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In a Year, Memory Will Benefit from Learning, Tomorrow It Won't: Distance and Construal Level Effects on the Basis of Metamemory Judgments
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Halamish, Vered; Nussinson, Ravit; Ben-Ari, Liat – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Metamemory judgments may rely on 2 bases of information: subjective experience and abstract theories about memory. On the basis of construal level theory, we predicted that psychological distance and construal level (i.e., concrete vs. abstract thinking) would have a qualitative impact on the relative reliance on these 2 bases: When considering…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Prediction, Proximity
Clubs and the Campus Racial Climate: Student Organizations and Interracial Friendship in College
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Park, Julie J. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Freshmen to examine the racial/ ethnic composition of student organizations as well as the relationship between student organization participation and close interracial friendship. White students were the most likely to be in majority White environments in fraternities and sororities,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Fraternities, Sororities, Racial Composition