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Showing 1 to 20 of 253 for “"distinctiveness"”.
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Multiple Species of Distinctiveness in Memory: Separating Task Distinctiveness from Statistical Distinctiveness
<p>Distinctiveness refers to the memorial benefit of processing unique or item-specific features of a memory set relative to a non-distinctive control. Traditional distinctiveness effects are accounted for based on qualitative differences in how distinctive items are encoded at the time of study. …
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Target-distractor distinctiveness guides efficient search
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Autonomy and Relatedness in Mainland Chinese Adolescents: Social or Personal? Accommodation or Distinctiveness?
… vs. social) and relatedness (accommodation vs. distinctiveness), according to a priori criteria based on the theoretical frameworks. Also, scenarios designed to reflect culture-specific forms of autonomy and relatedness suggested their relevance to Chinese adolescents. With a second sample of …
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On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English Tradition
… approaches the question of the Russian novel's distinctiveness in the form of a literary experiment. By engaging in close readings of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) alongside Mikhail Chulkov's The Comely Cook (Prigozhaia povarikha, 1770), and Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) alongside …
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Attitudes Toward Immigrants as a Function of National Identity Distinctiveness Threat and Imagined Contact
… Given research identifying social identity-based distinctiveness threat as a driver of negative attitudes to immigrants, this threat was targeted as a way to improve contact effects. In a two-study series, distinctiveness threat was measured (Study 1; N = 231) and manipulated (Study 2; N = 272) to …
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Are odd things all the same? Physical and semantic distinctiveness, memory, and event-related brain potentials
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:56:00Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Jewish identity and positive distinctiveness: an exploratory study of the subjective importance of being Jewish using Q methodology
By conceptualising Jews as an ethnic minority, this study attempts to assess the subjective importance of being Jewish for a sample of Jewish South Africans residing in Cape Town (n = 51 ). The psychological processes by means of which group identity may be understood are examined using Tajfel's …
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Perception of ethnic distinctiveness by a group of Mexican-Americans : case study in a housing project in East Austin
… the complicated inner portrait of ethnic distinctiveness as perceived by a group of Mexican-Americans of limited economic and educational resources. The characteristics that in the layman's opinion are pervasive among his own group and his attitudes toward these characteristics are the …
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The role of perceptual learning in accounting for the own-race bias, the inversion effect, and the distinctiveness effect in recognition memory for faces from a developmental perspective
The rated distinctiveness of a face, the orientation in which a face is seen and the race of the face, are all factors that are known to affect subsequent recognition of faces. These three factors are known as the distinctiveness effect, the orientation effect and the own-race bias. The main …
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Toward Extended Situational Crisis Communication Theory: Include Visuals, Prior Performance, and Framing Devices
… conducts a 2 (picture: action vs. damage) × 3 (distinctiveness: high vs. low vs. no) between-subject experimental design, informed by attribution theory (AT) and situational crisis communication theory (SCCT). This online experiment aims to see the effects of pictures and an organization's …
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Dimensionality Of Causal Attributions In Nonacademic Situations: The Effects Of Antecedent Information And Response Format
… present conditions, subjects given consensus, distinctiveness, consistency, and incentive information rated the importance of ten causes provided (Study 1) or generated their own causal attributions (Study 3). As Kelley's (1967, 1973) model predicts, in both studies, high consensus information …
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The Emergence of Violent Extremism: Threats to Social Identity and Psychological Motivations Underlying Identity-Defining Extreme Aggression
… of threats to a) identity status and b) distinctiveness were analyzed in Study 1 (N = 157) and threats to a) superordinate identity status and b) superordinate identity distinctiveness were analyzed in Study 2 (N = 152). A literature review has been provided on extremism and the social …
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Aging and Event Segmentation
… to examine age differences in the role of event distinctiveness in memory performance. I then used electroencephalography (EEG) to test implicitly whether older and younger adults differ in their perception of event boundaries and/or the distinctiveness of those boundaries (i.e., the degree of …
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Effects of emotion on awareness in memory: applying the Remember-Know approach to awareness in memory for emotional news stories
… semantic memory. Rajaram's (1996) proposal that distinctiveness of processing increases feelings of 'remembering' while fluency of processing increases feelings of 'knowing' was examined. Seven studies utilising news stories with varying emotional content were conducted following the assumption …
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The Effect of Cognitive Load on Illusory Correlation
… type of increase would provide evidence for the distinctiveness-based view of illusory correlation (Hamilton & GifFord, 1976); however, if levels of illusory correlation show a curvilinear relationship, this relationship would provide support for the differentiated meaning view (Haslam, McGarty, …
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The phonetics of metrical prominence and its consequences on segmental phonology
… in stressed positions may affect the perceptual distinctiveness between contrasting sounds in stressed positions: if the perceptual distinctiveness between contrasting sounds is decreased in a stressed position, contrast neutralization might arise. If the perceptual distinctiveness between …
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Planning future pasts: using historic landscape characterisation in strategic and spatial planning.
… benefits of planning and a focus on local distinctiveness requires better integration of the historic environment into strategic and spatial planning systems. The research presented here puts HLC at the base of a model for incorporating the historic landscape into spatial and strategic …
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer
… of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American mixed-race character in American literature and to provide a thorough reading of how this distinctiveness is portrayed and sustained throughout the scope of the selected texts. My dissertation identifies the …
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Effects of Identity, Uncertainty, and Language Contact on Intergroup Relations
… seemed to be related more to the status and distinctiveness of the linguistic group. When the outgroup is perceived as a distinctive, high-status group, more negative action tendencies were found regardless of the level of group-level uncertainty. In the context of low group-level uncertainty …
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The effect of interference and time on forgetting in visual short-term memory
… Theories based on temporal decay, temporal distinctiveness, interference or consolidation offer the main explanations for the phenomenon of forgetting, but the debate concerning these theories is fiercely argued. This project designed and developed a new methodological approach to understand …
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