Daniel R. Stalder’s research while affiliated with University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and other places

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Publications (11)


Learning and Motivational Benefits of Acronym Use in Introductory Psychology
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October 2005

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Teaching of Psychology

Daniel R. Stalder

Study 1 assessed students' use and perceptions of acronyms at 3 different exam times in 2 sections of Introduction to Psychology. Acronym use consistently predicted higher performance on acronym related exam items, and I partially discounted 2 possible confounds. Students rated acronyms as helpful in multiple ways, including increasing motivation to begin studying. Students reported low prior use of acronyms, created their own acronyms during the semester, and conveyed intentions to continue mnemonic use on their own in later classes. Study 2 assessed psychology instructors' use and views of acronyms. I also provide a list of acronyms for introductory psychology and discuss general considerations in the construction and classroom use of acronyms.


Citations (11)


... Psychological literacy plays a key role in reducing the FAE as comprehensive FAE education can help to overcome this FAE blind spot. Stalder (2012) found FAE reductions in social psychology students, both compared to general education students and across instruction periods (i.e., before and after completing a social psychology course on biases and the FAE). Enhanced class activities, such as a real-life case study with classroom discussion (Riggio & Garcia, 2009) or an interactive FAE demonstration (Howell & Shepperd, 2011) can reduce the FAE. ...

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Informal psychology education and the fundamental attribution error: Testing the effectiveness of accessible online passages
A Role for Social Psychology Instruction in Reducing Bias and Conflict
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  • June 2012

Psychology Learning & Teaching

... Mnemonics may also help students perform better and/or with less anxiety on exams. Also, as Stalder and Olson (2011) noted, mnemonics are easily added to existing material and thus require less instructor effort relative to other interventions. Stalder (2005) also noted motivational effects for his introductory psychology students: "Students generally reported that acronyms increased their motivation to begin studying, that it was helpful to solve review sheet acronyms [i.e., to review their notes to fill in what each letter stood for] on their own, and that they would try to use acronyms or other mnemonics on their own in future courses" (p. ...

t for Two: Using Mnemonics to Teach Statistics
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  • October 2011

Teaching of Psychology

... The common sense thinking and memory processes Many authors in social sciences (Bartlett, 1932(Bartlett, /1997Brockmeier, 2012;Bruner, 2000Bruner, , 2015Gavillet, 2003;Guscetti, 2011;Jodelet, 2006Jodelet, , 2015Mieder, 1982;Stalder, 2010;Veyne, 1992;Wertsch, 2002) highlight the fact that in society we shape and assign meanings to our experiences using existing cultural materials. The work of F.C. Bartlett have been invested by many studies interested in the cultural anchoring of psychological processes (Bangerter & Lehmann, 1997;Bruner, 2002;Edwards & Middleton, 1987;Johnston, 2001;Kalampalikis, 2002;Roediger III, Bergman, & Meade, 2003;Wertsch, 2002). ...

The power of proverbs: Dissonance reduction through common sayings
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  • January 2010

Current Research in Social Psychology

... Several researchers have shown that moods can affect social adjustment; physical health; socializing, due to the fundamental attribution error; and problem-solving (Bisquerra, 2009(Bisquerra, , 2012Fredrickson, 2001;Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002;Górriz et al., 2013Górriz et al., , 2015Rieffe et al., 2004;Stalder & Cook, 2014). ...

On Being Happy and Mistaken on a Good Day: Revisiting Forgas's (1998) Mood-Bias Result
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  • September 2014

... As SNS seem to be filled with attractive individuals who have a pleasant personality and attractive lifestyle, alternative partners on SNS may be perceived as rather ideal and their traits may be compared in an upward fashion to the traits of one's own partner (Steers, Wickham, & Acitelli, 2014). The outcome of this romantic comparison may influence general relational attitudes (Stalder, 2012) and perceptions about their current partner (Surra & Hughes, 1997) in a negative direction. Such romantic comparison processes can lead to the impression that the current relationship brings more costs than benefits. ...

The role of dissonance, social comparison, and marital status in thinking about divorce

... Takođe, upotrebom mnemonika postiže se i održava dugoročna memorija, gde se strategijom upotrebe slikovnih reprezentacija to i dokazuje u istraživanju Karneja i Levina (Carney & Levin, 2000a;Carney & Levin, 2000b). Predlog upotrebe mnemonika jeste prvenstveno kao pomoćna olakšica za podsećanje učenika nakon savladanog gradiva (Stalder, 2005), a korisno je i da se mnemotehnike koriste sa drugim strategijama učenja (Belleza, 1983). ...

Learning and Motivational Benefits of Acronym Use in Introductory Psychology
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  • October 2005

Teaching of Psychology

... These situational and individual levels of analysis serve an important methodological purpose of avoiding ecological and atomistic fallacies-i.e., associations found at either the situational and individual level of analysis may not generalize to the other level (Diez Roux, 2002). In the field of bystander studies, the lack of distinction between situational and individual-level associations has led to misconceptions about helping behavior, confusing the distinction between "whether someone intervenes" versus "whether a specific individual intervenes" (Stalder, 2008). As such, we aim to provide insights into bystander GENDER COMPOSITION AND BYSTANDER INTERVENTION 5 intervention across gender compositions from various perspectives, while avoiding ecological and atomistic fallacies. ...

Revisiting the issue of safety in numbers: The likelihood of receiving help from a group
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  • March 2008

Social Influence

... Need for structure was measured using a French-adapted version of the sixth item of the Need for closure scale (Kruglanski, Webster, & Klem, 1993;Salama-Younes, Guingouain, Floch, & Somat, 2014), which in turn was borrowed from the Personal Need for structure scale (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994). The Need for Closure scale was developed by proposing five facets (preference for order and structure, affective discomfort caused by ambiguity, decisiveness of judgments and decisions, desire for predictability, and closed-mindedness; Mannetti, Pierro, Kruglanski, Taris, & Bezinovic, 2002) as manifestations of one or two latent variables: one representing a preference for structure, including order, and one related to decisiveness (Mannetti et al., 2002;Salama-Younes et al., 2014;Stalder, 2012). The item retained in the present study specifically measures the need for order in the daily life of the respondents (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994). ...

Investigation of the Two-Factor Model for the English Version of the Need for Closure Scale
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  • April 2012

Psychological Reports

... These additional findings are consistent with the inference account. They do not help adjudicate the applicability of the dissonance account because perceived closure may increase or decrease dissonance (e.g., Carmon et al., 2003;Stalder, 2010). ...

Competing roles for the subfactors of need for closure in moderating dissonance-produced attitude change
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  • April 2010

Personality and Individual Differences

... In this section, I will briefly present some of the empirical literature on outcome biasroughly, the effect of knowledge of an outcome on the evaluation of the decision or procedure leading to it (Baron and Hershey 1988;Mazzocco et al. 2004). I will also briskly note the closely related phenomenon of hindsight bias (Fishhoff 1975, Hawkins andHastie 1990;Guilbault et al. 2004) and, even more briskly, the phenomenon of fundamental error attribution (Ross 1977;Stalder 2009). ...

Competing roles for the subfactors of need for closure in committing the fundamental attribution error
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  • November 2009

Personality and Individual Differences