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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Process theory"”.
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The disposition effect, dual process theory and emotion regulation
… susceptibility to the disposition effect: dual process theory and a model of the role of emotions and their regulation. The thesis contains two studies on the disposition effect of UK investors, a country where investors have not previously been researched for this bias. The first study involves …
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Forgiveness in Two Minds: Understanding Forgiveness Through Dual-Process Theory
In this thesis, I examined the relevance of dual-process theory to understanding forgiveness. Specifically, I argued that the internal conflict experienced by laypersons when forgiving (or finding themselves unable to forgive) and the discrepancies between existing definitions of forgiveness can …
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A Theoretical Critique of the Western Biases in the Political Process Theory of Social Movements
… movements in Third World countries. Political process theory, currently a dominant perspective on social movements, is the most promising starting point for such a research program; however, it has inherent Western biases, which severely limit its explanatory power for examining Third World …
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Transfer Success on the Linda Problem: A Re-Examination Using Dual Process Theory, Learning Material Characteristics, and Individual Differences
The Linda problem is an intensely studied task in the literature for judgments where participants judge the probability of various options and frequently make biased judgements known as conjunction errors. Here, I conceptually replicated and extended the finding by Agnoli and Krantz (1989) that …
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Evaluating the legal protection system for survivors of intimate partner violence using the Normalisation Process Theory: A Case study of MOSAIC
… against future acts of violence through the process of Protection Order (PO) application in Domestic Violence courts. Yet, The United Nations Women's Rights Committee (UN, 2021) found that frequent failures by the police to serve and enforce POs and low levels of prosecution and conviction in …
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The Cultural, Organisational and Contextual Processes that Might Affect the Implementation of Massage in Lebanese Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A study Informed by Normalization Process Theory
… neonatal intensive care unit. The normalization process theory was used as a sensitizing framework to understand implementation issues and address the observed difficulties in implementing new interventions in clinical settings. This study was also concerned with context and culture as moderate …
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Health and the Spiritual Self: Development and Application of a Theory and Measure of the Process of Healthy Change
… the nature of the healthy human self and the process of achieving health. This was undertaken by reviewing established self-theory and presenting a summary of each theory and its position with regard to self-composition, self-agency and the nature of the healthy self. An inclusive self-theory …
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Ageism and psychological well-being in older adults
… to aging as interpreted through identity process theory, and psychological well-being. The study is an exploratory examination of these factors in a sample of 137 community-dwelling older adults. It was hypothesized that 1) a greater experience of ageism would be associated with declines …
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Visual and verbal processing in reasoning
… (1980a; 1980b) revised version of the Dual Process theory of reasoning (Wason and Evans, 1975). A Type 2 process is characterised as verbal-rational and a Type I process as non-verbal and non-logical. Evans links the processes to two statistical components of observed reasoning performance. …
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Implementation of a national electronic health record in the specialised setting of neonatal intensive care units
… Implementation Science - using the Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) for evaluation of a successful implementation of an EHR and (3) Can EHR user interfaces be improved with clinician engagement to better facilitate input and management of healthcare data? Primarily quantitative methods, with …
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A Markov process methodology for modeling machine interactions in timber harvesting systems
… to determine the feasibility of applying Markov process theory to the analysis of timber harvesting systems and components. Through modeling the interaction between a fixed location slasher and a grapple skidder, it is shown how a Markov model can be used to obtain proportions of delay, idle and …
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HIERARCHICAL PREFERENCES AND CONSUMER CHOICE.
… is extended through the introduction of opponent-process theory to develop a dynamic model which includes habit formation. Particular emphasis is placed in Chapter 2 upon the psychological underpinnings of consumption activities and the allocation of time aspect of these activities. It is assumed …
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
… and school punishment through Family Stress Process Theory, providing a contextual analysis of resource instability. The additional myriad of legal and social constraints that parental nativity provides for family members can moderate this relationship. Data was drawn from the Fragile …
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Environmental thermal stresses as a first passage problem
… Two approaches based on the stochastic process theory are used to describe this phenomenon. The structure is idealized as a long hollow viscoelastic cylinder. Two sites are considered: Barrow (AK) and Yuma (AZ). First passage concepts are applied to characterize the reliability of the …
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Conversing Opportunities into Existence: An Examination of Discourse Structures used within the Opportunity Development of Nascent Entrepreneurship
… nascent stages of opportunity development from a process theory approach to understand how entrepreneurs sort, navigate and make sense of ideas they encounter through feedback exchanges. Using conversational analysis, several conversation patterns are identified that shape the emergence process. …
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Beyond Words: A Post-Process Business Writing Pedagogy
… Third, it incorporates the principles of post-process theory—that writing is public, interpretive, and situated—and draws on aspects of activity theory and ethnographic analysis that remain consistent with a post-process framework but add depth to the holistic conception of discourse practices. …
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
… model of thought suppression (i.e., Ironic Process Theory) has been developed. It has been argued that Ironic Process Theory can inform our understanding of the processes involved in the development and maintenance of clinical disorders such as PTSD. Unfortunately, to date, several important …
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Prevalence of Phonological Processes in Normal Two-Year Olds
… years of age. The development of phonological process theory has improved the means for studying the emerging phonological skills of the younger child. An adequate description of the sequential suppression of processes in normal phonological development is presently unavailable. The purpose of …
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Exploring Middle School Students' Heuristic Thinking about Probability
… direct information on students' problem solving processes informed by the heuristics and biases framework. This study used purposive sampling (Patton, 1990) to identify eighth-grade students who were knowledgeable about probability and had reached the formal operational stage of cognitive …
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