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Influence of Stimulus Discriminability on Psychological Refractory Period Effect

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
10 undergraduate students were tested in a psychological refractory period paradigm. Stimulus 1 was a visual discrimination task (same-different) and S2 was a 1,000-Hz tone. Discriminability of S1 and ISI were varied. Ss always had to respond to S2, but to S1 only when it was “same.” Discriminability of S1 was found to affect R2, irrespective of ...
F J, Tolkmitt, G P, O'Connor
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Discriminating Violent Individuals by Means of Various Psychological Tests

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1978
Attempted to clarify the 43/4-8(8-4) controversy and further research the relationship between assaultiveness and other non-MMPI measures. Sixty-one male adolescent prisoners divided into four groups according to Race and Level of Assaultiveness served as subjects for this study.
L M, Lothstein, P, Jones
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THE DISCRIMINATION METHOD IN ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Nature, 1942
THE fact that an animal is able to discriminate between two stimuli is the foundation of a method used extensively in animal psychology. It is, however, open to various sources of error. While looking through a number of papers dealing with this method I found that some of these possible pitfalls are often not sufficiently realized.
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A tandem random walk model for psychological discrimination

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 1981
A random walk model for decision making in psychological discrimination tasks is described which provides a satisfactory account of the observed non‐stationarity of the representation of stimulus information. The model successfully predicts the relationship between RT and response proportion in a temporal order judgement task performed under ...
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Prejudice and discrimination within the school psychology profession: Survey results from the committee on prejudice and discrimination, Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association

Journal of School Psychology, 1981
Abstract The committee on prejudice and discrimination, Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association, conducted a survey in order to determine whether school psychologists have (a) experienced any prejudice and/or discrimination with respect to ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation in salary schedule (in primary ...
Judith L. Alpert, Judith Kaufman, Gloria Behar Gottsegen   +2 more
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What Gender Discrimination? Psychological and Sociocultural Barriers

2019
AbstractChapter 2 examines the barriers that often prevent women from taking even the first step of initiating a domestic court case on discrimination. This chapter investigates the domestic psychological, cultural, and material obstacles to gender discrimination cases in the Russian court system.
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Valerie Sperling, Melike Sayoglu   +2 more
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The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination

2009
An updated and condensed version of the landmark work on the psychological impact of prejudice and discrimination. Spanning four volumes, the first edition of The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provided a much-needed cornerstone work on one of the most crucial issues in the United States today.
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Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics

2006
Discrimination's dynamic nature means that no single theory, method, data or study should be relied upon to assess its magnitude, causes, or remedies. Despite some gains in our understanding, these remain active areas of debate among researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Lisa R. Anderson, Roland G. Fryer, Charles A. Holt   +2 more
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Psychology, discrimination and hate groups online

2012
The proliferation of online hate groups over the past few years has brought two main issues into focus. First, legal and political scholars have questioned the extent to which such hate speech should be regulated. Second, and perhaps more importantly, there is a great deal of concern about the effects of hate expressed online – specifically, if it ...
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Discrimination Exposure, Neural Reactivity to Stress, and Psychological Distress

American Journal of Psychiatry
Discrimination exposure has a detrimental impact on mental health, increasing the risk of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. The impact discrimination exposure has on mental health is likely mediated by neural processes associated with emotion expression and regulation.
Devon K, Grey, Juliann B, Purcell, Kristen N, Buford, Mark A, Schuster, Marc N, Elliott, Susan Tortolero, Emery, Sylvie, Mrug, David C, Knight   +7 more
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