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Moderators of learning and performance trajectories in microworld simulations: Too soon to give up on intellect!? (2018)
Journal Article
Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Beckmann, N., Double, K., & Whittingham, K. (2018). Moderators of learning and performance trajectories in microworld simulations: Too soon to give up on intellect!?. Intelligence, 68, 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.03.008

The burgeoning increase in the importance given to non-cognitive factors in complex decisions making, has led to calls to question intelligence as the primary explanatory model of success. Features of a business microworld simulation were experimenta... Read More about Moderators of learning and performance trajectories in microworld simulations: Too soon to give up on intellect!?.

To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. (2018). To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom. System, 72, 226-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.01.003

Willingness to communicate (WTC) used to be seen as a stable, trait-like communicative tendency; however, in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), attention has recently shifted to its more dynamic, state-like components. This article syste... Read More about To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom.

Situation contingent units of personality at work (2018)
Journal Article
Wood, R., Beckmann, N., Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Minbashian, A., & Chau, R. (2019). Situation contingent units of personality at work. Personality and Individual Differences, 136, 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.01.026

Conscientiousness and neuroticism were studied as situation contingencies in a sample of 124 managers. Experience sampling measures of situational characteristics, state conscientiousness and state neuroticism were collected before, during and after... Read More about Situation contingent units of personality at work.

Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness (2017)
Journal Article
Minbashian, A., Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2018). Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(9), 1182-1196. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2233

Organisational researchers have recently begun to focus on the more dynamic aspects of personality in the workplace. The present study examines individual differences in the affective processes that underlie one such dynamic construct, task-contingen... Read More about Emotional intelligence and individual differences in affective processes underlying task-contingent conscientiousness.

Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change (2017)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2017). Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01486

Trait theorists and social-cognitive theorists have begun to integrate their respective descriptions and explanations of personality. The new framing of personality accommodates both between-person stability and within-person variability in personali... Read More about Editorial: Dynamic personality science: Integrating between-person stability and within-person change.

Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions (2017)
Journal Article
Dobson, E., Beckmann, N., & Forrest, S. (2017). Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions. Pastoral Care in Education, 35(4), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2017.1350202

This paper presents findings from a comparative study of peer- and teacher-led Sex and Relationship Education (SRE). One lesson delivered by a peer educator, and one lesson delivered by a teacher was observed with the aim of exploring the communicati... Read More about Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions.

Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals (2017)
Journal Article
Cooper, D., Higgins, S., & Beckmann, N. (2017). Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 45(4), 546-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047239516669104

Online instructional videos are becoming increasingly common within education. This study adopts a quasi-experimental 2 × 2 crossover design (control and experimental groups) to evaluate the efficacy of instructional videos to teach practical rehabil... Read More about Online instructional videos as a complimentary method of teaching practical rehabilitation skills for groups and individuals.

Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions (2017)
Journal Article
Birney, D., Beckmann, J., Beckmann, N., & Double, K. (2017). Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions. Intelligence, 61, 63-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2017.01.005

The Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) test entails a 40-min contextualized interaction with a set of progressively difficult cognitive activities. Item-to-item experiences accumulate to total scores determined by, and reflective of, cognitive abilit... Read More about Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions.

Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics (2016)
Journal Article
Cripps, E., Wood, R., Beckmann, N., Lau, J., Beckmann, J., & Cripps, S. (2016). Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1065. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01065

A Bayesian technique with analyses of within-person processes at the level of the individual is presented. The approach is used to examine whether the patterns of within-person responses on a 12-trial simulation task are consistent with the predictio... Read More about Bayesian Analysis of Individual Level Personality Dynamics.

A problem shared is learning doubled: Deliberative processing in dyads improves learning in complex dynamic decision-making tasks (2015)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., Birney, D., & Wood, R. (2015). A problem shared is learning doubled: Deliberative processing in dyads improves learning in complex dynamic decision-making tasks. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 654-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.052

Whilst micro-worlds or simulations have increasingly been used in higher education settings, students do not always benefit as expected from these learning opportunities. By using an experimental-control group design we tested the effectiveness of st... Read More about A problem shared is learning doubled: Deliberative processing in dyads improves learning in complex dynamic decision-making tasks.

Does schooling have an impact on short-term memory? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tymms, P., Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., Elliott, J., & Merell, C. (2013). Does schooling have an impact on short-term memory?.

Short-term memory (STM) capacity in the context of academic attainment is of great importance and studied extensively although experimental interventions to increase STM or working memory have yet to produce long-term gains. But is it possible that s... Read More about Does schooling have an impact on short-term memory?.

Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation (2013)
Journal Article
Fisher, C., Minbashian, A., Beckmann, N., & Wood, R. (2013). Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031260

We predict real-time fluctuations in employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the immediate task situation and individual differences in performance goal orientation. Task confidence, task importance, positive emotions,... Read More about Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation.

In the heat of the moment: On the effect of state neuroticism on task performance (2013)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., Minbashian, A., & Birney, D. (2013). In the heat of the moment: On the effect of state neuroticism on task performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 54(3), 447-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.022

The aim of this study was to further shed light on the relationship between neuroticism and performance by taking into account the situation-specific experience of neuroticism when undertaking cognitive tasks. A total of 121 high-performing professio... Read More about In the heat of the moment: On the effect of state neuroticism on task performance.

Small group learning: Do group members' implicit theories of ability make a difference? (2012)
Journal Article
Beckmann, N., Wood, R., Minbashian, A., & Tabernero, C. (2012). Small group learning: Do group members' implicit theories of ability make a difference?. Learning and Individual Differences, 22(5), 624-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2012.06.007

We examined the impact of members' implicit theories of ability on group learning and the mediating role of several group process variables, such as goal-setting, effort attributions, and efficacy beliefs. Comparisons were between 15 groups with a st... Read More about Small group learning: Do group members' implicit theories of ability make a difference?.