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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"contextual effects"”.
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Contextual Effects in Impression Formation: Encoding and Contrast
… on impression formation of two types of contextual effects: encoding, in which context stimuli provide bases for the interpretation and organization of subsequently presented target information, and contrast, in which context stimuli provide bases of comparison and contrast for judgments …
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Contextual Effects and Support for Liberalism: A Comparative Analysis
… that it is necessary to consider a neglected contextual factor—level of political freedom—to explain the variation. I validate this argument by comparing a wide range of societies with different economic, cultural and political contexts in Chapter 3. My analysis shows that countries with …
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Contextual Effects in Recognition of Individuals in Gender-Typed Profession
… examines individual differences in sexism and contextual cueing as interacting phenomena. Participants completed a timed task in which they decided whether individuals in photographs matched particular career labels. When the photograph and career did not match in relation to gender (e.g., a …
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Three Essays on Contextual Effects in Traveler's Use of Online Reviews
… devices for information search), a variety of contextual factors are involved when tourists process information for decision-making. Given the importance of online reviews in the hospitality and tourism field as information sources, this dissertation aims to understand the contextual effects of …
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Social Influence As A Component of Contextual Effects: A Study of Diarrheal Treatment in Zaire
… However, empirical evidence demonstrating its effects is difficult to obtain due to the nature of social influence. One problem is that its exact source is often unclear. Also, because social influence is an ongoing process, its effects are cumulative and therefore difficult to measure …
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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
The present study examined the effects of discourse context information on English Monolinguals' and Spanish-English Bilinguals' ability to 1) translate Spanish and Finnish vocabulary words and 2) comprehend inferential and factual comprehension questions based on language-mixed prose. …
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Contextual Effects in Tax Research: An Experimental Investigation of Adaptivity and Expert Performance in an Information Search Task
Based on a detailed analysis of the two tax decision-making contexts, planning and compliance, I predict that tax practitioners who know that the contexts differ in particular ways will conduct broader information search in planning than in compliance. I also predict that the nature of the decision …
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"Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency
… whether the school subculture has differential effects on delinquency that occurs in school compared to out of school, whether its influences are specific to physical violence or more general, and whether the influences are gendered. The data used comes from a NIDA funded project and consists of …
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Assessment of the magnitude of geographic variation and socioeconomic contextual effects on children’s dental caries: a multilevel cross-sectional analysis of a population-based sample
… geographic variation and assessing area contextual influences are important for reducing social inequalities in dental caries. The objective of this study was to investigate area contextual effects on children’s dental caries. Methods: This cross-sectional study included data from Grade 1 …
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Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data
<p>The overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system has been well documented. More research has, however, been needed on levels of discrimination, particularly on potential biases in the earliest point of contact, such as police decisions to stop and arrest young people. …
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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences
… research studies the impact of core values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for …
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The Social Context of Prejudice: Peer Group Effects on Individuals' Homophobic and Racist Attitudes
Across two studies, the contextual and socialization effects of peer groups on group members' own homophobic and racist attitudes were examined using multilevel modeling. In Study One, group-level compositional characteristics and social climates characterized as open to diversity, …
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Multi-Level Cultures and Public Employee Work Motivation: Focusing on Executive Agency Policy in South Korea
… and examines direct, moderating, and varying contextual effects in the relationships among organizational cultures (clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy), individual perceptions of organizational culture, and work motivation, using survey data from 1,535 public employees in 46 executive …
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Let It Go: Cognitive Strategy Use Selectively Changes Temporal Context Effects in Risky Monetary Decision-Making
… stable, trait-like preferences, invariant to contextual influences such as recent events. Recent research has challenged this assumption, demonstrating that decisions under risk, even when values and their probabilities are explicit and known, are contextually sensitive, affected by recent …
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Studying dialects to understand human language
… descriptions of how dialects vary, including contextual effects, and more sophisticated visualization tools. Keywords: dialect, accent, identification, recognition, self-organizing maps, words, lexical sets, clustering.
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Feedback sign, feedback style, autonomy, and achievement orientation: Interactive effects of creativity
This study examined the effects of three contextual factors (feedback sign, feedback style, and autonomy) on creative performance. In addition, the extent to which achievement orientation moderated the contextual effects was investigated. Consistent with the hypotheses, results demonstrated that …
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A context-sensitive meta-classifier for color-naming
… is presented, assessing the extent of semantic contextual effects on color naming. An evaluation of the algorithm based on the corpus gathered in this experiment is then tendered.
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Exploring the Travel Planning Hierarchy: An Interactive Web Experiment
… pre-trip travel planning process including (1) contextual effects; (2) information framing effects; and, (3) cognitive factors such as the travel experience and stated travel expertise. The study found evidence consistent with recent research findings that a trip decision behavior is a complex …
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Economic Inequality Through a Contextual Lens: Spatial Variation in Beliefs, Opinion, and Policy Support
… best reflect perceptual processes and other contextual mechanisms? The first chapter, “Attitudes in an Urban Context: Metropolitan Urbanicity and Support for Social Welfare Spending,” examines the association between metropolitan urbanicity and attitudes toward government welfare provision. …
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CAN SOCIAL PROTESTS CHANGE LOCAL SENTENCING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE 2015 BALTIMORE UPRISING
Research examining the effects of violent protests has long produced mixed results and more recent studies are no more definitive. Very little work explicitly considers their potential impact on the criminal justice system, and particularly on the courts, the institution that primarily distributes …
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