teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) about their preparedness to include dyslexic learners in mainstream classrooms in Greece, Cyprus, ...
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Enhancing e-learning environments with users' cognitive factors: The case of EKPAIDEION
(2008)We are now witnessing an extensive and gradually increasing use of the World Wide Web space, proved to be a quite favourable way of communication, due to its speed, simplicity and efficiency. Distance learning (or eLearning) ...
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Essentialism in Social Representations of Citizenship: An Analysis of Greeks' and Migrants' Discourse
(2015)Following a Social Representations approach, the article examines the representations of citizenship held by both migrants and Greek citizens in Greece after the announcement of a heavily debated citizenship legislation. ...