Executive Functions as Predictors of School Performance and Social Relationships: Primary and Secondary School Students.

This study examined the relationship between executive functions (EFs) and school performance in primary and secondary school students aged 8 to 13 years (N = 146, M = 10.4, 45.8% girls).

Academic performance and social competence of adolescents: predictions based on effortful control and empathy.

This study explored the predictive power of effortful control (EC) on empathy, academic performance, and social competence in adolescents. We obtained self-report measures of EC and dispositional empathy in 359 students (197 girls and 162 boys) aged between 12 and 14 years. Each student provided information about the prosocial behavior of the rest of his/her classmates and completed a sociogram.

Facilitation of heartbeat self-perception in a discrimination task with individual adjustment of the S+ delay values.

Thirty-two subjects (16 women, 16 men) performed two tasks that were the result of adapting the heartbeat perception tasks produced by Whitehead et al. [Biofeedback Self-Regul. 2 (1977) 371] and Katkin et al.