This preliminary study explored the relationship between imagery vividness before and during a hypnotic phenomenological assessment procedure, the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory-Hypnotic Assessment Procedure (PCI-HAP), while also assessing trance (hypnoidal) state effects and several other variables. The PCI-HAP allows the assessment of trance state effects associated with hypnotism t...

Although Kenya's current 5-Year National Development Plan cites communications as a public policy issue in terms of the establishment of basic infrastructural facilities, little attention has been given to this area. At the national level, a more specific approach to communication policy demands the formulation of coherent policies and their implementation through adequate institutional bodies...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate feasibility of an assessment protocol for a trial of post-Botox casting to treat equinus gait in cerebral palsy. METHODS Ten children (ages, 26-75 months) were recruited. Nine were assessed 1 week before botulinum toxin-A injections and reassessed 1 week after removal of the final cast. The assessment protocol included Modified Ashworth Sca...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PAI: Personality Assessment Inventory; CCE: Child Custody Evaluation; MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2; MMPI-2-RF: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form; MCMI-III: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-Third Edition; PIM: Positive Impression Management; DOM: Dominance; WRM: Warmth; NEOPI: ...

Accurate assessment of dating violence (DV) is crucial for evaluation and intervention planning. However, extant self-report measurement tools of DV do not adequately consider age-, generation-, and culture-specific issues, which are essential for its accurate conceptualization. To address these gaps, we developed the Violence in Adolescents' Dating Relationships Inventory (VADR I: ) and evalua...

The study investigated instructors’ beliefs about the nature of L2 writing, teaching and assessing using inventory interview data from 106 instructors in Turkish EFL context. results showed that although value process-oriented genre-oriented approaches to they cannot disregard product-oriented approach. It was also found do not have sufficient knowledge writing assessment terminology digital to...

We document experimentally how biased self-assessments affect the outcome of matching markets. In the experiments, we exogenously manipulate the self-confidence of participants regarding their relative performance by employing hard and easy real-effort tasks. We give participants the option to accept early offers when information about their performance has not been revealed, or to wait for the...

Adaptation behaviour and different scales of reference can bias self-assessments of well-being by individuals. In this paper, we analyse the impact of these biases on a subjective measure of the quality of health and on the QALY weights derived from this health measure. It is found that the scale of reference of the subjective health measure changes with age. Accounting for adaptation and scale...

• A bogus pipeline paradigm examined self-assessments of narcissism and self-esteem. • Grandiosity was higher if surveys might be seen than when monitored by a polygraph. • Self-esteem was higher if surveys might be seen than when connected to a polygraph. • Narcissism was positively correlated with self-esteem in all study conditions. • Findings contradict the psychodynamic mask model and the ...

Although the Consensus Conference on Combined and Integrated Doctoral Training in Psychology (e.g., Bailey, 2003) generated much content of relevance to the structure and commitments of Combined-Integrated (C-I) programs, faculty, and students-and Competencies 2002: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology (www.appic.org) developed language and guidelines rega...