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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY AND POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The relationship between partisan political affiliation and cognitive complexity was examined. It should be noted that cognitive complexity is only loosely correlated with intelligence and for the purposes of this study, ...
The Effect of Teacher Modeling on Reading Behaviors, Fluency and Comprehension
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of an intervention aimed at increasing time on task during silent sustained reading periods, teacher modeling, on reading fluency and comprehension scores in fifth grade ...
Beyond Just Hours Worked : Further Validation of the Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The purpose of this study was to validate a new measure of workaholism, the Workaholism Analysis Questionnaire (WAQ), which was developed to address the methodological flaws of existing measures. The WAQ is a unidimensional ...
Effects of a Computer Assisted Intervention in Second Graders with Attention and Literacy Problems
(East Carolina University, 2011)
Previous research has linked inattention with reading problems. Moreover, children with combined reading and attention problems have significantly worse later academic outcomes. Few studies have focused on the effectiveness ...
Locus of Rater-Ratee Race Effects as Influenced by Rating Source
(East Carolina University, 2011)
This study examines the impact of both rater and ratee race on job performance ratings. Traditionally, the true nature of race-based distortions to performance ratings is difficult to ascertain due to a lack of true score ...
Stop the hovering : The helicopter mentor, a new view on the dysfunctional mentor
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The concept of a helicopter mentor was introduced in the current study. A scale was developed to measure helicopter mentoring. To provide validity evidence for the helicopter mentoring measure, assessments of typical ...
A Meta-Analysis of Workaholism
(East Carolina University, 2011)
This meta-analysis examines the relationship between workaholism and numerous work behaviors and outcomes in an attempt to derive a consensus regarding the current state of our understanding of this construct and clarify ...
Effectiveness of the Hill Model of Instruction : A Program Evaluation of the Greenville Learning Center
(East Carolina University, 2012)
This study examined the effectiveness of the methodology utilized by the Hill Center, an educational program for children with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders in Durham, North Carolina. This methodology, ...
University Students' Perceptions of Stalking : A Mock Law Enforcement Study
(East Carolina University, 2011)
This study examined how students from a large southeastern university in the U.S. (N = 177) placed in the position of a law enforcement officer judged hypothetical stalking scenarios. Utilizing a 2 x 2 independent groups ...
Individual Differences in Error Related Processing of Expectancy Violations
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Electrophysiological investigations of brain processing of feedback reveal that the anterior cingulate cortex is important in monitoring for behavioral errors. The feedback related negativity (FRN) is an event related ...