Happiness in the form of pleasant moods and emotions, well‐being, and positive attitudes
has been attracting increasing attention throughout psychology research. The interest in …

The literature on feedback to individuals has previously been reviewed with respect to its
effect on the behavior of individuals in performance-oriented organizations. Although …

This study focused on the role played by social support on the job from coworkers and
supervisor in facilitating newcomer adjustment and in mitigating the effects of unmet-expectations …

Children use syntax to guide verb learning in a process known as syntactic bootstrapping.
Recent work explores how syntactic bootstrapping works—how it begins, and how it interacts …

A review of the literature revealed that the effects of personal control on intrinsic motivation
had not been directly investigated, that the interaction of competence and personal control …

Two experiments showed that 2.5‐year‐olds, as well as older children, interpret new verbs
in accord with their number of arguments. When interpreting new verbs describing the same …

We ask how children solve the mapping problem for verb acquisition: how they pair concepts
with their phonological realizations in their language. There is evidence that nouns but not …

Research into the role that emotions play in organizational settings has only recently been
revived, following publication in 1983 of Hochschild's The Managed Heart. Since then, and …

Cognitive appraisal theory (Lazarus, I966), on the other hand, posits that individuals will only
feel the same emotions if their appraisal of an event is the same. Under cognitive appraisal …

Decades of research have shown that the correlation between job satisfaction and job
performance is modest in magnitude, yet lay people are thought to believe strongly that satisfied …