Current Psychology articles from March 1999

Current Psychology archives from March 1999

Assessing the State of Organizational Safety--Culture or Climate?
March 22, 1999... This article explores the concepts of safety culture and safety climate in an attempt to determine which is the more useful for describing an organization's "state of safety." From a review of the literature purporting to measure safety culture...

Why Did It Happen to Me? Social Cognition Processes in Adjustment and Recovery from Criminal Victimisation and Illness.
March 22, 1999... This article reviews the theoretical framework and empirical evidence for the hypothesised relationship between self-blame attributions and psychological adjustment. In doing so, an argument is presented that poses an alternative interpretation...

What's in a Name, What's in a Place? The Role of Verbal Labels in Distinct Cognitive Tasks.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... The effects of congruent and incongruent labelling on two simple cognitive tasks, sequence learning and place learning, were investigated. The results of both studies indicate the greater cognitive importance of information derived from the...

On Disregarding Deviants: Exemplar Typicality and Person Perception.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... A pervasive problem in mental life is that of exemplar selectivity or how one isolates specific category members from other instances of a class. This problem is particularly pronounced in person perception, where perceivers may routinely want...

John W. Shepherd.(psychologist)
March 22, 1999... The reasons for dedicating this collection of papers to John Shepherd are that not only has he made significant contributions to the research themes of People, Paradigms, and Psychology, but he has influenced and guided so many others in their...

Mood in Chronic Disease: Questioning the Answers.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... The main research questions concerning mood and chronic disease are about the extent, sources, and consequences of emotional distress. Answers to these questions are informative both to psychological theory and to the design of interventions...

The Emotional Impact of Faces (But Not Names): Face Specific Changes in Skin Conductance Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar People.
March 22, 1999... Skin Conductance Responses (SCRs) to familiar and unfamiliar names and faces were recorded from independent groups of subjects, using two different presentation designs: the first employing fewer familiar than unfamiliar items (Tranel, Fowles,...

Average Faces Are Average Faces.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... Photographs of faces of young adult male and female Scots were measured on nineteen frontal dimensions. Measures in each dimension were converted to z-scores and summed for each face. For each sex, the ten faces closest to the average summed...

Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgements of Attractiveness.
March 22, 1999... Anecdotally, spouses are often said to resemble one another. This study investigates the effects of similarity between participants and stimuli on judgements of facial attractiveness: does "like prefer like"? Using computer graphic techniques,...

One Extreme or the Other or Perhaps the Golden Mean? Issues of Spatial Resolution in Face Processing.
March 22, 1999... The findings of some of the key studies that have examined the contribution of different bands of spatial information, specified in terms of cycles per face, to face recognition, and identification are reviewed. Based on findings from studies...

The Impact of Character Attribution on Composite Production: A Real World Effect?(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... Facial memory draws upon both veridical detail and beliefs based upon prior knowledge and stereotypes. Shepherd, Ellis, McMurran, and Davies (1978) demonstrated that subjects' perception and subsequent reconstruction of a face using the...

Repetition Priming of Face Gender Judgments: An Instance Based Explanation.
March 22, 1999... Earlier studies of repetition priming using faces have been interpreted as indicating that such effects are confined to the processing of known faces. The experiment reported here employed eight rather than the more usual two presentation...