Building on the work of Aarts and coworkers on nonconscious goal pursuit, the present study investigates whether subliminal processes may motivate effortful behavior and perseverance to learn coursework. We exposed students to a priming task in which subliminal representation of the goal of studying was directly paired (priming-positive group) or not (priming group) to a positive word. There wa...

Oftentimes, learning mathematics involves using technology as a conscious attempt to understand the material in a new and accessible mode, to increase performance, and to expand one’s knowledge regardless of the level of training. While comparative assessments of students’ performances in blended and face-to-face environments are essential, the authors of this paper analyze students’ mathematic...

We estimated the effect of human capital on leadership. Our human capital measures included not only the traditional measures of education and on-the-job learning but also measures of cognitive and noncognitive abilities. The measures of cognitive abilities included numeracy, literacy, and problem solving, and the noncognitive abilities measures included perseverance, openness to learning, and ...

Dr. William Croone, who at his death in 1684 left plans for the lectureship he had designed to found, was interested in the nature of, and the laws governing, muscular motion, and it is upon one aspect of this subject that I should like to speak today-namely, the particular disturbance of psychomotility that is known as perseveration. The phenomenon is not to be confused with persistence or per...

This case study draws on evidence gathered in a minority setting north-eastern Italy where Ladin, the heritage language, is central to construction of past and present narratives heroism resistance. The article aims contribute development new debates within this journal as facilitated by different disciplinary perspectives, line with recent discussions about status language heritage, which ques...