How can communication contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through behaviour change and policy support? The existing literature emphasises informing people about the scientific consensus on climate change, but underlying research has been conducted mainly in US, where prior beliefs human-made are lower than many other countries with highest per-capita emissions. We test messages an ‘...

The present study examined ethnic differences in worry in a college student population. No differences were found between Caucasians, African Americans, and Asian Americans in pathological worry as measured by the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) or in the frequency with which they met self-report criteria for generalized anxiety disorder on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire f...

unlike teacher beliefs, there has been a dearth of study regarding efl learner beliefs. the reason can be that horwitz (1987) and the existing literature has predominantly been in an esl context. the present study reports the development and validation of a scale to measure the learner beliefs about language learning in iranian efl contexts. using a combination of verbal creativity method, inte...

Objective: Some theories state that a deficiency in cognitive control makes people more vulnerable to the occurrence of repetitive negative thoughts. The present study was done to investigate the association between cognitive control based on switching and inhibition and repetitive thinking of rumination and worry and major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Methods: Thirty ...

The rise of the periphrastic future (PF) at the expense of the inflected future (IF) is an established historical trend in Québécois French over at least the past 150 years. Previous research has also found higher rates of PF among younger speakers, many displaying categorical use in affirmative contexts. Because an apparent time interpretation of the synchronic data fits the historical record,...

BACKGROUND The metacognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder proposes that negative metacognitive beliefs are crucial in the maintenance of excessive worry. Furthermore, according to the cognitive model of insomnia, worry leads to problems falling or staying asleep and poor sleep quality. In order to test the assumed causal relationships, the present study examined the time-dependent cour...