Current Psychology articles from December 1999

Current Psychology archives from December 1999

Optimism, Pessimism, and False Failure Feedback: Effects on Vigilance Performance.
December 22, 1999... Following the logic of a prior experiment (Seligman et al., 1990) with varsity collegiate swimmers, sixty student volunteers performed a brief, but highly stressful vigilance task. Half were then given false feedback indicating poor...

Collective Self-Esteem, Personal Self-Esteem, and Collective Efficacy in In-group and Outgroup Evaluations.
December 22, 1999... In assessing the relationship between self-esteem and in-group/outgroup evaluations, this study examined whether self-esteem is better measured at a collective (collective self-esteem [CSE]) than a personal level (personal self-esteem [PSE])....

Social Comparison, Individualism-Collectivism, and Self-Esteem in China and the United States.
December 22, 1999... Possible differences in social comparison choices between individualistic and collectivistic cultures and individuals were explored among a sample of 235 student participants from the United States and China, focusing on self-esteem as a...

Correlates of Body Satisfaction and Self-Concept in Third- and Sixth-Graders.
December 22, 1999... The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between body satisfaction and self-concept in elementary school children. Participants were twenty-three boys and twenty-eight girls from the third and sixth grades of a...

Escalation in Groups: Focus on Information Sampling.
December 22, 1999... The purpose of this experiment was to examine if groups escalate more than individuals when information is not distributed to all group members. The experiment also attempted to replicate Bazerman, Beekun, and Schoorman's (1992) findings,...

Testing the Buffering Hypothesis: Perceptions of Coach Support and Pre-Competitive Anxiety Among Male and Female High School Athletes.
December 22, 1999... Research suggests that social support moderates or "buffers" the impact of stress on the individual and thus indirectly affects emotional well-being (Cohen and Wills, 1985). The present study sought to extend the "buffering hypothesis" to...