Executive function (EF) skills are the attention-regulation skills that make it possible to sustain attention, keep goals and information in mind, refrain from responding immediately, resist distraction, tolerate frustration, consider the consequences of different behaviors, reflect on past experiences, and plan for the future. As EF research…

Research indicates that the family roles of men are slowly changing, with a small minority of those sampled having primary childcare/household duties. To examine the background, life satisfaction, motives, and personality traits of such men, 16 married, male adults, whose wives were employed outside the home, and who had over 50% of the…

Considerable evidence has been found to support the hypothesis that actors' and observers' attributions diverge. It is also becoming clear that this divergence is not the result of a single process, but is the result of factors which co-occur and differentiate actors from observers. Observers' beliefs about their similarity to actors were…

Early differences in cognitive motivation (quest for knowledge) may differentiate gifted from nongifted children. Situation-specific and activity-oriented measures of cognitive motivation are described, and evidence is presented showing the effectiveness of a measurement of reaction to congruent and incongruent figures in the identification of…

Business executives, who had worked up a bureaucratic hierarchy, entrepreneurs, and managers completed the Miner Sentence Completion Scale (MSCS), a measure of managerial motivation. Results indicated that theory congruent top executives had higher managerial motivation than entrepreneurs or managers. Findings support the theory and the use of the…

The paper develops a method for learning improvement which incorporates the learner in the development of the learning/instructional strategy. To this end, a rate limiting model using topographical brain mapping as an educational intervention is presented. It is suggested that such intervention programs focus on those factors which are…

Based on extensive research with children and young adults, this book examines adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows how these patterns originate in people's self theories; their consequences for one's achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society; and the experiences that…