Are Boys Left Behind at School? Reviewing and Explaining Education-Related Gender DisparitiesAbstract. The widening gap between the educational attainments of boys versus girls is now a major topic in educational research, accompanied by high media ...
Qualitative Differences in Vocabulary Between Boys and Girls in Elementary School AgeAbstract. Success at school depends on extensive verbal skills which are based on vocabulary knowledge. Developmental differences between girls and boys can result in ...
Differences between elementary school students in perception of instructional quality in German classesAbstract. Students' perceptions of teaching quality vary within classrooms. Several student characteristics are ...
Emotion Recognition and Memory for Emotional Faces - Neuropsychological Findings and Influencing FactorsAbstract: Recognising emotions in facial expressions is a congenital and cross-cultural ability with immense social relevance. Compared to emotion ...
Effects of Gender on Intelligence and Memory PerformancesThe study examines relationships between intelligence and memory performances, based on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV and the Wechsler Memory Scale-IV, considering effects of gender (N = ...
We examined face memory deficits in patients with Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD) with specific regard to the moderating role of sex and the different memory processes involved. We tested short- and long-term face recognition memory in 18 nonclinical ...
Depression is female – even after stroke? Cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons of gender effects in prevalence and depressive symptomsAbstract. Depression in the general population is more frequent in ...
Many studies have shown that physical appearance has a strong effect on hiring decisions, but they have not simultaneously taken into account the applicant’s competence, the hierarchical status, and job sex type. Recruiters rated the hireability, utility, ...
Existing research shows that a sad mood hinders emotion recognition. More generally, it has been shown that mood affects information processing. A happy mood facilitates global processing and a sad mood boosts local processing. Global processing has been ...
Past research has failed to adequately address the reasons behind the lack of handwashing in public restrooms. The present study explores possibilities for using psychology to design effective handwashing interventions. Specifically, the current study ...
Chronotype, or morningness-eveningness, refers to a person’s preference for a given time of day for intellectual and/or physical activities. It has many implications on health, well-being, performance, and daytime functioning. Because few data are ...
Emerging adulthood is a time of instability. This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between mental health and need satisfaction among emerging adults over a period of five years and focused on gender-specific differences. Two possible ...
Obesity is common among adolescents and is associated with a number of medical complications. As maladaptive emotional processing is assumed to influence obesity, this research investigated emotional openness (EO), a general model of emotional processing, ...
Abstract. This research concerns the influence of dominant/dominated asymmetries in the perceptual structure of social categories in computer-mediated communication (CMC). We explore the connection between the cognitive effects described by the social ...
Abstract. This study conducted a representative analysis of the Swiss labor market from 1991 to 2014 by applying Holland’s (1997) classification of occupations according to six vocational interest types: realistic, ...
Psychopathological and comorbid disorders of incarcerated adolescents in AustriaObjective: Incarcerated adolescents show a high prevalence rate of psychopathology and comorbid psychiatric conditions. Child and adolescent psychiatrists working in the ...
Psychosocial disadvantages in incarcerated girls and boysAbstract.Objective: Longitudinal studies found that criminal behavior in juveniles often concurs with neighborhood disadvantage and family dysfunction, ...
Gender in mental health researchAbstract.Are gender specific aspects reflected in current psychiatric-psychotherapeutical research in Germany?The analysis is based on original research published in 3 German journals (Psychotherapeut; Psychiatrische ...