Summaries for each of the U.S. Army Research Institute's basic research contracts for FY 2010; includes descripbions of the contributions that each research effort has made to basic behavioral science and suggests how the findings might benefit the Army and other military services -- DTIC

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Basic research program : identifying new and promising technologies --BRU research objective 1 : Provide fundamental knowledge to improve training in complex environments : Research plan to understand the impact of training on performance / Sue Archer -- Automatically-learned representation of complex test environments to support training and collaboration / Peter W. Foltz -- Improving copying by building self-control / Mark Muraven -- Combating attrition from online instruction / Traci Sitzmann and Katherine Ely -- BRU research objective 2 : Provide fundamental knowledge to improve leader and team performance -- 10 year extension to the baseline officer lingitudinal development study / Bruce J. Aolio -- Leadership development of women and ethnic minority ROTC cadets : the potential barrier of stereotype threat and resiliency as a buffer / Bettina Casad -- Examining leadership processes in complex network environments / Leslie DeChurch and C. Shawn Burke -- Language and social dynamics / James W. Pennebaker -- BRU Research objective 3 : Provide fundamental knowledge for identifying, assessing, and assigning quality personnel for the evolving Army -- Link between feeling and seeing / Lisa Feldman Barrett -- Dissecting situational strength : theoretical analysis and empirical tests / Reeshad S. Dalal and Rustin D. Meyer -- Military experiences in the life course / Glen H. Elder, Jr. -- Achievement in complex learning environments as a function of information processing ability, knowledge, and self-control / Joseph F. Fagan -- Cognitive task complexity and general intelligence / Meredith Frey -- Facial affect reciprocity in dyadic interactions / David Matsumoto -- Development and validation of a situational judgment test to predict attrition incrementally over general cognitive ability and a forced-choice personality test / Michael A. McDaniel -- Multimedia assessment of emotional abilities : development and validation / Richard D. Roberts and Ralf Schulze -- Social trends and social change in the United States : impacts on Army manpower, personnel, and operations / David R. Segal -- BRU research objective 4 : Provide fundamental knowledge for understanding and evaluation organizational behavior and network science research -- Improved data extraction and assessment for dynamic network analysis / Kathleen M. Carley -- Virtual worlds : an exploratorium for theorizing and modeling the dynamics of group behavior / Noshir Contractor, Marshall S. Poole, Dmitri Williams, and Jaideep Srivastava -- Enhancing employee dedication and retention : the contribution of perceived organizational support / Robert Eisenberger and Louis Buffardi -- Successful collaboration at a distance / Gary M. Olson.