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Facial reactions to violent and comedy films: Association with callous–unemotional traits and impulsive aggression
(Routledge, 2017)The current study adds to prior research by investigating specific (happiness, sadness, surprise, disgust, anger and fear) and general (corrugator and zygomatic muscle activity) facial reactions to violent and comedy films ...
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Facilitating conceptual change in astronomy: A comparison of the effectiveness of two instructional approaches
(2001)The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of two instructional approaches in the acquisition of basic astronomy concepts. Sixty-three fifth-grade students were pre-tested on their knowledge of the ...
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Factorial structure of the perceived stress scale and implications for scoring
(2016)Introduction The 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) is a brief, widely-used measure of perceived stressful experiences that evaluates the degree to which people perceive their lives as unpredictable, uncontrollable ...
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Factorial Structure, Gender Invariance, and Predictive Validity of the Students’ Conceptions of Assessment-VI Inventory
(2019)Abstract. Student conceptions about assessment may be positive or negative, exemplify various beliefs and expectations, and are hypothesized to relate to student outcomes, for example, grades. The current study investigates ...
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Factorial Structure, Gender Invariance, and Predictive Validity of the Students’ Conceptions of Assessment-VI Inventory
(Hogrefe Publishing, 2016)Student conceptions about assessment may be positive or negative, exemplify various beliefs and expectations, and are hypothesized to relate to student outcomes, for example, grades. The current study investigates the ...
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Factors differentiating callous-unemotional children with and without conduct problems
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)Background: Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are a risk factor for a severe, aggressive, and persistent pattern of conduct problems (CP). This study investigated characteristics that might differentiate children with elevated ...
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Family dynamics and school achievement in Cyprus
(1995)The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which family cohesion, a functional characteristic of family life, is related to school achievement. It is already established in the international literature that ...
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Family parameters of achievement: A structural equation model
(2000)The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of several structural and functional characteristics of the family on the child's actual school achievement. A structural equation model was constructed and its ...
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Fearful victims and fearless bullies? Subjective reactions to emotional imagery scenes of children involved in school aggression
(2015)Being aggressive has been related to fearlessness, low empathy and premeditated antisocial behaviors. The current study examined how school bullies and victims respond to affective situations presented through imagery. It ...
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Feasibility of an Intervention to Support Hearing and Vision in Dementia: The SENSE‐Cog Field Trial
(2019)Objectives People with dementia (PwD) frequently experience hearing and vision impairment that is underrecognized and undertreated, resulting in reduced quality of life. Managing these impairments may be an important ...
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Feature binding in short-term memory and long-term learning
(2019)In everyday experience, we encounter visual feature combinations. Some combinations are learned to support object recognition, and some are arbitrary and rapidly changing, so are retained briefly to complete ongoing tasks ...
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Feature description and categorization of common objects after traumatic brain injury: The effects of a multi-trial paradigm
(2004)This study investigated the ability to describe and categorize common objects following brain injury. Thirteen subjects with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 13 noninjured controls participated in this ...
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Fetal programming effects of testosterone on the reward system and behavioral approach tendencies in humans
(2012)Background: Sex differences are present in many neuropsychiatric conditions that affect emotion and approach-avoidance behavior. One potential mechanism underlying such observations is testosterone in early development. ...
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Fetal testosterone influences sexually dimorphic gray matter in the human brain
(2012)In nonhuman species, testosterone is known to have permanent organizing effects early in life that predict later expression of sex differences in brain and behavior. However, in humans, it is still unknown whether such ...