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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Perception--Research"”.
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Hazard Perception Research: A Critique and Proposal (Fishbein, Tornado)
Hazard perception research has been based on the assumption that an individual's hazard behavior is a function of his hazard perception (his subjective beliefs about the hazard). Yet empirical evidence on the perception-behavior relationship has been contradictory. Further, the behavioral impacts …
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The perception of a form in an undifferentiated field as indicated by the observer's use of the tilt-board
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Psychology, 1953
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Liminality as a Framework for Composition: Rhythmic Thresholds, Spectral Harmonies and Afrological Improvisation
… rhythmic thresholds in the light of recent music perception research. Finally, through an in-depth analysis of two of my recent compositions, Echoes (2008) and Baltimore/Berlin (2008, rev. 2011), I show how this ongoing inquiry allows us to think about composition in new and fruitful ways.
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Social Reactions to Acquaintance Sexual Assault: Perceptions of Responsibility and Blame
… students at the University of Ottawa, this research has explored attributions about sexual assault and the role of perceived intoxication in the context of female and male victims of sexual assault. The use of qualitative methodology and the application of a feminist critique of attribution …
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Promoting Greater Granularity in Climate Research: A Case Study Analyzing Perceptions of Anthropogenic Climate Change Among Students, Faculty, and Staff at The University of Southern Mississippi
… in its occurrence within the United States. This research uses survey data obtained from the University of Southern Mississippi to provide an understanding at a local scale of how both physical and psychological aspects bridge a gap in perception research.</p> <p>With the use of previous research …
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A Comparison of Safety Management Systems Training Methods at a Collegiate Flight-Training Institution
… a university flight program. Additionally, the research sought to determine whether a correlation exists between safety knowledge and safety culture perception. An experimental research design was used to study two independent variables, training method and person type, and their effect of SMS …
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Distance Judgments for Joint Action: The Perceptual Consequences of Anticipated Coordination
<p>Recent perception research has revealed that judgments of distance are influenced by the energetic cost required to perform particular actions, such as walking, across these distances (Proffitt, 2006b). However, this prior research has focused almost exclusively on the perceptual consequences of …
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THE ROLE OF ATTENTION IN PROCESSING ORGANIZED AND UNORGANIZED MULTI-OBJECT DISPLAYS
Recent attention research indicates that attention must focus narrowly on the location of a stimulus before that stimulus can be identified. Focal attention has also been shown to play an important role in the process of localizing and integrating the basic features of stimuli. Although this …
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A cross-cultural study of prospect-refuge theory
… attention has been directed to the landscape perception research in the past three decades. Much research has been done. And there is a growing need for a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework to guide the multi-disciplinary nature of the field. Two broad bases for such a …
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Impression Formation: The Relation Between Recall and Judgment
One aspect of person perception research that has posed problems for many theories is that there is often little correspondence between judgments that are made about a person and specific facts that can be recalled about that person. Lichtenstein and Srull (1987) have proposed a model that suggests …
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Neural Network Fusion of Multi-Modal Sensor Data For Autonomous Surface Vessels
… platforms and public datasets for ASV-based perception research. To that end, this dissertation demonstrates the design of a synchronized multi-modal sensing platform for ASVs utilizing GPS/INS, LiDAR, LWIR cameras, HDR camera, and high-resolution cameras. The sensing platform is designed to …
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Societal perceptions of wrongful convictions
… have received a considerable amount of research attention. This flourishing interest has resulted in a growing body of literature that aims to investigate this criminal justice phenomenon. Specifically, the current academic literature suggests that exonerees have reported feeling …
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Transformation Tolerance of Facial Recognition Technology and Informative Evaluation Metrics
… Meanwhile, there is a large body of human facial perception research that aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of human recognition. This field offers methodological inspiration for more informative evaluation techniques, including the characterization of recognition performance as a …
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Eye Tracking: A Perceptual Interface for Content Based Image Retrieval
… promises even quicker search performances. The research has two implications for Content Based Image Retrieval: (i) improvements in query formulation for visual search and (ii) new methods for visual search using attentional weighting. Futhermore it was demonstrated that users are able to find …
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Applying change detection to test the noticeability of componants of medical labels
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Packaging, 2010
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Central Traits in the 21st Century
… personalities. Paper 2 expands beyond self-perceptions of central traits to examine their social reality in the eyes of others. Here, I compare the content of self- and close other informant- perceptions of central traits and explore self-other agreement and multi-rater consensus of these …
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Modulation of lateralised responses to primary affect
… even though they form a key part of emotional perception research. The behavioural literature has provided evidence for both unilaterally (right hemisphere) and bilaterally derived responses to different types of emotional stimuli, with the directionality of response patterns changing depending …
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