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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations"”.
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A Singer's Perspective on Recruitment, Auditioning, and Vocal Technique in the Choral Program
… of experience levels in terms of training and technique. Three problems that face directors of choirs are: 1) How to recruit and retain students for their programs, 2) How to audition and structure, and 3) How to incorporate vocal technique into the choral rehearsal. In this paper I address …
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Beef Retailer Perception of Consumer Buying Habits
… may never be completely understood, however motivations that drive consumers to make purchases will remain similar as a result of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Factors that play a key role in purchasing decisions include levels of purchasing assistance, price, perceived health factors, …
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Two Essays Analyzing the Behavioral Economics Underlying Health Decisions: Delay Discounting and Crowding Out Effect
… such as obesity. It is important to understand how the delay discounting process relates to unhealthy diets. People who discount the value of future outcomes prefer immediate rewards (e.g., enjoyment/taste) even though a larger reward from delaying exists (e.g., good health status). In this …
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Robustness of Novelty Preference For A Motion-Based One-Trial Object Recognition Task In Male and Female Adolescent Rats
… depends upon complex interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, many of which decrease validity for measures operationally defining exploratory activity. Two such threats to validity include the frequency of non-exploratory behaviors exhibited during the retention phase of …
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The role of firm resource demand in shoppers' service experiences
… outcomes for a firm are not solely based on demanding more resource inputs from customers. In order to achieve a satisfactory service encounter for the firm and the customer, a firm must understand how a customer views the resource demands placed on them. This dissertation examines the …
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How does neoliberal performance management affect teachers’ perceived motivations to ‘improve’?
… policy context of the education system in England, performance management represents a motivational approach because of its linkage of outcomes with reward or punishment. This study contributes by evaluating the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations which might incentivise (or dis-incentivise) …
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Agon: a Gamification-Based Framework for Acceptance Requirements
… supported by software platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. But for any social software to be successful, it must be used by a sizeable portion of its intended user community. This is fundamental for social software, but also a crucial point for most of the software systems in general, and the …
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Through the Lens: Using Auto-Driven Photo-Elicitation to Capture the Development of Career Aspirations of Business Management and Fine Art Students
… research methodology to generate knowledge and understanding in an area that is often associated with quantitative research. Careers and employment research typically focuses on statistical information which can provide general information but does not give an in-depth understanding of the …
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Riding the Waves: A Case Study of Learners and Leaders in Library and Information Science Education
This study examines learners and learning in the context of an established, multimodal graduate degree program originally developed as a distance education option. It is a learner-centered inquiry, building on Deweyan understanding, considering processes of individual and collective transformation …
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Decentralization and health performance in Italy: theoretical and empirical issues
… the relationship between fiscal decentralization and regional health outcomes, as measured by infant mortality rates, in Italy. The paper employs a panel of all Italian regions over a period of 17 years (from 1996 to 2012), applying a linear Fixed-Effect model. Two different quantitative measures …
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Three Essays on Economic Agents' Incentives and Decision Making
… analysis of economic agents' decision making and incentives. Chapter 1 gives an outline of the subjects to be examined in the subsequent chapters and shows their conclusions in brief. Chapter 2 explores the decision problem of a superordinate (a principal) regarding whether to delegate its …