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Writing the Urals: Permanence and Ephemerality in Ol'ga Slavnikova’s 2017
(2011-05-04)Ol'ga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 (Vagrius, 2006) made her the second woman to win Russia’s coveted Booker Prize, garnering conflicting critical responses in the process. Many hurried to label the narrative a dystopia: 2017’s ... -
Regret and behavior: comment on Zeelenberg and Pieters
(2011-05-04)Zeelenberg and Pieter's (2007) regret regulation theory 1.0 offers a synthesis that brings together concepts spanning numerous literatures. We have no substantive disagreement with their theory, but instead offer 3 ... -
Rush of regret: a longitudinal analysis of naturalistic regrets
(2011-04-07)The current research examines immediate regrets occurring at the time of a meaningful life outcome to better understand influences on real-life regrets. This research used a longitudinal approach to examine both initial ... -
Repetitive regret, depression, and anxiety: findings from a nationally representative survey
(2011-04-07)Past research has established a connection between regret (negative emotions connected to cognitions about how past actions might have achieved better outcomes) and both depression and anxiety. in the present ... -
Mystery Plots: Motivating Algebraic Model Building with Dynamic Sketches
(2011-03-14)In this paper, we explore the use of dynamic geometry software (DGS) as a medium for changing student and teacher interactions (and attitudes) with functions. We o er three examples of sketches that may be used to encourage ... -
Multi-measure investigation of the divergence of implicit and explicit consumer evaluations
(2011-02-07)This research extends findings that implicit and explicit attitudes may diverge to a consumer evaluation task using multiple measures of implicit evaluation: Evaluative Movement Assessment (EMA; Brendl, Markman, & Messner, ... -
Dare to compare: fact-based versus simulation-based comparison in daily life
(2011-02-07)We examined the relative frequency of social, counter factual, past-temporal, and future-temporal comparison in daily life using an experience-sampling method, in which participants were randomly prompted to record thought ... -
Self-report measures of individual differences in regulatory focus: a cautionary note
(2011-02-07)Regulatory focus theory distinguishes between two independent structures of strategic inclination, promotion versus prevention. However, the theory implies two potentially independent definitions of these inclinations, the ... -
Praise for regret: people value regret above other negative emotions
(2011-02-07)What do people think about the emotion of regret? Recent demonstrations of the psychological benefits of regret have been framed against an assumption that most people find regret to be aversive, both when experienced ... -
What we regret most . . . and why
(2011-02-07)Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret, and what features of those life domains explain why? Using archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater perceived opportunity within ... -
Critical Gameplay: Software Studies in Computer Gameplay
(2010-10-12)The computer game software with which we interact on a daily basis not only entertains us, it trains us into specific patterns. Critical Gameplay is a design practice which endeavors to expose and redesign the patterns to ... -
Preparing the Aging Network for Choice for Independence : Title VI Survey Results
(2010-09-22)With a grant from the Administration on Aging, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging(n4a) partnered with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduet the 2007 Aging Network Survey of Title VI Native American ... -
Title VI Survey Results [2009]
(2010-09-22)This report provides results from a national survey of the 243 Title VI Native American programs. The survey was designed to access the role of Title VI program in offering services and supports to the elders in their ... -
AAA Caregiving Survey Results
(2010-09-22)AAA Caregiving Survey Results summarizes the results of a mini survey of the nations 629 Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) on the support they provide to family caregivers. Over 57% of AAAs responded to the survey and the results ... -
The Effect of Context on the Silver Ceiling: A Role Congruity Perspective on Prejudiced Responses
(2010-07-01)Three studies examined role incongruity as a source of age bias in hiring decisions. Building upon previous research demonstrating contextual variation in prejudice, we predicted that prejudiced responses emerge particularly ... -
Nurising Home Use in Ohio: Who Stays, Who Pays?
(2010-06-11)This research brief follows a cohort of nursing home residents over a three-year period-- beginning with their first ever admission to a nursing home --in order to determine their stay patterns and changes in their payment ... -
Enriching Now with Then: Connecting Nursing Home Residents and Staff Through Oral History
(2010-03-09)This research presents and discusses findings on how increased staff knowledge of an Ohio nursing homes residents' past improved communication and relations between resident and staff and, also, boosted job performance ... -
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging AAA Workforce Survey
(2010-03-05)The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) contracted with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct a brief survey. The goals were to describe the capacity of the current AAA workforce and the workforce ... -
Race and the Greek system in the 21st Century: Centering the voices of Asian American women.
(2009-11-13)This study examines both the presence and absence of Asian Americans in a sorority system at a predominantly White institution in the Southeastern U.S. Using critical race theory to analyze interviews with eighteen Asian ... -
Taking Race into Account: Charting Student Attitudes towards Affirmative Action
(2009-11-13)This paper examines student attitudes towards affirmative action over 4 years of college. Asian American and Latino/a students were more likely than White students to disagree strongly or somewhat with abolishing affirmative ...