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Dora Herrera

Researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Publications -  20
Citations -  1495

Dora Herrera is an academic researcher from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social psychology (sociology) & Self-determination theory. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1301 citations. Previous affiliations of Dora Herrera include University of Lima.

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The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

David P. Schmitt, +123 more
TL;DR: The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness as discussed by the authors.
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Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

David P. Schmitt, +130 more
TL;DR: In the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completed the RelationshipQuestionnaire (RQ), a self-report measure of adult romantic attachment as discussed by the authors.
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Untying the Gordian Knot of Guilt and Shame The Structure of Guilt and Shame Reactions Based on Situation and Person Variation in Belgium, Hungary, and Peru

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the structure of guilt and shame reactions in three cultural groups (Peru, Hungary, and Belgium) using two newly constructed scenario-based inventories.
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Students' Agentic Engagement Predicts Longitudinal Increases in Perceived Autonomy-Supportive Teaching: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether students' classroom engagement might predict a change in teachers' motivating styles, though they investigated only students' perceptions of these changes, using a self-determination theory framework and a classroom-based longitudinal research design.
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Study Persistence and Academic Achievement as a Function of the Type of Competing Tendencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that students' achievement and persistence might not only be affected by their amount of study motivation, but also by the motivation to engage in competing alternative activities, as suggested three decades ago by Atkinson and Birch.