Journal of Articles in Support of the Hypothesis articles from September 2006

Journal of Articles in Support of the Hypothesis archives from September 2006

An experimental test of the discontinuity hypothesis: examining the effects of mortality salience on nostalgia.
September 1, 2006... The present study used the mortality salience paradigm to test experimentally the discontinuity hypothesis that nostalgia emerges in response to threats to the continuity of identity. Forty-seven university students were primed to think about...

G.I. average Joe: the clothes do not necessarily make the man.
September 1, 2006... There is substantial research to support that attire plays a critical role in worker employability as well as in perceived attractiveness. In a 2 X 2 between-subjects factorial design, 120 predominantly college-aged female students at two...

The influence of resource availability on preferences for human body weight and non-human objects.
September 1, 2006... It has been proposed that there may be a general psychological mechanism which interacts with resource availability to influence preferences for human body weight, which may also extend to non-human objects. To test this hypothesis, we first...