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First-generation Students’ Underperformance at University: The Impact of the Function of Selection

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
According to recent research, university not only has the role to educate and train students, it also has the role to select the best students. We argue that this function of selection disadvantages first-generation students, in comparison with ...
Mickaël eJury, Annique eSmeding, Céline eDarnon, Céline eDarnon   +3 more
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The dynamics of reading complex words: evidence from steady-state visual evoked potentials

Scientific Reports, 2021
The present study used steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) to examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of reading morphologically complex words and test the neurophysiological activation pattern elicited by stems and suffixes.
Elisabeth Beyersmann, Veronica Montani, Johannes C. Ziegler, Jonathan Grainger, Ivilin Peev Stoianov   +4 more
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Quels psychologues ? Une profession imaginée d'une génération à l'autre [PDF]

, 2013
International audienceDepuis les années 2000 la question du prolongement de l'adolescence et de l'entrée dans la vie adulte fait l'objet d'études dans les sciences sociales, notamment dans la perspective Emerging Adulthood (Arnett, 2000; Selleri ...
Selleri, Patrizia
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Test anxiety, working memory, and cognitive performance: Supportive effects of sequential demands [PDF]

, 2001
Substantial evidence suggests that test anxiety is associated with poor performance in complex tasks. Based on the differentiation of coordinative and sequential demands on working memory (Mayr & Kliegl, 1993), two studies examined the effects of ...
Atkinson R. C., Baddeley A., Dutke S., Hodapp V., Hodapp V., Joachim Stöber, Klockars A. J., Mueller J. H., Stephan Dutke, Zeidner M.   +9 more
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The relation of spatial skills, spatial memory span, and two anxiety types with statistics anxiety in European and North American University students

British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background & Aims The present two studies investigated the role of spatial cognition in statistics anxiety. The hypothesis that spatial representations and/or visuospatial skills are related to the acquisition of statistics abilities which, when lacking or unused, generate statistics anxiety is examined.
Rose‐Marie Gibeau, Sébastien Béland, Erin A. Maloney, Michael Cantinotti, Lucile Chanquoy, Daniel Lalande, Jessica Simon, Charlotte Paulis, Gaën Plancher, Marie‐Aude Boislard, Denis Cousineau   +10 more
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Importance of considering interoceptive abilities in alexithymia assessment [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Recent studies have shown that people with high alexithymia scores have decreased interoceptive abilities, which can be associated with psychological and physical disorders. Early assessments of the alexithymia trait included the evaluation of
Alicia Fournier, Olivier Luminet, Michael Dambrun, Frédéric Dutheil, Sonia Pellissier, Laurie Mondillon   +5 more
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Studying the emergence of a new social representation: Changes in thinking about nanotechnologies in early 21st-century Italy [PDF]

, 2018
We investigated the emergence of a new social representation (SR) of a techno\u2010scientific innovation\u2014nanotechnologies\u2014among the Italian public. We reviewed how nanotechnologies entered parliamentary debates and the media agenda in the early
Brondi, Sonia, Neresini, Federico
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Serial dependence in time perception requires consistent motor responses, not shared memory alone

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Serial dependence—the bias from recent experience on present response—has been attributed to shared memory representations, yet previous studies yielded contradictory findings about whether consistent motor responses are required. To address this debate in time perception, we tested whether serial dependence emerges when tasks share identical ...
Jiao Wu, Halid Oğuz Serçe, Zhuanghua Shi   +2 more
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Schooling, Citizen-Making, and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in France

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2015
Are schools an effective institution to build citizenship and to transmit values associated with a given citizenship regime? A survey of 300 middle and high school pupils showed that for pupils, the representation of the French citizenship model is ...
Elodie Roebroeck, Serge Guimond
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Students' drafting strategies and text quality [PDF]

, 1996
The study reports an analysis of the drafts produced by two groups of students during an exam. Drafts were categorized as a function of some of their graphic features (e.g.
Piolat, A, Roussey, JY
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