Current Psychology articles from September 1999

Current Psychology archives from September 1999

Spatial and Relational Frameworks for Free Recall in Young and Older Adults.
September 22, 1999... Previous studies have demonstrated that older adults can use visually distinctive cues to enhance their spatial memory performance and their recall of the identities of items located in space. Other research has shown that older adults can also...

Relational Frameworks for Recall in Young and Older Adults.
September 22, 1999... Recent research indicates the presence of an age-related visual processing deficit, for which the elderly may attempt to compensate through the use of relational information. This hypothesis was tested, using the category superiority effect as...

Alcohol Consumption, Drinking Patterns, and Alcohol Problems among Managerial versus Non-Managerial Women and Men.
September 22, 1999... In the present study, we examined alcohol consumption and alcohol problems between managerial and nonmanagerial men and women. We also examined alcohol problems as a function of drinking context (i.e., when they drink and with whom they drink)...

Ethno-Culture, Anxiety, and Irrational Beliefs.
September 22, 1999... Ellis, Beck, and others in the cognitive therapy tradition maintain that there is a strong correlation between irrational beliefs and nonpsychotic mental health problems such as anxiety. Numerous studies have found that irrational beliefs are...

Use of the Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic by Children.
September 22, 1999... Two studies are discussed in which children's use of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic was considered. Study one is a modification of the classic multiplication task devised by Kahneman and Tversky (1974). Results indicate that children in...

Counter-Stereotypical Impulsivity and Violence Among African American College Men.
September 22, 1999... The study examined the relationship between impulse control and violence in terms of past feelings and acts among African American males enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Data were gathered from a sample of 1,874 male...