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Employee Commitment Before And After An Economic Crisis: A Stringent Test Of Profile Similarity, John P. Meyer, Alexandre J. S. Morin, Arzu Wasti Nov 2017

Employee Commitment Before And After An Economic Crisis: A Stringent Test Of Profile Similarity, John P. Meyer, Alexandre J. S. Morin, Arzu Wasti

Psychology Publications

Researchers have recently begun to take a person-centered (profile) approach to investigate how the affective, normative, and continuance commitment mindsets combine within the three-component model of organizational commitment (Meyer & Allen, 1991). The meaningfulness of the profiles identified in this research depends, in part, on evidence that similar profiles emerge across samples, particularly those drawn for a common population. We conducted a particularly stringent test of similarity by comparing profiles for samples of employees drawn from a large Turkish conglomerate prior to (N = 346) and following (N = 797) a major economic crisis. Using procedures recently introduced by Morin …


Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects Of Type And Typicality, Alessandra Zarcone, Ken Mcrae, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó Nov 2017

Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects Of Type And Typicality, Alessandra Zarcone, Ken Mcrae, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó

Psychology Publications

Complement coercion (begin a book → reading) involves a type clash between an event-selecting verb and an entity-denoting object, triggering a covert event (reading). Two main factors involved in complement coercion have been investigated: the semantic type of the object (event vs. entity), and the typicality of the covert event (the author began a book → writing). In previous research, reading times have been measured at the object. However, the influence of the typicality of the subject–object combination on processing an aspectual verb such as begin has not been studied. Using a self- paced reading study, we manipulated semantic type …


Taking A Person-Centered Approach To Personality: A Latent-Profile Analysis Of The Hexaco Model Of Personality, Kabir N. Daljeet, Nicholas L. Bremner, Erica A. Giammarco, John P. Meyer, Sampo V. Paunonen Oct 2017

Taking A Person-Centered Approach To Personality: A Latent-Profile Analysis Of The Hexaco Model Of Personality, Kabir N. Daljeet, Nicholas L. Bremner, Erica A. Giammarco, John P. Meyer, Sampo V. Paunonen

Psychology Publications

Our study applies a person-centered approach to the HEXACO model of personality using latent profile analysis (LPA). While the traditional variable-centered approach assumes that the relations among variables within a population are homogenous, the person-centered approach identifies subgroups within samples that have similar scores on several variables of interest, in this case, the six factors of personality. Data from two independent samples were collected at a large North American university. The results of LPA revealed five distinct and interpretable profiles that replicated and were found to be consistent across both samples. We discuss how our findings attest to the meaningfulness …


Has Engagement Had Its Day – What’S Next And Does It Matter?, John P. Meyer Jun 2017

Has Engagement Had Its Day – What’S Next And Does It Matter?, John P. Meyer

Psychology Publications

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A 4-Study Replication Of The Moderating Effects Of Greed On Socioeconomic Status And Unethical Behaviour., Anjana Balakrishnan, Paolo A Palma, Joshua Patenaude, Lorne Campbell Jan 2017

A 4-Study Replication Of The Moderating Effects Of Greed On Socioeconomic Status And Unethical Behaviour., Anjana Balakrishnan, Paolo A Palma, Joshua Patenaude, Lorne Campbell

Psychology Publications

Four replications of Piff and colleagues' study examined the moderating effects of greed attitudes on the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and unethical behaviour (Study 7). In the original study, the researchers found that both greed and SES predicted increased propensity to engage in unethical behavior. Furthermore, this association was moderated such that the effects of SES on unethical behaviour were no longer present in the greed prime condition versus the neutral condition. In replication 1 of the original study main effects of greed attitudes and SES were found, but no interaction was found. Main effects for greed emerged in …


Origins Of Thalamic And Cortical Projections To The Posterior Auditory Field In Congenitally Deaf Cats., Blake E Butler, Nicole Chabot, Andrej Kral, Stephen G Lomber Jan 2017

Origins Of Thalamic And Cortical Projections To The Posterior Auditory Field In Congenitally Deaf Cats., Blake E Butler, Nicole Chabot, Andrej Kral, Stephen G Lomber

Psychology Publications

Crossmodal plasticity takes place following sensory loss, such that areas that normally process the missing modality are reorganized to provide compensatory function in the remaining sensory systems. For example, congenitally deaf cats outperform normal hearing animals on localization of visual stimuli presented in the periphery, and this advantage has been shown to be mediated by the posterior auditory field (PAF). In order to determine the nature of the anatomical differences that underlie this phenomenon, we injected a retrograde tracer into PAF of congenitally deaf animals and quantified the thalamic and cortical projections to this field. The pattern of projections from …


A Model Of Event Knowledge, Jeffrey L. Elman, Ken Mcrae Jan 2017

A Model Of Event Knowledge, Jeffrey L. Elman, Ken Mcrae

Psychology Publications

We present a connectionist model of event knowledge that is trained on examples of sequences of activities that are not explicitly labeled as events. The model learns co-occurrence patterns among the components of activities as they occur in the moment (entities, actions, and contexts), and also learns to predict sequential patterns of activities. In so doing, the model displays behaviors that in humans have been characterized as exemplifying inferencing of unmentioned event components, the prediction of upcoming components (which may or may not ever happen or be mentioned), reconstructive memory, and the ability to flexibly accommodate novel variations from previously …


Racial Segregation In The Rise And Fall Of 22nd Street South: The Unfolding Story Of The Historic Black Business Recreational District In St. Petersburg, Florida, Marvin L. Simner Jan 2017

Racial Segregation In The Rise And Fall Of 22nd Street South: The Unfolding Story Of The Historic Black Business Recreational District In St. Petersburg, Florida, Marvin L. Simner

Psychology Publications

A clause entitled “Segregation of Races” was inserted in the St. Petersburg City Charter in 1931. It wasn’t until 1936, however, that the clause gave rise to the first segregated housing zone within the city. In this report we provide evidence to suggest that it was the Federal Government and not the St. Petersburg city council, as has been claimed, that was responsible for the implementation of this clause and the segregated commercial district that developed along 22nd Street South. We then document the rise of this commercial district and present further evidence that city council showed little interest …


Are There Place Cells In The Avian Hippocampus?, David F Sherry, Stephanie L Grella, Mélanie F Guigueno, David J White, Diano F Marrone Jan 2017

Are There Place Cells In The Avian Hippocampus?, David F Sherry, Stephanie L Grella, Mélanie F Guigueno, David J White, Diano F Marrone

Psychology Publications

Birds possess a hippocampus that serves many of the same spatial and mnemonic functions as the mammalian hippocampus but achieves these outcomes with a dramatically different neuroanatomical organization. The properties of spatially responsive neurons in birds and mammals are also different. Much of the contemporary interest in the role of the mammalian hippocampus in spatial representation dates to the discovery of place cells in the rat hippocampus. Since that time, cells that respond to head direction and cells that encode a grid-like representation of space have been described in the rat brain. Research with homing pigeons has discovered hippocampal cells, …


Reducing The Stigma Of Depression Among Asian Students: A Social Norm Approach, Francois B. Botha, Amanda L. Shamblaw, David J.A. Dozois Jan 2017

Reducing The Stigma Of Depression Among Asian Students: A Social Norm Approach, Francois B. Botha, Amanda L. Shamblaw, David J.A. Dozois

Psychology Publications

In North America, Asians reliably report higher levels of stigma toward people with depression than do Europeans. Possible methods of reducing this discrepancy have rarely been explored. Asian undergraduate students ( n = 132) were presented with one of four antistigma videos with two actresses: one portraying a student with depression and the other a professor. The videos used the concept of social proof, presenting either positive or negative descriptive norms, to effect change in stigma, measured by social distance. It was hypothesized that the positive descriptive norms intervention would show significantly greater positive change in social distance compared with …