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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Amazon Mechanical Turk"”.
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Trust in science is not the answer to conspiracies: It’s throwing water on a grease-fire
… of legitimacy. In Experiment 1, we gave 148 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers articles varying on presence of scientific content and conspiratorial nature and measured their beliefs in the article. Participants high in trust in science were more likely to believe in the articles containing …
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Effects of Online Brand Community on Value Creation Practices and Brand Loyalty: Mediating Effects of Community Loyalty
… study was conducted. Data were collected, using Amazon Mechanical Turk, from members of online brand communities. Data were analyzed through structural equations modeling using AMOS 20.
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Medical data mining : improving information accessibility using online patient drug reviews
… data on sample patient comments collected with Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our findings show that patient-reported drug experiences have great potential to empower consumers to make more informed decisions about medical drugs, and our methods will be used to increase information accessibility for …
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Multimodal speech interfaces for map-based applications
… database. The mobile system is evaluated using Amazon Mechanical Turk and the vehicle- based system is analyzed through in-lab usability studies. Our experiments show encouraging results for multimodal speech adoption.
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"Hey, are you busy right now?" stressor appraisals of interruptions to workflow
… in perceived energy. Participants (N = 290 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers) read and responded to a series of interruption vignettes, appraising each scenario as a threat to personal resources, and evaluating an anticipated impact on their personal energy. Results from a repeated measures …
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The impact of Job Stressors on Job Satisfaction as mediated by Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
… Panel data was collected using Qualtrics and Amazon Mechanical Turk. Utilizing PLS-SEM, it was found that the named job stressors do contribute to job stress, job stress does negatively affect job satisfaction, and this relationship is partially mediated by both emotional intelligence and …
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Redeeming Procrastination: Self-Compassion and Creativity
… experience. The experimental survey ran on Amazon Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) in April 2018. Over 400 participants were randomized according to the 2x2 factorial design into four groups: a self-kindness intervention group, a common humanity intervention group, a combined self-kindness and …
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Cooperation and competition : modeling intention and behavior in dual-agent interactions
… validate the model, we ran two experiments via Amazon Mechanical Turk to capture how humans attribute other players' behaviors and how they themselves behave in problems of cooperation such as the prisoner's dilemma. We compared our model against lesioned models and found that our model, which …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
… each article to those of 1128 Americans from Amazon Mechanical Turk who rated each article’s headline and lede. The average ratings of small, politically balanced crowds of laypeople (i) correlate with the average fact-checker ratings as well as the fact-checkers’ ratings correlate with each …
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Understanding object recognition performance at scale in machines and humans
… a new large image dataset, via the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk, with novel methodology and evaluation mechanisms to both answer questions about how well humans recognize objects and to carefully characterize machine performance. We have found that the performance of current …
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The graphic side of fear: The effects of anti-tobacco graphic threat appeals
… threat appeal conditions were evaluated by Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) users (<em>N</em>=200). Findings suggested that the graphicness of the images significantly influenced arousal, aversive response, and persuasion. However, high-cigarette dependent smokers evaluated messages as less …
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The Relationships Between Mind Perception and Personality Traits
… to everyday personality. Workers (N = 180) from Amazon Mechanical Turk completed measures of personality, psychopathology, and mind perception. Results from Gray et al. (2011) were not entirely replicated; however, the Big Five personality trait agreeableness was informative. Agreeableness was …
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How are price fixing agreements unfair?
… were obtained through experimental surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk in the United States. The empirical results suggest that people view it as unfair when they feel that businesses rip them off through unequal transactions, such as price fixing and other forms of collusive behavior. But there …
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Measuring the effects of explicit instructions and incentives on the idea generation rate of a crowd-based population
… through which the research was conducted - Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) - and reviews recent work that has utilized this platform for experimental research. The project at hand engages participants in a divergent thinking exercise to measure the rate of idea generation for the crowd-based …
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Substance use disorder, shame, and self-forgiveness: A latent profile analysis
… outpatient substance use recovery center and the Amazon Mechanical Turk, a latent profile analysis was first conducted to evaluate patterns of endorsement between the three predictor variables (Responsibility taking, Remorse, and Repair) and yielded three profiles. Of the three profiles, a shame …
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Natural language processing based nutritional application
… by 500 users entering their daily meals on Amazon Mechanical Turk, the system was able to map 83.8% of the correctly interpreted spoken food items to relevant nutritional database entries. It was also able to nd a logical quantity for 92.2% of the correct food entries. Overall, this system …
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Translating reinforcer dimensions and behavioral economic demand to inform incentive delivery in organizational behavior management
… into a computerized task for use with Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers to evaluate the effects of parametric manipulations of reinforcer dimensions on performance using a behavioral economic demand framework. The first experiment examined the effects of three incentive magnitudes ($0.05, …
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Measuring online moral reasoning: the development and psychometric properties of the cyberethics scale
… data from 243 participants recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) website. The CES is a short answer survey that can be group-administrable as a paper-pencil format and online format and requires an average of 10 minutes to complete 10-item survey. The scoring is self-trained. An …
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Control and hardware design for a bipedal robot via planar modeling with empirical perception studies leveraging embodied movement analysis
… are then validated by conducting user studies in Amazon Mechanical Turk and demonstrate that the gaits generated using our method are visually distinguishable and correlate with the human activity. These gaits are also investigated for the affect they can induce on the humans in the presence of …
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Milieus in the Gig Economy
… service Airbnb, and the online labor marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). Methodologically, the project employs an interdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from political economy, critical theory, discourse analysis, and ethnographic research. A qualitative assessment of the …
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