Results This study uses data from the first 84 clients who completed the web-based program. The data provided from this study covers probationer involvement with the MAPIT intervention in relation to early goal planning and electronic reminder selection on positive 2-month outcomes. In terms of early goal planning, clients were most likely to select goals such as “Make a list of things I could ...

Cross-situational learning is a mechanism for learning the meaning of words across multiple exposures, despite exposure-by-exposure uncertainty as to a word's true meaning. Doubts have been expressed regarding the plausibility of cross-situational learning as a mechanism for learning human-scale lexicons in reasonable timescales under the levels of referential uncertainty likely to confront rea...

This chapter attempts to provide a first step toward systematically examining the part that civil remedies can play in situational crime prevention. First, it reviews the main features of the concept and uses the script-analytic model to describe the mechanisms by which this approach seeks to prevent crime. The model is expanded to incorporate concepts useful for examining how situational contr...

OBJECTIVE To test if appointment reminders blinded to immunization status improve kept-appointment and vaccination coverage rates. Design. Controlled trial. SETTING Pediatric clinic serving a low-income community in New York City. INTERVENTION Children ages 4 through 18 months (n = 1273) scheduled sequentially for clinic appointments were systematically assigned to 1 of 4 study groups: cont...

PURPOSE Between 23% and 34% of outpatient appointments are missed annually. Patients who frequently miss medical appointments have poorer health outcomes and are less likely to use preventive health care services. Missed appointments result in unnecessary costs and organizational inefficiencies. Appointment reminders may help reduce missed appointments; particular types may be more effective th...

BACKGROUND International health policy surveys are used to compare and evaluate health system performance, but little is known about the effects of non-response. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of non-response in the Norwegian part of the Commonwealth Fund international health policy survey in 2009. METHODS As part of an international health policy survey in 2009 a cross...

As the paradigm of operators supervising multiple unmanned vehicles becomes increasingly realizable, the impact on operator situational awareness of such a paradigm shift becomes very important. Quantifying the effects of alternate team configurations and system designs in terms of their impact on situational awareness is currently expensive, requiring time-consuming user studies. This paper pr...

Though there are many challenges to Ekman’s thesis that basic emotions with universal corresponding facial expressions, our main criticism revolves around the extent which grounding situations alter how people read faces. To end, we recruit testifying experimental studies show identical faces expressing varying when contextualized differently. Rather than dismissing these as illusions, start po...

The authors conducted a meta-analysis of 57 empirical studies (59 samples) concerning enacted workplace aggression to answer 3 research questions. First, what are the individual and situational predictors of interpersonal and organizational aggression? Second, within interpersonal aggression, are there different predictors of supervisor- and coworker-targeted aggression? Third, what are the rel...