Sami Gülgöz

TL;DR: Perceptions of national character appear to be unfounded stereotypes that may serve the function of maintaining a national identity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors link a computational psychological model to instructional practice, using Kintsch's reading comprehension model to identify locations where inferences were called for in a 1000-word expository text.

TL;DR: With advancing age, sex differences found in adolescents increasingly converge toward adult patterns with respect to both direction and magnitude; girls display sex-typed personality traits at an earlier age than boys; and the emergence of sex differences was similar across cultures.

TL;DR: The short Need for Cognition Scale (NFCS) as mentioned in this paper was administered to 51 students enrolled in two sections of a social psychology class at the beginning of the course and during the quarter the students completed three projects, in which they explained the social-psychological principles they thought were illustrated in selfselected materials.

TL;DR: For 71 undergraduates Cronbach alphas on two administrations of the Need for Cognition Scale over 7 weeks, the test-retest correlation,.88, indicated high stability.