Abstract. According to recent research (Eccles, 1999; GEOlino-UNICEF-Kinderwertemonitor, 2014), young people are particularly interested in issues related to affiliation, achievement, or power. We suggest that tasks that ...
Whether superiors or subordinates are more accurate in assessing the emotions of others (aka emotion recognition accuracy, ERA) is a question that has gained much interest but yielded decidedly mixed empirical results. The present study investigates ...
The present study investigated the relationship between explicit and implicit measures of affiliation, power, and achievement motives and behavior as related to social networking sites (SNS) in a sample of 59 participants. SNS appear to be designed to ...
Power potentials, goals, and influence tactics: Testing empirically and refining a model explaining the use of intraorganizational influence tacticsAbstract. In two quasi-experimental studies a model explaining the use of intraorganizational influence ...
Some problems in calibrating an item pool according to the Rasch modelAbstract. The importance of the Rasch model for psychological test calibration is beyond question, however, there are still a few problems to point out. Firstly, an item pool can be of ...
The Influence of Group Memberships on the Information Exchange in Digital MediaAbstract. Digital media have become a central means for information exchange in learning and work environments. The decrease of social cues during computer-mediated ...
The New Statistics in Psychology – The Status Quo and Future of Data AnalysisAbstract. What is the appropriate way of analyzing and reporting data from psychological studies? Although there is a long history of argumentation and ...
The Discussion Coding System (DCS): A valid and economical instrument to code interactions in organizationsThe Discussion Coding System (DCS) is a new and user-friendly instrument to code interaction processes in organizations in an economical manner. ...
Zusammenfassung. Foucaults Wiederbelebung der Lebenskunstthematik nährt sich aus einer alten Hoffnung, die Trennung von Kunst und Leben überwinden und sich dadurch aus habitualisierten Identitätsvorgaben lösen zu können. Das Leben als ein Kunstwerk zu ...
Nach Krug und Kuhl (2006) sollten die Motivprofile von Leistungssportlern eine Passung zu den Anforderungen der jeweiligen Sportart aufweisen. Diesen Annahmen zufolge sollten bei Leistungssporttreibenden insbesondere das Leistungs- und Machtmotiv dominant ...
The Expert-Novice Paradigm and the Crisis of Confidence in PsychologyAbstract. The goal of the present paper is to evaluate whether the crisis of confidence in psychology might also affect the field of sport psychology by focusing on the widely used ...
Abstract. The power PC theory of causal induction (Cheng, 1997) proposes that causal estimates are based on the power p of a potential cause, where p is the contingency between the cause and effect normalized by the base rate of the effect. Previous tests ...
It is well known that working memory is one of the most vulnerable cognitive functions in elderly. However, little is known about the neuronal underpinnings and temporal dynamics of working memory mechanisms in healthy aging which are necessary to ...
Abstract. The present research was aimed at providing a German version of the Personal Sense of Power Scale (GPSPS; Anderson et al., 2012) and testing its psychometric properties. A personal sense of power describes the perception of one’s ...
For the dependent-samples problem it is known that nonparametric tests such as the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test should be used instead of the paired t-test if the normality assumption is violated. The present study extends a family of tests for correlated ...
Abstract. There has been an increase of interest in psychometric models referred to as cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs). A critical concern is in selecting the most appropriate model at the item level. Several tests for model comparison ...
Abstract. When planning group-randomized studies probing mediation, effective and efficient sample allocation is governed by several parameters including treatment-mediator and mediator-outcome path coefficients and the mediator and ...
Abstract. Previous research has suggested that power undermines cooperation in social dilemmas. However, the story may not be so simple. Guided by recent findings that power heightens sensitivity to unfairness, we examined the moderating ...
After tuning messages to their audience’s attitude, communicators’ subsequent memories for the topic are often biased toward their audience-congruent messages. In the context of personnel assessment in an organization, we examined the role of audience ...