1st Edition

Validation in Psychology Research Perspectives

Edited By Hadyn Ellis Copyright 2001
196 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

191 Pages
by Routledge

Why do we respond to others-both to their physical appearances and to their personalities? What are the social influences on face perception? Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are offered here in a useful compendium. Chapters and contributors include:... Read more
Assessing the State of Organizational Safety - Culture or Climate?, Kathryn J. Mearns and Rhona Flin; Why Did It Happen to Me? Social Cognition Processes in Adjustment and Recovery from Criminal Victimization and Illness, Malcolm D. MacLeod; What's in a Name, What's in a Place? - the Role of Verbal Labels in Distinct Cognitive Tasks, J.B. Deegowski et al; On Disregarding Deviants - Exemplar Typicality and Person Perception, C. Neil Macrae et al; Mood in Chronic Disease -Questioning the Answers, Marie Johnston; The Emotional Impact of Faces (But Not Names) - Face Specific Changes in Skin Conductance Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar People, Haydn D. Ellis et al; Average Faces are Average Faces, Jim Pollard et al; Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgements of Attractiveness, I.S. Penton-Voak et al; One Extreme or the Other, or Perhaps the Golden Mean? Issues of Spatial Resolution in Face Processing, Dennis M. Parker and Micholas P. Costen; The Impact of Character Attribution on Composite Production - a Real World Effect?, Graham Davies and Heidi Oldman; Repetition Priming of Face Gender Judgements - an Instance Based Explanation, Dennis C. Hay. (Part Contents).

Biography

Hadyn Ellis, Neil Macrae