Keppens, Gil Spruyt, Bram Dockx, Jonas
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Frontiers in psychology
In order to use attendance monitoring within an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism, we need to know whether the attendance data collected by schools cover all students with (emerging) school attendance problems (SAPs). The current article addresses this issue by comparing administrat...
Dowker, Ann De Smedt, Bert Desoete, Annemie
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Frontiers in psychology
Becerra, Angela M Mervis, Carolyn B
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Frontiers in psychology
Background: One of the most consistent findings in the early language acquisition literature regarding children in the general population is that the onset of declarative pointing gestures precedes the onset of expressive referential language. Furthermore, frequency of early use of declarative gestures is a stronger predictor of later lexical devel...
Deng, Chuanjun Liao, Shudi Liu, Zhiqiang
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Self-perceived status is considered an important antecedent of an employee's extra-role behavior. However, the relationship between self-perceived status and "proactive helping" has been neglected in previous human resource management (HRM) research. Data were collected from 214 employees and their supervisors in two waves of dyads. The results of ...
Mukherjee, Sumitava
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Frontiers in psychology
Rahm, Tobias Heise, Elke
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Teachers' health is a persistent challenge for educational systems all over the world. Moreover, research results - especially in the domain of positive psychology - indicate that high levels of well-being are associated with additional benefits improving teachers' professional performance. Therefore, a training to foster subjective well-being with...
Wortha, Franz Azevedo, Roger Taub, Michelle Narciss, Susanne
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Emotions are a core factor of learning. Studies have shown that multiple emotions are co-experienced during learning and have a significant impact on learning outcomes. The present study investigated the importance of multiple, co-occurring emotions during learning about human biology with MetaTutor, a hypermedia-based tutoring system. Person-cente...
Callejas-Albiñana, Fernando Evaristo de Vidales Carrasco, Irene Martín Martínez-Rodríguez, Isabel Isabel Callejas-Albiñana, Ana
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In recent years, the slow pace of economic growth, high indebtedness, and high unemployment registered in most developed economies since 2009 have revived the debate over the "secular stagnation hypothesis" first formulated by the Keynesian economist Alvin Hansen in 1938. This return of the secular stagnation hypothesis occurred in November 2013, w...
Hernández, Isaac Vecchi, Davide
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In this article, we propose to critically evaluate whether a closure of constraints interpretation can make sense of biotic entrenchment, the process of assimilation and functional integration of environmental elements of biotic origin in development and, eventually, evolution. In order to achieve the aims of our analysis, we shall focus on multi-s...
Axelsson, Emma L Robbins, Rachel A Copeland, Helen F Covell, Hester W
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As with faces, participants are better at discriminating upright bodies than inverted bodies. This inversion effect is reliable for whole figures, namely, bodies with heads, but it is less reliable for headless bodies. This suggests that removal of the head disrupts typical processing of human figures, and raises questions about the role of faces i...
