American Journal of Applied Psychology

Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2017

  • Metacognitive Skills as Predictors of Cognitive Failure

    Salem Ali Salem Algharaibeh

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2017
    Pages: 31-37
    Received: 12 May 2017
    Accepted: 22 May 2017
    Published: 10 July 2017
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    Abstract: This research aimed at identifying the levels of metacognitive skills (planning, monitoring, and assessment), cognitive failure, the differences in them according to specialisations (scientific college and literary college), and the predictive ability of metacognitive skills in detecting cognitive failure. The metacognitive skills questionnaire (MC... Show More
  • Emotional Intelligence Moderates Anxiety Reactions in Chronic Health Conditions

    Leehu Zysberg

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2017
    Pages: 38-41
    Received: 22 June 2017
    Accepted: 07 July 2017
    Published: 01 August 2017
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    Abstract: Anxiety associated with chronic health conditions is a serious comorbidity with implications for health promotion and quality of life in adults with chronic illness. Thus there is value in identifying personal resources that may protect against anxiety. A recent concept that may meet this definition is that of emotional intelligence (EI). It was hy... Show More
  • Event - Related Potentials on the Application of Deception Detection in the Simulation of Concealing Cases

    Ruiying Li, Hongguang Liu, Jing Yong

    Issue: Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2017
    Pages: 42-50
    Received: 13 August 2017
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    Published: 14 August 2017
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    Abstract: This study used Event-related Potentials (ERPs) to examine the difference between three issue types (related, foil, and unrelated issues) and two reaction types (honesty and deception reaction). This was a subject-in design. Two sets of data were collected. First, the behavior data showed that the reaction time of the deception was 200ms slower tha... Show More