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Therapist reactions to a client facing terminal illness: a test of ego and countertransference
(2013)
When a therapy client presents with thoughts, emotions, or behaviors that trigger a therapist's own unresolved conflicts, the therapist may experience countertransference. Client concerns that may trigger countertransference ...
On the Closed-Mindedness of Revenge: Motivated Cognition and Perspective Taking
(2013)
The present research examined the extent of desire for, and the likelihood of enacting, revenge as a function of the Need for Cognitive Closure (NFC; Kruglanski, 2004; Webster & Kruglanski, 1994). The studies herein aimed ...
A UNIFIED MODEL OF MOTIVATED REASONING: THE INTERACTIVE ROLE OF MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS, SITUATIONAL AFFORDANCES, AND COGNITIVE RESOURCES IN HUMAN JUDGMENT.
(2011)
Motivated biases are considered under an integrative theoretical framework which specifies the interplay between motivation, situational affordances, and cognitive resources. According to this framework, motivation influences ...
A Source for All Seasons?: The Need for Cognitive Closure and Preference for Generalized Epistemic Authorities
(2012)
This research investigated the relationship between the need for cognitive closure (NFC) and preference for generalized (over specialized) epistemic authorities. Seven studies tested the hypotheses that: individuals ...
Cognitive and Physiological Mediators of the Link Between Maternal Attachment and Self-Reported Responses to Child Distress
(2013)
Given recent evidence that caregivers' responses to their children's distress are predictive of a host of child outcomes, the goal of the present study was to examine attachment related differences in maternal responses ...
Promotion-focused and Prevention-focused? Regulatory Focus Ambidexterity and its Effects on Team Processes and Outcomes
(2012)
Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1997, 1998), which states that individuals have distinct processes through which they approach desired end-states, has generated a tremendous amount of research activity in recent years. ...
When Guidelines Become Demands: Highly Restrictive Standards Promote Self-Regulatory Failure
(2011)
Self-regulation is often defined as the process of altering one's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors in order to attain, or maintain, some desired standard (Vohs & Baumeister, 2004). As such, the standards or goals that one ...
Cultural differences in prejudice between individual- and group-oriented cultures
(2014)
The present dissertation investigated cultural differences in the degree and dynamics of prejudice between individual- and group-oriented cultures. In Study 1, in the US where personal responsibility and individual's ...
Diluting Identity: Applying a Goal Systemic Theory of Group Identification
(2014)
A goal systemic perspective of group identification that conceptualizes groups as means to goals is proposed. Four studies investigate the effect of equifinality set size (i.e., the number of alternative means available ...
Spatial cueing by a novel agent in preschool children and adults
(2015)
In the current study we assessed preschool children and adults' reflexive, covert spatial attentional response to a novel entity. In particular, we assessed whether covert attention was selectively engaged after construing ...