Taking notes is of uttermost importance in academic and commercial use and success. Different techniques for note-taking utilise different cognitive processes and strategies. This experimental study examined ways to enhance cognitive performance via different note-taking techniques. By comparing performances of traditional, linear style note-taking with alternative nonlinear technique, we aimed...

The current study examines rumination—a specific facet of perfectionism—and hypothesizes that higher levels of rumination intensify the negative relationship between organizational constraints and job satisfaction. Individuals living in India and having full-time employment in an organization participated via Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). A moderated multiple regression analysis was con...

We test whether specific, challenging goals increase risk taking. We propose that goals serve as reference points, creating a region of perceived losses for outcomes below a goal (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Tversky & Kahneman, 1992). According to the Prospect Theory value function, decision makers become more risk seeking in the domain of losses. In three experiments we compared a “do your best”...

The theory of performance feedback views decision makers as problem-solvers seeking to improve performance. By specifying how and when decision makers may instead seek to enhance their self-image by assessing performance as satisfactory, the model presented in this paper specifies boundaries on performance feedback theory’s critical prediction that low performance induces increased search, chan...

I t is a gender read ing of F lorence N ight ingale 's ma in work, "Notes on N u rs ing : what is and what isn 't" , a book which brings together the pr inc ip les and essential e lements of modern n u rs ing , professional ized i n England i n the second ha lf of the X IX centu ry and the way the profession was constituted i n Brazi l , as expl icited i n the work of Glete de Alcantara : "Mode...