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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Likability"”.
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Conflict management styles : a predictor of likability and perceived effectiveness among subordinates
… 1981, p. 289). Additionally, the importance of likability of supervisors by their subordinates has become of greater importance in the past few years as researchers have discovered that more people leave their job because they do not like their supervisor than for any other reason (Agrusa, …
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Evaluating Trust based on Impression Formation in Business Encounters
… of impression formation, focusing on warmth/ likability and competence/ expertise perceptions. Design / Methodology / Approach: A research framework has been elaborated based on the literature on social interactions and impression formation. The focus is on creating an innovative stimulus …
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Children’s Social Judgments of Others on the Basis of Dialect-Specific Vocabulary
… each child on a three-point scale in domains of likability, niceness, intelligence, and helpfulness. Participants demonstrated social preference and selective trust for American dialect users over British dialect users. Participants rated American dialect users significantly more favorably in …
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Category-based, piecemeal, and contrast processes underlying product evaluations: Their determinants and consequences
… and make their judgment on the basis of the likability of the category (category-based processes); other times they integrate the likability of the individual attributes of the product to reach a judgment (piecemeal processes). As a third possibility, they also make their judgment by …
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Aberrant self-promotion versus Machiavellianism: a differentiation of constructs
… than other players on trust, respect, and likability due to the ASPs ineffectiveness in bargaining and forming alliances. Two repeated measures ANOVAs were performed to test the hypotheses. Results supported only the last prediction regarding likability. Reasons for these findings and …
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Crowdsourcing affective responses for predicting media effectiveness
… of media, whether it be in influencing memory, likability or persuasion. Stories and narratives, even if fictional, have the ability to induce a genuine emotional response. However, the understanding of the role of emotions in media and advertising effectiveness has been limited due to the …
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University of Toledo Students' Reaction to African American Vernacular Features: Do Phonological Features Matter?
… and attractiveness (kindness, sweetness, likability, and friendliness). Results indicated that speakers who exhibit SAE were more favorably evaluated than speakers who exhibit AAVE. These findings demonstrated that speakers' accents affected listeners' judgments about them.
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Evaluating the usability of an X-ray imaging system in forensic pathology
… the subjective satisfaction characteristics of likability, pleasure, comfort and trust. Incorporation of user needs into updated system designs may lead to greater perceived ease of use, acceptance and adoption, resulting in increased device utilisation. The study location was the Lodox …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
… embody characteristics associated with female likability, resulting in the loss of authentic representations of teenage girls. Characters who do not personify these archetypes are often regarded as foils to the loveable protagonist, leaving readers with the impression that only idealized girls …
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The Impact of the Emotional Tone of Confrontation on Perceptions of Confronters of Sexism
… is perceived on a series of traits related to likability, power, morality, masculinity, and age, whether the emotional tone of the confrontation impacts beliefs about her obligation to confront, and expectations of future behavior for both the confronter and the perpetrator. Findings revealed …
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How does Olympic and biographical media coverage affect fan and social identification with Mo Farah?
… how well Farah represented his country, his likability, his relatability to the American college student audience, and how positively the participants felt about him. Findings show that participants reacted most positively toward Farah when he was described as Somali in the media, even though …
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Audience involvement with entertainment-education programs: explicating processes and outcomes
… interaction, experiential identification, likability, and wishful identification. Findings suggest that audience involvement influences a number of cognitive and affective responses to EE messages including counterarguing, the perception that message-related health topics are personally …
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The Effects of Self-Esteem and Mood on the Perception of Others
… scenarios and a trait scenario in terms of likability, competence, trustworthiness, ambitiousness, and enthusiasm as well as rated themselves on the same traits. While no significant main effect of mood was found, there was a significant main effect of self-esteem for the trait scenario, …
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The Effect of Teacher-Child Interaction Training on Children Who Are Exhibiting Disruptive Behaviors Within the Classroom Setting
… the teacher-student relationship, and the likability and feasibility of TCIT according to teachers. Results suggest that TCIT is effective in reducing disruptive behaviors within the classroom setting, as indicated by behavioral observation and teacher report. Additionally, the relationship …
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The Effects of Affective Priming and Aging on Ratings, Thoughts, and Recall for Advertisements.
… competing ad had a famous endorser of varying likability (high, neutral, or low). Older adults produced more relevant thoughts about the advertisements than did the younger adults. As expected, purchase intent was not affected by the manipulation. Advertisements with the negative prime received …
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On development and perception of theomorphic robots: the uncanny valley effect to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
… dimensions of anthropomorphism, animacy, likability, perceived intelligence, and safety. By applying an AI-based lens to questions traditionally addressed through human evaluation, this research also investigates whether machine perception aligns with the Uncanny Valley effect. The results …
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Towards expressive mobile robots
… modes of these systems, that in turn engender likability, animacy, acceptance, trust and adoption. This paper approaches this problem by proposing a design methodology that can be used to abstract archetypal characters across the system, including form factor, user instructions, and interactive …
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Preventing guilt by association: Mindfulness and susceptibility to evaluative conditioning
… ideographs. Then, they completed ideograph likability ratings. In Study 1, a measure of trait mindfulness was inversely associated with conditioning of negative attitudes, but not after accounting for negative state affect. In Study 2, there was no relation between either of two measures of …
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Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices
… of hot cognition such as emotion, pleasure, and likability show promise as important parameters in system evaluation.
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Examining the Meaning of Course Evaluation
… that teaching evaluations primarily reflect the likability of the faculty. It is purported that students rate more positively those faculty who grade less rigorously, who are more lenient, accessible and friendly; while faculty who have high standards and focus on the content and information …
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