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Stability and change in callous-unemotional traits: Longitudinal associations with potential individual and contextual risk and protective factors
(American Psychological Association Inc, 2017)This longitudinal study examines developmental heterogeneity in callous-unemotional (CU) traits in a large sample of school-age children in Cyprus. Latent Class Growth Analysis revealed 4 trajectory groups of CU traits ...
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Specialization of right temporo-parietal junction for mentalizing and its relation to social impairments in autism
(2011)Over the last 25 years, "mindblindness" (deficits in representing mental states) has been one of the primary explanations behind the hallmark social-communication difficulties in autism spectrum conditions (ASC). However, ...
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Does body orientation matter when reasoning about depicted or described scenes?
(2008)Two experiments were conducted to assess whether the orientation of the body at the time of test affects the efficiency with which people reason about spatial relations that are encoded in memory through symbolic media. ...
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Processing demands of reading comprehension tests in young readers
(2012)In the present study we examined the processing demands of three reading comprehension tests, namely the Woodcock–Johnson Passage Comprehension (WJPC), a Curriculum-Based Measure test (CBM-Maze), and a Recall test, in the ...
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Perceptual systems and realism
(2008)Constructivism undermines realism by arguing that experience is mediated by concepts, and that there is no direct way to examine those aspects of objects that belong to them independently of our conceptualizations; perception ...
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Interaction, communication and development : psychological development as a social process
(Routledge, 2014)
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Correlates of teacher appraisals of student behaviors
(2005)The purpose of this study was to assess whether burnout and personality were linked to the perceived severity of 24 undesirable student behaviors among experienced and trainee teachers. Results indicated that teaching ...
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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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Nonconceptual content: A reply to Toribio's "Nonconceptualism and the cognitive impenetrability of early vision"
(2014)Toribio argues against my thesis that the cognitive penetrability (CP) of the content of early vision is a necessary and sufficient condition for this content to be nonconceptual content (NCC)-the MET (mutually entailing ...
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Alterity and the Transformation of Social Representations: A Sociocultural Account
(2015)This article uses sociocultural theories of self-reflection to theorize how social representations are transformed. While there are several ways in which social representations change, we focus on one way that entails ...
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The Effectiveness of Levosimendan in Clinical Characteristics and Haemodynamic, in Patients Undergoing High-Risk Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review of Randomized, Clinical Trials
(International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2016)To evaluate the haemodynamic effects, perioperative and post-operative clinical characteristics of Levosimendan in in patients undergoing high-risk cardiac surgery. The review of the literature was based on a keyword ...
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Methodology, Epistemology and Ideology of History Educators Across the Divide in Cyprus.
(AHDR, 2011)
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Bullies, victims and bully-victims: Psychosocial profiles and attribution styles
(2008)This study aimed at examining the differences between bullies, victims, bully-victims and students that are non involved in peer violence in terms of their temperament, their degree of deviation from the typical in appearance ...
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Individual, Social, and Behavioral Factors Associated with Co-Occurring Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits
(2013)Conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits can have a long-lasting negative impact into adulthood. Importantly, among youth with CP, those high on CU traits engage in a more severe, aggressive, and persistent ...
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Searching for the "Big Five" in a Greek context: The NEO-FFI under the microscope
(2004)The five-factor inventory (FFI) is a commonly used personality test based on the NEO-personality inventory revised. It has been translated into several languages and validated in a number of countries. Using a sample of ...
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Cognitive and Perceptual Limitations and Learning: An Excursion into Connectionist Theory
(1997)Most developmental theories consider development as a process in which an organism grows from an immature (biological, behavioral, sensory, and cognitive) state to a mature one, the latter being more perfect and 'better'. ...