Assessment of job stress factors in a context of organizational change
Conclusion The implications of these findings for further work on health outcomes of organizational changes closed this study. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - November 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Managers’ selection preferences: The role of prejudice and multicultural personality traits in the assessment of native and immigrant job candidates
Conclusions The results suggest that managers’ feelings of threat due to foreign-born immigrants’ participation in the host society (political conservatism), and threat due to intercultural interactions, are significantly related to foreign-born immigrant job candidates’ chances of being hired. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Divergent viewpoints about lineups: What policy for the identification of criminals?
Publication date: September 2013 Source:Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 5 Author(s): S. Demarchi Introduction A fair lineup is needed to maximize the likelihood of correct identification of the criminal and minimize the likelihood of mistaken identification. Fairness depends on distractor plausibility and the lineup method (i.e., simultaneous or sequential). Objective This paper aims to evaluate the advantages and the limits of distractor plausibility and the presentation of the lineup members, and thus show the best method to ensure correct identif...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Beliefs about memory among psychology students and their professors in psychodynamic clinical and experimental study programs
Conclusion The results are discussed in terms of the risks that the lack of knowledge on memory functioning of the psychologists with a psychodynamic orientation may have in producing wrong reports in forensic contexts. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Intention stability: Literature and methodological review
Conclusion Further thought must be given to the construct as an attribute of the individual, and how this attribute should be operationalised. The usefulness of “intention stability” will not be able to be evaluated prior to definition of a measurement model and its psychometric validation. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validation francophone de l’inventaire des facilitateurs de l’apprentissage organisationnel (IFAO) : étude comparative de l’apprentissage perçu au niveau des individus, des groupes et de l’organisation
Publication date: November 2013 Source:Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 6 Author(s): M. Lauzier , J. Barrette , L. Lemyre , W. Corneil Introduction L’Inventory of Organizational Learning Facilitators (IOLF), élaboré par Barrette, Lemyre, Corneil, et Beauregard (2012), est un instrument de mesure des facilitateurs de l’apprentissage organisationnel (AO). Le fait que cette échelle ne soit disponible qu’en langue anglaise limite son emploi dans les recherches conduites auprès de populations francophones. Objectif L’objectif de cette étud...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Rééducation des compétences socio-émotionnelles pour des adultes présentant une déficience intellectuelle
Conclusion Par conséquent, cette recherche démontre que l’amélioration des compétences de la population étudiée ne se limite pas au traitement des informations socio-émotionnelles mais se généralise dans son fonctionnement quotidien. Introduction The aim of the present study was to improve socio-emotional skills in adults with intellectual disability (ID) in order to remediate their social behavior difficulties. Method The socio-emotional skills reeducation program (Barisnikov, 2007) was proposed to 17 ID adults. Participants’ socio-emotional skills were assessed in pre- and post-reeducation period using ...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Saccadic peak velocity as an alternative index of operator attention: A short review
Conclusion This research could provide several guidelines for designing adaptive systems (able to allocate tasks between operators and machine in a dynamic way) and early fatigue-and-distraction warning systems to reduce accident risk. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How can the impact of implementation intentions as a behaviour change intervention be improved?
Publication date: January 2014 Source:Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, Volume 64, Issue 1 Author(s): A. Prestwich , I. Kellar Interventions requesting individuals to form implementation intentions, specific plans regarding how and when to enact behaviour, have been shown to be effective in changing a wide range of health, social, and organisational behaviours. A small proportion of studies have sought to identify, within full-factorial designs, under what circumstances and for whom implementation intention-based interventions are most effective. This review covers thi...
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Fear-then-relief, legitimizing a paltry contribution, and charity
Conclusions The aforementioned pattern of results is important for the development of theoretical knowledge about techniques of social influence, and has direct practical implications. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

When saying no leads to compliance: The door-in-the-face technique for changing attitudes and behaviors towards smoking at work
Conclusion Taken together, the results show that the door-in-the-face technique was more effective than the information campaign. These results are discussed in light of the social acceptability of the initial refusal. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Intention to change activities that reduce carbon dioxide emissions related to worry about global climate change consequences
Conclusions In line with recent research positing that affect increases preventive actions, the hypothesis was supported that intentions to change personal activities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions increased with participants’ worry about the consequences of global climate change. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Foot-in-the-door and action identification. Binding communication applied to environmental conservation
Conclusion Discussed in the context of commitment (Joule and Beauvois, 1998, 2002; Kiesler, 1971), self-perception (Bem, 1972) and action identification (Vallacher and Wegner, 1985); the results provide the first empirical validation of the effect of action identification on Binding Communication. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

New developments on compliance-gaining procedures
Publication date: January 2014 Source:Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, Volume 64, Issue 1 Author(s): F. Girandola , N. Guéguen (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Fireman's job stress: Integrating work/non-work conflict with Job Demand-Control-Support model
Conclusion WFC and WLC are integrated into Job Demand-Control-Support model model in current research to narrow the gap of job stress theory. (Source: European Review of Applied Psychology)
Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - October 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research