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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Negative Information"”.
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Negative information for motif discovery
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Using Negative Information in simultaneous localization and mapping
… is one of efficiently utilizing available information from sensors and intelligently processing that information to determine the state of the robot and its environment. This thesis explores a topic often ignored in the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) literature: the utility of …
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Individual differences in the recall of performance appraisal feedback
… that individuals are biased toward recalling negative feedback. Two self-motive theories, self-enhancement theory Jones & Gerard,1973), and Competence motivation theory (White, 1959) were tested in an attempt to determine which of these two theories could best account for the Donlin findings. …
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What I Don't Know Can't Hurt Me?: Cognitive Avoidance in Adults At-Risk for Depression
… of the participants in each group underwent a negative mood induction to simulate life stress. RD and ND groups did not differ in length of time that they self selected to view negative or positive images and they did not differ on subsequent recollection tasks for negative information in …
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Culture and Memory for Emotional Experiences: On-Line vs. Retrospective Judgments of Subjective Well-Being
… events or conscious weighting of positive vs. negative information. Rather, the cultural difference in retrospective reports of well-being appears to be due to non-conscious weighting of positive vs. negative information.
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Essays on learning and strategy in research and development
… of research and development efforts. These negative information shocks force research organizations to pause, interpret external signals, and apply any lessons to their own project portfolios. I investigate how these negative information events impact decisions in the settings of scientific …
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Die Antonymie-Heuristik: Automatische Falsifikation Valenter Information
… an antonym-heuristic when valenced (positive or negative) information is falsified. According to former studies falsification is a non-automatic, higher-order cognitive process which depends on cognitive resources and people can only successfully negate information if they have the intention to …
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Drivers and outcomes of brand attachment
… consumers’ defensive acts against the effect of negative information and minimizing the number of consumer desertions. Building consumer brand relationships underpins the longterm prosperity of brands. Extant research reveals several constructs of consumer brand relationships, including brand …
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The good, the bad, and the facts : multimodal representation of medical conversations for patient understanding
… significant challenges for managing their health information. In particular, cancer patients have a uniquely difficult experience where they must endure the physical and emotional effects of their illness while simultaneously navigating overwhelming amounts of medical information. In this thesis, …
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The sequential exposure bias: A preference for approaching pro-attitudinal before counter-attitudinal information that can bias evaluative judgments
When searching for information, people often engage in behaviors that lead to biased rather than accurate judgments (e.g., confirmation bias). The present research identified the sequential exposure bias, defined as a tendency to approach attitude-supportive (congenial) information before …
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Negation in logic and deductive databases
… one to withdraw by revising provisionally held negative information can hope to be adequate to model a non-monotonic negation. In light of this, we propose a model of negation that owes much to the stable semantics but allows, through a mechanism of consistency- recovery, for just this …
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Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation
The omnipresence of political misinformation in the today's media environment raises serious concerns about citizens' ability make fully informed decisions. In response to these concerns, the last few years have seen a renewed commitment to journalistic and institutional fact-checking. The …
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It's Not Me It's You: Examining the Link Between Partner-Schema Organization, Relationship Functioning, and Depressive Symptoms
… supported the presence of a highly consolidated negative self representation or “self-schema”, no studies have examined whether depression is also associated with a highly organized negative “partner-schema”, and whether this represents a risk factor for relationship distress. Given the high …
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A General Semantic Model of Negation in Natural Language: Representation and Inference
… people draw from English sentences with explicit negative information. The UNO natural language processing system is shown to correctly handle a substantial subset of English: knowledge from sentences involving negation as well as conjunction and disjunction of complex determiners, adjectives, …
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Using Deception to Enhance Security: A Taxonomy, Model, and Novel Uses
… continue at a rapid pace, securing our digital information is vital to our prosperity. Most current typical computer systems are unwittingly helpful to attackers through their predictable responses. In everyday security, deception plays a prominent role in our lives and digital security is no …
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Applying Weighting Biases in Cognitive Energetics Theory to Behavior Change
… an individual’s tendency to focus on positive or negative information. Three studies examined (1) positivity and negativity inclinations as latent factors reflecting sensitivities to positive and negative aspects of goal pursuit, (2) CET weighting biases (i.e., increased sensitivity to either …
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Informational Externalities of Going Public Decisions
In this dissertation I examine the informational externalities of going public decisions for industrial and banking sector. The results show that industrial rivals have positive valuation effects only in response to venture backed IPOs and no significant reaction in response to non-venture backed …
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Changes in Emotion Drive Perceptual Level Shifts: Global vs. Local Processing
… with positive emotions globalizing attention and negative emotions localizing attention (Fredrickson, 2004). Biases in attentional processes have been associated with the development and maintenance of emotional disorders, anxiety being the most common. Previous studies have shown that anxious …
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