Research Studies, Literature Reviews and Perspectives in Psychological Science

Edited by Thanos Patelis

ISBN: 978-960-9549-27-1274 pages

First published in 2012 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Thanos Patelis

1

Part I: Historical Perspective in Psychology

1.

How Myth Became Tragedy: A Contribution to the Study of 5th Century Athens’ Psychology

Ana Isabel Rodrigues de -Saraiva and Rodrigo de -Saraiva

5

Part II: Applied Psychology

2.

Applying Psychology of Learning to Coaching across Cultures

Ho Law

17

3.

The Promotion of Accreditation of Prior Learning Processes in Firms: Impact on the Worker-Organization Relationship

Helena Martins, Teresa Rebelo and  Inés Tomás

31

4.

Predicting Caffeine Use and Intention: A Social-Cognitive Model Comparison

Dave Korotkov and Melissa MacDonald

47

Part III: Developmental Psychology, Studies on School-Age Children

5.

The School-Family Relationship as a Context for Adolescent Development during High School

Anne M. Seitsinger and Stephen Brand

63

6.

Information and Interpersonal Interaction in Development of  Intelligence and Creativity

Tatiana N. Tikhomirova

71

7.

Partnership Strategies to Support Children with Special Educational Needs in Greece: The KDAY Challenge

Isidora Kourti and Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo

81

8.

 A Gender Comparative study on Emotional Intelligence and Coping Styles in  Adolescents

Farideh Hamidi

95

Part IV: Higher Education

9

Stressors Affecting Female, Undergraduate Married Students: A Qualitative Analysis

Michael W. Firmin, Ruth L. Firmin, Christine R. Keeports and Rebekah Grafton Deboer

 

107

10.

Relationships between Loneliness and Perceptions and Use Patterns of Social Networking Sites in University Students

Karen Freberg and Laura Freberg

119

 

Part V: Teaching and Learning

11.

Using Virtual Environment to Enhance Chronological Understanding of History

Liliya Korallo

135

12.

Modification of Conceptions of and Approaches to learning by Metacognition and Changes in the Learning Context

António Duarte

147

13.

Emotions of Portuguese Teachers: A Preliminary Approach

Maria Teresa Estrela, Sara Bahia, Isabel Freire and Anabela Amaral

167

Part VI: Sensation and Perception

14.

Unnatural Kinematics modified Visual Preference on Handwriting not Pointing Point-light Stimulus

Christel Bidet-Ildei, Elenitsa Kitromilides-Salerio and

Jean-Pierre Orliaguet

183

15.

Toward Models that Bridge Perceptual Gestalts and Hidden Patterns in Recurrent Neural Networks

Raymond Pavloski

193

16.

Periodic Patterns in Repeated Time Interval Estimations

Sofia Nelson and Thomas Pierce

209

17.

Scene Recognition is Facilitated by the Integration of Spatial Information across Visual and Non-visual Experiences

Nathan Greenauer, Catherine Mello and Marios Avraamides

221

Part VII: Therapy and Therapeutic Interventions

18.

Massage Therapy: Research and Data Relevant to Practicing Psychologists

Grant J. Rich

237

Part VIII: Studies on Aggression

19.

Authoritarianism, Hostility Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Violence, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Aggression

Gina M. Bondi and Michelle L. Kelley

253

Part IX: Psychometrics

20.

A Unified Framework for the Analysis of DIF Using the Generalized Mantel-Haenszel Statistic. What Software can we use?

Ángel M. Fidalgo and Jaqueline Madeira

269