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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Behavioural science"”.
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The utilisation of social and behavioural science through consulting.
… and the 'theories' which guide social and behavioural consultants in what they do. To preserve the 'integrity of the phenomena' the research has utilised an interviewing methodology to obtain accounts which reveal 'personal theories'. The aim has been to achieve an adequate phenomenology of …
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Integrating behavioural science and design thinking: Development and evaluation of a mobile intervention to increase vegetable consumption
… a potentially transformative tool for delivering behavioural nutrition interventions at scale, but most have yet to incorporate theory-based strategies known to drive changes in health behaviours or undergo systematic testing to demonstrate their effectiveness. Moreover, published frameworks to …
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Advancing Indoor Air Pollution Research: A Novel Integration of AI, IoT, and Behavioural Science for Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Behaviour Change
… into AQ monitoring and improvement's technical, behavioural, and digital dimensions. This comprehensive exploration showcases how behavioural models, combined with IoT and AI, can drive behavioural change, offering valuable guidance for researchers, policymakers, and public health officials on …
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En Plein Air: Studying Human Behaviour and Attitudes in a Stratified World
… of cost-effective, psychologically informed (behavioural) policymaking. The second is the persistent belief that a combination of hard work and talent facilitates socioeconomic improvement for large swaths of society. I argue that both phenomena reveal a shared fallacy, namely, the notion that …
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An investigation into the political psychology of attitudes towards immigration in the UK: What drives these attitudes, can they be predicted, and can they be changed?
… and the Dual Process Model. It touches on behavioural science, the study of individual differences (including Moral Foundations Theory, Social Dominance Theory and personality traits) and the literature on framing. In the initial pre-registered survey experiment, over 11,000 British people …
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Towards coherent practice in capstone courses for IS majors
… theory in such a world is embedded in the sciences of the artificial. The research paradigm for this environment thus comprised a combination of the behavioural science and design science paradigms. The evolution of a capstone course at the University of Cape Town commenced in 2001 and led …
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Understanding, Formalizing, and Reconstructing Mental Models with an Online Tool for Serious Discussions
… for practitioners from various fields like behavioural science, economics, education, and sustainability as they can gain many insights. We developed a real-time, moderated tool, named Discussoo, for understanding and formalizing mental models of participants of online discussions. Users are …
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Eating behaviour, personality traits and body mass
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Exploring the Role of Implicit Cognition in the Context of Disgust in Individuals With and Without a Diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
… were first conceptualised from the cognitive-behavioural literature, from a functional perspective using the IRAP were also outlined. The penultimate experimental chapter focused on a behaviour, which was termed Intolerance for Causing Mess (ICM) by placing emphasis on responding to the …
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Digital anthropology and educational eGames: learning through behavioural patterns in digital, game-based contexts
… part of this analysis is the identification of behavioural, anthropological patterns, so that users can be clustered based on their actions, and the steps taken in the system (e.g. social network, online community, or virtual campus). In doing so, we can analyse large data sets of information …
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Understanding the influences on participation in a National Diabetes Prevention Programme and developing an implementation strategy to improve referral
… to refer could be considered. Conclusions Using behavioural science frameworks this PhD thesis incorporated stakeholder input to identify the barriers and facilitators to early implementation of a NDPP and generated the content for an implementation strategy to improve referral. The findings …
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Deprescribing for frail older adults residing in long-term care facilities: a mixed-methods evaluation
… literature by incorporating concepts from behavioural and implementation science to target barriers and enablers inherent with the LTC setting and translate deprescribing into routine practice. The strategy was considered acceptable, appropriate and majorly feasible, with modifications …
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The role of culture in children’s sex-typed preferences for colours, toys, and affordances: A systems theory approach
Children’s sex-typed preferences for colours and toys are well-established, and often function as markers of sex-typicality in research on the development of sex-typed behaviour. However, children’s sex-typed colour and toy preferences have not been tested cross-culturally, or in remote …
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Harmonizing core competencies for Master of Public Health Training programmes in Africa
… of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology); in one Nigerian university (University of Ibadan), and one Kenyan university (Great Lakes University of Kisumu). In each university, MPH graduates were surveyed to determine the applicability of competencies identified in …