Psychological Sciences: Recent submissions
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The 2022 FIFA world cup in Qatar: resident interests and attitudes
( Taylor & Francis , 2024 , Article)This study examined residents’ attitudes towards the staging of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and assess their interest and level of support or opposition to this mega sport event. Guided by the Social Exchange Theory ... -
Using learning analytics to measure self-regulated learning: A systematic review of empirical studies in higher education
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2024 , Article Review)Background: Measuring students' self-regulation skills is essential to understand how they approach their learning tasks in order to identify areas where they might need additional support. Traditionally, self-report ... -
Changes in the own group bias across immediate and delayed recognition tasks
( Academy of Science of South Africa , 2023 , Article)Face recognition is biased in favour of in-group identity, particularly strongly for race or ethnicity but to some extent also for sex and age. This 'own group bias' (OGB) can have profound implications in practical settings, ... -
Video/Computer Game Addiction Among University Students in Ghana: Prevalence, Correlates and Effects of Some Demographic Factors
( AVES , 2020 , Article)Background: This study represented the first investigation of video/computer game addiction in Ghana and Africa. We investigated the prevalence of video game addiction and some of its correlates. In addition, the effects ... -
Erratum: Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: A cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States [BMC Psychology, 3, 42, (2015)] DOI 10.1186/s40359-015-0098-8
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2015 , Article)After publication of this article [1], it was noticed that Ahmed M. Megreya's name had been misspelt and was incorrectly presented as Ahmed M. Megraya. The correct spelling of the author's name, Ahmed M. Megreya, is included ... -
The Arabic version of the modified-abbreviated math anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences, and associations with different forms of anxiety and math achievement
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2023 , Article)Background: This study examined the psychometric properties (factor structure, measurement invariance, convergent and criterion validity, inter-correlations, and reliabilities) of an Arabic version of the modified-Abbreviated ... -
Super-Recognisers show an advantage for other race face identification
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2020 , Article)The accurate identification of an unfamiliar individual from a face photo is a critical factor in several applied situations (e.g., border control). Despite this, matching faces to photographic ID is highly prone to error. ... -
Cognitive emotion regulation strategies, anxiety, and depression in mothers of children with or without neurodevelopmental disorders
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Background: A large number of studies have examined psychological distress and emotion regulation (ER) in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, no study has previously examined "purely" cognitive ... -
The Need to Develop an Individualized Intervention for Mathematics Anxiety
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2021 , Article)Mathematics anxiety is prevalent in many societies around the world, ranging from 30 to 70% (for a review, see Betz, 1978; Dowker et al., 2016). More than 30% of 15-year-old students across the Organization for Economic ... -
A large-scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2024 , Article)Background Math anxiety (MA) is a worldwide appearing academic anxiety that can affect student mental health and deter students from math and science-related career choices. Method Using the Arabic version of the ... -
The effects of a culturally gender-specifying peripheral cue (headscarf) on the categorization of faces by gender
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Faces convey a wealth of cues that influence social categorizations and subsequent cognition and behavior. This study examined the effects of wearing a headscarf on face categorization by gender using Egyptian observers ... -
Emotional intelligence and criminal behavior
( Blackwell Publishing Inc. , 2015 , Article)A large body of research links criminality to cognitive intelligence and personality traits. This study examined the link between emotional intelligence (EI) and criminal behavior. One hundred Egyptian adult male offenders ... -
Individual differences in emotion regulation and face recognition
( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)Face recognition ability is highly variable among neurologically intact populations. Across three experiments, this study examined for the first time associations between individual differences in a range of adaptive versus ... -
The abbreviated science anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences and associations with test anxiety, general anxiety and science achievement
( Public Library of Science , 2021 , Article)Science anxiety refers to students' negative emotions about learning science. Across two studies, we investigated the psychometric properties of the newly developed Abbreviated Science Anxiety Scale (ASAS), which was adapted ... -
The impacts of math anxiety, science anxiety, and gender on arts versus sciences choices in Qatari secondary schools
( PeerJ Inc. , 2023 , Article)Previous studies showed small-to-moderate associations between students' performances in math and science and math anxiety and science anxiety, respectively. Accordingly, the high prevalence of these two forms of topic ... -
Face processing: Systems, disorders and cultural differences
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Book)Face processing is now a mainstream, multi-faceted and global research field in psychology, and it is growing exponentially. The volume of emerging research necessitates continuous efforts to update our overall understanding ... -
Preface : Face Processing: Systems, Disorders and Cultural Differences
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Other)Face processing is now a mainstream, multi-faceted and global research field in psychology, and it is growing exponentially. The volume of emerging research necessitates continuous efforts to update our overall understanding ... -
Developmental improvement and age-related decline in unfamiliar face matching
( Pion Limited , 2015 , Article)Age-related changes have been documented widely in studies of face recognition and eyewitness identification. However, it is not clear whether these changes arise from general developmental differences in memory or occur ... -
Culture shapes face perception: Comparisons of egypt and the UK
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Book chapter)The psychological literature reports a variety of cross-cultural differences in cognition, but most of these are based on comparisons of Western and Asian observers. Here, we discuss quantitative and qualitative cross-cultural ... -
Erratum: A visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks
( NLM (Medline) , 2017 , Article)This article contains typographical errors in the 'Methods' section under subheading 'Stimuli'.
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