Psychology Science, Volume 46 (2004), Issue 4: Contents

Klaus Kubinger opens this issue with an editorial. What follows is a mix of empirical work and methodological debate drawn from across experimental and applied psychology.

Britta Herbig and André Büssing look at how explicit and implicit knowledge each contribute to performance on the job, pulling apart the part people can articulate from the part they cannot. Joachim Häusler, in a separate piece, proposes an algorithm meant to tease skill apart from working style, so that the two are not confused when ability is being measured.

Several contributions turn to specific populations and tasks. Heike Eschenbeck, Carl-Walter Kohlmann, Uwe Heim-Dreger, Damaris Koller and Matthias Leser report on processing bias and anxiety in primary school children, using a modified emotional Stroop colour-naming task built around pictorial facial expressions rather than words. Tuulia M. Ortner examines what happens when items in a personality questionnaire are shuffled around, analysing the effects of item sequence through item response theory.

Memory and cognition get their own attention. Julia Spaniol and Ute J. Bayen write on formal modeling in research into episodic memory and aging. Helmut Leder and Claus-Christian Carbon study part-to-whole effects and configural processing in faces, the question of how the whole face shapes recognition of its pieces.

Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler and Hanna David ask what a specialist actually is, and test how the male concept of a successful academic figure affects performance on a thinking task.

The issue also carries a methodological back-and-forth. Alexander von Eye argues that robustness is parameter-specific, in a comment on the robustness study by Rasch and Guiard. V. Guiard and D. Rasch reply, defending their work on the robustness of two-sample tests for means against von Eye's criticism.

Closing the issue, Rolf Langeheine and Jürgen Rost offer an obituary for Erling B. Andersen (1939 to 2004).