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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"individual behavior"”.
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From individual behavior to collective structure
… being understood. In order to comprehend how the behavior of individuals gives rise to flexible collective behavior, several questions need to be addressed: We need to know how individuals acquire information about their colony's current demand situation; how they then adjust their behavior …
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Trajectories of Individual Behavior in the US Housing Market
Three essays in this dissertation explore the behavior of individuals in response to the housing crisis and its consequences, and the impact of the pandemic on the short-term rental markets. The first essay examines the economic outcomes of young people who have returned to their parents' home, …
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A Perception Based Integrative Theory of Individual Behavior in Organizations
… integrative theoretical approach to the study of individuals' behavior in organizations, and to present an application of the approach to understanding the performance of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets. Individuals' perceptions of the environment were proposed to exist at three …
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Creating Individual Behavior Change Through 360-Degree Feedback: A Development Pipeline Perspective
<p>Ensuring that individuals develop new and more productive behaviors on the job is a challenge for many organizations and a focus of time, effort, and energy spent on programs to facilitate this change. This research was an effort to validate and utilize a framework for understanding how efforts …
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Essays on the spatial dynamic interaction of individual behavior, institutions, and the environment
… pumping externality and whether there is any behavioral response to this externality. A large number of theoretical studies have considered strategic behavior by irrigators and recent empirical studies find evidence for strategic overextraction occurring. However, previous studies have not …
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An Investigation of the Vantage-Point Effect on Perception of Individual Behavior in An Organization
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Individual Behavior Change in the Context of Organization Change: Towards Validation of the Transtheoretical Model of Change in an Organizational Environment
… employees' acclimation to, and adoption of, new behaviors required by organization change initiatives. Psychological theories of individual behavior change have, in restricted instances, been applied into organizational environments. The transtheoretical model of change (TTM) offers a …
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Neurochemical Levels Correlate with Population Level Differences in Social Structure and Individual Behavior in the Polyphenic Spider, <em>Anelosimus studiosus</em>.
… studiosus</em> is a socially polyphenic spider. Individuals can be classified as social/tolerant or solitary/aggressive. These behavioral differences are associated with considerable variation in social structure. Here, we begin to examine the physiological differences that may underlie the …
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Perceptions of factors from MBA students at small regional universities that enhance, improve, and impact individual behavior as measured by environmental working scales
Organizations are continually trying to impact individual behavior so their employees will be motivated toward organizational objectives. The goal or intent of all organizations is to identify the impact the specific factors, engagement, leadership methods, and reward systems, can have on the …
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An Informal Experiment with the Small Group Technic
… technic and changes in group belongingness and individual behavior.
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Essays in decision making
This thesis explores the impact of individual decision making on the functioning of firms and markets. The first chapter examines how deviations from strict rationality by individuals impact the market for consumer goods. A growing body of evidence documents individual behavior that is difficult to …
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Essays on Political Economy
… explores how the economic environment may shape individual preferences, which are typically taken as exogenous when modeling individual behavior. Despite the fact that agents can trade at comparative prices, agents modify their preferences so that they favor the good that they are better at …
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A Model of Individual Demand for Unionism
… historical trend makes inquisition into current individual motives for union preference a relevant area of research, as aggregate union growth is a reflection of a composite of individual behavior.
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Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
… principles entail value laden beliefs (e.g., individual accomplishment is important), support general social policies (e.g., the legal system should protect individual rights to privacy), and advocate specific individual behavior (e.g., an individual should not use other persons' property …
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Institutions, contracts, and asset market prices
… looks at the effect of tournament contracts for individuals on individual behavior in non-market settings (public good provision, team tasks, etc.). In contrast, this work investigates the effect of tournament contracts for individual agents on market performance. In particular, this work …
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How Promotions Effect Consumer Purchases
… theory provides a blueprint for predicting individual behavior under the assumption that objectives and decisions are rationally identified and executed. Under certain conditions, actions reveal preferences and the ability to observe these preferences allows for the possibility to study the …
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Discipline problems: ways of improvement
… new ways of assisting students that have behavioral problems and the teachers of those students.</p> <p>The subjects in this study were four teachers and their first and second grade students. The teachers were three females and one male. Two of the female teachers teach first grade and …
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The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a School-Based Motivational Interviewing Intervention for Adolescent Females
… therapeutic approach shown to elicit behavior change in adolescents engaged in risky behavior. MI is used to increase the individuals feeling of self-efficacy and outcome expectancy. Female adolescents engaged in substance use, sexual activity and identified as academically disengaged …
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Design as Preventative Medicine: Leveraging the Built Environment to Care for Health
… architectural strategies. While modifying individual behavior is notoriously difficult due to highly variable individual factors, the built environment’s key role in habit formation offers a powerful avenue for population-level intervention. This thesis argues that spatial design must serve …
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Love, hatred and indifference in chimpanzees: Personality, Subjective Well-Being, and dyadic-level behavior in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Does something more than rank, age and sex drive the nature of interpersonal relationships in chimpanzees?
… by comparing them to subjective assessments of behavior in dyads. The first measured reliability of scores of personality and subjective well-being (SWB) across ten years. Dominance rank, and the Dominance and Extraversion Factors significantly correlated between time points. In the second …
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