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Exploring How Public Libraries Can Build Situational Interest in Science
(Journal of Library Administration, 2021-04-07)This project aimed to cultivate library patrons’ interest in earth and space science, using research on how situations can trigger and support interest to deepen across time. The project featured a dynamic but low-tech ... -
Attitudes about Women, Sexuality, and Abortion
(2017)Abortion currently and throughout history, has been a wide-spread, controversial topic, though one in three women will obtain abortion services by the time they are 45 (Guttmacher Institute, 2014). Even after the U.S. ... -
Assessing public speaking fear with the short form of the Personal Report of Confidence as a Speaker scale: confirmatory factor analyses among a French-speaking community sample
(Dovepress, 2013-05)Background: The main aim of this study was to assess the reliability and structural validity of the French version of the 12-item version of the Personal Report of Confidence as Speaker (PRCS), one of the most promising ... -
Self-verification and social anxiety: Preference for negative social feedback and low social self-esteem.
(Cambridge, 2011-10)Background: A self-verification model of social anxiety views negative social self-esteem as a core feature of social anxiety. This core feature is proposed to be maintained through self-verification processes, such as by ... -
Vestibular Information Is Required for Dead Reckoning in the Rat
(Society for Neuroscience, 2002-11)Dead reckoning is an on-line form of spatial navigation used by an animal to identify its present location and return directly to a starting location, even after circuitous outward trips. At present, it is not known ... -
Body Image and Expected Future Interaction
(Center for the Study of Group Processes, University of Iowa, 2006)This study examined impression formation as a function of anticipated future social interaction among women with varying body image perceptions. Seventy-four women participated in a getto- know-you interview with a female ... -
`He Forgot' : Young Children's Use of Cognitive Explanations for Another Person's Mistakes
(Wayne State University Press, 1998-07)Children, ages 4 and 5 years, and adults were asked (a) to explain a story character's incorrect search for a desired object, and (b) to explain the source of the character's ignorance or false belief concerning the ...
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