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Examining the counterproductive work behavior process: Momentary relationships among personality, affect, & situational strength
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-03-12)
Counterproductive work behavior (CWB) is a pervasive threat to individual, organizational, and societal well being. Consequently, CWB has received a great deal of attention in scholarly research. However, recent empirical ...
FRAME ANALYSIS: A MODERN APPROACH TO FACTOR ANALYSIS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-11-11)
We introduce and develop a new statistical method for exploring latent structures: Frame Analysis. Frame Analysis drops the one-to-one correspondence between factor dimensionality and vector space representation found in ...
Impacts on performance effectiveness, processing efficiency, and subjective experience by music listening in extraverts and introverts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)
The present study evaluates the utility of a new model based on attentional control theory (ACT) in a music psychology study. This new model seeks to provide a mechanism to explain impacts of concurrent-task music listening ...
Informal reasoning with and without the Internet: An individual differences approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-05)
Informal reasoning is used when people reason about complex issues for which there is not a single, agreed-upon correct answer (Perkins, 1985; Sadler & Zeidler, 2005). Accordingly, an individual’s ability and willingness ...
The effects of background music on video game play performance, behavior and experience in extraverts and introverts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-04)
For many, listening to music is an enjoyable experience pursued throughout one’s lifetime. Nearly 200 years of music psychology research has revealed the various ways music listening can impact human emotional states, as ...
Narcissism and its measurement: A conditional reasoning measure for narcissism
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-14)
Narcissism, which is broadly defined as a grandiose sense of self-importance (Judge, LePine, & Rich, 2006), is a construct that is associated with many potentially toxic traits and behaviors (Back, Schmukle, & Egloff, 2010; ...
An analysis of the item characteristics of the conditional reasoning test of aggression
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-12)
This dissertation employs modern psychometric techniques to estimate the item characteristics of the Conditional Reasoning Test of Aggression (CRT-A) and three related subscales. Using a sample size of 5,511 respondents, ...
Voluntary turnover prediction: comparing the utility of implicit and explicit personality measures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-08-26)
Because of the outcomes associated with employee turnover, few areas have been researched as extensively in the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Cotton&Tuttle, 1986). Correlates and consequences of employee ...
Differential framing: when meaning depends on motive
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-11-13)
Differential framing occurs when individuals with different latent motives assign qualitatively different meanings to the same attributes or events in the environment (James&Mazerolle, 2002; James&McIntyre, 1996). The ...
Individual and contextual determinants of subjective cognitive fatigue
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-04-30)
Cognitive fatigue refers to the decline in mental efficiency and accompanying feelings of strain and weariness that occur over time-on-task. This study extends previous research on the determinants of cognitive fatigue by ...