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V. N. Vimal Rao; Jeffrey K. Bye; Sashank Varma – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
The 0.05 boundary within Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing (NHST) "has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move" (to quote Douglas Adams). Here, we move past meta-scientific arguments and ask an empirical question: What is the psychological standing of the 0.05 boundary for statistical significance? We…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Statistical Analysis, Testing, Statistical Significance
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Ruba, Ashley L.; Johnson, Kristin M.; Harris, Lasana T.; Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore – Developmental Psychology, 2017
For decades, scholars have examined how children first recognize emotional facial expressions. This research has found that infants younger than 10 months can discriminate negative, within-valence facial expressions in looking time tasks, and children older than 24 months struggle to categorize these expressions in labeling and free-sort tasks.…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Psychological Patterns, Nonverbal Communication, Age Differences
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D'Errico, Francesca; Paciello, Marinella; De Carolis, Bernardina; Vattanid, Alessandro; Palestra, Giuseppe; Anzivino, Giuseppe – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
In times of growing importance and emphasis on improving academic outcomes for young people, their academic selves/lives are increasingly becoming more central to their understanding of their own wellbeing. How they experience and perceive their academic successes or failures, can influence their perceived self-efficacy and eventual academic…
Descriptors: Well Being, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes
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Mikami, Hitoshi; Leung, Chi Yui; Yoshikawa, Lisa – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
This study explores the internal structure of psychological attributes (i.e., motivation, belief and emotion) related to foreign language reading (FLR) (hereafter FLR attributes) and checks the utility of existing FLR attribute measurements for the specific learner group (i.e., Japanese university students studying English as their foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Student Motivation, Beliefs
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Bailey, MarLynn; Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Carr, Martha – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Previous studies have shown that several key variables influence student achievement in geometry, but no research has been conducted to determine how these variables interact. A model of achievement in geometry was tested on a sample of 102 high school students. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships among…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Geometry, High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics
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Mashak, Shahrzad Pirzad; Pazhakh, Abdolreza; Hayati, Abdolmajid – International Education Studies, 2012
Metaphor becomes the subject of interest for many researchers in recent decades. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the universality of emotion metaphorical conceptualization and the dominant pattern in English and Persian based on Kovecses's (2003) model for Linguistic expression of Metaphor. The emotions under study were…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, English, Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis
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Chan, David W. – Roeper Review, 2012
This study used clustering to classify Chinese gifted students based on their scores on the High Standards and Discrepancy subscales of the Almost Perfect Scale--Revised (APS-R). The interpretation of the three clusters as nonperfectionists, unhealthy perfectionists, and healthy perfectionists was supported by results comparing these groups on…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction
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Grossman, Ruth B.; Kegl, Judy – Sign Language Studies, 2006
American Sign Language uses the face to express vital components of grammar in addition to the more universal expressions of emotion. The study of ASL facial expressions has focused mostly on the perception and categorization of various expression types by signing and nonsigning subjects. Only a few studies of the production of ASL facial…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Grammar, Classification
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Dettman, Shani J.; Fiket, Hayley; Dowell, Richard C.; Charlton, Margaret; Williams, Sarah S.; Tomov, Alexandra M.; Barker, Elizabeth J. – Volta Review, 2004
Speech perception outcomes in young children with cochlear implants are affected by a number of variables including the age of implantation, duration of implantation, mode of communication, and the presence of a developmental delay or additional disability. The aim of this study is to examine the association between degree of developmental delay…
Descriptors: Perception Tests, Young Children, Auditory Perception, Classification