Three studies were conducted to investigate the moderating and mediating influences of perceiver and target variables in the similarity-attraction relationship. In Study 1, 85 heterosexual males rated the interpersonal attractiveness and perceived attitude similarity of heterosexual and homosexual targets who were either attitudinally similar, ambiguous (i.e., no-attitude-information controls), or dissimilar to the participant. The relative effect of attitude similarity and attitude dissimilarity information on attraction judgments was moderated by the perceiver's prejudice level, but not by the target's group membership. Supplementary analyses revealed that target attraction ratings were only partially mediated by participants' perceptions of attitude similarity. Study 3 expanded on these findings by investigating the combined influence of a perceiver's prejudice level and his personal need for structure (PNS) on attraction judgments for ingroup and outgroup targets. One hundred and sixteen heterosexual males participated in an identical impression formation experiment. As predicted, the relative effect of attitude similarity and attitude dissimilarity information on heterosexual and homosexual target attraction judgments was moderated jointly by the perceiver's prejudice level and by his level of PNS: Individuals who were high in PNS and prejudice assigned lower attraction ratings to dissimilar targets than to control or similar targets, who were rated equivalently (i.e., S = C > D). Precisely the opposite was true of participants who were high in PNS but concurrently low in prejudice: These individuals assigned higher attraction ratings to similar targets than to control or dissimilar targets, who were rated equivalently (i.e., S > C = D). This interaction between the perceivers prejudice level and the attitude similarity/dissimilarity of the target was perfectly inverted for individuals who were low, rather than high, in PNS. Moreover, the role of prejudice i

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A number of theories have suggested a relation between depression and several cognitive and behavioral variables. The present study investigated how depressed and nondepressed individuals differ in the way they perceive others, and what they remember about others. Depressed and nondepressed college students were selected based on their Beck Depression Inventory scores. Subjects read one of two scenarios. One scenario was a description of a person who received predominantly positive outcomes, the other was a description of a person who received predominantly negative outcomes. Later, subjects were asked to rate the target person on several dimensions, and were asked to recall as much as possible from the scenario. The results suggest that: a) depressed subjects found the negative target as more enjoyable than did the nondepressed subjects; b) depressed subjects found the negative scenario target as more similar to them than nondepressed subjects did, with the reverse occuring for the positive scenario target; and c) depressed subjects recalled more negative intrusions than the nondepressed subjects. / Department of Psychological Science

Author: Jonathan Wanér Hedberg Title: Angående Individualismen – Facebook: Individualistens Kollektiv Year: 2014/2015 Abstract: This essay seeks to understand how the expression of individualism can be seen in different ways in people’s use of the social network Facebook. Ten interviews with Facebook users have been performed. The analysis of these has been able to illustrate how Facebook users through Erving Goffman´s impression management prepares and presents their individualism to a collective, i. e. the users Facebook friends. The Informants' had a common view of how social ideals are published on Facebook by the users. The informants' description of ideals was in terms of individualistic performances; such as their own physical workout, bread making, or similar self-performed activities. Analysis also demonstrates that the Facebook feature the “like button” can be used as the collective confirmation of the Facebook users presented individualism. This essay is also an attempt to explain how Facebook users enters their own individualized time zones on Facebook; being able to control the lives of friends on Facebook via a time that suits the users themselves; i. e. their own individualized time. Finally this essay tries to argue how people use Facebook to identify specific material, published by friends, which they use as a reflexivity of the self, as Anthony Giddens calls it. The informants describe how they use material, published by others, on Facebook to reflect on their own lives and identities; sometimes this resulted in a related action by those who performed the reflection.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Dentistry, 1991. / Typescript (Photocopy). Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-102).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2009. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1958.

La impresión dental es el procedimiento que más se realiza en la práctica clínica odontológica por lo que es indispensable realizarla de manera correcta para obtener un modelo definitivo óptimo. El propósito del presente estudio fue evaluar la alteración dimensional en modelos de yeso tipo IV obtenidos de impresiones con alginato, en las cuales la preparación empleó mayor o menor proporción de agua de lo que el fabricante refiere para la mezcla. El material utilizado fue alginato Tropicalgin de Zhermack®. Se realizó un modelo maestro de acero inoxidable, el cual simulaba una hemi-arcada con dos pilares. Se establecieron 3 grupos (Grupo1, Grupo control: 18 ml de agua y 9gr de polvo que corresponden a las proporciones indicadas por el fabricante, grupo 2: 13.5 ml de agua y 9 gr de polvo y grupo 3: 24 ml de agua y 9 gr de polvo). Se realizaron 15 impresiones por cada grupo que fueron vaciadas en yeso tipo IV Elite Rock de Zhermack®. Se realizaron 8 medidas a los modelos de yeso obtenidos de éstas impresiones mediante una máquina de medición por coordenadas con tecnología de Scanning por contacto modelo Contura G2 ZEISS para ser comparadas con las medidas del modelo maestro. Se hallaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas para las localizaciones E, F, G y H que corresponden a las medidas de las cimas y bases de los pilares. / Tesis

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