Dissociative symptoms may be the by-products of a labile sleep-wake cycle (Koffel and Watson, 2009a). This may help to explain why dissociation overlaps with fantasy proneness and cognitive failures. Using path analysis, we tested to what extent data gathered in a nonclinical, predominantly female sample (N=139) supported two conceptual models. The first model assumes that unusual sleep experie...

This paper investigated the impact of causality on reading time by examining the contributions of forward antecedent and backward consequence connections. Undergraduate students read four narrative texts, sentence by sentence. Reading times for each sentence were regressed onto the number of antecedents connecting forward to a sentence and backward to prior sentences. Overall, forward anteceden...

Entrepreneurship resilience during a crisis is an important research area. However, prior has not examined cognitive antecedents of entrepreneurial resilience. Using the 2014 oil price in Middle East as natural experiment, we draw on system justification theory to understand why and how entrepreneurs differ extent their attitudinal changes toward corruption. We find foreign substantially increa...

Brand love has been found to predict brand loyalty measures better than conventional attitude models that rely on the brand’s perceived quality. Hence, marketers are interested in factors that lead to brand love. This study investigates the influence of anthropomorphism on brand love in the context of defensive marketing. We identified five possible theoretical mechanisms through which anthropo...

The ultimate success of information security depends on appropriate information security practice behaviors by the end users. Based on social cognitive theory, this study models and tests relationships among self-efficacy in information security, security practice behavior and motivation to strengthen security efforts. This study also explores antecedents to individuals’ self-efficacy beliefs i...

A randomised control trial evaluated the effectiveness of a theory-based persuasive leaflet designed to encourage students to undertake at least one additional physical exercise session a week. Participants were 503 secondary school students attending a school in South-East England. The leaflet was written to target potentially modifiable cognitive antecedents of exercise specified by the Theor...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a conceptual model of chemotherapy-related changes in cognitive function. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, CINAHL, HealthStar, and PsycINFO databases. DATA SYNTHESIS Patients undergoing chemotherapy often complain of forgetfulness, absentmindedness, and an inability to focus when performing a variety of daily tasks. Changes in cognitive function have been referred to by t...

An eye-movement reading experiment investigated whether the ease with which pronouns are processed is affected by the lexical frequency of their antecedent. Reading times following pronouns with infrequent antecedents were faster than following pronouns with frequent antecedents. We argue that this is consistent with a saliency account, according to which infrequent antecedents are more salient...

In a questionnaire study the effects of discourse structural information on resolving inter-sentential anaphora were investigated. The Right Frontier Constraint, first proposed by Polanyi (1988), states that potential antecedents of an anaphor that are placed at the right frontier of a discourse unit can be accessed more easily than antecedents that are placed somewhere else. Participants (N=36...