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Indirect measures of associations and psychopathology: applications to Spider PhobiaEllwart, Thomas 21 April 2004 (has links)
To study of cognitive fear networks and associations, indirect experimental paradigms like the Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald et al., 1998) or the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST, De Houwer, 2003) may be helpful, as they promise to assess the structure of specific associations using a performance based approach without having to ask the participant for a verbal report. Three studies investigated the usefulness and characteristics of IAT and EAST. The aim of the first study was to measure fear associations towards spiders among spider phobic and non-phobic participants as well as in a group of spider enthusiasts. Results indicate that the IAT paradigm is sensitive to the strength of fear relevant associations and able to predict anxious behavior beyond the predictions of direct measures such as questionnaires. The second study focused on some of the mechanisms that underlie IAT effects. With a newly developed masked IAT, these experiments investigated the influences of individual stimuli and superordinate categories on IAT performance. Besides theoretical implications, the results also provide practical, relevant applications for the use of IAT experiments. A third study applied the EAST to investigate how different context conditions lead to differential activation of cognitive schemata in fear of spiders. One can conclude that the impact of automatic threat associations depends on the activated context, and that the EAST is suitable for the assessment of fear associations and their current activation level. This dissertation leads to the conclusion that the performance based methodology of the IAT and EAST is a useful and practical approach to reflect fear associations in phobia indirectly. At this point, the use of indirect measures is still at its beginning, and requires intensive methodological and theoretical efforts. These paradigms, however, may become useful for possible implications in psychopathology and other fields of psychology.
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Untersuchungen zu Spinnengemeinschaften in Kakaoagroforstsystemen in Indonesien: Diversität, Netzdichte und räumlich-zeitlicher Artenaustausch / Spider communities in Indonesian cacao agroforestry: diversity, web density and spatio-temporal turnoverStenchly, Kathrin 23 July 2010 (has links)
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The Impact of Mowing and Flooding on the Diversity of Arthropods in Floodplain Grassland Habitats of the Lower Oder Valley National Park, Germany / Auswirkungen von Mahd und Überflutung auf die Arthropodendiversität der Auewiesen des Nationalparks Unteres OdertalRothenbücher, Judith 27 January 2005 (has links)
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Ameisen als Schlüsseltiergruppe in einem Grasland / Studien zu ihrer Bedeutung für die Tiergemeinschaft, das Nahrungsnetz und das Ökosystem / Ants as keystone species in a dry grassland / Studies of their importance for animal community, food web and ecosystem functionPlatner, Christian Karl-Johannes 30 June 2004 (has links)
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Spinnen in Agrarlandschaften und die biologische Kontrolle von Getreideblattläusen / Spiders in agricultural landscapes and the biological control of cereal aphidsSchmidt, Martin H. 27 May 2004 (has links)
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