The cross-situational consistency of lateral eye movement and its relationship to trait affect.
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Title
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The cross-situational consistency of lateral eye movement and its relationship to trait affect.
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Identifier
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AAI9521298
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identifier
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9521298
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Creator
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McEvaddy-Cantalupo, Denise Jean.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Howard Ehrlichman
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Education, Educational Psychology | Education, Tests and Measurements | Psychology, Personality
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Abstract
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The primary intent of this study was to reduce the methodological and theoretical inconsistencies in the lateral eye movement (LEM) literature by assessing whether LEMs could be accurately described as a cross-situational trait variable. It was further examined whether those individuals described as consistent left and consistent right movers would differ on other measures of hemisphericity and on measures of trait affect.;The lateral eye movements of 120 dextral college students were measured during three different experimental situations. Individuals were classified as left movers, right movers or bidirectional within each situation and their relationships with trait affect and two performance measures of hemisphericity (Chimeric Faces Test and Image Location Task) were assessed. Data was then aggregated across situations and individuals were reclassified as consistent left movers, right movers, bidirectional or untraited. The performance of these consistent groups on the affect and performance measures was then reassessed.;Female bidirectional and right mover groups performed differently on the Tense-Relaxed dimension of the Scales of Emotional State than left movers. The LEM groups did not differ on the Chimeric Faces Task and the Image Location for Positive Images Task within each situation. There was a significant difference in the scores on the Image Location Task for Negative Images Task between individuals classified as left movers and bidirectionals during the first situation.;The results indicated that subjects were inconsistent in their eye movement direction across the experimental situations. When data was aggregated over the situations, few subjects could be classified as consistent right movers, left movers, bidirectional or untraited. The performance of the consistent groups on measures of trait affect and hemisphericity also did not differ.;Conjunctive lateral eye movement is frequently used in psychological research as an indicator of lateralized hemispheric activation. LEMs are used in this manner despite pervasive inconsistencies in the results of this and other studies that use this variable. The present results question what LEMS assessed in a single experimental situation indicate.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
