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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Changing beliefs"”.
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Dynamic Parenting: A Study of Mothers' and Fathers' Changing Beliefs About Childrearing
… contexts and the developing child on parental beliefs. Findings also point to the importance of considering both mothers and fathers' beliefs, particularly the utility of giving each voice to their affective parenting experiences.
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Consumption heterogeneity in macroeconomics and public finance
… how to recover households' preferences and beliefs from their consumption and savings decisions. The main innovation is to show how to use the transitory component of income as an instrument that shifts current consumption without changing beliefs about future stochastic changes in …
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Pre-Learning Interventions Modulate Learning from Error
… learn from error— motivation, emotion, prior beliefs, and individual differences can all influence learning and memory. In this dissertation, I synthesize diverse evidence from across domains to argue that lingering cognitive and neural states create a context of learning that governs how and …
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Investment performance of life-science venture capital investment funds, persistence, and subsector analysis
… literature and culture is rife with rapidly changing beliefs about the relative attractiveness of healthcare venture subsectors, particularly therapeutics and devices. To examine these issues in a more rigorous format I developed a dataset of healthcare venture deals, scored each deal with a …
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Awards and public perception: exploring the relationship between the evolution of American military awards and the changing American public
… the era, shows how the military responded to the changing beliefs of the public. The Medal of Honor is prevalent among these awards, both as a well-studied subject and as an award with clear alterations over its existence, and as such, provides a focused case study furthering the argument of the …
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Opening the gates to foster scholarship for urban students: organizational policies and systemic practices in a high performing high poverty urban high school
… students. Re-culturing requires examining and changing beliefs and assumptions that influence teaching, practices, and interactions with culturally diverse students. Additionally an accountability system was needed to ensure that all students would meet the high expectations of a college prep …
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Leadership in a Quality School
… to occur adults in the school must change their beliefs about the nature of the school, about their relationships with one another and about their relationships with the students. Leaders and collaborators can best achieve changes that reflected their mutual purposes when they confront the …
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Belief Change in Reasoning Agents
The capability of changing beliefs upon new information in a rational and efficient way is crucial for an intelligent agent. Belief change therefore is one of the central research fields in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over two decades. In the AI literature, two different kinds of belief change …
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The Effects of a Combined Mathematics Content/Methods Course Involving Learning Cycles on Preservice Elementary Teachers' Beliefs about the Nature, Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
… more effective at aligning preservice teachers' beliefs with the philosophy of the Standards documents (NCTM, 1989, 1991, 1995, 2000) and other reform literature than another content/methods course. While the six-cycled Learning Cycles framework has been used in separate content and methods …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… of political authority were set by the people’s changing beliefs – what they thought rulers were entitled to do, and on what basis. This sheds light on Constant’s shifting views on heredity and elections as the basis of political legitimacy, as well as his much commented-upon endorsement of …
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Signs of Change in Adolescents Beliefs about learning English in Public School: a Sociocultural Perspective
Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo a investigação das crenças de alunos adolescentes de uma escola pública sobre a impossibilidade de aprendizagem da língua inglesa nesse contexto. O estudo de natureza interventiva foi realizado em uma turma de 32 alunos adolescentes com idade entre 13 e 15 anos em …
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Privacy vs. Security: Fear appeals, terrorism and the willingness to allow increased government surveillance
… to inconsistencies between an individual’s beliefs and actions. The theory proposes that if an individual has an inconsistency in her beliefs and behaviors, it can lead to discomfort. The individual will want to alleviate the discomfort by reducing the dissonance, which could mean either …