Douglas A. Waring Ph.D.

Dr. Waring's academic interests include: Cognitive psychology: Working memory, Individual differences, Education, Knowledge-based comprehension processes. Evolutionary psychology: Conformity, Persuasion, and Reciprocity.

There are 2 included publications by Douglas A. Waring Ph.D.:

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Effects of Task on the Activation of Predictive Inferences 1998 999 Research on the activation of predictive inferences has provided inconsistent results that may be explained within a contextual view of reading. The present study tested whether the type of test for explicit memory would affect the activation of k...
Reflections of the Self: How Self-Esteem Determines Decision Framing and Increases Risk Taking 2007 5845 Historically, research examining the influence of individual personality factors on decision processing has been sparse. In this paper we investigate how one important individual aspect, self-esteem, influences imposition and subsequent processing ...