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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Ambiguous Situations"”.
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Predictors Of Perceiving Racism In Ambiguous Situations
The present study used a mixed-experimental analog design to examine 858 undergraduate students' reactions to a scenario depicting a store clerk being mildly rude to a customer. The ethnicity of the clerk and customer were manipulated. Results indicated that participants' beliefs regarding the …
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First impressions of child faces: Facial trustworthiness influences adults’ interpretations of children’s behaviour in ambiguous situations
… adults’ perceptions of children’s behaviour in ambiguous situations. After a brief presentation of a child’s face (high or low trust), participants viewed the child’s face embedded within an ambiguous scene involving two children (Scene Task) or read a vignette about a misbehaviour done by that …
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I know you are, but what am I? : stories
… extent paralyzed by what they perceive to be ambiguous situations. The stories are set in large Canadian cities, and these settings play an important yet subtle role in the lives of the characters, who struggle with issues of alienation and urban decay.
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Aversive Racism and Use of Force: Perceived Threat and Justification Decisions
… as heuristic devices to guide judgments under ambiguous situations (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2000). In particular, police officers often operate under ambiguous situations where quick assumptions about the situation must be made to protect themselves and innocent bystanders. Yet, there is evidence …
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The Effects of Noise and Aggressive Cues on Preschoolers' Encoding and Interpretation of Social Information
… boys' social information processing in situations of arousal. It was hypothesized that, under conditions designed to increase arousal, boys would respond more aggressively than those in neutral conditions. Procedure: A total of 60 four year old boys participated in each of two studies. …
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Integrating Social Emotional Learning into Secondary Curriculum
… social awareness, and the ability to cope with ambiguous situations, to adapt, to learn how to learn and to manage stress. The purpose of this study is to determine how best to integrate social emotional learning into secondary curriculum to improve the overall learning environment. A literature …
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Delivering culturally appropriate healthcare to Mexican immigrant women
… shows that in attempting to make sense of ambiguous situations, U.S. American nurses tend to attribute the cause of Mexican immigrant women behavior through their own cultural filter. For this research, I identified salient intercultural concepts and skills that should be taught to U.S. …
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Performance analysis and algorithm enhancement of feature-aided-tracker (FAT) simulation software using 1-D high-range-resolution (HRR) radar signature profiles
… accuracy is improved by 12% in kinematically ambiguous situations such as when target intersections occur. SAT was improved 3% using this knowledge. Additionally, the target report HRR profile from each scan was used to generate an "On-The- Fly" SAT HRR profile database. This algorithm tests …
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Chicken or fish? Do environmental complexity and stocking density impact affective states of broiler chickens and rainbow trout?
… make optimistically-biased decisions during ambiguous situations, judging the situation as if it will produce a positive outcome, and show less bias towards a perceived threat, responding in a less anxious and calm manner. Animals in negative affective states make pessimistically-biased …
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Hostile attribution bias in children and adolescents
… hostility to the intentions of others in ambiguous situations (Orobio de Castro, Veerman, Koops, Bosch and Monshouwer, 2002). The aim of literature review is to explore the factors that lead to the development of this bias. Limitations to extant literature and suggestions for future …
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Do punitive ostracism experiences add to our understanding of obsessive compulsive beliefs and their relationship to obsessive compulsive symptoms?: an exploratory study and pilot of a new measure
… reflected in attributions of ostracism intent in ambiguous situations. POE was operationalized using existing and adapted measures and a new intent attributions measure which was constructed for the purposes of this study. The constituent variables of POE were hypothesised to contribute to the …
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Comparing Potential Fields and Velocity Obstacles for Rules of the Road Compliant Ship Driving
… that is able to more quickly process through situations by disabling the graphics component. We use this simulation environment to train our Genetic Algorithm Tuned Potential Fields for Ship Driving (GAPFS). Our potential fields use a distinct algorithm that is based on the angles of the …
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An analysis of physiotherapy classroom-based teaching and hospital practical skills in Zambia
… have rendered the clinical-set up to be complex, ambiguous and unstable. Some physiotherapy training programmes have not kept the pace of change as that recorded in the health care delivery systems during the last ten years. The uneven changes between the health care delivery systems and …
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Exploring Self-Authorship In Post-Traditional Students: A Narrative Study In Students’ Meaning-Making
… does not automatically generalize across situations or developmental dimensions, and it is not a permanent attribute once attained. Its presence fluctuates throughout life and requires ongoing reflection and exercise to remain active.</p> <p>The majority of the participants revealed some …
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Modifying interpretation bias in adolescents with clinical levels of social phobia: An explorative case design series using Cognitive Bias Modification.
… The programme trained adolescents to interpret ambiguous situations in a positive manner. Imagery of oneself in the scenarios was also encouraged in an attempt to enhance the potential effects. Participants completed a battery of self-report measures to identify changes in interpretation biases …
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Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes with Information-Processing Theory in Anxious Early Adolescents
… stages of the social I-P model. In response to ambiguous situations, they show threat perception and interpretation biases, choose maladaptive responses, and engage in greater levels of avoidance than do non-anxious youth. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an empirically-supported …
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Examining the Joining of the Separated: A Case Study Toward a Conceptual Framework on Attachment Theory and Authentic Leader Development
… addressing VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) situations.</p> <p>The study has implications for leader development and practitioner training. Those participants who were best able to name the nature of their attachments and continue practices designed to mitigate the toxic impact of …
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The Micropsychosocial Effect of Accounting: A Health Care Context
… by economic efficiency, lead to morally ambiguous situations for the doctor. They are unsure as to whether to make decisions about their patient based on the financial frame or the professional one. The first empirical paper finds that the presence of the financial frame, increases the …
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"Why moralize upon it?" : Questions of morality and guilt in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and Billy Budd, Sailor
… particular point of view – in describing morally ambiguous situations. How does the choice of one particular perspective - first-person narration in "Bartleby", a limited point of view in "Benito Cereno" and an omniscient narrator in Billy Budd - determine our understanding and evaluation of the …