The Family Life Scale (FLS), which includes the dimensions of Cohesion, Adaptability, Communication and Satisfaction, and two measures of emotion were applied to a German-speaking sample of adolescents and their parents in Switzerland. The main goal of ...

A probabilistic model of opinion change (PCD model, ) was applied to analyze the opinion formation process in five-person group discussions concerning intellective tasks. Control groups performed conventional face-to-face ...

This study investigated whether forgetting of dream material is due to repression. Under this assumption, free associations starting from forgotten elements are expected to encounter successively growing resistance. In Experiment 1, 25 participants ...

This study investigated the effect of regularity in environmental structure on wayfinding behavior and spatial knowledge. A total of 60 participants (7- to 8-year-olds, 11- to12-year-olds, and adults) performed self-determined movements in a desktop ...

Various studies have shown that problem solving which requires some kind of transfer can be improved subsequent to knowledge acquisition in pairs (cf. ). It has been observed that positive mood may also lead to increased cognitive ...