Advances in Psychology Research

Contents: Cognitive Psychology -- The oblique effect in the visual perception of orientations; Behavioural psychology: suicidal statements made by children who witness family violence: A black and white comparison; Fear, belief, and terrorism. Social Psychology -- Comparison strategies in response to threat: when does social comparison make a difference?; Linear confirmatory models for MTMM matrices: the case of several indicators per trait-method combination; Gender role stereotyping in television advertisements: a comparative study of British and Serbian television. Biological Psychology -- Perceptions of control over health: implications for sense of self in healthy and ill older adults; Cerebral asymmetry of emotions. Evolutionary Psychology -- Base rate neglect: a focus on the methodology of the engineer-lawyer paradigm.