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Building strength for the long haul toward liberation: What psychology can contribute to the resilience of communities targeted by state‐sanctioned violence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 475-492, December 2022., 2022
Abstract State‐sanctioned violence (SSV) has resounding effects on entire populations, and marginalized communities have long persisted in the work toward liberation despite continued SSV. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the vast scholarship on resilience and the practical challenge of sustaining and thriving in communities targeted by SSV ...
Kris T. Gebhard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Invariants” in Koffka’s Theory of Constancies in Vision: Highlighting Their Logical Structure and Lasting Value

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2017
By introducing the concept of “invariants”, Koffka (1935) endowed perceptual psychology with a flexible theoretical tool, which is suitable for representing vision situations in which a definite part of the stimulus pattern is relevant but not sufficient
Burigana Luigi, Vicovaro Michele
doaj   +1 more source

Collective phenomena in crowds—Where pedestrian dynamics need social psychology [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
This article is on collective phenomena in pedestrian dynamics during the assembling and dispersal of gatherings. To date pedestrian dynamics have been primarily studied in the natural and engineering sciences.
A. Sieben, Jette Schumann, A. Seyfried
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Insights for Indigenous employment into a case study of unconscious bias in the Australian Public Service

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 898-919, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Drawing on a case study of unconscious bias levels in the Australian Public Service (APS), findings suggest gender equality remains a concern for career prospects for women, particularly for Indigenous women when two‐thirds of Indigenous employees in the APS are women.
Craig Leon
wiley   +1 more source

A toolbox and sample object perception data for equalization of natural images

open access: yesData in Brief, 2015
For psychologists and neuroscientists, careful selection of their stimuli is essential, so that low-level visual features such as color or spatial frequency do not serve as confounds between conditions of interest.
Wilma A. Bainbridge, Aude Oliva
doaj   +1 more source

Bayesian inference underlies the contraction bias in delayed comparison tasks. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Delayed comparison tasks are widely used in the study of working memory and perception in psychology and neuroscience. It has long been known, however, that decisions in these tasks are biased. When the two stimuli in a delayed comparison trial are small
Paymon Ashourian, Yonatan Loewenstein
doaj   +1 more source

A Mixed-Methods Approach Using Self-Report, Observational Time Series Data, and Content Analysis for Process Analysis of a Media Reception Phenomenon

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Due to the complexityof research objects, theoretical concepts, and stimuli in media research, researchers in psychology and communications presumably need sophisticated measures beyond self-report scales to answer research questions on media use ...
Michael Brill, Frank Schwab
doaj   +1 more source

Developing the Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): testing the stimulus features that influence embedding [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2017
Background The Embedded Figures Test (EFT, developed by Witkin and colleagues (1971)) has been used extensively in research on individual differences, particularly in the study of autism spectrum disorder.
Lee de-Wit   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The effects of coloring therapy on patients with generalized anxiety disorder

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 502-512, December 2022., 2022
After the intervention, there were statistical differences intra‐and‐inter group comparisons of anxiety, depression, and positive and negative mood scales in the experimental and control groups (p < .05). The minus in anxiety/positive emotions pre‐and‐post intervention in the experimental group was statistically significant compared to the minus in ...
Bosomtwe Samuel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of coal mine violation behavior based on SOR model

open access: yesMeikuang Anquan, 2023
Based on the violation records of a coal mine, this paper analyzes the causes and process of the violation behavior of coal mine personnel under the “stimulus-organism-response” model from the perspectives of violation month, violation shift, violation ...
LI Jing   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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