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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Cooperativeness."”.
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Competitiveness, Cooperativeness, and Assigning Grades in the High School Classroom
<p>Problem. Currently, educators and psychologists have been rejecting the generally favorable position competition has held as a motivator and value within education. This study focused on teacher and student orientations varying as cooperative or competitive and the effect that they can have on …
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Necessary and Sufficient Criticality in a Minimal Cooperating Set Dilemma: A Revised Application of Prospect Theory
"Two studies test competing predictions for cooperativeness in a step-level dilemma from five hypotheses derived from models of Expected Utility, fairness, fear and greed, and two approaches of Prospect Theory. Participants, in groups of size n = 7, could chose cooperatively or non-cooperatively …
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Perceiving Organizational Conflict: The Effect of Occupational Rank and Sex on Perceptions of Conflict in the Workplace
… Specifically, at low levels of pre-test cooperativeness, women exhibited more workplace cooperation than did men. However, at high levels of pre-test cooperativeness, the sexes did not differ in workplace cooperation.
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Dominance, social organisation and cooperation in the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius)
… how dominance and kinship predict individual cooperativeness to three tasks, nestling provisioning, nest construction and predator mobbing. I find that both explain variation in cooperativeness, yet some results follow opposite directions, revealing multiple routes to cooperation. Finally, in …
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Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency
… to count as shared. I then develop an account of cooperativeness, i.e. the disposition to think and act as a good partner in shared activity.</p> <p>What makes it the case that the actors in the Parisian street are engaged in more than mere parallel individual actions? From the café, it was—at …
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SPILLOVER EFFECTS OF SPORT PARTICIPATION PROGRAMS ON EMPLOYEES’ PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN THE WORKPLACE
… employees’ social abilities, workplace cooperativeness, and affective organizational commitment. Additionally, results indicated that opportunities for organized sport participation programs should be fairly distributed to all employees, and the level of competitiveness in sport should …
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Affect, Affective Contagion and Decisions in Agile Development
… and affective contagion on Agile decisions, cooperativeness, and conflicts. Both expert and novice Agile members confirmed the influence of affects and affective contagion on Agile team decisions, cooperativeness, and conflicts; however, novices’ acknowledgement of the role tended to be …
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Antecedents and consequences of negotiation in marital decision- making
… was emotional interdependence and perceived past cooperativeness of the marital partner. Training in communication skills did not affect women's style of negotiation but was significant for men. The strategy of simply telling the spouse what is wanted or needed was more important to reaching …
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How extra-linguistic goals affect common ground formation
… production length may vary with speaker cooperativeness. The present research addresses in three experiments: 1) the effect of extra-linguistic goals on reference productions, 2) the relationship between informativity of the reference productions and their length, and 3) how goal …
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The pragmatics of selected discourse markers in Swahili
… preserve the overall assumption of the speaker's cooperativeness. Thus, the speaker's use of a discourse marker requires the hearer to relate the utterance which it accompanies to his model of the speaker's plan in the discourse, thereby realizing its coherence.
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An historical analysis of women’s emergence into intercollegiate athletic leadership: Eastern Michigan University, a case study
… culture. These values (i.e, competitiveness and cooperativeness) were institutionalized in higher education as sex-segregated physical education and athletic functions. This historical case study applied organizational and institutional theory analyzing the institutional, task, and cultural …
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
… or social preferences, elicited as altruism and cooperativeness. In Chapter 3, I examine the relationship between student borrowing behavior for post-secondary education and a set of individual-specific characteristics, including financial literacy, and cognitive and non-cognitive skills. I find …
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Video-Based Situational Judgment Test Characteristics: Multidimensionality at the Item Level and Impact of Situational Variables
… (i.e., rudeness, aggressiveness, pleasantness, cooperativeness, sympathy, and suspiciousness) also had a significant impact on appropriate exertion of control. Specific information manipulations (i.e., warrants, complaints, contemptible crimes and laws being broken) also had an impact on …
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Physical attractiveness, altruism and fairness in a game-theoretic framework
… females placed more importance on altruism and cooperativeness in a mate, far more than males. In addition, males placed more importance on physical attractiveness in a mate, far more than females. In study 2, it was found that people were altruistic and cooperative towards attractive members of …
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Spare Some Change?: The Policing of Shelter-Resistant Homeless in Missoula, Montana
… of Offense (2) Visibility (3) “Fatigue” and (4) Cooperativeness. The findings reflect the unique relationship between the Business Improvement District and the downtown officer, as well as the impact of national policing philosophies behind “Quality of Life” ordinances on the shelter-resistant …
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Spare Some Change?: The Policing of Shelter-Resistant Homeless in Missoula, Montana
… of Offense (2) Visibility (3) “Fatigue” and (4) Cooperativeness. The findings reflect the unique relationship between the Business Improvement District and the downtown officer, as well as the impact of national policing philosophies behind “Quality of Life” ordinances on the shelter-resistant …
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Modeling the Sit-to-Stand Transition using Koopman Lifting Linearization and Human State Estimation
… assistance, a framework for estimating patient cooperativeness is also introduced, leveraging a simplified dynamic model and an Extended Kalman Filter. By analyzing a human’s initial response to applied physical and verbal cues, the estimation framework assesses willingness to engage in assisted …
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AD/HD and autism spectrum disorders in adults
… and poor development of the character trait Cooperativeness. ASD traits or symptoms did not generally predict aggression but may be associated with unique violent offences (Paper II). Among subjects with normal-intelligence ASDs, life-time psychiatric comorbidity was very high, and measures …
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Secondary relaxation processes in neat and binary glass formers studied by 2H NMR spectroscopy
… concentration provides strong arguments for a cooperativeness of the process, in contrast to the general perception.
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Collaboration for Organization Success: Linking Organization Support of Collaboration and Organization Effectiveness.
What does it take for organizations to support people working together effectively? What does it mean for an organization to be effective? Does successful collaboration lead to more effective organizations? This study explored these questions both theoretically and empirically in an effort to help …
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