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Mathematical aggregation of probabilistic expert judgements
… aggregation of the probabilistic expert’s judgements in a structured expertjudgement analysis is said to be relevant and critical. Due to absence of data, the judgementsof the experts are used to perform forecasting and risk analysis. However, there is a gapin the literature where there may …
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Physical and Social Threats Fortify Moral Judgements
Moral judgements are often believed to be firmly grounded in rational thought. However, scholars have discovered that moral considerations are responsive to individual and contextual factors, such as contamination and disease threats. Indeed, the role of disgust and disease threats on amplifying …
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Comparative pairs judgements for high-stakes practical assessments
… will be referred to as the Comparative Pairs judgements was investigated. This scoring method was applied to samples from the practical examination in two secondary courses in Western Australia: Design and Visual Arts. This study was conducted within the first phase of an Australian Research …
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How Ought We to Justify our Moral Judgements?
… account of the structure of the simplest moral judgements. I point out that for moral responsibility – praise or blame to be appropriately ascribed to the person making it, such a judgement must be self-determined. However, we do not start from scratch in this. We can interrogate our received …
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The effect of linguistic focus manipulation on truth judgements /
… focus manipulation and subsequent truth judgements, taking into account processing fluency, which is known to be a prominent inference of truth judgements. To test this, an online survey was conducted, where 68 participants rated the perceived truth value of presented true and false …
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The effect of multiple perpetrators on judgements of responsibility
<p>This study questioned whether participants feel one person committing a crime alone is more, less, or equally responsible for his or her actions than two people committing a crime together; whether participants react differently to two equally culpable coconspirators than they do to a …
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Accuracy and Social Motivations Shape Judgements of (Mis)Information
Why do people believe in and share misinformation? Some theories focus on social identity and politically motivated reasoning, arguing that people are motivated to believe and share identity-congruent news. Other theories suggest that belief in misinformation is not shaped by motivated reasoning, …
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Execution of judgements of the European Court of human rights
… responsible for supervising the execution of the judgements. There is, however, no provision in the Convention for sanctions to be taken if judgments are not executed. Yet failure to execute judgments undermine the whole system of protection.
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Effects of semantic judgements and pair comparisons upon list differentiation
The present study investigated the effects of semantic and nonsemantic analyses of words on list differentiation (LD). It was suggested that the memory of when stimulus events occurred might be due to the storage of information about judgments made about words and that this information may be …
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A reflexive approach to the critical interpretation of employment tribunal judgements.
… of a selected series of employment tribunal judgements all of which deal with aspects of standard or burden of proof in sex and race discrimination cases. A reflexive approach is adopted in an attempt to provide a better understanding of discrimination law as an organisational discourse and …
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Message in a ballad: personality judgements [sic] based on music preferences
… in which people develop music-based personality judgements. Supplementary analyses indicated that music attributes (e.g., loud, angry) and genre stereotypes (e.g., a rock music fan) contribute differentially to accuracy. Results offer insight into the social functions of music preferences by …
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The nature of synthetic judgements a priori and the categorical imperative
… I propose to display the nature of synthetic judgements a priori, since Kant claimed that the categorical imperative was this sort of judgement. This requires examining Kant's exposition of synthetic judgements a priori in mathematics and natural science in the Critique of Pure Reason, where …
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Dissertations on decision-making: similarity, constructive judgements, morality and social dilemmas
The present thesis (mostly) concerns the application of alternative mathematical methods to understand patterns in human cognition and to model them. The different chapters presented in this thesis show research that concerns the application of quantum probability (QP) theory in the modeling of …
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A Comparison of the Moral Judgements of Negro and Caucasian Children
<p>This study was designed to investigate two areas: (1) What similarities or differences exist between Negro and Caucasian children in their moral judgments; and (2) What similarities or differences exist between the moral judgments of American children and the Swiss children used by Piaget in his …
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The effect of legal judgements on responsibility taking behaviour : an exploratory study
… requires such an examination is the effect that judgements within prominent civil cases may have ,on subsequent individual responsibility taking of members of the community.
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Judgements of Selected Practicing Teachers and University Professors Toward Teacher Education Curricula
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:48:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7514077.pdf: 2992597 bytes, checksum: 80bf5c6bca00f5be320ea6b9920a7fb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Children's thinking about traits: Implications for judgements of the self and others
Two studies provide evidence that a belief in stable traits leads to a focus on judging those traits in oneself and others, and along with this a focus on outcomes and behaviors through which traits can be judged. A total of 202 second graders (7- and 8-year-olds; an age at which major development …
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The Effect of Novel External Communication Display on Pedestrian Judgements of Acceleration
Pedestrian fatalities are on the rise in the United States, and this trend shows no signs of reversing. One contributing factor to these incidents is pedestrians' difficulty in accurately assessing traffic conditions and vehicle actions, leading to potentially fatal collisions. One promising …
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Epistemic incongruity judgements as indicators of social normative differences in minor hockey players.
Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1978 .T954. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.H.K.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1978.
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