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Somerville, Leah H.; Jones, Rebecca M.; Casey, B. J. – Brain and Cognition, 2010
Adolescence is a developmental period that entails substantial changes in affective and incentive-seeking behavior relative to both childhood and adulthood, including a heightened propensity to engage in risky behaviors and experience persistent negative and labile mood states. This review discusses the emotional and incentive-driven behavioral…
Descriptors: Cues, Adolescent Development, Social Environment, Affective Behavior
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Bell, Kenneth E.; Limber, John E. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
We surveyed students enrolled in Introductory Psychology courses about their text marking preferences and analyzed the marking in their textbooks. Low-skill readers report more reliance on highlighting strategies and actually mark their texts more than better readers. In addition, low-skilled readers prefer to buy used, previously marked texts…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Textbooks, Psychology, Reading Skills
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Vrij, Aldert; Akehurst, Lucy; Soukara, Stavroula; Bull, Ray – Human Communication Research, 2004
This experiment examined children's and undergraduates' verbal and nonverbal deceptive behavior, and the extent to which their truths and lies could be correctly classified by paying attention to these responses. Participants (N = 196) aged 5-6, 10-11, and 14-15, as well as university undergraduates, participated in an erasing the blackboard…
Descriptors: Cues, Content Analysis, Nonverbal Communication, Deception