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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"incongruence"”.
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Choice Blindness: The Incongruence of Intention, Action and Introspection
This thesis is an empirical and theoretical exploration of the surprising finding that people often may fail to notice dramatic mismatches between what they want and what they get, a phenomenon my collaborators and I have named choice blindness. The thesis consists of four co-authored papers, …
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The Incongruence Of Development Assistance: An overview of World Bank Policies
<p>In post-conflict countries were instability has intensified, it becomes apparent how inadequate development assistance can be and why even after large sum of investments development assistance has not been able to completely alleviate poverty. For agencies like the World Bank that provide first …
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Environmental Incongruence and Divergence in Ratings of Adaptation Among Elementary School Children
… with one another. Further, greater environmental incongruence might be associated with higher levels of overall psychological distress.
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Examining the Influence of Source-Message Incongruence on Source Trustworthiness and Attitudes Regarding Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions
… Questions remain as to whether sourcemessage incongruence enhances source trustworthiness, attitude change, or both, relative to source-message congruence. Focusing on an environmental risk management context involving the cleanup of a hazardous waste site, this research investigated how …
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'Look for the helpers': The impact of gender incongruence on transgender individuals' comfort asking for police help
… transgender individuals who do not have such incongruence. Through a logistic regression analysis of the 2015 United States Transgender Survey, I find that those groups who visibly transgress gender norms have a higher likelihood of experiencing discomfort with asking for police help. These …
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CARE RECIPIENT AND FAMILY CAREGIVER PERCEPTIONS OF EVERYDAY CARE IN EARLY-STAGE DEMENTIA: THE EFFECT OF INCONGRUENCE ON QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF DYADIC RELATIONSHIP STRAIN
… strain in their relationship. The study assessed incongruence between CG and CR perceptions about CRs’ values and preferences in regards to social relations in day-to-day care and CRs’ participation in decision-making in day-to-day care, in order to investigate the extent to which CGs understand …
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A qualitative investigation into the relationship between the early career expectations, and experiences, of graduate engineers in a South African utility organisation
… indicate that subjects experience significant incongruence between their expectations of work and work experiences. Through a process of qualitative data analysis three major themes were identified where incongruence was experienced, namely, content of work, context of work and general career …
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Inference of parsimonious species phylogenies from multi-locus data
… algorithms for reconciling species/gene tree incongruence that is assumed to be due solely to lineage sorting. We also describe a unified framework for detecting hybridization despite lineage sorting. To address the first problem of species/gene tree incongruence caused by lineage sorting, we …
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An analysis of counselor role in implementing PL 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975
… study investigated whether the explained role incongruence was increased, independently or collectively, by the following independent variables: (1) discrepancy of counselors and special education administrators' perceptions of appropriate counselor responsibilities in assisting with the …
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Three Essays on Brand Management in the Business-to-Business Context: Brand Identity, Brand Culture, and Brand Essence
… causes and effects of perceptual congruence and incongruence of brand culture strength on the buyer-seller relationship, while considering relationship-specific investments and interaction mechanisms as moderating effects. I show that congruence and incongruence have different effects on customer …
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Mollecular Phylogeny of tribolium (Danthoniodeae: Poaceae) and its taxonomic implications
… morphological tree were made. A significant incongruence was revealed. Molecular data indicate that Tribolium is paraphyletic. The formally defined sections: Uniolae, Acutiflorae and Tribolium have been retrieved by the molecular data. The analysis retrieved Karroochloa as polyphyletic. …
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Molecular phylogeny of Tribolium (Danthonioideae: Poaceae) and its taxonomic implications
… morphological tree were made. A significant incongruence was revealed. Molecular data indicate that Tribolium is paraphyletic. The formally defined sections: Uniolae, Acutiflorae and Tribolium have been retrieved by the molecular data. The analysis retrieved Karroochloa as polyphyletic. …
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Women mid-managers in Nevada community colleges: perceptions of organizational culture and its relationship to advancement
… type. The results of the study also revealed incongruence between how the respondents perceived the current dominant culture of their institution and how they preferred that dominant culture to be. This conclusion resulted from data indicating women at the majority of Nevada's community …
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An Investigation Of The Relationships Among Instructional Congruence, Burnout And Attrition In Undergraduate Music Theory Students
… to music theory teaching and learning. An incongruence between the student's prior knowledge and the level of instruction can negatively affect learning, mental health and persistence in the course sequence.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to determine what relationships exist among …
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Urban acupuncture as a strategy for São Paulo
… twenty-million inhabitants with a major incongruence: while São Paulo sprawls informally onto non-structured lands, the infrastructured downtown has been emptied out. In an attempt to re-attract activity to the historical core, this thesis suggests the insertion of twelve urban projects, …
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Identity Congruence: Associations with Ethnic-Racial Centrality and Critical Agency
… and perceived ethnic-racial identification) or incongruence (i.e., no alignment between self-and perceived ethnic-racial identification). For analytic purposes, youth with either partial congruence or incongruence were categorized as having noncongruent identities. Hierarchical linear regression …
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PERSUASION IN REWARD-BASED CROWDFUNDING: THE ROLE OF VISUAL IMAGE
… (4) How do potential backers respond to the incongruence between the entrepreneurs’ textual and visual self-presentation? Drawing upon the signaling theory, Study 1 identifies visual signals captured from the main images of all existing restaurant reward-based CF projects on Kickstarter using …
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