Iowa State University

About: Iowa State University is a education organization based out in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 50151 authors who have published 107716 publications receiving 3355909 citations. The organization is also known as: Iowa State University of Science and Technology & Iowa State College.

Do people aggress to improve their mood? Catharsis beliefs, affect regulation opportunity, and aggressive responding

Abstract: Do people aggress to make themselves feel better? We adapted a procedure used by G. K. Manucia, D. J. Baumann, and R. B. Cialdini (1984), in which some participants are given a bogus mood-freezing pill that makes affect regulation efforts ineffective. In Study 1, people who had been induced to believe in the value of catharsis and venting anger responded more aggressively than did control participants to insulting criticism, but this aggression was eliminated by the mood-freezing pill. Study 2 showed similar results among people with high anger-out (i.e., expressing and venting anger) tendencies. Studies 3 and 4 provided questionnaire data consistent with these interpretations, and Study 5 replicated the findings of Studies 1 and 2 using measures more directly concerned with affect regulation. Taken together, these results suggest that many people may engage in aggression to regulate (improve) their own affective states.

Focussing matrices for coherent signal-subspace processing

Abstract: A class of focussing matrices is proposed for use in the coherent signal-subspace method (CSM) (H. Wang and M. Kaveh, ibid., vol.ASSP-33, Aug. 1985). When the directions-of-arrival of wideband sources fall into more than one group of one beamwidth each, this class leads to performance substantially better than those suggested in previous studies on direction-of-arrival estimation. New insight into the structures of various focussing matrices and their effect on the performance of CSM is presented. The performance of CSM is compared for several classes of these matrices on the simulations as well as relative sufficiency analyses. >

Significant Life Experiences: A New Research Area in Environmental Education

Abstract: (1980). Significant Life Experiences: A New Research Area in Environmental Education. The Journal of Environmental Education: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 20-24.