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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Willingness to Help"”.
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Willingness to help: how the portrayal and perception of a wrongfully convicted individual affects people’s willingness to help exonerees
… in Canada there is no legal requirement to compensate exonerees (Roach, 2012), and despite research suggesting Canadians would be supportive of this government assistance for exonerees (Angus Reid, 1995; Clow, Blandisi, et al., 2012), Canada rarely compensates or provides them with …
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The effects of suicide intent and history of self-harm on emotional reactions and willingness to help
… study was a preliminary investigation of factors that affect potential helpers' emotional responses, perceptions and willingness to help when confronted with information about a hypothetical friend who overdoses. One hundred and forty-two undergraduate students attending Edith Cowan …
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Student names as predictors of prejudice in school teachers: Do students names associated with Islam influence teacher willingness to help students in the classroom?
… et al., 2008). Prejudice, or negative attitudes towards an outgroup (Dovidio et al., 2004), can lead to social distance between ingroup and outgroup members. Social distance is the degree of closeness or separation that individuals perceive between themselves and members of various outgroups …
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Breast Cancer, Genetic Testing And Attribution of Responsibility
… friend's breast cancer diagnosis, emotions, and willingness to help. Bernard Weiner's theory of attribution and emotion is useful for understanding how blame and causation shape one's willingness to help. Weiner's theory suggests that perceived attributions influence one's emotional state, which …
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Reactions to Others with Depression: An Investigation of Responsibility and Deservingness Judgments
… predict other-directed moral emotions and helping judgments. The current research integrated theories of responsibility and deservingness to investigate a novel approach for increasing support to individuals with depression. Study 1 used a correlational design to identify patterns of …
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Perceptions of Cosmetic Alteration in Different Sized Attractive Women.
… attractive woman significantly more likely to help a friend in need and significantly more likely to become a friend than an underweight attractive woman. These findings provide understanding of how particular stereotypes may provide social benefits. In Phase 2, knowledge of the woman's …
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The influence of selected perceptual and demographic characteristics on the attitude toward mental health of students among faculty a public universities in the Southeastern United States
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the influence of selected personal and professional demographic characteristics on the attitudes toward and perceptions of selected mental health issues among currently employed faculty of four year public universities. Faculty members at two …
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PERSPECTIVE TAKING AND THREAT: DO THREATENING SITUATIONS HAVE AN EFFECT ON HELPING INTENTIONS AND PERCEIVED EXPECTATIONS?
… for interpersonal communication is the ability to take the perspective of another person. Taking the perspective of a target can aid the perceiver in predicting the target’s mental states and subsequent behaviors. This can be especially important in threatening situations. How a member of an …
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Gender differences in bystanders’ intention to help towards female and male victims of domestic violence: a web-based online survey
The purpose of the current research is to explore the attitudes towards domestic violence victims by looking at empathy, sexism and personality traits and the willingness to help domestic violence male and female victims. The project’s aim was to answer 4 main questions: Whether females experience …
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Family caregiver responses to dementia
… a systematic review of extant literature aiming to present an understanding of the factors associated with psychological wellbeing amongst family caregivers of individuals with dementia. Previous work has been limited in its coverage of care-recipient, caregiver and systemic associates with …
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Examining Factors that Influence Reactions to Human Trafficking
… myth acceptance attribute greater blame to victims than individuals low on these constructs. The results of the present study suggest that belief in a just world, ethical ideologies, and human trafficking myth acceptance are significant predictors of blame attributions toward victims of …
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Hopeful feelings : inducing the feelings of hope and examining its social and cognitive effects
… predicts a host of positive outcomes. However, to date, the psychology of hope has paid little attention to hope as an emotion, focusing instead on hope as a sense of agency and effective goal pursuit, thus limiting our knowledge of the cognitive and social implications of hopeful feelings. Four …
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Social Responses to HIV Positive Suicide Ideators.
<p>The purpose of the present investigation was to examine responses to suicidal ideation by an HIV positive male described as heterosexual/homosexual in a promiscuous/monogamous relationship.</p> <p>Men (101) and women (137) enrolled in introductory psychology courses participated in the study. …
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Music, Video and Perception: An investigation into shaping attitudes toward fish and their natural habitat
… of music and video on perceptions of fish, willingness to help aquatic conservation efforts, and attitudes about the marine environment. Participants were randomly distributed to one of six groups which varied by presenting information about marine life in a video format or through printed …
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Networks or lemons?
… as a signal of worker quality. If firms tend to keep high ability workers, then those who are not employed will tend to be "lemons," labor market leftovers who are of uncertain quality. To the extent that employers rely on employment as a signal, then well-qualified, but out-of-work job …
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The effects of racial group membership and cognitive load on empathy and helping behaviour
… feel more empathy for racial in-group compared to racial outgroup members, and in some circumstances, are more likely to help racial in- than out-group members. Furthermore, there is evidence that cognitive load may also attenuate helping behavior. Research is yet to establish the influence of …
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Agents to assist in finding help
The problem of finding someone who might be able to help with a particular task or knowledge area exists everywhere, be it in groups of students or corporate settings. Time and effort are spent looking for relevant information when another person in the community could easily provide assistance. …
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Using choice experiments to value preferences over stormwater management
U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 45518 on 2015-08-22T10:00:22Z.
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Attribution theory and increasing social support for women with postpartum depression: An exploration of perceived stability, onset controllability, and effort
… model (Weiner, 1980a), the current studies seek to assess whether emphasizing the temporary nature of PPD (i.e., stability), the uncontrollable development of the ailment (i.e., onset controllability), and whether it appears someone is making an effort to overcome PPD will indirectly result in …
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The effects of the implementation of total quality management on the Rappahannock County, Virginia public schools
… students, and parents participated in a study to determine whether the implementation of TQM from 1990 to 1993 has made fundamental and significant changes and improvements in the district. In 1990-91, senior management of the district received 80+ hours of training and were certified as …
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