Whatever Happened to Information Theory in Psychology?

Using Signal Detection Theory to Investigate the Impact of Mood Induction on Emotional Information Processing in High BAS/BIS Individuals

Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the explicit memory bias in the people with high BAS/BIS sensitivity in the different manipulated mood states.  Methods: By using purposive sampling method, seventy-four participants (undergraduate students) were selected based on z-scores of 480 using the Carver and White’s BAS/BIS scale. They were distributed as: 24 wi...

Whatever happened to the psychology of human-computer interaction?: A biography of the life of a psychological framework within a HCI journal

Purpose – To outline how psychology as one of the original approaches to human-computer interaction (HCI) has formed a key part of the HCI literature, and to discuss the need for psychological approaches to HCI and system development. Design/methodology/approach – The contributions to the journal Human-Computer Interaction is examined from the journal’s start in 1985 up to the millennium. The a...

Psychometric Properties of State Level Subjective Vitality Scale based on classical test theory and Item-response theory

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factor structure and Item-Response parameters of State Level of Subjective Vitality Scale. The research design was correlational, and the statistical population consisted of students of the Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran. Sample group including 240 students were selected through multi-stage sampling and completed Subjective Vitality ...

Distance Learning a Place for Application of Independence Learner Theory

Introduction: With the arrival of new communication technologies, the process of learning from the teacher to the learner’s pivot with emphasis on the centrality of the learner has an independence movement and in determining the methods of teaching and assessment practices. On this basis the independence of the learner is one of the fundamental concepts of remote education system. The aim ...

Whatever happened to the class of '83?