We examined individual and developmental differences in the disruptive effects of irrelevant sounds on serial recall of printed lists. In Experiment 1, we examined adults (N = 205) receiving eight-item lists to be recalled. Although their susceptibility to disruption of recall by irrelevant sounds was only slightly related to memory span, regression analyses documented highly reliable individua...

I construct a game-theoretic model in which people have preferences over two issues, but in which people rationally and endogenously choose to reveal their preferences over only one of them, leaving the other private and irrelevant for political action. In this way, people “construct” the political sphere to include one issue and not the other.

How strongly does humor (i.e., the construct-relevant content) in the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al., 2003) determine the responses to this measure (i.e., construct validity)? Also, how much does humor influence the relationships of the four HSQ scales, namely affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating, with personality traits and subjective well-being (i.e., cr...

This article is devoted to two different generalizations of projective Boolean algebras: openly generated Boolean algebras and tightly σ-filtered Boolean algebras. We show that for every uncountable regular cardinal κ there are 2 pairwise non-isomorphic openly generated Boolean algebras of size κ > א1 provided there is an almost free non-free abelian group of size κ. The openly generated Boolea...

The fundamental rationale for advancing the present investigation is traced back to the recognition that construct-irrelevant variances and construct under-representation threaten the value implications and the consequential validity of the tests, hence spoiling the appropriateness and usefulness of the test scores for the purpose of decision-making (Mesick, 1989). Accordingly, this article dea...

In large process deployments where an enterprise has to model and maintain a large number of processes that are specializations of each other it is advantageous to provide formal support for process specialization called process inheritance. A process inheritance model definition is introduced as well as a process definition language construct for defining process specialization.

Extensive research has demonstrated the impact of working memory (WM) on first language (L1) reading comprehension across age groups (Peng et al., 2018), and foreign (FL) adults older adolescents (Linck 2014). Comparatively little is known about effect WM young FL readers’ comprehension, even less within testing contexts. Young readers are still developing their L1 skills general cognitive (e.g...