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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"contrast effects"”.
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Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Sequential Judgments
… This might have an assimilative as well as a contrastive effect on the judgment of the target student. In a first line of studies it was tested whether and in what direction judgments of prior performances would influence subsequent ones. Participants were in the role of a teacher and had to …
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Enhancement of recollection of affective events: contrast effects or differential processing?
… of the first experiment may have been due to contrast effects. This refers to affective and neutral photos being presented within the same list, which resulted in the affective photos being rendered more distinctive at the time of encoding relative to the neutral photos. (Abstract shortened by …
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JUDGING CONTROL: WHEN CAN WE EXPECT EXPECTATIONS TO PREDICT JUDGMENTS? (CONTINGENCY, CONTRAST EFFECTS)
… contrarily to one's expectations. That is, contrast effects may occur. This argument was supported using two different paradigms. In the first experiment, 66 female Introductory Psychology students were evenly divided into three groups which each received two sets of 40 trials. In the first …
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The effectiveness of corporate social responsibility in corporate crises: from the perspective of assimilation – contrast effects and attribution theory
… motives. To help fill this gap, assimilation - contrast effects and attribution theory were applied to an experimental study exploring a 2 (crisis type: product harm vs. moral harm) x 2 (CSR reputation: high vs. low) x 2 (CSR motives: intrinsic vs. extrinsic) between-subjects design. Two …
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Successive Incentive Contrast: Implications Of Deconfounded Procedures
… a clear distinction should be made between the effects of conventional and deconfounded contrast procedures. Different experimental apparatus also appeared to be important in determining subsequent effects of reward magnitude shifts. The present investigations consisted of six experiments …
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THE EFFECTS OF CONTRASTS IN ACCOUNT-LEVEL FRAUD RISK ASSESSMENTS ON AUDITORS' EVIDENCE EVALUATION
… subsequent auditor judgments susceptible to the contrast effects bias, where subjects overreact to the differences such that the fraud risk assessments influence auditor judgment more than they should. This study examines whether auditors who learn that fraud risk is low for one class of …
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A multidisciplinary investigation of underlying pathways in ADHD: A study of ADHD genes, endophenotypes and phenotypes
… socio-demographic factors as contributors of contrast effects (exaggeration of behavioural differences) in parental ADHD ratings. Gender moderated contrast effects, but only in opposite-sex pairs. Family size also contributed to contrast effects, which was further modified by gender. The …
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Priming, Contrast, and Category Accessibility in Impression Formation
Both priming and contrast effects are well documented in the person-perception literature. Priming is said to occur when a target stimulus is to some extent judged in a manner consistent with prior stimuli. Contrast is said to occur when a target stimulus is judged with respect to (in contrast to) …
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The Behavioural Effects of Perspective-Taking: The Influence of Group Membership and Stereotype Threat
… Furthermore, evidence of behavioural contrast was found. Experiment 2 further examined the behavioural effects of perspective-taking when the perspective-taker was negatively stereotyped and the target was positively stereotyped; consistent with the first experiment, contrast effects …
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Psychological biases affect hedonic ratings
… an alternative methodology to quantify sensory contrast effects. For sensory testing, a multidimensional attribute tended to be more affected by the contrast effects than a simpler attribute. Several scales have been used for assessing the degree of food liking/disliking. This study provided a …
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Dismissal threats and the efficacy of performance-based incentives
… other incentives used by firms. Using theory on contrast effects, I argue that the mere presence of a dismissal threat changes employees’ response to additional incentives such that performance-based incentives are less motivating in the presence of dismissal threats if those incentives are …
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Examining Cognitive Vulnerability Models to Borderline Personality Features in a Sample of Emerging Adults
… the current study examined the mediator effects of maladaptive schemas on the adverse event-BPD symptom relationship. Four hundred and fifteen undergraduate students completed demographic information and three surveys online. Results indicated that both disconnection/rejection schemas and …
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Category-based, piecemeal, and contrast processes underlying product evaluations: Their determinants and consequences
… possibility, they also make their judgment by contrasting the description of product attributes with their category knowledge (contrast processes). This research investigated the conditions under which consumers engage in these different modes of information processing when evaluating a …
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Attracting dark-eyed fruit flies, drosophila repleta (diptera: drosophilidae), in swine facilities using color and odor
… card with a black border was tested to examine contrast effects. Field trials were carried out at the University of Illinois Imported Swine Facility. Pinot Noir red wine, apple cider vinegar, and wet swine feed (the on-site material fed on by the flies) were used in volatile preference field …
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Insectivory by Birds in Two Neotropical Forests
… foliage was inaccessible to bird foraging. In contrast, effects of bird predation were not observed on understory saplings, where leaf production and turnover rates were lower. Furthermore, I observed little evidence of strong predator effects in either stratum within the more mature, wetter …
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Effects of prior taste experience on palatability as measured by salivary response
… was adulterated with quinine sulfate and the effects of taste experience on subsequent measures of palatability were measured. The measures of palatability were salivary responses to the thought and presentation of pizza. Additional measures were latency to start eating, amount eaten, meal …
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Determination of Relative Cancer Preventative Effects of Cruciferous Vegetables
… However, neither in vivo nor in vitro effects of BS correlated with any analyzed compounds such as crambene or sulforaphane (SF). In contrast, effects of broccoli correlated with SF levels, both in vivo and in vitro. When rats were fed two broccoli varieties with very different …