Zusammenfassung: In der internationalen Literatur sind zahlreiche Untersuchungen zur Kategorisierungsfähigkeit bei Multipler Sklerose (MS) zu finden. Eine Differenzierung der Leistungen in Abhängigkeit von der Verlaufsform der Krankheit bleibt jedoch aus. ...
If implication of field dependence/independence in social processes has been proved, an articulation between psychosocial theories and diffèrential theories is necessary to understand this implication. One study examined a possible link using social ...
Social categories are conceived of as broad classes in which some instances are better exemplars than others, and non-necessary features are assumed to modulate typicality. This research investigated how various emotional expressions impact on gender ...
Zusammenfassung. Im Rahmen einer Kategorisierungsstudie zur Unterscheidung von Menschen und Säugetieren wurden je 20 neun und elf Monate alte Kinder an 10 verschiedene Exemplare einer Kategorie gewöhnt, bevor sie ein Exemplar der kontrastierenden ...
Development and first validation of two scales to measure leader categorization in German-speaking countriesThe cognitive psychological approach of leader categorization suggests that subordinates respond more positively to leaders when these fit their ...
The Semantic Representation of Emotion Terms in Child DevelopmentAbstract. Emotion terms are part of the emotive vocabulary represented in the mental lexicon. The acquisition of emotion terms is a relevant domain ...
Since teaching and learning has become a major economic activity of modern society, different learning models can be considered in order to increase its effectiveness and efficiency. For a long time infant cognitive psychology was influenced by nativist ...
The aim of the present study is to show the representation of the category “money” that Italians have after the introduction of the Euro. In addition, it was assessed whether different expertise in handling money might have an effect. To assess the ...
Abstract. In increasingly diverse societies, discrimination against social groups and their members continues to be a public and political concern. Research has addressed three basic cognitive processes that precede discrimination: ...
Abstract. Personal and social identity have generally been considered as separate components of individual’s self-concept. In this review, after addressing classical models of personal and social identity, we focus on recent theoretical ...
Accurate identification of emotional expressions is important to social interaction. We examined the relations among shyness, sociability, and the accuracy of categorization of facial expression of emotions in a sample of 127 undergraduates. Individual ...
Although much is known about the motivational underpinnings of authoritarian ideologies, less is known about the underlying mental abilities. In the present study, the relations between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO),...
Abstract.Corneille, Huart, Becquart, & Brédart (2004) found that people remember ambiguous race faces as closer to a race prototype than they actually are. In three studies, we examined whether this memory bias generalizes to voice memory. In Studies 1 ...
Abstract. Numerous studies have shown that social categorization is a flexible process that partly depends on contextual variables. However, little is known about the role of affect in people's access to categorical dimensions. We investigated the ...
A recent finding suggests that people use spatial distances of responses to separate nonspatial information in a simple categorization task like the Stroop task. It was suggested that the larger the distance becomes the easier the categorization will get; ...
The goal of the current research is to use the experimental methods and mathematical models of the information integration framework to precisely determine how category and feature information are combined when making an inference. In three experiments, ...
Visual information contributes fundamentally to the process of object categorization. The present study investigated whether the degree of activation of visual information in this process is dependent on the contextual relevance of this information. We ...
Abstract. This study of supervised categorization shows how different kinds of category representations are influenced by the order in which training examples are presented. We used the well-studied 5-4 category structure of Medin and ...
Abstract: The importance of processing fluency in evaluative judgments has been repeatedly demonstrated across many domains such as liking, beauty, and truth. However, a clear picture of the nature of processing fluency has yet to emerge. Fluent ...
The assessment of pilots’ performances and more specifically their nontechnical skills turns out to be difficult because researchers and practitioners find that inter-rater reliability tends to be moderate to low. In this study, we proposed, consistent ...