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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"cognitive evaluation"”.
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Adult Attachment and Emotion Identification: A Cognitive Evaluation
<p>Whether adult or infant, attachment bonds aid in the development of beliefs about oneself and others (Collins & Read, 1990; Hazen & Shaver, 1987). Additionally, attachment seems to play a vital role in human development, communication, emotion recognition and comprehension, and the development …
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The Effects of Competition and Perceived Pressure on Performance of a Visual Scanning Task: A Test of Cognitive Evaluation Theory
<p>Cognitive Evaluation Theory was developed by Deci & Ryan, (1985) to explain factors that affect intrinsic motivation. This study was done to test this theory by having volunteers engage in direct and indirect competition while working on a simple task in a time-pressured environment. …
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THE EFFECTS OF COMPETITION AND EXTERNAL REWARDS ON INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
… intrinsic motivation. Deci's (1975) theory of cognitive evaluation and Lepper, Greene and Nisbett's (1973) overjustification hypothesis account for these findings using attribution theory. Basically, these tw.</p>
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Self-determination and perceived competence as antecedents for participants dropping out of sport
… involved in competitive sport activities using cognitive evaluation theory. Deci and Ryan (1985) argue that changes to self-determination and perceived competence generate comparative changes in motivation. This approach provided a theoretical framework for exploring why some people choose to …
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Efeitos dos estímulos elétricos senoidais na resposta induzida cerebral: estudo da seletividade das fibras sensitivas
… (ERD/ERS) during ESS. The LS, reaction time, cognitive response and ERD/ERS profiles of the alpha, beta, gamma and high-gamma bands were evaluated 3 kHz and 5 Hz, at intensities 1,2xLS, 2xLS and 3xLS. Results indicate habituation in the contralateral parietal region for the 3 kHz stimulus, as …
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Development of trust in leadership: Exploring a cognitive process model
This thesis explored the cognitive, character-inference process that Dirks & Skarlicki (2004) assert contributes to trust development. Self-reported transformational leadership, leader integrity, organizational justice, and leader prototypicality correlated positively with cognitive trust in this …
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When What You Might Have Purchased Misguides You: Dysfunctional Counterfactual Thinking in Consumer Affect and Cognition
"The last two studies focus on cognitive consequences of CFT. In Study 4, the contents of CFT produced by two different conditional framings (""X % discount if you buy no more than three"" vs. ""X % discount if you buy no less than three"") are found to be diametrically opposite, although …
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Relationship of emotions, cognitive and social functions of people with epilepsy and their demographic and clinical characteristics /
This doctoral dissertation aimed to evaluate cognitive functions, social cognition and emotional state of people with epilepsy in the context of demographical, clinical and other variables. A cross-sectional trial including one-hundred eleven participants of whom 81 had epilepsy was conducted. Each …
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The Relation of Fitness Assessment Feedback to Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Activity Among College Students
… from the self determination theory (SDT) and cognitive evaluation theory (CET). Approximately 140 undergraduate students enrolled in a personal health course participated in a fitness assessment and were periodically surveyed to measure competency, autonomy, intrinsic motivation and physical …
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Thinking Outside of the Box When the Box Is Missing: Examining the Curvilinear Relation Between Role Ambiguity and Creativity
… of role ambiguity on creativity. Based on cognitive evaluation theory, a curvilinear relation between role ambiguity and creativity was hypothesized. Tolerance of ambiguity was hypothesized to act as a moderator on the linkage between role ambiguity and creativity, with a moderate amount of …
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The Effect of Feedback Style on Feedback Seeking Behaviors: an Examination of Perceived Competence
… seeking and performance. Deci and Ryan's cognitive evaluation theory suggests that intrinsic motivation may be an important mediator between feedback style and FSB in that feedback style impacts an individuals desire for mastery of his or her environment which is related to feedback …
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Stakeholder management reputation and its effects on CEO dismissal and CEO compensation
… competencies. This sensemaking process triggers cognitive evaluation processes that influence the type of attributions made about the ability of corporate leaders. These attributions in turn inform the decisions that are made on their behalf. The first study examines the effect of the reputation …
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CHANGE, SIMILARITY, AND SELECTIVITY: THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE ALIGNMENT ON ATTRACTION
… more important in explaining this relation than cognitive evaluation or inferred attraction. Finally, participants reported greater trust and respect for partners who engaged in attitude alignment, but were no more willing to help those partners. This work extends our understanding of attitude …
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The Development of an Online Interactive Resource for Enhancing Motivation in Swimmers
… on research linked to the Self-Determination, Cognitive Evaluation, Reversal, and Achievement Goal Theories.</p> <p>Swimmers can login to the website to set a variety of goals including practice/technique goals, short-term goals, long-term goals, and dream goals. More importantly, swimmers have …
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Spatial, temporal, and circuit-specific activation patterns of basolateral amygdala projection neurons during stress
… how the BLA is anatomically well-situated for cognitive evaluation of emotional stimuli and describes the role of the BLA in diverse behavioural and physiological processes via efferent projections to many different brain structures. Chapter 2 identifies a common BLA subregion that is …
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Cognition, Fatigue, and Health-related Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring the Role of Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Medication Burden
… with MS. Participants completed objective cognitive evaluation as well as measures of self-reported cognition, fatigue, health-related quality of life. Participants also provided information about comorbidities and use of lifestyle-related substances. A list of participants’ medications was …
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The social cognitive approach to understanding consumers' engagement behavior in online brand communities in South Korea
This study aimed to extend research on social cognitive theory (SCT) to explain consumers' engagement behavior in online brand communities (OBCs). Recently, marketers exploited OBCs, a nontraditional form of marketing communication, to reach their target consumers. In the current study, the SCT …
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Assessing the Influence of Personality, Affectivity, and Mood on Job Satisfaction and Job Behaviors: A Test of Alternative Models
… on comparisons of actual and desired outcomes, a cognitive evaluation of the job. To address this oversight, Weiss and Cropanzano (1996) proposed Affective Events Theory (AET) that incorporates both job affect and job satisfaction in the prediction of important job behaviors. Job affect and job …
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Cognitive, Affective, and Satisfaction Variables as Predictors of Organizational Behaviors: A Structural Equation Modeling Examination of Alternative Models
The role of cognitive, affective, and satisfaction variables in the prediction of organizational behaviors was studied via questionnaires administered to managers at a large Midwestern university at two time periods: a computerized questionnaire administered June through August, 1998 (N = 188) and …
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Emotive Materials : towards a shared language of the meaning of materials
… of materials, such as haptic responses to, cognitive evaluation of, and emotive perception of materials; in order to understand how materials communicate meaning. My aim is to produce a set of guidelines that enable designers and scientists to communicate and help creators understand the …
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