Pathological Nazi Stereotypes Found in Recent German Technical Journals

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between measures of social attraction and social protection. Social attraction was measured by the Kuethe felt figures technique, while social protection was measured by the Shipwreck Test. The results revealed that scores of emotionally disturbed children on the two measures were highly correlated. Another noteworthy finding was that the Ss showed more social attraction toward the grandfather, dog, and friend figures, than to the mother, father, and grandmother figures.     

The reliability and validity of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices for Irish apprentices

The Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) is a 'test of a person's capacity at the time of the test to apprehend meaningless figures presented for his observation, see the relations between them, conceive the nature of the figure completing each system of relations presented and, by so doing, develop a systematic method of reasoning' (Raven et al., 1983, p. 2). It was developed in Britain in the mid-1930s (see Penrose and Raven, 1936) as a non-verbal measure of Spearman's 'g' factor, eduction of relations among abstract items.     

Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice

Most theories of affective influences on judgement and choice take a valence-based approach, contrasting the effects of positive versus negative feeling states. These approaches have not specified if and when distinct emotions of the same valence have different effects on judgement. In this article, we propose a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice. We posit that each emotion is defined by a tendency to perceive new events and objects in ways that are consistent with the original cognitive-appraisal dimensions of the emotion. To pit the valence and appraisal-tendency approaches against one another, we present a study that addresses whether two emotions of the same valence but differing appraisals—anger and fear—relate in different ways to risk perception. Consistent with the appraisal-tendency hypothesis, fearful people made pessimistic judgements of future events whereas angry people made optimistic judgements. In the Discussion we expand the proposed model and review evidence supporting two social moderators of appraisal-tendency processes.