Description: Preface. Part I: Constructive Thinking and Resource Limitations. Introduction. Individual Differences in Attentional Resources and Social Cognition: Elaboration and Complexity in Representations of Others and Self; M. Conway. Extending the Theory of Reasoning by Mental Models: Tests of New Predictions; K.C. Klauer, et al. Multiple Representations and Individual Differences in Generating Mental Models: The Case of Text Comprehension; S. Dutke. Intelligence, Cognitive Strategies, and Arousal: Can We Control Non-Cognitive Factors that Influence our Intellect? E. Necka. Part II: Processing Constraints in Aging, Anxiety, and Depression. Introduction. Aging-related Constraints and Adaptations in Social Information Processing; T. Hess. Maintaining Competence in the Face of Resource Limitations: The Role of Schema Complexity in Aging and Communication; M.L. Hummert. Age Differences in Social Schematicity; F. Blanchard-Fields, C. Hertzog. Predictive Inferences: Basic Processes and Biased Potentiation by Anxiety; M.G. Calvo. Worry, Thoughts, and Images: A New Conceptualization; J. Stber. Impaired Systematic, Higher Order Strategies in Depression and Helplessness: Testing Implications of the Cognitive Exhaustion Model; U. von Hecker, et al. Part III: New Methodologies in Individual Difference Research. Introduction. Capacity and Procedural Accounts of Impaired Memory in Depression; P. Hertel, T. Meiser. Cognitive Prerequisites for Scaleable Date: A Model of Impression Formation; H. Feger. Resource Limitations and Process Dissociations in Individual Differences Research; R. Kliegl, et al. Author Index. Subject Index.

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