Summary: The repeated presentation of an irrelevant stimulus, one which does not aim at eliciting a specific response, impedes the development of associations with respect to this stimulus. This phenomenon is known as latent inhibition (LI). Over the last ...

Summary: Since , the construct validity of assessment centers has often been called in question. Several multitrait-multimethod analyses showed that convergent and discriminant ...

Summary: argues that in postmodern age individuals are increasingly exposed to an enormous range of social relationships. As a result they approach a state of social saturation characterized by the population of self with multiple ...

Summary: The objective of this study is to test an aspect of the hypothesis claiming the inverted u-shaped function between activation and performance. Two assumptions are made: 1) There is a close relationship between variation in current activation and ...

Summary: Object of the study is a neuropsychological theory for the tower of Hanoi (TvH based on the concept of the working memory and the behavioral use of context information. The behavioral disorder (in the sense of rule breaking) occurring after ...

Summary: 128 occupationally independent and dependent men and women were tested with respect to dispositional variables of entrepreneurship. It was found that occupationally independent persons scored higher on need of achievement, internal locus of ...