Minimum Payment Information May Actually Harm Credit Card CustomersA Review of:Stewart, J. (2009). The Cost of anchoring on credit-card minimum payments. Psychological Science in the Public Interest (in press).by Martine LuntzIn this study, Stewart (in press, 2009) tackles the widespread problem of credit card debt. Previous...
read moreInhibiting the Automatic Panic Response by Changing CognitionsA Review of:Teachman, B.A., Marker, C.D., & Smith-Janik, S.B. (2008). Automatic associations and panic disorder: Trajectories of change over the course of treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76(6), 988-1002.by Lauren C. AlexanderNo matter what...
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A Review of:Hasel, L. E. & Kassin, S. M. (2009; In-press). On the Presumption of Evidentiary Independence:Can Confessions Corrupt Eyewitness Identifications? Psychological Science.by Micol Levi-MinziIn this article Hasel and Kassin (2008) examine the impact of criminal confessions on eyewitness identification. The authors begin...
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Self-evaluation versus public evaluationA Review of:Robinson, J., Sareen, J., Cox, B.J., and Bolton, J.(2009). Self-medication of anxiety disorders with alcohol and drugs: Results from a nationally representative sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 38-45.by Heather N. GoddardResearch across a variety of clinical and community...
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Self-evaluation versus public evaluationA review of:Maner, J.K., Miller, S.L., Schmidt N.B., & Eckel, L.A. (2008). Submitting to defeat Social Anxiety: Dominance threat, and decrements in testosterone. Psychological Science. 19, 764-768.by Michael MorrealeMiller, et al. (2008) have conducted a study to test two hypotheses. One...
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Self-evaluation versus public evaluationA review of:Chambers, J. R., Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Windschitl, P. D. (2008). Knowing too much: Using private knowledge to predict how one is viewed by others. Psychological Science, 19(6), 542-548.by Abby B. StevensPeople often find it difficult to predict how others perceive them....
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Article Critique of:Steele, Claude M. & Aronson, Joshua (1995). Stereotype treat and the intelligence testperformance of African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5,797-811.By Alla AndelmanThis study comprised of four experiments to discover if stereotype threat had a negative impact on the performance of...
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