Constructive feedback in organizational team-building.

Ways constructive feedback can help an organization achieve and maintain a competitive advantage within and without the workplace is the topic of this chapter. An approach called 360 feedback is detailed, by which an employee is rated by workers at various levels in the organizational hierarchy instead of by a single supervisor.

Perceived consequences to the predictor: a variable in the release of psychiatric patients.

The present study examined factors hypothesized to influence mental health professionals' perceptions of dangerousness, predictions of violence, and decisions on patients' release. 120 mental health professionals employed in state mental hospitals were each given one of 12 patient profiles. The independent variables, manipulated within vignettes, were (a) violence history, (b) paranoid schizophrenia versus nonparanoid schizophrenia, and (c) perceived consequences in terms of liability and publicity.

When infants wail: frustration and gender as variables in distress disclosure.

Gender and differences in self-disclosure following a frustrating event were investigated. The Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale assessed the extent to which 100 male college students and 100 female college students were willing to disclose their emotions. The frustrating stimulus presented was a tape of an infant crying, played at 85 dB for 10 min.

Optical matrix-vector implementation of the content-addressable network.

The content-addressable network (CAN) is an efficient, intrinsically discrete training algorithm for binary-valued classification networks. The binary nature of the CAN network permits accelerated learning and significantly reduced hardware-implementation requirements. A multilayer optoelectronic CAN network employing matrix-vector multiplication was constructed.