Professor Nadin Beckmann's Outputs (34)

Beyond the Intellect: Complexity and learning trajectories in Raven’s Progressive Matrices depend on self-regulatory processes and conative dispositions (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation (2013)
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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)
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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)
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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?.

Management humor: Asset or liability? (2011)
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Wood, R., Beckmann, N., & Rossiter, J. (2011). Management humor: Asset or liability?. Organizational Psychology Review, 1(4), 316-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041386611418393

Should managers deliberately employ humor to persuade and motivate staff? A framework is presented for analyzing the role of humor in managerial communications. The framework includes the presenter, recipient, message, and medium and elaborates cogni... Read More about Management humor: Asset or liability?.

It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis (2010)
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Beckmann, N., Wood, R., & Minbashian, A. (2010). It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(5), 593-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.07.004

Research on personality structure has primarily focused on patterns of covariation between traits, and less emphasis has been put on the organization of relationships between thoughts, feelings and behaviors as they occur within individuals. Over sev... Read More about It depends how you look at it: On the relationship between neuroticism and conscientiousness at the within- and the between-person levels of analysis.

Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work (2010)
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Minbashian, A., Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2010). Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(5), 793-806. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020016

The present study examined the viability of incorporating task-contingent units into the study of personality at work, using conscientiousness as an illustrative example. We used experience-sampling data from 123 managers to show that (a) momentary c... Read More about Task-contingent conscientiousness as a unit of personality at work.

Contingent beliefs as predictors of within-person variation in conscientiousness at work (2009)
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Minbashian, A., Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2009). Contingent beliefs as predictors of within-person variation in conscientiousness at work. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2009(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2009.44256425

The article focuses on contingent beliefs that can predict the within-person variations of personality which affect conscientiousness in the workplace. Evaluation is based three psychological aspects of job performance which are task importance, task... Read More about Contingent beliefs as predictors of within-person variation in conscientiousness at work.

Self-confidence and performance goal orientation interactively predict performance in a reasoning test with accuracy feedback (2009)
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Beckmann, N., Beckmann, J., & Elliott, J. (2009). Self-confidence and performance goal orientation interactively predict performance in a reasoning test with accuracy feedback. Learning and Individual Differences, 19(2), 277-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2008.09.008

This study takes an individual differences' perspective on performance feedback effects in psychometric testing. A total of 105 students in a mainstream secondary school in North East England undertook a cognitive ability test on two occasions. In on... Read More about Self-confidence and performance goal orientation interactively predict performance in a reasoning test with accuracy feedback.

Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals (2008)
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Wood, R., Goodman, J., Beckmann, N., & Cook, A. (2008). Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 270-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428106297811

The authors review and critique the conduct and reporting of mediation analyses in 409 studies published in five leading organization studies journals over the past 25 years. The aim of the study is to learn from past practice and to use that knowled... Read More about Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals.

Personality architecture and the FFM in organisational psychology (2006)
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Wood, R., & Beckmann, N. (2006). Personality architecture and the FFM in organisational psychology. Applied Psychology, 55(3), 454-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2006.00263.x

Cervone, Shadel, Smith, and Fiori (2006) outline an approach to the study of self-regulation that is consistent with but extends research on self-regulation and motivation within organisational psychology. At the same time, their model represents a n... Read More about Personality architecture and the FFM in organisational psychology.

Effects of feedback on performance and response latencies in untimed reasoning tests (2005)
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Beckmann, J., & Beckmann, N. (2005). Effects of feedback on performance and response latencies in untimed reasoning tests. Psychologische Beiträge (Lengerich), 47(2), 262-278

In an experimental study, a set of 12 number series problems with open-answer format had to be solved by a sample of 120 eighth and ninth graders randomly assigned to one of two test conditions (standard condition: no feedback; feedback condition: co... Read More about Effects of feedback on performance and response latencies in untimed reasoning tests.