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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Volition"”.
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Volition and the Readiness Potential
<p>In the “Libet study” the onset of movement-related brain activity preceded the reported time of the conscious intention to move, suggesting that non-conscious brain processes predetermine voluntary movements (Libet, Gleason, Wright, & Pearl, 1983). While the study’s basic results have been …
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The Role of Volition in Exercise Behavior
… human beings to self-determine or to demonstrate volition. Researchers in the human-studies field have been unable to demonstrate empirically the volitional components in human behavior due to the limitations of traditional, scientific methodologies. This study shows how volitional research could …
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Volition to Transfer Training: An Examination of the Role of Volition in Supporting Study Abroad Students’ Adherence to the Transfer of Intercultural Skills
… skills. Additionally, the study investigated volition, a key variable, to unlock HRD’s understanding about the goal-shielding role in the transfer of intercultural adjustment skills over 14 weeks of a study abroad program. Selecting intercultural adjustment skills was based on similarities in …
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The silent community? : From practicing (a)-political volition to re-politicising difference
The search for new approaches to low-carbon transition have led to an array of different movements over the past 10-15 years, most notable has been the Transition movement which has grown from humble beginnings in Totnes (Devon) to become a global movement. But while Transition is now a global …
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How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
… frames to explore the process of institutional volition and the conditions under which privileged insiders may become engaged in different types of institutional change work to address societal issues. Institutional volition is the reflective process leading people to engage in purposeful …
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Relationship Of Grit, Volition, And Mindset To Undergraduate Student Persistence Of Nontraditional Students
… dispositional characteristics of grit, volition, and mindset to student persistence in undergraduate degree programs by students considered nontraditional and at-risk at three campuses of a for-profit university in New England. Nontraditional students are faced with barriers to success …
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Color, Hygiene, and Body Politics: French Neo-Impressionist Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905
… French Neo-Impressionist Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905, explores the little studied "pragmatic" dimension of Neo-Impressionist theory and practice to reveal the full social and political import of Divisionist technique. Specifically, it examines how Neo-Impressionist painters such as …
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Umsetzungsstarke Teams bei der Flugsicherung in der Schweiz am Beispiel Skyguide AG – Teams im Fokus Volition
… the extent to which strengthening the volition of a team can positively influence the innovative power of a company. The focus is on the Swiss aviation industry. On the air traffic control company Skyguide because it is facing great challenges, which has intensified by the corona …
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Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
<p>Violence is ubiquitous in American Fiction, especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, “Good Country People”, and “The Displaced Person” Flannery O’Connor highlights the choices people make within that violence can directly affect the results of that …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
… the dependence of cognition on deeper, avolitional structures (e.g., backstage cognition, cognitive heuristics and biases, automaticity, emotionally-valenced memory, etc.), and hence, shifting the cognitive model towards reductionistic and deterministic philosophies and psychologies. …
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Inferring extra-linguistic attributes from text - Modeling Level of Need for Assistance and Expression of Volition with text mining
… need for assistance* (LONA) and *expression of volition* (EOV). Both attributes are linked to autonomy, which is highly valued in disabled people’s services in Germany. <br /><br /> **Methodology:** A framework is presented that can be applied for three use cases in disabled people’s services. …
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Voluntary Action and Conscious Intention
… inferences about the human brain. However, human volition entails making decisions and acting in a manner that is underdetermined by the external environment. Investigations of the neuronal basis of volition have led to new controversies regarding the existence of free will, and offer potential …
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Examining Access to Decent Work Among Women Veterans: A Psychology of Working Theory Perspective
… of marginalization, economic constraints, work volition, and career adaptability all directly predicted their ability to secure decent work, and economic constraints and marginalization experiences indirectly predicted decent work via work volition. Proactive personality was additionally …
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From Intention to Action: Neural Dynamics of Voluntary Action
… of it, our intuitions unravel. The field of volition neuroscience has long uncovered brain signals that precede our awareness of our own decisions, often interpreting the presence of early antecedent activity as evidence of early decisions preceding our subjective experience of deciding. …
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Well-being in the Workforce: The Role of Career Crafting, Decent Work, PERMA+4, and Work Volition in Economically Marginalized (EM) Workers and Non-EM Workers
… career crafting, decent work, PERMA+4 and work volition and their relationship to well-being in two distinct economic groups: economically marginalized (EM) workers and non-EM workers. A total of 629 full-time and part-time working adults aged 18 to 64, collected from an online survey, were …
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Domestic Work as Decent Work: An Empirical Test of the Predictors of Decent Work To Extend the Psychology of Working Theory
… marginalisation, economic constraints, work volition and proactive personality were one-dimensional, and the decent work scale was fivedimensional (complementary values, access to health care, adequate compensation, free time and rest, and safe work conditions). Unexpectedly, the social …
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The Value of Mentoring in Living Out Your Calling
… seek a state of lived calling and work volition in terms of perceived agency over occupational choices despite potential barriers. The results revealed that the greater the extent to which participants had calling motivation and work volition, the more likely they were to be classified …
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Taking Berkeley seriously
… concerns the role played by Spirit, or active volitional awareness, in the cognition of everyday objects, and also in the meaning of any given Sign, whether Natural or Artificial. Berkeley began to develop this line of thought in his earliest publication, As Essay Toward a New Theory of Vision …
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On the concept of a heedful frame of mind in the work of Gilbert Ryle : the problems of its episodic nature and its relation to the issue of voluntariness
… philosophical notions of the 'Will', and of 'volition'. Ryle admits, however, that this notion is problematic in that, as a reference to an episodic 'frame of mind', it threatens to entail the illicit features of inaccessibility to observation, implicit dualism, and infinite regress, which his …
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