other employees. We also feel that these should be picked for their neatness, mental alertness, physical condition, age, and conscientious dependability. Much also depends upon the type of patient, his mental capacity, alertness, intelligence and his cooperation. Conceding this, we feel that incidence of infection with modified contagious technique is no greater and possibly even less than in t...

While much research has investigated the association between personality and health, little research has done so using a bereaved sample. Additionally, little research has investigated how personality influences the frequency of negative social exchanges bereaved individuals receive. This study utilized a structural equation model to investigate the associations among age, gender, personality, ...

User analysis is a crucial aspect of user-centered systems design, yet Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has yet to formulate reliable and valid characterizations of users beyond gross distinctions based on task and experience. Individual differences research from mainstream psychology has identified a stable set of characteristics that would appear to offer potential application in the HCI aren...

the field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. a recent editorial in this jou...

the concept of place and the necessity of understanding the plan and thus the reality of architecture has always been an important issue for architects. the mental and psychological effects of architectural frames on human beings have been considered from the early shelters to today΄s modern structure. since the human behavior is performed in defined spaces, it is necessary to design the physic...

Individual Differences in the Neural Response to Personal Goal Pursuit Success and Failure: A Developmental Analysis by Allison M. Detloff Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Timothy Strauman, Supervisor ___________________________ Alison Adcock ___________________________ Philip Costanzo __________________...

Abstract: Personal construct psychology is a theory of individual and group psychological and social processes that takes a constructivist position in modeling human knowledge but bases this on a positivist scientific position that characterizes conceptual structures in axiomatic terms. It provides a fundamental framework for both theoretical and applied studies of knowledge acquisition and rep...

© International Association for Applied Psychology, 2004. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. Oxford, UK APPS pplied Psychology: an International Review 0269-994X © Blackwell Publishing 2004 ct ber 2004 53 4 riginal Arti le DYNAMIC, MULTI-LEVEL MODEL OF CULTURE EREZ and GATI A Dynamic,...

This editorial celebrates the launch of BMC Psychology [1], the newest addition to the BMC series [2] journal group. BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology, as well as personality and in...