Taking as point of departure research on different preferential thinking styles that humans employ, the authors argue that there is no assurance that a particular decision arrived at by a person employing a particular thinking style (e.g. the synthesizer style) will be accepted by a person employing another thinking style (e.g. an idealist style). We further argue that by combining a range of c...

The present study investigated whether individual differences between psychologists in thinking styles are associated with accuracy in diagnostic classification. We asked novice and experienced clinicians to classify two clinical cases of clients with two co-occurring psychological disorders. No significant difference in diagnostic accuracy was found between the two groups, but when combining t...

Communication styles are representative of the individuals and identifying the communication styles of an individual allows the understanding of individual background, the way of thinking and perception of social reality. In the organizational context, studying the communicator styles of a group of organizational employees can be equated with learning the organizational culture. The purposes of...

This study used aptitude treatment interaction design to examine how feedback formats (specific vs. holistic) and executive thinking styles (high vs. low) affect web-based peer assessment. An Internet-based (anonymous) peer-assessment system was developed and used by 58 computer science students who submitted assignments for peer review. The results indicated that while students with high execu...

This paper presents an approach to integrate thinking styles into adaptive hypermedia system. The main objective was to develop an adaptive system and assess the effect of adapting pedagogical activities individualized to the student’s thinking style. The proposed approach used adaptive hypermedia technology to improve learning process by adapting course content presentation to student thinking...

The purpose of this research is to know the thinking processed student’s mathematical literacy abilities in terms auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning styles. This an exploratory study with a qualitative approach. was conducted Junior High Schools classified as Excellent Meulaboh Regency. subjects were students class IX MTsN 3 Aceh Barat who had high-level ability able solve math problems,...

This study examines the psychological correlates of paranormal beliefs among teachers and teachers in training. Teachers are a population of special interest because they may transmit paranormal beliefs to their students. Teacher paranormal beliefs were found to be correlated with cognitive perceptual and disorganized schizotypal thinking and intuitive thinking styles. The overall pattern of th...

Background: This study explored nursing personality traits (Big Five Inventory BFI), emotional intelligence (EI), and thinking styles (Rational, RS, Experiential, ES) together with demographic data to see how they could relate the implication of this on nurses patient safety. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: Nursing sample (n = 435). Participants completed a self-report online survey, ...