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Relationship between face recognition ability and anxiety tendencies in healthy young individuals: A prosopagnosia index and state-trait anxiety inventory study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Yuka Oishi, Kaede Aruga, Kohei Kurita
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a condition that indicates the inability to recognize individuals by their faces from birth, without any history of brain damage. The assessment of face recognition ability and diagnosis of DP involve the use of face tests such as the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) and the Cambridge Face Perception Test, along with self-reported measures like the 20-Item Prosopagnosia
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Development and validation of the SAFE (Socially Ascribed intersectional identities For Equity) questionnaire Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Eun-Young Lee, Lee Airton, Eun Jung, Heejun Lim, Amy Latimer-Cheung, Courtney Szto, Mary Louise Adams, Guy Faulkner, Leah Ferguson, Danielle Peers, Susan Phillips, Kyoung June Yi
Traditional questionnaires do not capture the complexity of how people are viewed by others and grouped into categories on the basis of what is inferred (or not) about them. This is critical in applying an intersectionality framework in research because people are negatively impacted because of “who they are” but also based on “how others see them.” The purpose of this project was to develop and validate
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Driving employee organizational citizenship behaviour through CSR: An empirical study in the context of luxury hotels Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 George Thomas, Norah Ali Albishri
In the recent years, there has been a rising interest among luxury brands to be environmentally responsible and promote employee discretionary behaviour. However, the underlying mechanisms that explain why, when, and how employees demonstrate discretionary environmental attitudes and behaviour in luxury contexts are not well-known. To accelerate this discourse; the current study examines the impact
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Variable, sometimes absent, but never negative: Applying multilevel models of variability to the backward crosstalk effect to find theoretical constraints Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Christoph Naefgen, Robert Gaschler
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Unpacking the mediating role of classroom interaction between student satisfaction and perceived online learning among Chinese EFL tertiary learners in the new normal of post-COVID-19 Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Jie Lin, Yongliang Wang
Online learning has become increasingly prevalent in the era of digitalization, impacted by both internet penetration and the COVID-19 pandemic. Classroom interaction, as a key factor in evaluating students' learning experience in online settings, has been identified to be associated with their academic achievement. While previous research has underscored the significance of classroom interaction in
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Awe and time perception Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Sylvie Droit-Volet, Michaël Dambrun, Florie Monier
The aim of this study was to systematically examine the effect of awe-inducing stimuli on the judgment of time. Three experiments were conducted using temporal bisection tasks in which participants viewed awe-inducing and no awe-inducing images presented for different durations and were asked to judge whether their duration was similar to a short or long anchor duration. Images of panoramic landscapes
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Modeling the role of rapport and classroom climate in EMI students' classroom engagement Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Manman Li
With the globalization of education, an increasing number of studies have been carried out in the English as a medium of instruction (EMI) classes. However, as the review of earlier studies revealed, most of the studies have exclusively focused on the challenges and opportunities of this mode of instruction. That is, few investigations have examined students' classroom behaviors and their determinants
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Do STEM women feel ethically and emotionally better prepared for their careers than men? Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sherry Bawa, Subramaniam Ananthram, Dawn Bennett, Subhadarsini Parida
Despite a growing imperative for graduates to possess STEM skills, both to boost their employability prospects and their perceived economic value, it is critical to also consider the professional or ‘soft skills’ that will enable these graduates to thrive in their careers. Ironically, gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger, not smaller, in more gender-equal countries.
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English as a foreign language teachers' burnout: The predicator powers of self-efficacy and well-being Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Shangyong An, Sha Tao
Educators have recently garnered significant focus for the crucial role they play, particularly concerning their emotions. These emotions have the potential to either boost their progress in their profession or hinder their progress, like burnout which may trigger or intensify poor mental health and quit the job. Burnout arises from the intermittent occurrence of emotional distress among English as
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Correlates of the Dark Tetrad Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Adrian Furnham, Stephen Cuppello
This study explored demographic, ideological, self-rating and personality traits correlates of the Dark Tetrad (DT4) which measures Narcissism (Special), Machiavellianism (Crafty), Psychopathy (Wild), and Sadism (Mean) traits. In total, 447 adults completed three tests: a bright-side, work-related, personality test (HPTI: High Performance Type Indicator), a dark-side test (Short Dark Tetrad) and a
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Personality dimensions, resilience, and depression during COVID-19 pandemic: A one-year longitudinal study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Igor Londero, Neusa Sica da Rocha
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a significant surge in depression across diverse populations. While a considerable body of research has linked this upswing to lockdowns and restrictive measures, it is crucial to recognize that lockdowns alone cannot fully elucidate the observed increase in mental health disorders, given the vast array of individual psychological responses. This
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Emotional wellbeing in teachers Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Carlos Salavera, Eva Urbón
Wellbeing is determined by happiness and both positive and negative affects. These constructs are, in turn, related to emotional intelligence and play an important role in individual behaviour. This study examined the relationship between happiness, emotional intelligence, and positive and negative affects in a sample of 344 (121 men 35.17 % and 223 women 64.83 %) trainee teachers, with an average
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Motivation, work experience, and teacher performance: A comparative study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Debika Layek, Navin Kumar Koodamara
This research study investigates the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on employee performance, with a specific focus on the moderating role of employees' work experience. This investigation utilizes a proposed framework, focusing on higher educational institutions in West Bengal, India. It contributes to the human resource management field by comparing teacher performance in private and
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Preparation and persistence of deploying attention to locations or stimulus structures: Evidence from intermixed probe trials Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Svantje T. Kähler, Mike Wendt, Imke M. Dühnen, Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez, Thomas Jacobsen
Attention can be directed to the global or local level of a visual stimulus (i.e., Navon figure). Previous studies yielded reliable trial-to-trial level switch costs (i.e., worse performance when responding to the other level than on a previous trial), even though level cueing effects indicated anticipatory deployment of attention to the upcoming target level. To investigate the interplay of attentional
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The mediating role of workplace spirituality: Exploring the relationship between, self-transcendence, spiritual transcendence, and innovative work behavior Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Raghavendra Sode, Kalaa Chenji
This study aims to investigate the intricate interplay between self-transcendence, spiritual transcendence, innovative work behavior, and the mediating role of workplace spirituality. Utilizing structural equation modeling, it examines the associations among these variables. Mediation analysis explores the extent to which workplace spirituality mediates these relationships. The findings reveal positive
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Emotion regulation and well-being as factors contributing to lessening burnout among Chinese EFL teachers Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Yuxia Ma, Zengqiang Liu
Teachers have come under significant scrutiny due to their pivotal role in educational context and lately, the study of emotion-connected aspects in teachers' education domain has got much attention and experts in this domain proved that emotion is at the center of teaching subjects. Also as teaching is an emotionally challenging occupation, it often results in high levels of stress and consequently
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Determinants of consumer adoption of multilingual self-service ordering systems in fast food restaurants Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Luming Wang, Yin Cui, Jie Sun, Jingyun Liu, Dewen Wei, Chao Gu
Due to the increasing number of international exchanges, foreign users have gradually become a significant consumer segment. Many of them are not proficient in the local language. Providing them with native language services will be an important trend, both from a business and a humanistic perspective. The purpose of this study is to investigate the fast-food restaurant ordering system that can provide
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Stimulus-elicited involuntary autobiographical memories Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Latoya Wright-Wilson, Tala Elsabbagh, Ezequiel Morsella
The reflexive imagery task (RIT) has been used to investigate stimulus-elicited involuntary mental processes. The task has been successful in eliciting involuntary perceptual experiences, urges, and even higher-order cognitions, but it has never been used to elicit autobiographical memories, even though in everyday life these memories are often activated involuntarily by external stimuli. These memories
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Multiple trauma exposure and psychopathology in Syrian refugees living in Turkey: A latent class analysis Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Caitlyn Rawers, Enya Redican, Emre Han Alpay, Eoin McElroy, Mark Shevlin
After the Syrian civil war, millions of Syrian refugees migrated to neighboring countries, with the majority settling in Turkey. The prevalence of mental disorders is notably higher among refugee populations. However, prior research on Syrian refugees have mostly used variable-centred approaches which have known limitations. Thus, the present study sought to examine the occurrence and co-occurrence
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Users' unverified information-sharing behavior on social media: The role of reasoned and social reactive pathways Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Zeqian Zhang, Zhichao Cheng
Unverified or false information spread by irresponsible users can amplify the dissemination of fake news or misinformation. This phenomenon may not only undermine the credibility of social media platforms but also pose severe consequences for individuals and society. This study applies and extends the prototypical willingness model with the aim of comprehending the reasons, and decision-making process
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Exercise habits and health behaviors on adolescent obesity Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Haoyuan Li, Weidong He, Guifang Liu
Obesity among children and adolescents continues to increase globally, and it is important to determine the factors associated with obesity among adolescents for the prevention and reduction of obesity. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors associated with the increase in the obesity rate among adolescents, providing a reference basis for the development of projects aimed at promoting
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Cookie cravings – Examining the impact of sugar content information on Christmas treat preferences via mobile eye-tracking Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jonas Potthoff, Christina Herrmann, Anne Schienle
Diets high in added sugar can promote the development of overweight. Especially during the Holiday season, when high-sugar food is abundant, people overeat and gain more weight than during other times of the year. The present study with mobile eye-tracking glasses () investigated how sugar content information affects food preference (liking/wanting) and visual attention (where and how long one is looking)
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Examining concept development classroom interaction quality and children's developmental progress in state pre-K/head start programs using pre-K CLASS and LAP-3 Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hatice Zeynep Inan, Melissa Jozwiak, Yavuz Selim Inan, Seda Sarac
Concept Development [CD] in the early years cannot be complete without teachers' support. However, limited research exists. This research aimed to assess CD classroom interactional quality and its relationship with other quality dimensions/domains and children's overall development using the data collected in State Pre-K/Head Start classrooms with Pre-K CLASS and LAP-3. Data collected from 171 classrooms
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Vietnamese consumer's perspective on green beauty care products: Exploring the impact of animal welfare concerns and skepticism toward green advertising Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Bang Nguyen-Viet, Anh Thi Lan Nguyen
Green consumers increasingly consider animal welfare (AW) in their decision-making, demonstrating a growing awareness of ethical considerations beyond conventional environmental concerns. However, with an increase in greenwashing, skepticism has grown among consumers. Regardless of manufacturers' efforts to enhance consumer awareness via green advertising, consumer skepticism toward these advertisements
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Visiting the studies of resilience in language learning: From concepts to themes Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Wenxiu Chu, Yi Yan, Haoyue Wang, Honggang Liu
Resilience, as a positive personal trait, has been a topic of hot debate in the field of general education with the booming perspective of positive psychology. The exploration of learner resilience is conducive to understanding how learners grapple with setbacks, positively adapt, and function well in the presence of challenging situations. To date, some attention is paid to the structure of learner
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Exploring fascial properties in patients with depression and chronic neck pain: An observational study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Lea Overmann, Robert Schleip, Johannes Michalak
Depressive disorder and chronic pain are prevalent conditions that often co-occur. The myofascial fascial continuum has been hypothesized to contribute to both conditions. However, limited research exists on the specific association between fascial properties and chronic pain and depression. This study aims to investigate the properties of the deep fascia of the and their relationship with depression
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ) Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Alireza Kordbagheri, Rasha Mohamed Abdelrahman, Alaa F. Alsharif, Marei Ahmed
The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ) originated from the Revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality. This study was conducted to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the RST-PQ among a group of Iranian adults. The cross-sectional study was carried out among 600 Iranian adults utilizing a convenient sampling method, following
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Time perception in film viewing: A modulation of scene's duration estimates as a function of film editing Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Lydia Liapi, Elpida Manoudi, Maria Revelou, Katerina Christodoulou, Petros Koutras, Petros Maragos, Argiro Vatakis
Filmmakers and editors have empirically developed techniques to ensure the spatiotemporal continuity of a film's narration. In terms of time, editing techniques (e.g., elliptical, overlapping, or cut minimization) allow for the manipulation of the perceived duration of events as they unfold on screen. More specifically, a scene can be edited to be time compressed, expanded, or real-time in terms of
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Investigating the impact of culture dimensions on Chinese citizens' continuous use of e-government websites: A cultural model-based study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Yuanyuan Guo
Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural model, this study establishes a framework for examining the factors influencing citizens' continuous use of e-government websites. This paper, employing quantile regression, reveals that collectivism, masculinity, long-term orientation, and constraint culture exhibit varying degrees of influence on different levels of continuous use of China's e-government websites
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Association of quality of life with internet use and weight stigma across individuals with obesity and those without obesity: Role of self-perception Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Chung-Ying Lin, Janet D. Latner, Kaitlin N. Rozzell-Voss, Po-Ching Huang, Yu-Cheng Tsai, Amir H. Pakpour, Hui-Ching Weng
Weight status, weight stigma, and internet use are important factors impacting quality of life (QoL). However, little is known regarding how these factors interact in their association with QoL, and it is important to understand how self-perceived obesity and body mass index (BMI)-defined obesity may differentially impact QoL. We aimed to assess the associations between weight status (obesity vs. non-obesity
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Childhood environmental unpredictability and hoarding: Mediating roles of attachment and security Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Hang Ma, Yuhang Wu, Xiaojun Lv, Xiaofan Yang, Ping Hu
Life history theory provides a unified perspective for understanding human behaviors as adaptive strategies to specific environmental conditions. Within this theoretical framework, hoarding emerges as a behavior reflecting an evolved strategy in response to unpredictable environmental challenges, serving as a buffer against resource scarcity and enhancing survival prospects. This study aimed to explore
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Creating A child-friendly social environment for fewer conduct problems and more prosocial behaviors among children: A LASSO regression approach Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Meijie Chu, Zhiwei Fang, Li Mao, Honghao Ma, Chun-Yang Lee, Yi-Chen Chiang
Creating a child-friendly social environment is an important component of promoting child-friendly city development. This study aims to explore the key indicators of friendly family, school and community social environments from the perspective of children's conduct problems and prosocial behaviors. The sample included grade 3–5 students from one public elementary school in the urban areas and another
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Effect of interactive immediacy on online learning satisfaction of international students in Chinese universities: The chain mediating role of learning interest and academic engagement Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Yue Zhang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Zishu Meng
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of interactive immediacy on online learning satisfaction, and the mediating effect of learning interest and academic engagement on the relationship between interactive immediacy and online learning satisfaction. 2221 international students in Chinese universities participated in the questionnaire survey. The coefficient omega () and the confirmatory
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Dedalo Vola project: The effect of choral singing on physiological and psychosocial measures. An Italian pilot study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Erica Viola, Marco Martorana, Chiara Airoldi, Silvia Caristia, Daniele Ceriotti, Marta De Vito, Riccardo Tucci, Cristina Meini, Giorgio Guiot, Fabrizio Faggiano
Several studies have been conducted that show the crucial role of active participation in music in health promotion (e.g. ; ); however, little research has focused on the biopsychosocial effects of choral singing. The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness, in terms of improving physiological and psychosocial factors, of a choral program for middle-aged and older individuals. We integrated
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Psychometric properties of the Mobile Phone Parenting Practices Questionnaire (MPPPQ) for Chinese separated families with young children Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ruwen Liang, Karla Van Leeuwen
The current study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the newly developed Mobile Phone Parenting Practices Questionnaire (MPPPQ) in a sample of Chinese migrant parents experiencing long-term parent-child separation. A total of 547 rural-to-urban migrant parents with 3-to-6-year-old children left in rural hometowns were recruited online and completed electronic questionnaires. Exploratory
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Effect of musical expertise on the perception of duration and pitch in language: A cross-linguistic study Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Siqi Lyu, Nele Põldver, Liis Kask, Luming Wang, Kairi Kreegipuu
This study adopts a cross-linguistic perspective and investigates how musical expertise affects the perception of duration and pitch in language. Native speakers of Chinese ( = 44) and Estonian ( = 46), each group subdivided into musicians and non-musicians, participated in a mismatch negativity (MMN) experiment where they passively listened to both Chinese and Estonian stimuli, followed by a behavioral
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The impact of hope levels on treatment adherence in psychiatric patients Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Özge Kısaoğlu, Havva Tel
In this study, aimed to determine the status of hope and treatment adherence in psychiatric patients and the relationship between the two. The sample of the study consisted of participants (n = 103) in a university hospital psychiatric clinic. Research data were collected using personal information form, Morisky treatment adherence scale and Herth Hope Index (HHI). Statistical analysis of the data
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COVID-stressed schools struggled to teach mathematics Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Christiane Lange-Küttner
The COVID-19 pandemic led to temporary closures of schools in Germany that were unpredictable, either short-term or sustained over many weeks depending on local COVID-19 incidence rates which varied in different regions over time. The COVID-19 pandemic created new stressors in schools to deliver the curriculum with reduced lessons and online teaching. COVID-19 also had a marked effect on research in
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Psychosocial factors, psychological well-being and safety incidents among long-distance bus drivers in Ghana: A cross-sectional survey Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mustapha Amoadu, Edward Wilson Ansah, Jacob Owusu Sarfo
Commercial bus drivers account for most road traffic crashes and related mortality. The psychosocial working conditions of these drivers have been found precarious. However, road safety initiatives in Ghana still focus on correcting risky driving behaviours, ignoring the conditions under which these drivers operate. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine whether psychosocial work factors can
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Effects of hunger and calorie content on visual awareness of food stimuli Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Tommaso Ciorli, Myrto Dimakopoulou, Leonardo Trombetti, Federica Gini, Lorenzo Pia
Calorie content and hunger are two fundamental cues acting upon the processing of visually presented food items. However, whether and to which extent they affect visual awareness is still an open question. Here, high- and low-calorie food images administered to hungry or satiated participants were confronted in a breaking-Continuous Flash Suppression paradigm (Experiment 1), measuring the time required
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Impostor leader and knowledge hiding: Attachment avoidance as underlying mechanism Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Laibin Wang, Muhammad Waseem Bari, Sadia Shaheen, Kaiyang Zhong
Impostorism and knowledge-hiding behaviors negatively impact employees and organizational performance. This study examines the association between impostor leaders and knowledge hiding (evasive hiding, playing dumb, and rationalized hiding). Attachment avoidance is discussed as a mediator between impostor leaders and knowledge-hiding. For quantitative analyses, this study collected the data from 429
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Separating binding and retrieval of event files in older adults Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Nicolas D. Münster, Philip Schmalbrock, Tobias Bäumer, Bernhard Hommel, Christian Beste, Alexander Münchau, Christian Frings
In the literature on human action control, it is assumed that features of stimuli (S) and responses (R) are integrated into internal representations (so-called event files) that are involved in the execution of an action. Experimentally, the impact of this integration on action control is typically analyzed via S-R binding effects. Recent theorizing in the BRAC framework () suggests to disentangle
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Release from response interference in color-word contingency learning Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Brady R.T. Roberts, Noah D. Forrin, David McLean, Colin M. MacLeod
In identifying the print colors of words when some combinations of color and word occur more frequently than others, people quickly show evidence of learning these associations. This is evident in faster and more accurate responses to high-contingency combinations than to low-contingency combinations. Across four experiments, we systematically varied the number of response-irrelevant word stimuli connected
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EFL teacher-student interaction, teacher immediacy, and Students' academic engagement in the Chinese higher learning context Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Lingjie Yuan
The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the role of mediators of teacher-student rapport in the relationship between the teachers' immediacy and academic engagement in EFL contexts. The participants of this correlational study were 285 students of Xinxiang which is an important central city in northern Henan province, China. They (195 females and 90 males) were selected as a convenient
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Sensory brand experience and brand loyalty: Mediators and gender differences Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Fang Gao, Zhongyuan Shen
Sensory brand experience is a fundamental and central brand experience. Its influencing mechanism on brand outcome variables still needs to be clarified. This study proposed a new SEM model to explore the influencing mechanism from sensory brand experience to brand loyalty and tested it using SmartPLS 4 software. Data were gathered through a web-based questionnaire survey of 304 Chinese consumers.
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COVID-19 anxiety and its relation to anxiety-related disorder symptoms and mechanisms Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Layton J. Byam, Alexander M. Penney
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the mental health of individuals, particularly in the area of anxiety-related disorders. Anxiety regarding COVID-19 has been associated with health anxiety, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms. Additionally, COVID-19 anxiety has been associated with anxiety sensitivity, disgust, maladaptive metacognitions, and intolerance of uncertainty
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The language of blame: Exploring the effects of non-native accents on post-accident blame attributions Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Felipe A. Guzman, Antonella Tempesta Fernández
This peer commentary investigates how individuals assign blame to non-native supervisors after an accident where an employee suffers a workplace accident in a multilingual organization. Extending research presented in the focal article by Obenauer and Kalsher's (2023), the authors propose that supervisors with non-native accents are likely to be blamed after an accident they tried to prevent due to
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Early childhood teachers' feedback in natural mathematical learning situations: Development and validation of a detailed category system Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Lena Aumann, Hedwig Gasteiger, Rosa M. Puca
In many countries, early mathematical learning takes place in informal and play-based situations. To support children's mathematical learning, the interactions that occur in the daily contact between the early childhood (EC) teacher and the child in kindergarten play an important role. In these interactions, the feedback provided by the EC teacher is considered to have effects on learning. However
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Regional differences in field dependent-independent cognitive styles in Saudi Arabia Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Albandri Sultan Alotaibi
The primary aim of this study was two-fold: to assess the reliability of the Leuven Embedded Figure Test (L-EFT) in Saudi Arabia (Study 1), and to explore regional differences in independent-interdependent cognitive styles among adults in various regions of Saudi Arabia (Study 2). Both Study-1 and Study-2 were structured cross-sectionally. Study 1 involved 360 participants (97 % female) with a median
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Theories of motivation: A comprehensive analysis of human behavior drivers Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Din Bandhu, M. Murali Mohan, Noel Anurag Prashanth Nittala, Pravin Jadhav, Alok Bhadauria, Kuldeep K. Saxena
This paper explores theories of motivation, including instinct theory, arousal theory, incentive theory, intrinsic theory, extrinsic theory, the ARCS model, self-determination theory, expectancy-value theory, and goal-orientation theory. Each theory is described in detail, along with its key concepts, assumptions, and implications for behavior. Intrinsic theory suggests that individuals are motivated
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The emotional impact of baseless discrediting of knowledge: An empirical investigation of epistemic injustice Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Laura Niemi, Natalia Washington, Cliff Workman, Migdalia Arcila-Valenzuela, Felipe De Brigard
According to theoretical work on epistemic injustice, baseless discrediting of the knowledge of people with marginalized social identities is a central driver of prejudice and discrimination. Discrediting of knowledge may sometimes be subtle, but it is pernicious, inducing chronic stress and coping strategies such as emotional avoidance. In this research, we sought to deepen the understanding of epistemic
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Long-term consequences of childhood emotional abuse in mothers on parental load and child mental health Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Katharina Rost, Emily Gossmann, Jörg M. Fegert, Ute Ziegenhain, Franziska Köhler-Dauner
Childhood emotional maltreatment can be associated with long-term consequences on mental health. In addition, transgenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences to the next generation can occur and thus have an impact on the mental health of one's own children. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of stress on the association between childhood emotional maltreatment and parental
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The association between political identity centrality and cancelling proclivity Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rhiannon M. Mesler, Katharine Howie, Jennifer Chernishenko, Mingnan Nancy Shen, Jessica Vredenburg
Augmented by the rise of social media, contemporary culture has increasingly witnessed the phenomenon of “cancellation” – that is, a brand's swift and public fall from grace, catalyzed through digital platforms like Twitter and, in turn, traditional media. We are the first to examine individual difference predictors of cancelling proclivity. We explore the relationship between a novel individual difference
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Predicting frontline employees' emotional labor after suffering customer incivility: A job passion perspective Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Pengfei Cheng, Zhuangzi Liu
The phenomenon of customer incivility poses significant challenges for frontline employees whose expression of emotion determines the service experience. Few studies have explored the mediating mechanisms linking customer incivility to frontline employees' emotional labor. Drawing on the dualistic model of job passion theory, we proposed job passion as a feasible mediator of the links from customer
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The influence mechanism of self-transcendence on green consumption: The chain-mediating effect of construction of meaning in life and connectedness Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Chao Lian, Xiao-Xia Chen
A transition to a more sustainable society is occurring worldwide and necessitates a change in people's ways of consuming. Self-transcendence (ST) is recognized as a key predictor of green consumption. Thus, a multiple intermediary model was developed to clarify the psychological mechanisms underlying ST and its influence on consumption. The model was tested using data from a nationally representative
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Personality functioning, positive outlook for the future, and simple and complex post-traumatic stress disorder Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Flávia Ulhôa Pimentel, Sérgio Eduardo Silva de Oliveira
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its complex form (C-PTSD) are psychopathological conditions that are related to several personality traits. In particular, the current study aims to investigate the associations of impairment of personality functioning (IPF) and positive outlook for the future (POF) with PTSD and C-PTSD. A sample of 304 Brazilian adults responded to an online survey. IPF was
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Colored valence in a lexical decision task Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Alessandro Bortolotti, Caterina Padulo, Nadia Conte, Beth Fairfield, Riccardo Palumbo
Color influences behavior, from the simplest to the most complex, through controlled and more automatic information elaboration processes. Nonetheless, little is known about how and when these highly interconnected processes interact. This study investigates the interaction between controlled and automatic processes during the processing of color information in a lexical decision task. Participants
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The impact of childhood trauma on borderline personality organization in a community sample of Greek emerging adults Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Aikaterini Malafanti, Vasiliki Yotsidi, Georgios Sideridis, Eleni Giannouli, Evangelia P. Galanaki, Ioannis Malogiannis
There is limited research on the role of childhood trauma in personality pathology according to Kernberg's psychodynamic model of internalized object relations. Because childhood trauma reflects the disruptions of these relations, it is expected to predict borderline personality organization, especially at the threshold of adulthood. Therefore, the main aim of this retrospective study was to examine
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Effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for Tension-Type Headache (TTH): A randomized controlled trial of effects on emotion regulation, anger, anxiety, and TTH symptom severity Acta Psychol. (IF 1.984) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Zahra Ahmadvand Shahverdi, Mahmood Dehghani, Ahmad Ashouri, Mehdi Manouchehri, Nafiseh Mohebi
Research has demonstrated the potential efficacy of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in addressing medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). However, the specific application of ISTDP for tension-type headache (TTH), a prevalent and common MUS, has not been extensively studied. In light of this gap in the literature, the current study investigated the effectiveness of intensive short-term