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Carlos J. Desme; Anthony S. Dick; Timothy B. Hayes; Shannon M. Pruden – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Spatial ability is defined as a cognitive or intellectual skill used to represent, transform, generate, and recall information of an object or the environment. Individual differences across spatial tasks have been strongly linked to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) interest and success. Several variables have been proposed…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Individual Differences, Affective Behavior, Self Esteem
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Luke D. Vaartstra; Trevor Taone; Amy Mezulis – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objectives: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) risk in young adults is impacted by both affective and cognitive responses to stress. While previous research shows affective reactivity (AR) increases risk for NSSI, less research has examined the role of cognitive reactivity (CR). The current study examined how individual differences in CR to stress…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Injuries, Young Adults, Stress Variables
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Brose, Annette; Rueschkamp, Johanna M. Grosse; Kuppens, Peter; Gerstorf, Denis; Schmiedek, Florian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
It has been debated whether working memory (WM) performance is modulated by the valence of the stimuli that are being processed. A recent meta-analysis revealed that at the behavioral level and in individuals without mental health problems, mean-level performance differences in WM tasks with neutral versus affective conditions are small to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Short Term Memory, Psychological Patterns, Psychometrics
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Chung, Andrew; Busseri, Michael A.; Arnell, Karen M. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Several studies have investigated the effect of induced mood state on conceptual breadth (breadth and flexibility of thought). Early studies concluded that inducing a positive mood state broadened cognition, while inducing a negative mood state narrowed cognition. However, recent reports have suggested that valence and arousal can each influence…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Psychological Patterns, Psychological Characteristics, Affective Behavior
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Chesebrough, Christine; Chrysikou, Evangelia G.; Holyoak, Keith J.; Zhang, Fengqing; Kounios, John – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
An underexplored aspect of the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity is its phenomenology; in particular, the notion that analogical reasoning is related to insight and its associated "aha!" experience. However, the relationship between these phenomena has never been directly investigated. We adapted a set of verbal…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Figurative Language, Concept Formation
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Sukying, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Language learning strategies (LLS) are conscious behaviours used by language learners to foster the acquisition, storage, and use of new information. This study investigated the LLS used by Thai EFL university students using a questionnaire based on Oxford's (1990) LLS taxonomy. It also identified the relationship and the difference in LLS use…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hongying Peng; Sake Jager; Wander Lowie – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Digital storytelling (DS) has increasingly been incorporated as a pedagogical tool to engage EFL learners for active language learning. However, little is known about how EFL learners make self-initiated use of multifarious resources available to them for engaging in the DS practice behaviourally, cognitively, affectively and socially. This…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Garrido, Margarida V.; Prada, Marília – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Extant research has compared the processing of affectively laden words between L1 and L2. However, most studies used verbal stimuli that were validated for a single language or for both languages but using independent samples. We systematically compared ratings of valence, emotional intensity and subjective familiarity of negative, neutral,…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Portuguese
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Kurtz, Jaime L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
All students, from college freshmen to advanced graduate students, have asked themselves, "Will this decision make me happy?" The vast majority of them have been wrong. Affective forecasting, the process of predicting future feelings, is a topic of great interest to students due to its applicable and highly relatable nature. This article…
Descriptors: Prediction, Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Error of Measurement
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Lambert, Craig; Philp, Jenefer; Nakamura, Sachiko – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study investigates the benefits of designing second language (L2) learning tasks to operate on learner-generated content (related to actual content in their lives and experiences) as opposed to teacher-generated content typical of current approaches to L2 task design (fictitious ideas and events created to provide an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
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Goodboy, Alan K.; Bolkan, San; Baker, James P. – Communication Education, 2018
Guided by assumptions from the cognitive-affective theory of learning with media, we conducted a teaching experiment to corroborate past correlational research that suggested instructor misbehaviors, in the form of antagonism toward students, impede students' cognitive learning. Participants were 472 undergraduate students who were randomly…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
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Sundararajan, Malavika; Sundararajan, Binod; Manderson, Jill – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors tested the dynamics of collective action tendencies of student teams when trying to accomplish a shared goal, with a focus on the impact of member ties and team member interaction and emotional responses on team performance. The results show the direct and indirect impacts of both positive and negative group emotions on the student…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Group Dynamics, Group Activities, Emotional Experience
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Alarcon, Gene M.; Edwards, Jean M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
The current study explored individual differences in ability and motivation factors of retention in first-year college students. We used discrete-time survival mixture analysis to model university retention. Parents' education, gender, American College Test (ACT) scores, conscientiousness, and trait affectivity were explored as predictors of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Academic Persistence, Individual Differences
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Ackerman, Phillip L.; Kanfer, Ruth; Beier, Margaret E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Prediction of academic success at postsecondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, especially of 1st-year college grades, yet a large amount of individual-differences variance remains unaccounted for.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Educational Psychology
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Rankin, Lela A.; Maggs, Jennifer L. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
Based on 10 weekly telephone interviews with first-year college students (N=202; 63% women; M=18.8 years, SD=0.4), within- and between-person associations of positive and negative affect with alcohol use were examined. Multi-level models confirmed hypothesized within-person associations between weekly positive affect and alcohol use: Higher…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Drinking, Interviews, Individual Differences
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