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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"first impression"”.
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Persuasive Architecture of Tourism Destination Websites: An Analysis of First Impression
… findings on the substantial influence of first impressions toward websites on the consumer persuasion process. Additionally, this research confirms that the Elaboration Likelihood Model is applicable to the context of first impression formation in destination websites. It is expected that …
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Seeing you from your point of view: perspective-taking and first impression accuracy
… as similar to one’s own personality) in first impressions of personality. College students (N = 429) received either perspective-taking instructions or no specific instructions before watching videos of seven individuals (targets) answering getting-to-know-you questions. Participants then …
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Effect of first impressions on student evaluations of lecturers
… whether students rate lecturers differently on first impression, based on the lecturers' and students' race and gender.
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THE ROLE OF REINTERPRETATION IN THE REVISION OF IMPLICIT IMPRESSIONS
… has suggested that implicit (versus explicit) impressions of other people may be particularly difficult to reverse once formed, as they may be relatively insulated from propositional thinking. Furthermore, the revision of negative first implicit impressions has been considered particularly …
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Great Expectations: Researching Usability of Online Museum Collections
… the institution and, for some visitors, their first impression. If a museum's online collection is not useful or usable, then time spent making data available online will be wasted. This study focused on stakeholders of The Henry Art Gallery, located in Seattle, Washington, and provided a model …
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Methods of bacteria recognition relying on simple hardware techniques.
… with pattern-recognition techniques to form a first-stage bacteria recognition system. Bacterial colonies are excited with laser light and electromagnetic power and their actions are recorded with simple optical sensors. The generated data are the basis for pattern generation algorithms and are …
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What does it mean to sound African American? Teachers' perceptions of school-age children's communication
… the four speech stimuli, teachers provided their first impression of each child's academic and personality on the Teacher Perception Rating Questionnaire (TPRQ), a 5-point Likert scale. Afterwards, approximately one-fourth of the teachers from three of the sites participated in focus group …
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An Urban Park Pavilion as a Sense of Place: A Community Theater and Water Taxi Terminal at the Foot of King Street
… the actor. These images reminded me of the first impression of disconnected or disappointed that I had of the atmosphere at the end of King Street in Alexandria, Virginia. The place was not comfortable to be in with its own character and the access to the water was hard to be sense visually. …
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An evaluation of the onboarding ambassador program, how sense of belonging impacts quit intentions
… of organizational members quitting within the first year of employment. The goal of learning from the program evaluation was to understand how the onboarding ambassador program and sense of belonging affected quit intentions among newcomers. Organizational socialization, also referred to as …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
This dissertation has three chapters. In the first two chapters, I have studied the left-behind children issue in China. According to the latest statistics (2018 Ministry of Civil Affairs), there are 69.7 million children who are separated from their migrant worker parents and are receiving …
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UK Corporate Website Design at the Identity: Image Interface Constraints and Enablers
Increasingly the first impression of a company is its website, as this becomes the first contact point, promoting their operations through time and space. Currently website identity-image interfaces transfer static text and images to a digital counterpart 'webpage' with little consideration of …
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Age and dress of professors: influence on students' first impressions of teaching effectiveness
… effectiveness of college professors in a first impression situation. A rating questionnaire containing ten positive professors' traits was developed. An older male and a younger male were photographed in black-and-white in three outfits, for a total of six photographs. The sample consisted …
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LLUM: Light and Reflection
… but it was in the solemn churches that I first saw stained glass and my aesthetic awakening occurred. My first impression was of a "living painting". By this I mean that a stained glass window is a non-static painting, as its appearance is dependant on the quality of light that shines …
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Impressions of college intructors: Stability and change in student ratings
… the topic of stability and change in classroom impressions research is not new, there remain unanswered questions about what impressions are stable, when they are likely to change, and for whom they are likely to change over the course of a semester. My research will begin to answer those …
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Development of microsatellite (SSR) marker multiplexes for future construction of a genetic linkage map for pear (Pyrus communis L.)
… can have a large influence on the consumer’s first impression and opinion of what the fruit may taste like(Jaeger and MacFie, et al., 2001). The South African pear industry is the fourth largest in the fruit industry after apple, citrus and grape, exporting 3.8% to Europe (Ferrandi, et al., …
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Effects of Orthodontic Treatment on Social Perceptions
… The purpose of this study was to record first impressions elicited by photographs of orthodontic patients before and after treatment to test the hypothesis that after treatment patients will elicit a more positive first impression.</p> <p><strong>Methods and Materials:</strong> Before …
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Characterisation of protein phosphorylation in Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii based on affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry
… on plant protein phosphorylation. In one of the first non-targeted phosphoproteomics approaches in plant science this combined approach was applied to enrich phosphoproteins of A. thaliana and of C. reinhardtii leading to the identification of over 40 phosphopeptides, 27 phosphorylation sites, …
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Neural signatures of ethnic in-group bias in observing dynamic social interactions
… differences in the explicit behavioral ratings. First, the amygdala and dorso-medial prefrontal cortex showed sensitivity to in-group approach behaviors relative to control, and positive associations with the ratings for in-group approach behaviors. Second, enhanced functional connectivity …
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Evaluating Trust based on Impression Formation in Business Encounters
… This doctoral study analyses how trust based on impression formation can be enhanced in business encounters. In addition, the doctoral study contributes to the knowledge of impression formation, focusing on warmth/ likability and competence/ expertise perceptions. Design / Methodology / Approach: …
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Millard Fillmore, Anti-Mason to Know-Nothing: a moderate in New York politics, 1826-1856
… certain of his interpretations.</p> <p>I first encountered the Fillmore Papers as an undergraduate student at Oswego. Assisting in cataloguing them, I developed my initial interest in Millard Fillmore. In the seven succeeding years, my own opinion of the nation's thirteenth President has …
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