This project is intended to help explain why older adults may possess a fear of falling from an as-of-yet unexplored angle – one that is purely based on stereotyping and expectations about falls that they may apply to ...

This study examined the role of applicants’ race, past criminality, and time since criminal conviction on participants’ evaluations of the fitness of fictional job candidates. Participants were told that they were acting ...

The present study investigated if student perceptions of university counseling services became more positive after viewing a video where fellow students shared their experiences with counseling services and if the associated ...

Older adults (OA) are more likely to experience hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and cardiovascular disease than are younger adults (YA). Likewise, older persons also often engage in more health preservation efforts ...

Western stereotypes regarding aging are both pervasive and, generally, negative. Personal endorsement of these stereotypes can be reflected in expectations regarding the aging process. For example, Lineweaver et al. (2009) ...

Athletes feel a constant pressure to maintain an accepted physique while in the spotlight. The current study examined the role of social pressures on college athletes’ degree of conformity to norms related to body type and ...

Although it is generally understood that humans orient themselves spatially within an environment, the precise manner and timescale by which this is accomplished is not entirely understood. In rats, this has been studied ...

The goal of the current exploratory study was to become better informed about the potential disparities that exist between traditional and non-traditional students in terms of university and classroom policies implemented ...

We expect to find relationships between item-specific restudy time and (1) a person’s memory of their past test performance (a recollection of getting an answer correct or incorrect previously); (2) participants’ impressions ...

Study time (ST) is defined as the amount of time (in seconds) an individual spends in the pursuit of learning new information. Decisions related to study time allocation reflect a person’s learning goals and perceptions ...