Larry Z. DailyShepherd University · Department of Psychology
Larry Z. Daily
Ph.D.
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Introduction
I am currently investigating the psychology of hobbies (and leisure more broadly), with a special focus on the building of scale models. If you grant me that a doll or a toy animal are models, then people have been making models for as long as there have been people. The big question that I want to answer is why? What did our ancient ancestors get out of constructing representations of things in their world? What do current modelers get out of building scale models? Why do they persist in the face of negative stereotypes of adults who engage in what many think of as a childish activity?
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The current study was designed to compare participants in two superficially similar leisure occupations: building scale models and creating visual art. A sample of 44 modelers and 44 artists was recruited from online sources and completed an online survey consisting of a measure of intrinsic motivation, two measures of personality, and several meas...
Hobbies have long been promoted as beneficial leisure occupations, but assessing this claim is difficult as no commonly used definition of the word “hobby” exists. Gelber’s (1999) definition of a hobby as “voluntarily working alone at home with a few relatively simple tools to make an object (which in the case of collectors is the collection itself...
Working memory resources are needed for processing and maintenance of information during cognitive tasks. Many models have been developed to capture the effects of limited working memory resources on performance. However, most of these models do not account for the finding that different individuals show different sensitivities to working memory de...
Working memory resources are needed for processing and maintenance of information during cognitive tasks. Many models have been developed to capture the effects of limited working memory resources on performance. However, most of these models do not account for the finding that different individuals show different sensitivities to working memory de...
Over the decades, computational models of human cognition have advanced from programs that produce output similar to that of human problem solvers to systems that mimic both the products and processes of human performance. In this paper, we describe a model that achieves the next step in this progression: predicting individual participants’ perform...
Over the decades, computational models of human cognition have advanced from programs that produce output similar to that of human problem solvers to systems that mimic both the products and processes of human performance. In this paper, we describe a model that achieves the next step in this progression: predicting individual participants' perform...
