The main issue of business reengineering, as demanded by Hammer, is a specific orientation of management towards business processes. We will analyse the psychological implications. Up to now process orientation has not been a main issue of research in experimental cognitive psychology. Our basic research concerning individual cognitive differences has shown that stable preferences do exist for ...

Although there is good evidence that mental rotation is an analog process, the question of whether objects are rotated holistically or piecemeal has remained controversial. This study examined differences in mental rotation strategies between good and poor imagers, defined by accuracy on the Shepard and Metzler (1971) mental rotation task. In two experiments, participants performed the mental r...

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that imagery ability and figural complexity interact to affect the choice of mental rotation strategies. Participants performed the Shepard and Metzler (1971) mental rotation task. On half of the trials, the 3-D figures were manipulated to create "fragmented" figures, with some cubes missing. Good...

Reports of sleep-onset and nocturnal (EEG Stage 1, rapid eye-movement [REM] period) mentation, CPIs, and thematic fantasy responses were collected from 32 young-adult Ss. In confirmation of recent findings by Foulkes and Vogel, dreamlike mental activity was found to occur with fairly substantial frequency at sleep onset, albeit with wide individual differences. Patterning of personality correla...

Participants completed long single digit sums in two interactivity contexts. In a low interactivity condition sums were solved with hands down. In a second, high interactivity condition participants used moveable tokens. As expected accuracy and efficiency was greater in the high compared to the low interactivity condition. In addition, participants were profiled in terms of working memory capa...