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Showing 1 to 20 of 3131 for “"Behavioral sciences"”.
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Influence of a Critical Incident Techniques Workshop on Perceptions of Group Leadership Behaviors
… important issue in education and in the applied behavioral sciences. Although, there is no universally accepted form and definition of psychotherapy, there are, however, broad similarities among various training programs, such as didactic instruction, supervision, use of recorded or videotaped …
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Black female attitudes toward career choices at Sam Houston State University
… Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavioral Sciences (the INSTITUTE) a the University; (2) to determine the degree to which black coeds at Sam Houston State University identified with the Women’s Liberation Movement in pursuit of their careers; and (3) to determine the attitude …
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Engagement, Trust, And Reciprocity: Exploring The Relationship Between Social Captial And Participation In Nonprofit Organizations
… of Central Florida's Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences. To represent social capital, related variables from the survey are combined to create indices that represent civic engagement and community trust. For the purposes of this study, participation in nonprofit organizations is …
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The Impact Of Nested Testing On Experiment-Wise Type I Error Rate
… There is a growing trend in the social and behavioral sciences utilizing nested designs. A Monte Carlo study was conducted using a two layer design. Five theoretical distributions and four real datasets taken from Micceri (1989) were used, each with five different samples sizes and conducted …
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Faculty perception and use of learning-centered strategies to assess student performance
… Arts and Humanities, Natural and Health Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. Participants taking part in this study were faculty members from five small, private, liberal arts institutions in east Tennessee. The institutions included in this study were accredited by the …
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Methods for Handling Missing Data for Multiple-Item Questionnaires
… a common problem, especially in the social and behavioral sciences. Modern missing data methods are underutilized in the industrial/organizational psychology and human resource management literature. Recommendations for handling missing data and default options in software packages often use …
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Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing
… by human-computer interaction, psychology, and behavioral sciences, this dissertation focuses on understanding AI’s impact on crucial cognitive and behavioral processes, including motivation, critical thinking, self-reflection, confidence, beliefs, biases, and more. In addition, the work …
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Selected Correlates of Critical Thinking In Diploma Nursing Students
… previous courses taken, and courses taken in behavioral sciences. No significant relationship was found between ability to think critically and psychomotor skill performance, high school GPA, or GPA from previous courses taken in higher education. No significant difference was found between …
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Health Promotion for the Community Advocate
The aim of this capstone is to review social and behavioral factors relevant to health promotion for obesity and chronic diseases in impoverished communities. Obesity and chronic diseases have displaced infectious diseases as the most immediate threat to morbidity and mortality in the United …
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Intuition and Its Impact on Information Systems Success
… of Intuition is not new to management and behavioral sciences. However, defining Intuition has been anything but intuitive even in these heavily studied domains. This research seeks to expand current Intuition research into the information systems (IS) domain. Given the velocity of change …
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Aesthetic Preference and Poetic Writing Style: A Correlational Study
… sessions conducted at Stanford Department of Behavioral Sciences. Subjects were a series of thirteen individuals who were in treatment for chemical dependency in the adolescent day treatment program. The mean age was 16.3 years, with a standard deviation of 1.4 years.. There were two males and …
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Witnessing with the Holy Spirit: Pneumatology and missiology in evangelistic theory
… both the relevance of the message with the behavioral sciences and the competence of the evangelist with personal biblical spirituality. Chapter 7 concludes with several implications by reflecting on this study and suggesting areas for further research and application.
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A study of the relationships between personality as indicated by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and leadership strengths and weaknesses as identified by Skillscope
… research is difficult to obtain in the behavioral sciences, the effort is worthwhile as it provides information that allows leadership development decisions to be made based on dependable data.
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The Impact of Optimism On Evacuation Behavior In South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Zones
<p>Previous research in the behavioral sciences has shown problem solving and coping skills to be related to optimism; however, in the hazards field, this topic is understudied. This thesis aims to fill this gap in the literature by empirically studying the impact of optimism on proactive …
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A Technological Dis -Ease: Scientific Discourses, Mass Media, and the 'Truths' About 'Computer -Addiction
… within clinical psychology, psychiatry and the behavioral sciences, and works to prove the existence of the disorder, to locate its origins, and to identify personality types most ""at risk"" for computer addiction. By contrast, this study is conceptualized through historical and social studies …
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A resource-based systems approach to globalization, organization and people: a case study in the outsourcing sector of the US-based global pharmaceutical industry
… the complementarity of natural and social sciences and to achieve synergy effects in the contemporary global scholarship of humanistic social and behavioral sciences, this dissertation proposes a resource-based systems approach to the study of globalization. According to this approach, …
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, 1945-1993
… of the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in the mid-1950s. This project reflected Stegner’s understanding of western history and his own past in more comprehensive terms and the chapter traces his growing commitment to fiction as a resource for addressing the …
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Governance, Citizenship, and the New Sciences: Lessons From Dewey and Follett on Realizing Democratic Administration
… physics and the positivism of the early behavioral sciences, leaving constructs vital to a democratic polity impoverished and problematized by power inequities and distorted communication. If public administration could be liberated from those ontological limits through adoption of …
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STATISTICAL MODELS UTILIZING DEPENDENCE BETWEEN VARIABLES
… with applications in physical, biomedical, and behavioral sciences, among others. Normally, the asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimates in the model parameters are used for statistical inference. A relationship between the proposed model and logistic regression model is …
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A Structural-Functional Approach to Attitudes : Development and Application of a Theoretical Framework
… finding solutions to problems in education, the behavioral sciences, and so forth.</p>
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