SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2009 Pilot selection is a form of high-stakes selection due to the massive costs of training, high trainee ability requirements and costly repercussions of poor selection decisions.
François de Kock, Anton Schlechter
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Further evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II [PDF]
, 2012 The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire–II (AAQ-II) is a self-report measure designed to assess experiential avoidance as conceptualized in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The current study is the first to evaluate the psychometric properties of
Bohlmeijer, Ernst T. +3 more
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The Role of Personality in Predicting Drug and Alcohol Use Among Sexual Minorities [PDF]
, 2015 Research consistently demonstrates that sexual minority status is associated with increased risk of problematic substance use. Existing literature in this area has focused on group-specific minority stress factors (e.g., victimization and internalized ...
Cochran, Bryan N. +3 more
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The Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory–English (MPCI-E): Reliability, validity, and relationships with positive and negative affect [PDF]
, 2010 The Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (MPCI; Kobori & Tanno, 2004) is a promising new instrument developed in Japan to assess perfectionism cognitions regarding personal standards, pursuit of perfection, and concern over mistakes.
Kobori, Osamu +2 more
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Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 The Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) by Martin et al. (2003) measures four humour styles, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating.
Willibald Friedrich Ruch, Sonja Heintz
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Understanding obsessive-compulsive personality disorder in adolescence: a dimensional personality perspective [PDF]
, 2010 The validity of the Axis II Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) category and its position within the Cluster C personality disorder (PDs) section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV, APA, 2000) continues to ...
Aelterman, Nathalie +2 more
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Incremental validation of NCL hypermedia documents [PDF]
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2013 Abstract This paper proposes an incremental, structural and contextual validation method for Nested Context Language (NCL) documents. As part of the proposed method, we define a declarative metalanguage to ensure low coupling between NCL structure and the validator code, which simplifies the validation of new language profiles.
Santos, Rodrigo Costa Mesquita +3 more
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Robust degradation and enhancement of robot mission behaviour in unpredictable environments [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 ACM.Temporal logic based approaches that automatically generate controllers have been shown to be useful for mission level planning of motion, surveillance and navigation, among others.
Braberman, V +3 more
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Do implicit attitudes predict actual voting behavior particularly for undecided voters? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The prediction of voting behavior of undecided voters poses a challenge to psychologists and pollsters. Recently, researchers argued that implicit attitudes would predict voting behavior particularly for undecided voters whereas explicit attitudes would ...
Malte Friese +4 more
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Incremental Skip-gram Model with Negative Sampling
, 2017 This paper explores an incremental training strategy for the skip-gram model with negative sampling (SGNS) from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.
Kaji, Nobuhiro, Kobayashi, Hayato
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