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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Psychology, Behavioral"”.
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
… insights from political sociology, political psychology, behavioral economics, and base politics, it argues that differing local responses to the U.S. military footprint are shaped by the following factors that constitute local political opportunity structure: 1) major status quo changes …
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Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Natural Resource Co-Management
… underexplored within conservation social psychology, even as research expands in response to urgent social and environmental challenges. This research brought together theoretical and empirical insights from social and cultural psychology, behavioral economics, and institutional analysis …
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Converting prosocial attitude change to behavior change through self-management training
Abstract not available.
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Contributions of early life adversity, sex, and traits towards compulsive opioid self-administration
Many people try addictive drugs, but only a small percentage transition from situational/recreational use to the escalating, compulsive, and relapsing disorder of addiction. It is therefore important to characterize the individual differences that render individuals vulnerable to addiction. …
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Yoga for Pediatric Cancer Out-Patients
The aggressive treatments necessary for survival in pediatric oncology are associated with adverse psychosocial and physical side effects. Physical activity (PA) has been shown to be a safe and effective strategy to positively impact the sequelae of cancer and its treatments. Although there are …
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Somewhat Possible or Substantial Doubt? Documentation Requirements, Persuasion Tactics, and Linguistic (Vs. Numerical) Audit Risk Assessments
As a whole, this dissertation presents new evidence of the linguistic strategies that auditors use to reach a preferred audit conclusion in the work papers. My findings demonstrate linguistic assessments as more biased and yet justifiable than numerical assessments. Finally, they suggest unintended …
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Enhancing Auditor Expertise: Using Cognitive Load Theory to Examine a Reinforcing Feedback Loop Between Knowledge and Ability
Understanding how the knowledge and ability interaction affects task performance is essential for comprehending how accountants learn and develop expertise. The current expertise model assumes this ability is predominately static in the short-term and as a corollary that the influence of this …
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Elaboration in Audit Financial-Statement Review: An Experimental Investigation From a Persuasion Perspective
My experiment shows that reviewers alter the type of elaboration activities in which they engage based on (1) perceptions of the performance of others in the multi-person audit environment and (2) the relative costs of judgments/decisions inconsistent with client and financial-statement user …
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Attitudes and Perceived Behavioral Control of First-Year College Student's Alcohol Use: A Study of an Instructional Software Intervention
Results of t-tests, ANOVAs, and correlations revealed that the Alcohol 101 intervention had a significant improvement in the desired direction for all, students, Greeks and non-Greeks, and men and women in regard to their attitude and personal control from pre-test to post-test. Greek students had …
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Biogenic Amines and Division of Labor in the Honey Bee Society
… builders. Using social manipulations to unlink behavioral status and chronological age, octopamine was found to exhibit a robust association, independent of age, between behavior and amine level. Octopamine levels were significantly lower in normal-age nurses than precocious foragers, and in …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Price Promotions on Brand Attitudes: An Attribution Theory Perspective
It was also found that brand attitudes improved after a one week time lag, suggesting that if there are negative effects as a consequence of the brand's promotional activity, the negative effects dissipate within a one week time period (so long as the promotional activity does not continue).
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Psychoneuroimmune Implications of Non-Infectious Neuroimmune System Activation and the Impact of Type 2 Diabetes
… cardiovascular disease, these cytokine-mediated behavioral modifications may contribute to the deleterious psychological and physical components of the disease. Additionally, recent evidence has implicated innate immune system activation in the pathology of a variety of conditions including …
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Nutritional and Environmental Factors Affecting Feed Intake Level and Pattern in Growing and Finishing Pigs
… intake level and pattern, and hematological and behavioral changes. Growth performance and feed intake were depressed linearly as number of stressors increased. This performance depression was related to increased plasma cortisol level and reduced feeding activity affected by the stressors. Pigs …
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The Neural Substrates Supporting the Inhibition of Instrumental Avoidance Behavior
Previous studies have elucidated much of the neural circuitry underlying the acquisition of discriminative avoidance behavior in rabbits, wherein rabbits learn to step in an activity wheel in response to a conditional stimulus (CS+) predictive of a foot shock while learning to avoid another …
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Amygdalar Modulation of the Medial Geniculate Nucleus and Cingulate Cortex in Discriminative Avoidance Training
Neurons in A29 and the lateral nucleus of the amygdala (LA) characteristically develop maximal dTIA in late stages of DAL. Experiment II tested the hypothesis that LA nucleus is responsible for the late dTIA in A29. As hypothesized, LA nuclear excitotoxic lesions decreased dTIA in A29. Moreover, …
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Meta-Analytic and Experience Sampling Investigations Into the Structure of Work Behaviors
… behavior are actually opposite poles of the same behavioral factor. The present research first examines the available evidence for and against this proposition. Then, in Study 1, meta-analysis is used to estimate the relationship between the two constructs (or facets thereof), moderators of the …
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Engaging Adolescents in Organized Youth Programs: An Analysis of Individual and Contextual Factors
Results from the investigation of the role of program-level factors in the engagement process revealed four factors: (1) youth receiving verbal encouragement and strategic feedback from the leaders, (2) leaders' efforts to monitor the setting for the presence of diversions and exciting or novel …
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Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Considering the Influences and Interactions of Multiple Contexts
This study examines the joint impact of social contexts and social influences on adolescent development by examining contextual systems, such as peers, parents, school, and community. Participants included 14,548 middle school students comprised of 78.6% White, 5.4% Biracial, 4.8% Asian, 4.8% …
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Intervention With Individuals Who Have Severe Disabilities: General Case Instruction of Communication and a Methodological Critique of Drug Intervention for Self-Injury
Research is examined critically and data are generated relevant to behavior challenges and language skills of individuals with severe disabilities. First, the use of opiate blockers in the treatment of self-injurious behavior is reviewed. The research is critically evaluated and potential …
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Modeling Resident Satisfaction: Comparison of the Francescato and Fishbein-Ajzen TRA Models
A military on-post family housing site is selected as a setting for this study. Since this dissertation is the first study applying the TRA to housing satisfaction studies, it reveals many limitations with a typical housing setting. This study draws statistical and practical superiority of the …
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