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Submissions from 2012
No Evidence that Consistent Auditory Cues Facilitate Learning of Spatial Relations among Locations, Bradley R. Sturz, Zachary A. Kilday, Kent D. Bodily, and Debbie M. Kelly
Developing Student-Teacher Rapport in the Undergraduate Classroom, Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan
Formative Teaching Evaluations: Is Student Input Useful?, Janie H. Wilson and Rebecca G. Ryan
Submissions from 2011
Brief Familiarization Primes Covert Imitation in 9-month-old Infants, Bennett I. Bertenthal and Ty W. Boyer
Visual Attention and Change Detection, Ty W. Boyer, Thomas G. Smith, Chen Yu, and Bennett I. Bertenthal
The Social Psychology of the FLDS Raid and the Corresponding Media Coverage, Ryan T. Cragun and Michael Nielsen
The Struggle for Legitimacy: Tensions between the LDS and FLDS, Ryan T. Cragun, Michael Nielsen, and H. Clingenpeel
Psychology of Religion, K. L. Ladd and Michael Nielsen
The Relationship between Psychopathic Traits and Attachment Behavior in a Non-Clinical Population, Tawny D. Mack, Amy Hackney, and Michael B. Pyle
What Do Older Adults Seek in Their Potential Romantic Partners? Evidence from Online Personal Ads, William D. McIntosh, Lawrence Locker, Katherine Briley, Rebecca G. Ryan, and Alison J. Scott
Mormons and the Here and Now, Michael Nielsen
The Price of Free Inquiry in Mormonism, Michael Nielsen and Ryan T. Cragun
Psychometric Characteristics Of The Professor-Student Rapport Scale, Rebecca G. Ryan, Janie H. Wilson, and James L. Pugh
Brief Report: Teaching History of Psychology for the Historically Challenged Instructor, Janice N. Steirn
Access to Emerging Technologies and Telehealth Intervention Modality Preferences in Rural Patients, Jacob C. Warren, K. Bryant Smalley, Jeff J. Klibert, and Jennie Wren Denmark
A Social Look at Student-Instructor Interactions, Janie H. Wilson, Karen Z. Naufel, and Amy Hackney
Submissions from 2010
Risk-Taking, Ty W. Boyer and James P. Byrnes
Religious Orientation, Religious Affiliation, and Boundary Maintenance: The Case of Polygamy, Ryan T. Cragun and Michael Nielsen
Domain is a Moving Target for Relational Learning, Jeffrey S. Katz, Bradley R. Sturz, and Anthony A. Wright
The Breakup of Romantic Relationships: Situational Predictors of Perception of Recovery, Lawrence Locker, William D. McIntosh, Amy Hackney, Janie H. Wilson, and Katherine E. Wiegand
How Do Psychology Students Use Web-based Information? Trends & Implications From a Descriptive Study, Karen Z. Naufel, K. K. Briley, L. K. Harackiewicz, A. S. Johnson, K. P. Marzec, and Michael Nielsen
Age Differences in Explicit Memory of Crimes and Source Monitoring Ability: Adolescents and Young Adults, Rebecca G. Ryan
Rural Mental Health and Psychological Treatment: A Review for Practitioners, Bryant Smalley, Candace T. Yancey, Jacob C. Warren, Karen Naufel, Rebecca G. Ryan, and James L. Pugh
Professor-Student Rapport Scale Predicts Student Outcomes, Janie H. Wilson, Rebecca G. Ryan, and James L. Pugh
Are Celebrities Charged with Murder Likely to Be Acquitted?, Maria Wong, Alan K. Goodboy, Michael P. Murtagh, Amy Hackney, and Lynn E. McCutcheon
Submissions from 2009
Fighting Over "Mormon": Media Coverage of the FLDS and LDS, Ryan T. Cragun and Michael Nielsen
Opinions Regarding Polygamy among LDS Church Members: Demographic Predictors, Michael Nielsen
Review of the Book In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, And Change, Michael Nielsen
Religious Orientation and Attitudes about Stem Cell Research, Michael Nielsen, Jennifer Williams, and Brandon Randolph-Seng
Opening the Doors of Perception: Priming Altered States of Consciousness Outside of Conscious Awareness, Brandon Randolph-Seng and Michael Nielsen
Age Differences in Personality: Adolescents and Young Adults, Rebecca G. Ryan
Submissions from 2008
How the LDS Church Could Address the Polygamy Question [Op-ed column], Michael Nielsen
Men's Grooming In the LDS Church: A Qualitative Study of Norm Violation, Michael Nielsen
Mormons and the State, Michael Nielsen
Is God Really Watching You? A Response to Shariff and Norenzayan, Brandon Randolph-Seng and Michael Nielsen
The Relationship between Ethnicity, Christian Orthodoxy, and Mental Health, Brandon Randolph-Seng, Michael Nielsen, Bette L. Bottoms, and Henrietta Filipas
Submissions from 2002
Developing a Showcase for Undergraduate Research: A Georgia Southern Version of Posters on the Hill, S. Todd Deal and Janice N. Steirn
Submissions from 2000
Review of Iron Rod and Compass scales of religious orientation, John Maltby, John Lewis, Christopher Alan, and Andrew Hill
Submissions from 1997
Perceptual Learning in Pigeons: Decreased Ability to Discriminate Samples Mapped onto the Same Comparison in Many-To-One Matching, Daren H. Kaiser, Lou M. Sherburne, Janice Steirn, and Thomas R. Zentall
Transitive Inference in Pigeons: Control for Differential Value Transfer, Janice E. Weaver, Janice N. Steirn, and Thomas R. Zentall
Submissions from 1995
Transitive Inference in Pigeons: Simplified Procedures and a Test of Value Transfer Theory, Janice Steirn, Janice E. Weaver, and Thomas R. Zentall
Submissions from 1993
Representation Strength in Pigeon Short-Term Memory: Effect of Delay Training, Janice Steirn, Thomas R. Zentall, and Lou M. Sherburne
Common Coding and Stimulus Class Formation in Pigeons, Thomas R. Zentall, Lou M. Sherburne, and Janice Steirn