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Self-report measures of individual differences in regulatory focus: a cautionary note
(2011-02-07)
Regulatory focus theory distinguishes between two independent structures of strategic inclination,
promotion versus prevention. However, the theory implies two potentially independent definitions
of these inclinations, the ...
Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Literature of Tolerance
(2011-05-04)
When Liudmila Ulitskaia published The Funeral Party in 1997 the novella received
the critical scrutiny warranted by the latest work of an already prominent figure in postSoviet
letters. The
plot, set in New York
in the ...
Dare to compare: fact-based versus simulation-based comparison in daily life
(2011-02-07)
We examined the relative frequency of social, counter factual, past-temporal, and future-temporal
comparison in daily life using an experience-sampling method, in which participants were
randomly prompted to record thought ...
Publishing the Russian Soul? Women’s Provincial Literary Anthologies, 1990-1995
(2011-05-10)
From 1990 to 1995 four collections of women’s writing appeared in northwestern Russia: Mariia (two volumes: one issued in 1990 and the other in 1995), Zhena, kotoraia umela letat’ (The Wife Who Could Fly, 1993), and Russkaia ...
Writing The Woman’s Documentary Voice in Perestroika Gulag Narratives
(2011-05-10)
A substantial body of fictional and factual literature discusses labor camps, imprisonment, and exile as aspects of Russian culture both before and after 1917. However, while the Thaw opened public discussion of the Gulag, ...
Psuedo-dyadic "interaction" on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
(2014-09-17)
Psychological researchers have begun to utilize
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) marketplace as a participant
pool. Although past work has established that
MTurk is well suited to examining individual behavior,
pseudo-dyadic ...
Heterothermy in Northern Cardinals
(2014-12-10)
These data were used in the article on Northern Cardinal heterothermy published in the journal Animal Biologging.
Critical Gameplay: Software Studies in Computer Gameplay
(2010-10-12)
The computer game software with which we interact on a daily basis not only entertains us, it trains us into specific patterns. Critical Gameplay is a design practice which endeavors to expose and redesign the patterns to ...