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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"character traits"”.
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Priming Character Traits and Morality: How Cognitive Priming Affects Judgment of Emotional Moral Primes
… are immediately cued to the moral qualities of a character before any actions or dialogue have been given to portray such judgments. This can be explained through the use of Disposition Theory (Zillmann, 2000; Zillmann, 2006) and its theoretical extensions (see Raney, 2004). Judgments of the moral …
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The effects of using children's literature to teach positive character traits to elementary students
… using children's literature to increase positive character traits in elementary students; and (b) how character education can be taught to elementary students through the use of children's literature. The researcher chose six character traits to be used throughout the study. Each week a variety of …
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A Meeting of Character: An Examination of Teaching Social
… classroom meetings were a good strategy to teach character education.</p><p>The study quantitatively measured participant perceptions of classroom meetings regarding the classroom environment while implementing the character education program SDM/SPS. First, students' perceptions of classroom …
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The Importance of Character in Aviation Maintenance
… of technical skills, formal qualifications, and character traits in the selection of aviation maintenance personnel. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with human resource professionals and hiring managers from civilian maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) organizations. …
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Bargaining relationships among spouses in urban intermarriages in India: a qualitative exploration of the intersections of gender, ethnicity, caste and class
… The study brings to attention how individual character traits steer choices within the compass of multiple structures. It establishes a continuum where at one end are women who most successfully assert agency and negotiate for resources. They associate themselves with assertive character …
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The Perceptions of Taproot Teachers and Their Sustaining Force on a Year-Round Educational Program
… Two questions drove the investigation: 1) What character traits are demonstrated by taproot teachers? 2) How do the identified traits sustain and influence a year-round educational program? Qualitative data were gathered from interviews with two teachers and the principal currently working in a …
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An exploration of college students' beliefs of parental influence on their character devlopment and of their own beliefs about the role their character plays in their academic achievement
… of their parents’ role in influencing their character development, and of their own character in influencing their college academic achievement. Two research questions guided the study: (1) What are college students’ beliefs about how parental role modeling influenced their character …
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Impulsivity traits as determinants for smoking behavior
… notion that smoking is in direct relation to the character trait of impulsivity is widely agreed upon. This study examines the individual character traits of the UPPS-P impulsivity scale that comprise the construct of impulsivity as they relate to cigarette smoking. This study seeks to illustrate …
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What happens when parents and students engage in a collaborative book club?
… themes surfaced from the data. For example: Character traits, parent-child interaction and bonding, and the value of reader response activities.
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An Exploration of the Benefits of Lifeskills Processing on Third Grade Independent Learning Decisions to Bolster Non-Ability Grouped Mathematics Instruction
… through integration of language based character education strategies. The researcher was concerned that the current emphasis on achievement could result in increased use of ability grouping. This provided a rationale to develop and present an instructional model that would provide an …
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Towards expressive mobile robots
… that can be used to abstract archetypal characters across the system, including form factor, user instructions, and interactive modalities. This approach uses Laban Movement Analysis paired with the Kansei Engineering iterative design approach to dissect movement and visual traits of …
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The Expression of Gender in Synthetic Actors: Modeling and Motion Control Over Invariant Perceptual Cues Leading to Gender Recognition
… communicating the gender of computer animated characters is evaluated. Motivated by the idea that effective character animation involves the expression of character traits through motion, this study builds upon previous work in the areas of computer animation and ecological psychology in an …
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Mate Selection Comparisons in Heterosexual and Homosexual Individuals
The effects of character traits and socioeconomic status on mate selection for both heterosexual and homosexual individuals was studied. The current study recruited 347 Central Washington University students who ranked the importance of descriptive traits in a potential long-term mate, and also …
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The Influence of The Leader In Me Program within a Middle School in Virginia
Character education has increased over the past years to build student character in such a way that students are more successful and teachers spend maximal time for classroom instruction as well as minimal time with behavioral concerns. If a student experiences positive character traits and …
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How Character Education and Conflict Resolution Strategies Foster a Positive Learning Environment
… project implemented and evaluated a seven month character education and conflict resolution strategies program. The study focused on how character education and conflict resolution foster a positive learning environment. Participating were sixth grade students, seventeen girls and thirteen boys, …
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Effects of Minimal Group Identity on Processing of Evaluative Information
… previously used with stereotyped primes and traits. It was predicted subjects would rate own group members higher than outgroup members. Additionally it was predicted that subjects' reaction times would be faster to positive character traits after their own group label than the outgroup's …
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How leaders create conditions critical to educator success and conducive to student learning
… what exactly leaders do to achieve this and what character traits of a leader are defined, specifically in the K-12 public school environment. There is no better way to understand this than from the lens of the teachers themselves. In this research study, you will hear firsthand what teachers say …
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Exploring educators' experiences regarding empathy within inclusive classrooms
… system, where their skills, views and character traits influence the classroom atmosphere. Empathy as an educational trait can be seen as a core element in inclusive education, where all learners, with and without disabilities, are provided with an equal opportunity to receive basic …
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