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Jeffrey A. Greene; Christina Hollander-Blackmon; Eric A. Kirk; Victor M. Deekens – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
More and more, people are abandoning the active pursuit of news, assuming instead that important information will be pushed to them via their social media networks. This approach to news makes people susceptible to the vast amounts of misinformation online, yet research on the effects of this kind of engagement is mixed. More research is needed on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Decision Making
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Lickel, Athena; MacLean, William E., Jr.; Blakeley-Smith, Audrey; Hepburn, Susan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The purpose of this study was to assess the cognitive skills of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) thought to be necessary for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Forty children with ASD and forty age-matched typically developing children between the ages of 7-12 years participated. Groups were comparable with regard to nonverbal IQ,…
Descriptors: Autism, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Restructuring, Therapy
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Raval, Vaishali V.; Martini, Tanya S.; Raval, Pratiksha H. – Social Development, 2010
Although cross-cultural research concerning children's emotions is growing, few studies have examined emotion dysregulation in culturally diverse populations. This study compared 6- to 8-year-old children's reported methods of expressing and controlling anger, sadness, and physical pain, and their justifications for doing so across four groups in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Cues, Pain, Foreign Countries
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Harty, Seth C.; Miller, Carlin J.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Halperin, Jeffrey M. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
This study examined the self-reported expression of overt aggressive behaviors and covert emotional and cognitive processes in adolescents diagnosed with ADHD and comorbid disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) during childhood. Methods: Participants were a clinically referred sample of 85 individuals diagnosed with ADHD, initially recruited in the…
Descriptors: Aggression, Hyperactivity, Behavior Disorders, Identification
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Dagnan, Dave; Weston, Clive – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: This study examines the relationship between the topography of challenging behaviour, subsequent attributions and emotional responses, with whether carers use physical intervention and their satisfaction with their intervention. Method: Thirty-seven carers described incidents where a person with an intellectual disability had exhibited…
Descriptors: Topography, Intervention, Aggression, Mental Retardation
Worchel, Stephen; Arnold, Susan E. – 1971
This research studies the effects of censoring a communication, overriding the censor, and the attractiveness of the censor on the potential audience's attitude and desire to hear the communication. The subjects, 144 undergraduate psychology students, were told that a speech which they were to have heard had been censored by a positively,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Censorship, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Rich, John Martin – Educational Theory, 1977
This article discusses the importance of emotions in human life and how emotions can be brought under rational assessment and evaluated in relation to worthwhile educational goals. (JD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development