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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Incongruity"”.
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Epistemic incongruity judgements as indicators of social normative differences in minor hockey players.
Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1978 .T954. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.H.K.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1978.
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Realism and incongruity Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Frankfurter mentor and novitiate on the court
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Frankfurter are worthy of examination because in many ways their tenures on the Supreme Court presented a fascinating study in similarity; To study these judges is to be privy to a relationship that began at Harvard Law School and would display itself in a shared …
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The effect of incongruity on quality of health information systems : Bama, Nigeria PHC case study
… suggest general ineffectiveness due to pervasive incongruity in the information system. In the first instance design of the MIS did not reflect information needs of community health workers and the community in general,who to the most part limited appreciation of the MIS structure, objectives to …
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A consumer-based brand equity approach to detect perceived incongruity and its impact upon consumer perceptions
… sociological and business literature on incongruity; studies on Consumer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE; Keller 1993); and works on Retailer Brand Equity (RBE: Ailawadi and Keller 2004). In addition, various approaches discussing the quality concept in marketing were employed. Lastly, this …
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
This thesis contributes to the understanding of how health is affected by the interaction between neighbourhood and individual socioeconomic status. It has been found that residents in high status neighbourhoods are healthier than those in low status neighbourhoods, controlling for individual …
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A Study of Relationships Between Teacher Characteristics and Congruity, Incongruity, and Inconsistency With Policy Positions of Teacher Organizations
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationships between three types of responses that were assumed to effect group cohesion, and certain teacher characteristics. The types of responses consisted of congruent responses that reflected an agreement with the organization's position on …
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"""You can fool some of the people some of the time"": perspective by incongruity in Ballyhoo magazine, 1931-1932"
… Ballyhoo’s production of perspective by incongruity on the most pressing issues of the early 1930s. Ultimately, Ballyhoo succeeded in constructing a critical rhetoric of incongruity that was both timely in the 1930s and foundational to contemporary critiques that employ perspective by …
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Person Memory: The Role of Processing Strategy, Expectancy, and Level of Incongruity in The Processing of Interindividual and Intraindividual Behavioral Variability
… group. Individual items varied in the level of incongruity they had to a prior expectancy and strong support was found for this hypothesis in several different experiments. Experiment 1 tested the further hypothesis that any variable that induces one to integrate discrepant pieces of information …
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The educative potential of humor
… of humor through the lens of the concept of incongruity. Drawing on two definitions of humor grounded in the Incongruity Theory of humor, I argue humor is educative in both instrumental and existential ways. Drawing on literature in philosophy, especially philosophy of humor and philosophy of …
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Laughing Matters
… explains some instances of humor better than the incongruity theory. This thesis features an overview of the philosophy of humor in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy; this section contains criticisms of the incongruity theory. Connections between the superiority theory and humor about …
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An approach to traditions of British stand-up comedy.
… the idea that humorous laughter is caused by incongruity; and the idea that humour is connected with a release of tension. Parts of each of these are taken on, in order to establish a method of examining stand-up comedy. A particular emphasis is placed on the incongruity theory, and it is …
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United States post-Cold War drug and trade policy and Mexico
… explanations of the drug war's failure and its incongruity with other regional interests, most notably trade. It suggests three potential theoretical interests, most notably trade. It suggests three potential theoretical approaches - a conspiracy (realist) theory, a cultural (constructivist) …
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The Effect of CT Display Window and Image Plane on Diagnostic Certainty for Characteristics of Canine Elbow Dysplasia
… osteochondrosis or kissing lesions, and joint incongruity. Level of diagnostic certainty for each CT abnormality was recorded for each observer using a visual analog scale system. The effect of elbow status, plane, and window on the degree of observer certainty was tested. Overall, observers …
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Not knowing the days
… perception, and a feeling of displacement or incongruity with society. In the introduction, I discuss the Southern Gothic genre in literature and how several of its characteristics have shaped the stories in my collection as well as my writing in general, especially verisimilitude and the …
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Reading the Akedah narrative (Genesis 22:1-19) in the context of modern hermeneutics
… the reading of the biblical text.) There is an incongruity in the story of Isaac's (near) sacrifice by Abraham insofar as it is too economical with language in what is otherwise a complex set of important issues about obedience and sacrifice. Interpreters throughout the centuries have tried to …
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Clothing behavior of working women related to self-image/clothing- image congruity and achievement motivation
… be worn more than costumes which induce positive incongruity or negative congruity, followed by negative incongruity; 2) there will be a significant relationship between congruity and achievement motivation for five costumes. The instrument used to collect data was composed of a Clothing Congruity …
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A multiproxy paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Late Quaternary marine sediments: Sunda Shelf, Southern South China Sea
… published sea-level data for MIS 3. This incongruity could be caused by age inaccuracies from limitations of the radiocarbon dating technique, although this seems unlikely as the lower range of age estimates fall within the technique and the uppermost range falls on the border of the …
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Paradoxical Religious Posture: Occupying the Liminal Space
… will be discovered in a process of inquiry and incongruity.</p>
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An investigation of the relationships between issue-specific channel conflict and cooperation and overall channel conflict and cooperation
… of two levels each (high and low) of negative incongruity and salience. In research design two, a 2x2x2 nested facto- rial, positive incongruity (high and low) and antagonism (present or absent) were additional independent variables. Multiple indicators were used to measure the dependent …
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