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Effects of Orthodontic Treatment on Social Perceptions
… physical attractiveness, intelligence and social desirability. Participants recorded their responses on a 100 mm VAS, at a timed 12 sec interval. Statistical analyses were performed to determine the effect of treatment, malocclusion, patient gender and evaluator gender on first impressions. …
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A Study of Judgmental Accuracy in Social Perceptions
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Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust
… behavioral economics experiments, largely ignore social factors such as personal relationships between subjects. In this study, we designed a new experimental procedure, the "Social Lending Game", in which aspects of trust are measured as a function of differing social contexts. The procedure …
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Negative Social Perceptions and their Impacts on the Maya People
… Indigenous groups. This project examines the social perceptions that non-Indigenous Mexicans hold towards Indigenous people, specifically the Maya people from the case of the Maya Train. I argue that the social perceptions of the people in the Yucatan . By conducting interviews and surveys …
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Personal and social perceptions of college drinking: Implications for alcohol abuse prevention
… was to explore college students' personal and social perceptions of alcohol consumption. A classroom administered survey ($N$ = 302), writing samples ($N$ = 27), group discussions ($N$ = 27), and personal interviews ($N$ = 9) were all used.
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Social perceptions of the campus planning process : a case study at MIT
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1970.
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The Impact Of Positive Thinking, Optimism, Empathy, And Just World Beliefs On Social Perceptions Of Cancer
… who suffered the health crisis. In this way, social perceptions of cancer can have a tremendous influence on a patient's illness experience and that influence can be either beneficial or unintentionally detrimental. Within the current study an attribution-based theoretical framework was …
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The Social Perceptions And Attitudes Held By African American Males Who Participated In A Self-Contained Special Education Middle School Program For Three Years And Dropped Out Of High School After The Ninth Grade
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p><strong>THE SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES HELD BY AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES WHO PARTICIPATED IN A SELF-CONTAINED SPECIAL EDUCATION MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THREE YEARS AND DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AFTER THE NINTH GRADE</strong></p> <p>by</p> …
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Faculty Perceptions of Institutional Commitment to the Scholarship of Engagement
… the purpose of this study was to examine social perceptions that full-time faculty, serving in reformed institutions, hold about their institutional commitment to the scholarship of engagement.</p> <p><em>Method. </em> The sample for this study consisted of full-time faculty members (n = …
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High School Teacher Attitudes Toward Implementing Positive Behavior Support Systems
… effort that entails explicitly teaching expected social behaviors and rewarding students for behaving appropriately. Additionally, PBS systems involve developing a hierarchy of consequences that are matched to the severity of behavioral infractions. While there is growing research support for the …
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Factors of Supervision and the Impact on Intentional Nondisclosure by Counselors-in-Training
… and supervisee attachment styles. More general social perceptions may also impact the supervisory relationship, but that has not been assessed in the context of CIT supervision. Therefore, the purpose of this quantitative study was to examine these factors, supervisory working alliance, …
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Peer Perceptions of Parent-Students Seeking Higher Education
… it is imperative that researchers understand the social environment in which parent-students function. Stereotypes of parent-students may be held by peers, faculty, and other educational supervisors. Across two previous independent studies, evidence and rationale were provided to suggest that both …
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Peer Perceptions of Parent-Students Seeking Higher Education
… it is imperative that researchers understand the social environment in which parent-students function. Stereotypes of parent-students may be held by peers, faculty, and other educational supervisors. Across two previous independent studies, evidence and rationale were provided to suggest that both …
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Do we really see the world in black and white?
… Black and White Americans and to evaluate the social perceptions of Black Americans in our society. Seventy-two teachers were given surveys concerning an eleven-year-old boy with aggression. On half of the surveys, the boy's name was Tommy and on the other half of the surveys, the boy's name …
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Music to move the masses : protest music of the 1980s as a facilitator for social change in South Africa
… the public themselves strived to counteract the social perceptions generated under apartheid. I will show how the protest music movement of the 1980s was able to contribute to the greater cultural revolution of the era by providing a medium through which South Africans could formulate a new …
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An Examination of Changing Perceptions of Singlehood.
… a weaker sex and are compelled by ideology and social norms to attach themselves to men through romantic relationships and the institution of marriage, how do never-married women fare? In particular, how do never-married women over the age of 30 navigate a social world where there is constant …
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The Spatiality of Housing Price Risk and Return in The Greater Toronto Area
… Results of the current study provide insight the social perceptions of housing price risk as well as determining the spatial effects of data aggregation. The current study also provides individuals and institutional investors a more acute perspective of housing price risk in a spatial context.
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Fantasy-Theme Analysis of Food Documentaries: Contention, Collaboration, and Consultation as Health Promotion Approaches
… about food, I unpack the many functions and social perceptions of food with regard to health. Using fantasy-theme analysis, I explore the visions of the filmmakers of three food documentaries and the health-promotion strategies employed within them. Three different approaches to motivating …
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