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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Thinking styles"”.
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Risk-taking, thinking styles, and criminality: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective
<p>Preferred modes of thinking, otherwise known as biases, have been well documented in adult reasoning and decision-making (Evans, 2003; Gilovich, Griffin, & Kahneman, 2002; Reyna & Brainerd, 2011; Tversky & Kahneman, 1986). Researchers have explained these biases by proposing that the basis for …
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Relating leadership, thinking styles, self-concept, motivation and stress management in education
… provided ,information concerning their thinking styles, motivations, and the physical effects of stress. This information was examined to find out how satisfaction-oriented, and how security-oriented the thinking styles of the participants were. Second, the data were analysed to see how …
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Adult age differences in thinking styles and probabilistic reasoning : the effect of natural frequencies
… in the light of dual- process theories of thinking and reasoning, using thinking style measures to investigate whether normative reasoning is indeed most often associated with a tendency to reason analytically, rather than heuristically. The tasks were presented both as probabilities, …
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Expert -Like Performance in Everyday Domains: The Effects of Thinking Styles and Problem Structure on Problem -Solving Performance
… individual differences (e.g., learning styles, thinking styles) and problem structure. Specifically, aspects of consumer information (i.e., information format, information diagnosticity, and analogy distance) will be examined as ways in which information can be concretized, which in …
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The Labyrinth of Challenge to Change: An Analysis of Community College Leaders' Thinking Styles and Behavioral Practices in the Current Environment
… This study sought to set in relief the current thinking styles of nominated California community college leaders and to see if and how these correlated with their leadership behavioral practices. The Human Information Processing Survey (HIPS) and the Leadership Practices Inventory-Self (LPI-S) …
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A Study on Environmental Dynamism, Entrepreneur Cognitive Styles, Learning from Failure and Attitude Towards Risk in Emerging Economy. A Case Study of Nigeria Entrepreneurs
… outlook country. However, the role of cognitive thinking styles, and in particular how this affects their ability to learn from failure, remain limited within a developing economy context. Thus, the current research aims to examine the relationship between environmental dynamism as the …
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Exploring Parenting as a Predictor of Criminogenic Thinking Among College Students
… and attitudes, globally labeled as criminogenic thinking, are shown to perpetuate maladaptive and antisocial behavior in both criminals and non-offenders. In the non-offender population, these thinking patterns may not lead to illegal behavior, but can result in irresponsible or maladaptive …
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Alleviating Negative Spillover of a Brand-Harm Crisis: Sensegiving vs. Sensehiding in a Competitor’s Denial Response Strategy
… contingent upon brand relatedness and individual thinking styles. The results from three experimental studies show that using a sensegiving strategy reduces negative spillover effects more than using a sensehiding strategy. Additionally, the studies suggest that the observed difference in the …
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Collaborative writing assignments and on-line discussions in an advanced ESL composition class
… configurations of discussions and for different thinking styles? (2) Does writing performance vary between collaborative and independent tasks? (3) Is there a change in students' attitudes to collaborative assignments and to the use of computers in class from the beginning to the end of the …
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An Investigation of the Relationships between Thinking Style, Participation in Classroom Dialogue and Learning Outcomes – A Study based in Mainland China
… investigated the relationships between thinking style, participation in classroom dialogue and learning outcomes. Classroom dialogue is a commonly used method for teaching and learning, and ways/strategies of taking advantage of classroom dialogue to optimise learning need to be …
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Exploring factors associated with aggressive behaviour in adolescents
… of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (Version 3.0). This review examines reported reliability and validity data for the measure as well as its limitations. Finally, implications of this thesis are discussed in chapter five.
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Personality predictors of preschool children's styles of coping with daily hassles
… examine the relationship between temperament and styles of coping with daily hassles. Parents of 86 four-year-old children attending preschools and child care centers located in Southwest Virginia completed measures of temperament and coping. The Behavioral Style Questionnaire (BSQ), designed by …
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Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
… to clinical factors, and (4) to determine thinking styles related to aggressive antisocial behavior. Results One percent of the Swedish general population was responsible for 63% of all violent crimes between 1973 and 2004. Risk factors for persistence of aggressive antisocial behavior …
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Kesan gaya berfikir dan kemahiran penyelesaian masalah inventif terhadap kemahiran penyelesaian masalah
The Critical and Creative Thinking Skills Model (CCTS) aims to adopt critical and creative thinking skills among students in order to solve problems effectively. However, the majority of teachers have overlooked the importance of this thinking style because of focusing on problem-solving. …
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Criminal thinking pelaku kejahatan ditinjau dari bentuk kejahatan: Studi narapidana lembaga pemasyarakatan wanita klas II A Malang
… kesalahan dalam bertindak. Criminal thinking adalah salah satu istilah untuk memahami pemikiran-pemikiran seseorang yang menyebabkan atau yang digunakan untuk melegitimasi tindak kejahatan. Criminal thinking terdiri dari beberapa dimensi yaitu: menuntut hak, pembenaran …
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Cognitive mechanisms associated with psychological adjustment to military deployments
… context of reflection and distraction cognitive thinking styles. Study 2a found reflection led to more trauma lifetime memories and more neutral memory valence amongst soldiers’ serving on deployment in Afghanistan. Study 2b found that reflecting on ones’ deployment experiences in the home …
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Initiating a paradigm shift: responding to individuals through a trauma-informed lens
… sustainability of change and the introduction to thinking and self-management module which involved introducing concepts of compassionate focussed mindfulness, mindfulness and thinking styles. The Good Lives Model is woven into every module of the programme. Individual participants complete the …
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On Making Warriors Out of Worriers: the Management of Trait Anxiety in Competitive Sports
… competitors with debilitative interpretive styles were found to endorse self-directed demands, and awfulising, and exhibited secondary emotional disturbance most frequently associated with somatic and behavioural interpretations. In the final study, a total of 60 ten-pin bowlers were …
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How Capable Does That Make You Feel? Appraisal Dimensions of Emotion and Health Behavior Judgments
… and processing effects, which produce distinct thinking styles. Further, the AIM (Forgas, 1995, 2002) predicts that characteristics of the judgment target and the social context of decision-making will moderate the relationship between affect and judgments. The ATF (Lerner & Keltner, 2000, 2001) …
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Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster
… that can worsen into the future. Evaluative thinking—which largely involves critical thinking, valuing, and other dynamic processes—may be ubiquitously useful to practitioners, scholars, and others from both these fields of practice. In this dissertation, I referenced the dual systems theory …
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