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Layher, Evan; Dixit, Anjali; Miller, Michael B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Individuals should "strategically" shift decision criteria when there are disproportionate likelihoods or consequences for falsely identifying versus missing target items. Despite being explicitly aware of the advantages for criterion shifting, people on "average" do not shift extremely, leading many theories to conclude that…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Individual Differences
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Harder, Amy; Gouldthorpe, Jessica; Goodwin, Jeff – Journal of Extension, 2014
Understanding motivation and job satisfaction is important for increasing rates of employee retention within Extension. The purpose of the study reported here was to explore factors positively affecting the motivation of Extension professionals in their careers. An online survey of Extension professionals in Colorado was conducted. Factors such as…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, State Programs, Motivation
Kavanagh, Michael J. – 1989
Although the quest for better measurement of individual job performance has generated considerable empirical research in industrial and organizational psychology, the feeling persists that a good job is not really being done in measuring job performance. This research project investigated the effects of differences in both individual and systems…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Graduate Students, Higher Education