Recognition, after 1, 3, 6, 15, and 30 intervening events, for CCC and CVC trigrams of low, medium, and high meaningfulness (M) was studied in the Shepard-Teghtsoonian paradigm. Correct recognition varied directly with M and inversely with number of intervening events. False recognition varied inversely with M and increased with total number of presentations. Confidence in correct recognitions ...

Research suggests that people in Eastern interdependent cultures process information more holistically and attend more to contextual information than do people in Western independent cultures. The current study examined the effects of culture and age on memory for socially meaningful item-context associations in 71 Canadians of Western European descent (35 young and 36 older) and 72 native Chin...

BACKGROUND/AIM Day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities need to be evaluated for effectiveness in order to provide the best possible support. This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of a tailor-made intervention to improve day centre services for people with psychiatric disabilities. METHODS The intervention was devised to bridge identified gaps in the services and las...

Going beyond the traditional social-psychological model of the interview, criticism of the survey method points to the importance of the organizational framework of the interviewing process. Control of interaction in the interview through standardization may lead to an alienation of interviewers and respondents who may react with withdrawal from the task, aggression, or 'output reduction.' Usin...

This thesis explores "meaningfulness" in videogames. Academics, journalists, and others who write about games often discuss the concept of meaning yet seldom define it clearly. I am focusing on a variation of this topic: what it means for a gaming experience to be meaningful--literally: full of meaning. Meaningfulness, as I define it, refers to the quality a videogame has when one considers it ...

with the Portraits of American Life Study, a national survey of 2,610 American adults aged 18-80+. Results of multivariate logistic and ordered logistic regression models reveal that young adults are most likely to have recently offered advice to family members, friends, or strangers. Interestingly, however, the connection between advice-giving and the sense of life meaningfulness is most prono...