Paul W Killian

Biographic Data

ID7115908
NAMEPaul W Killian
GIVEN NAMESPaul W
FAMILY NAMEKillian
SIGNATUREKILLIAN P W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Pembroke
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX0

  • Explanatory Style of Native and Euro-Americans

    Open AccessPaul W Killian, Kathryn K Rileigh et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1999

    The explanatory styles of 46 Native and 48 Euro-American college students were compared on three scales, one measuring optimism for explaining bad events, one optimism for explaining good events, and total score combining the two. No significant differences were found, but the slight mean difference in scores on optimism for explaining good events suggested that Euro-Americans may be more optimistic in explaining positive events than are Native A…

  • Learning by Writing in Introductory Psychology

    Open AccessMary P Boyles, Paul W Killian et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1994

    The writing-across-the-curriculum movement suggests that writing assignments can enable students to think more clearly about a discipline. Performance of three groups of beginning psychology students on class tests under two conditions was compared (1) after completing lecture-based writing assignments ( ns = 21 and 23) and (2) without writing assignments ( n = 25). Test performance improved for one experimental group on the objective portion and…