Advances in Psychology Research

Advances in Psychology Research presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum. Contents: Cognitive Psychology -- Intelligence and presidential greatness: Equation replication using updated IQ Estimates; Why motivation only sometimes affects base-rate sensitivity: the mediating role of representations on adaptive performance; Behavioral Psychology -- The temporal ordering of childhood sexual abuse, eating disturbances, and impulsive and self-destructive behaviors; Activation and use of stereotyped beliefs in personnel decisions a mock (football) draft; Exploring the instrumental versus non-instrumental aspects of procedural fairness: the usefulness of a person x situation approach; Conditional associations between interparental conflict and adolescent problems: a search for personality-environment interactions