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Showing 1 to 20 of 292 for “"Group membership"”.
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Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
… by making people aware that they are part of a group and introducing intergroup competition, social loafing would be reduced and turned into social labouring. The study further investigated the potential mediating effect of social dominance orientation on the relationship between group …
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Adoption of recommended eating behaviors following bariatric surgery : predicting group membership
… classify bariatric patients into one of three groups—maintenance, relapse, or recovery—related to adherence to post-surgical nutrition recommendations. One hundred sixty one female bariatric patients aged 18 years or older who had undergone surgery at least six months prior to participation …
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Towards implementing group membership in dynamic networks : a performance evaluation study
Support for dynamic groups is an integral part of the U.S. Department of Defense's vision of Network-Centric Operations. Group membership (GM) serves as the foundation of many group-oriented systems; its fundamental role in applications such as reliable group multicast, group key management, data …
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The Relationship Among Social and Psychological Inclusion, Marginalized Group Membership, and Student Outcomes
… the variables of inclusion, marginalized group membership, and student outcomes using the California Healthy Kids Survey administered to secondary students. Marginalized group membership included examining race, ethnicity, and the presence of bullying for a disability. Student outcomes …
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The Behavioural Effects of Perspective-Taking: The Influence of Group Membership and Stereotype Threat
… and target belong to different stereotyped groups. Focusing on the stereotype of women and maths, Experiment 1 found that perspective-taking when the perspective-taker and target belonged to different stereotyped groups did not result in behaviour consistent with the target-stereotype. …
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The effects of racial group membership and cognitive load on empathy and helping behaviour
… that people feel more empathy for racial in-group compared to racial outgroup members, and in some circumstances, are more likely to help racial in- than out-group members. Furthermore, there is evidence that cognitive load may also attenuate helping behavior. Research is yet to establish the …
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Identification of ADHD and Comorbid Disorders in Children: The potential role of minority group membership
… in Children: The potential role of minority group membership</p> <p>by</p> <p>Rachel Tayler, MSc, MA</p> <p>Advisor: Sarah O’Neill, PhD</p> <p>Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects six million US children. Females, Latinx, and possibly Black children have lower rates of …
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Asian immigrants’ psychological well-being: the interplay of perceived racial discrimination, group membership, and coping strategies
… the moderating effects of immigrants’ group membership and coping factors. The main research hypotheses and exploratory research questions include the following: 1) Does perceived discrimination effect Asian immigrants’ psychological well-being (i.e., psychological stress and overall …
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The two faces of MIS--group membership, role orientation, and personal outcomes among information systems designers
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Target Perceptions of Prejudice Confrontations: The Effect of Confronter Group Membership on Perceptions of Confrontation Motive and Target Empowerment
… prejudice confrontation. Based on intergroup helping theories suggesting that low-status group members question high-status helper motivations and consequently feel disempowered by their help (Fisher, Nadler, & Whitcher-Alagna, 1982; Nadler, 2002), we predicted that participants would …
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Revisiting Ambivalent Sexism and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Examining the Effects of Respondents’ and Targets’ Racial Group Membership on Endorsement
… be established across the four race-by-gender groups of interest (i.e., Black men, Black women, White men, and White women) and therefore ASI scores could not be compared between these groups. This raises several important questions about whether or not the ASI is a valid measure of ambivalent …
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The effects of group membership and task experience on asynchronous computer-mediated group performance, group competencies and group member reactions
… dependent on the permeation of virtual work groups throughout the organizational structure. In this era of distributed work, it is imperative to determine which factors affect the efficiency and effectiveness of asynchronous computer-mediated groupwork. Two factors are identified in the …
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The Longitudinal Stability and Dynamics of Group Membership in the Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health: Psychosocial Predictors of Mental Health
… the longitudinal stability and dynamics of group membership within the dual factor model of mental health as proposed by Greenspoon and Saklofske (2000). This new, empirically supported model of mental health incorporates information about subjective well-being (SWB), in addition to …
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Social identity in the workplace : a multiple case study that explores how social group membership impacts people who identify as neurodivergent in workplaces designed for neurotypical employees.
… identities. This study explored how social group membership impacted neurodivergent individuals in workplaces designed for neurotypical employees. Using a qualitative multiple-case study design, this research investigated how neurodivergent professionals navigated their identities through …
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Foundations of Ingroup Bias and Similarity Bias in 2-Year-Olds
The powerful influence of group membership and similarity on perceptions and behaviour is well established; however, questions remain about the developmental trajectory of these patterns and the extent to which similarity bias and ingroup bias are truly distinct. In this thesis, I examined the …
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Performance variations among strategic group members in the pharmaceutical industry : an examination of individual sustainable growth capabilities, 1995-1997
The relationship between strategic group membership and firm profitability has been a central and controversial theme in the strategic management literature. The theoretical foundation for a direct link between strategic group membership and firm profitability has been the notion of mobility …
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Group key agreement in dynamic tactical networks
… topology as well as a dynamic communication group membership. The focus of this thesis is on finding a secure and efficient solution to group key agreement in a tactical network. Existing group key establishment protocols were surveyed, but many were found inept in this setting. The best …
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Neuropsychological symptoms in the learning disabled child : a symptomology inventory
… in grades 3 through 12. Determination of group membership based on the childrens' responses to items on the Neuropsychological Symptom Inventory (NSI) was made for all subjects in the study.A discriminant analysis was conducted in order to determine the degree of group separation based on …
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Sexual Segregation in White-Tailed Deer: Intersexual Divergence in Digestive Function, Morphology, and Behavior
I monitored patterns of group membership for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), in Lincoln County, Minnesota, USA, to evaluate current techniques used to categorize animals when studying sexual segregation. I observed deer by driving a fixed transect approximately 3 times/week in the …
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