In recent years, we have seen an increased use of pair programming in CS-1 courses. Widespread evidence shows pair programming as beneficial at all levels of programming skill. During three academic years, we studied what students in CS-1 choose when given the option to either pair program or to program independently. We explore which students choose to pair and how often, and examine the major...

Social network sites can provide a person with the freedom to represent themselves in various ways, thus exhibiting multiple variations of their identity. Research states that an individual’s identity is self-monitored depending on the contextual situation that they are in. This ability is affected by their use of technology. We argue that social network sites are a particularly unique environm...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.06.001 * Corresponding author. Address: Department Osnabrück, Seminarstraße 20, 49069 Osnabrück, Germ E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Quirin). Past work indicates that persistent stress leads people to misremember assigned tasks as self-selected, a phenomenon known as self-infiltration [Baumann, N., & Kuhl, J. (2003). S...

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were recruited according to procedures commonly used in experimental economics and therefore subjects self-s...

aim and background: it appears that depressed people have low self-compassion and forgiveness due to having negative attitudes. in order to test this hypothesis, the current study investigated the role of self-compassion and forgiveness in the prediction of depression severity among university students. methods and materials: in a correlational study during 2010-11, 136 individuals were randoml...