An 11-month longitudinal study (T1: N = 520, M age = 19 years) investigated the role of gender-related self-concept and goal clarity during the transition period surrounding graduation from upper secondary school in Switzerland. The first assessment took place a few months before graduation and assessed participants’ gender-related self-concept (instrumentality, expressivity), gender-role attit...

Current cognitive models stress the importance of negative self-perceptions in maintaining social anxiety, but focus predominantly on content rather than structure. Two studies examine the role of self-structure (self-organisation, self-complexity, and self-concept clarity) in social anxiety. In study one, self-organisation and self-concept clarity were correlated with social anxiety, and a ste...

Childhood trauma (CT) and psychosis may be associated. Drawing on the dissociation and social psychological literature, the current study examined the mediating role of structural aspects of self in explaining the relationship between childhood trauma and psychosis. Twenty-nine individuals with psychosis were compared with 31 healthy volunteers regarding childhood trauma, dissociation and self-...

PREFACE The term 'user experience' (UX) is widely used but understood in many different ways. The multidisciplinary nature of UX has led to several definitions of and perspectives on UX, each approaching the concept from a different viewpoint. Existing definitions for user experience range from a psychological to a business perspective and from quality centric to value centric. There is no one ...

The deceptively simple foot-in-the-door technique is the oldest and most widely researched of the sequential-request compliance procedures investigated by social psychologists. Since its introduction by Freedman and Fraser (1966), the procedure has been examined in more than a hundred published studies and has been the topic of several reviews and meta-analyses (Beaman, Cole, Preston, Klentz, &...

With the unit interval [0,1] as the truth value table, Chen and Wupresented the concept of  possibility computation over dcpos.Indeed, every possibility computation can be considered as a[0,1]-valued Scott open set on a dcpo. The aim of this paper is tostudy Chen-Wu's duality on quantale-valued setting. For clarity,with a commutative unital quantale $L$ as the truth value table, weintroduce a c...