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Fluid intellingence and spatial reasoning as predictors of pilot training performance in the South African Air Force (SAAF)

open access: yesSA 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI): Construct, Predictive, and Incremental Validity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study of 410 adult male sex offenders against children, using data from the Dynamic Supervision Project (Hanson, Harris, Scott, & Helmus, 2007), examined the construct, predictive, and incremental validity of the Screening Scale for Pedophilic ...
Helmus, L.   +2 more
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Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it?

open access: yesThe 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]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yesJournal 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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Further evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Do implicit attitudes predict actual voting behavior particularly for undecided voters? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Incremental Skip-gram Model with Negative Sampling

open access: yes, 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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Exposure to workplace bullying: the incremental effect of gelotophobia beyond the big five

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
The role of Big Five personality traits in exposure to workplace bullying has been a focus of numerous studies. Yet less is known about the incremental validity of narrower personality constructs.
Filip Sulejmanov   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Explaining the Validity of the ASVAB for Job-Relevant Multitasking Performance: The Role of Placekeeping Ability

open access: yesJournal of Intelligence, 2023
Scores on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) predict military job (and training) performance better than any single variable so far identified. However, it remains unclear what factors explain this predictive relationship.
David Z. Hambrick   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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