2009 Publications
How Accessibility Might Influence the Take the Best Heuristic
J. Adam Randell
Texas Tech University
The Take the Best heuristic is used when making dual-choice decisions and estimations. This heuristic is an efficient decision-making strategy producing relatively accurate decisions based on limited information. However, decision-making processes are susceptible to bias caused by differential accessibility of information in memory. This article highlights how accessibility might bias decisions made using the Take the Best heuristic.
J. Adam Randell
Texas Tech University
The Take the Best heuristic is used when making dual-choice decisions and estimations. This heuristic is an efficient decision-making strategy producing relatively accurate decisions based on limited information. However, decision-making processes are susceptible to bias caused by differential accessibility of information in memory. This article highlights how accessibility might bias decisions made using the Take the Best heuristic.
| How Accessibility Might Influence the Take the Best Heuristic |
Cheat and Hope for the Best: The Unspoken Undergraduate Mantra?
Cari Fellers, Collin L. Davidson, Christina M. Almstrom Jennifer L. Callahan
Oklahoma State University University of North Texas
Hope is a cognitive motivational construct that relates to people perceiving probable future outcomes because they have strategies to attain their goals and the motivation to undertake those strategies (Snyder, Harris, Anderson, & Holleran, 1991). Over the past decade, empirical research has repeatedly demonstrated that high hope is related to success, as measured by a variety of academic indicators. There have been no studies to date though that have examined whether hope might be also be related to academic cheating. The results of this study revealed an extremely high rate of cheating (92%) in the undergraduate population at a midwestern university and hope was found to be related to cheating behavior. Research issues and instructional implications are discussed.
Cari Fellers, Collin L. Davidson, Christina M. Almstrom Jennifer L. Callahan
Oklahoma State University University of North Texas
Hope is a cognitive motivational construct that relates to people perceiving probable future outcomes because they have strategies to attain their goals and the motivation to undertake those strategies (Snyder, Harris, Anderson, & Holleran, 1991). Over the past decade, empirical research has repeatedly demonstrated that high hope is related to success, as measured by a variety of academic indicators. There have been no studies to date though that have examined whether hope might be also be related to academic cheating. The results of this study revealed an extremely high rate of cheating (92%) in the undergraduate population at a midwestern university and hope was found to be related to cheating behavior. Research issues and instructional implications are discussed.
| Cheat and Hope for the Best: The Unspoken Undergraduate Mantra? |
Adult Romantic Attachment and Types of Perfectionism
Susannah Lowell Alicia Limke
Southern Nazerene University University of Central Oklahoma
Previous studies examining the relationship between attachment and perfectionism have not included a comprehensive measure of perfectionism that determines subtypes of perfectionism and have not studied the relationship between attachment and perfectionism in adults outside of undergraduate students. Thus, the current study examined the relationship between attachment and types of perfectionism in a sample of nontraditional undergraduate and graduate students. Multiple regression analyses revealed that anxious attachment predicted scores on the self-evaluative perfectionism scales but not on the conscientious perfectionism scales. Implications of the results and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Susannah Lowell Alicia Limke
Southern Nazerene University University of Central Oklahoma
Previous studies examining the relationship between attachment and perfectionism have not included a comprehensive measure of perfectionism that determines subtypes of perfectionism and have not studied the relationship between attachment and perfectionism in adults outside of undergraduate students. Thus, the current study examined the relationship between attachment and types of perfectionism in a sample of nontraditional undergraduate and graduate students. Multiple regression analyses revealed that anxious attachment predicted scores on the self-evaluative perfectionism scales but not on the conscientious perfectionism scales. Implications of the results and suggestions for future research are discussed.
| Adult Romantic Attachment and Types of Perfectionism |
Happiness Comes of Age: A review of The Science of Subjective Well-Being
J. Ian Norris
Murray State University
The study of subjective well-being in psychology can be traced to the publication of Diener's 1984 Psychological Bulletin article Subjective Well-Being. Since that time, well-being has become a popular and influential field of study in psychology, culminating in the birth of the Positive Psychology movement. The Science of Subjective Well-Being is both a tribute to Diener's contributions to the study of well-being and a well-researched and informative guide to the major research developments that have occurred in the field since the publication of Diener's article. This review highlights those major developments in the context of subjective well-being research over the past 25 years, and also addresses a few other developments that are not reviewed directly in the volume.
J. Ian Norris
Murray State University
The study of subjective well-being in psychology can be traced to the publication of Diener's 1984 Psychological Bulletin article Subjective Well-Being. Since that time, well-being has become a popular and influential field of study in psychology, culminating in the birth of the Positive Psychology movement. The Science of Subjective Well-Being is both a tribute to Diener's contributions to the study of well-being and a well-researched and informative guide to the major research developments that have occurred in the field since the publication of Diener's article. This review highlights those major developments in the context of subjective well-being research over the past 25 years, and also addresses a few other developments that are not reviewed directly in the volume.
| Happiness Comes of Age: A review of The Science of Subjective Well-Being |
Discovering Lightner Witmer: A Forgotten Hero of Psychology
Hannah Thomas
University of Central Oklahoma
Lightner Witmer is considered to be the father of clinical psychology founded the first clinical psychology laboratory, and assisted in the development of special education, school psychology, and applied psychology. However, Witmer has been somewhat erased from psychology textbooks. The author examines the life and work of Lightner Witmer so as to find a reason for his erasure. Whether it be his argumentative means of communication, his comparison of chimpanzees to children, or the lack of appreciation for his ideas and theories, it seems clear that Lightner Witmer is a forgotten hero of psychology.
Hannah Thomas
University of Central Oklahoma
Lightner Witmer is considered to be the father of clinical psychology founded the first clinical psychology laboratory, and assisted in the development of special education, school psychology, and applied psychology. However, Witmer has been somewhat erased from psychology textbooks. The author examines the life and work of Lightner Witmer so as to find a reason for his erasure. Whether it be his argumentative means of communication, his comparison of chimpanzees to children, or the lack of appreciation for his ideas and theories, it seems clear that Lightner Witmer is a forgotten hero of psychology.
| Discovering Lightner Witmer: A Forgotten Hero of Psychology |
Norming the Outliers: A review of Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Doug Preddy
University of Central Oklahoma
The great American dream is that people can rise from obscurity to greatness with hard work and talent. Outliers is about the people who rose from rags to riches, the people who supposedly exemplify the American dream. According to Malcolm Gladwell's newest book, the American dream is more of a myth. Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." Gladwell depicts a more complicated theory in Outliers. Gladwell defines achievement as a mix preparation and talent.
Doug Preddy
University of Central Oklahoma
The great American dream is that people can rise from obscurity to greatness with hard work and talent. Outliers is about the people who rose from rags to riches, the people who supposedly exemplify the American dream. According to Malcolm Gladwell's newest book, the American dream is more of a myth. Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." Gladwell depicts a more complicated theory in Outliers. Gladwell defines achievement as a mix preparation and talent.
| Norming the Outliers: A review of Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell |