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Jamie DeCoster

CASTL, University of Virginia
Verified email at virginia.edu
Cited by 24576

Dual-process models in social and cognitive psychology: Conceptual integration and links to underlying memory systems

ER Smith, J DeCoster - Personality and social psychology …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Models postulating 2 distinct processing modes have been proposed in several topic areas
within social and cognitive psychology. We advance a new conceptual model of the 2 …

[PDF][PDF] Overview of factor analysis

J DeCoster - 1998 - stat-help.com
1. The number of common factors influencing a set of measures. 2. The strength of the
relationship between each factor and each observed measure.

A large-scale meta-analysis relating the Hare measures of psychopathy to antisocial conduct

AMR Leistico, RT Salekin, J DeCoster… - Law and human behavior, 2008 - Springer
The present meta-analysis integrated effect sizes from 95 non-overlapping studies (N = 15,826)
to summarize the relation between Hare Psychopathy Checklists and antisocial conduct. …

Teaching through interactions: Testing a developmental framework of teacher effectiveness in over 4,000 classrooms

…, RC Pianta, JT Downer, J DeCoster… - The elementary …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Validating frameworks for understanding classroom processes that contribute to student
learning and development is important to advance the scientific study of teaching. This article …

A conceptual and empirical examination of justifications for dichotomization.

J DeCoster, AMR Iselin, M Gallucci - Psychological methods, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite many articles reporting the problems of dichotomizing continuous measures, researchers
still commonly use this practice. The authors’ purpose in this article was to understand …

A meta-analysis of priming effects on impression formation supporting a general model of informational biases

J DeCoster, HM Claypool - Personality and social …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Primming researchers have long investigated how providing information about traits in one
context can influence the impressions people Jorm of social targets in another. The literature …

Effect of playing violent video games cooperatively or competitively on subsequent cooperative behavior

…, JA Velez, RE Guadagno, J DeCoster - … , behavior, and social …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Research on video games has yielded consistent findings that violent video games increase
aggression and decrease prosocial behavior. However, these studies typically examined …

[PDF][PDF] Meta-analysis notes

J DeCoster - 2004 - stat-help.com
Jamie DeCoster … These were compiled by Jamie DeCoster, partially from a course in
meta-analysis taught by Alice Eagly at Northwestern University. If you wish to cite the …

Best practices for using median splits, artificial categorization, and their continuous alternatives

J DeCoster, M Gallucci… - Journal of experimental …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Methodologists have long discussed the costs and benefits of using medians or other cut
points to artificially turn continuous variables into categorical variables. The current paper …

Teacher–child conversations in preschool classrooms: Contributions to children's vocabulary development

SQ Cabell, LM Justice, AS McGinty, J DeCoster… - Early Childhood …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study used a novel method to examine the volume and quality of teacher–child conversations
within 44 preschool classrooms. Small group play sessions were transcribed, parsed …