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Rainer Westermann
Researcher at University of Greifswald
Publications - 14
Citations - 1310
Rainer Westermann is an academic researcher from University of Greifswald. The author has contributed to research in topics: Likert scale & Social environment. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1236 citations.
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Relative effectiveness and validity of mood induction procedures : a meta-analysis
TL;DR: The effectiveness and validity of 11 important mood induction procedures (MIPs) were comparatively evaluated by meta-analytical procedures as discussed by the authors, and two hundred and fifty effects of the experimental induction of positive, elated and negative, depressed mood in adult, non-clinical samples were integrated.
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Identifikation und Erfassung von Komponenten der Studienzufriedenheit.
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Mindsets in social anxiety: a new look at selective information processing
TL;DR: The result indicate that socially anxious people engage in information processing that interferes with successful goal attainment when approaching social situations.
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Error Probabilities in Educational and Psychological Research
Rainer Westermann,Willi Hager +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the well-known problem of cumulating error probabilities is reconsidered from a general epistemological perspective, namely, the concepts of severity (Popper) and of fairness of tests.
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The influence of a waiting intention on action performance : Efficiency impairment and volitional protection in tasks of varying difficulty
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the efficiency of currently performed activities can be impaired if a strong competing goal intention and an opportunity to initiate corresponding activities are present, and that the degree of this impairment depends on the difficulty of the current activities.