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Western Washington University

2013

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"Johnny Feels Cranky": A Family Systems Approach To Studying The Links Between Interparental Conflict And Preschoolers' Emotion Understanding, Kristen A. Stouder Jan 2013

"Johnny Feels Cranky": A Family Systems Approach To Studying The Links Between Interparental Conflict And Preschoolers' Emotion Understanding, Kristen A. Stouder

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Emotion understanding is a necessary ability for young children to develop, as this competence helps children navigate their social world. Parents offer a rich environment for children to learn about emotion, but to date little is known about how interparental conflict relates to children's growing emotion understanding. From a family systems perspective, it is important to consider not only how conflict behaviors may be connected with children' emotion understanding directly, but also indirectly through changes in parenting behaviors. In this study interparental conflict tactics and related parenting behaviors of both mothers and fathers were examined in relation to children's emotion …


Category Bias In Facial Memory, Joshua R. (Joshua Russell) Adams Jan 2013

Category Bias In Facial Memory, Joshua R. (Joshua Russell) Adams

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Existing knowledge has been shown to interact with episodic information in a variety of memory tasks. The present study examined a known bias due to existing knowledge in the context of memory for facial features. Specifically, we examined if the category bias, a systematic error in remembering a target toward the prototypical location of its region, increased as a function of distance away from its prototypical location and if time and degree of distortion moderated the bias. We manipulated eye width along a horizontal axis to create a set of face stimuli. In Experiment 1, participants saw one face at …


Persuasive Commentary: Using The Elaboration Likelihood Model To Predict Attitudinal Change Online, Matthew A. Chavez Jan 2013

Persuasive Commentary: Using The Elaboration Likelihood Model To Predict Attitudinal Change Online, Matthew A. Chavez

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The current study examined the persuasiveness (based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model) of user comments on the evaluation of an Internet news article. Participants reviewed a news article concerning the implementation of a new comprehensive exam for all senior-level undergraduates, which was manipulated such that the news article information was either self-relevant (evoking central route processing) or self-irrelevant (evoking peripheral route processing). In addition, comments that followed the news article were also manipulated by both strength and quantity. Attitudes toward the topic of comprehensive exams for seniors were assessed via an attitudinal scale and thought listing task after viewing both …