Addresses the centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism (SEM) in human agency. SEM precepts influence thought patterns, actions, and emotional arousal....
Conducted a field experiment to assess the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and choice on 91 nursing home residents. It...
Reevaluated 26 elderly nursing home residents who were tested by the present authors (see record 1976-28515-001) as part of an...
Objectives: Taylor's theory of cognitive adaptation proposes that adjustment depends on the ability to sustain and modify illusions (i.e. unrealistic...
13 Ss (aged 18–28 yrs) received 17 painful electrical stimulations of medium intensity, alternated with 3 strong stimulations. 13 matched...
We try to identify the configurations of beliefs and goals typical of the various kinds of representation of the future:...
This paper explores a judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events...
In Study 1, over 200 college students estimated how much their own chance of experiencing 42 events differed from the...
The authors compared levels of optimistic and pessimistic bias in the prediction of positive and negative life events between European...
University students who experienced the 1989 California earthquake were asked a few days afterward to estimate the likelihood that they,...