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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"likeability"”.
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Social Likeability, Subtypes of Aggression, and the Attributional Style of Aggressive Youth
… for the existence of relations among social likeability, attributional style, and particular subtypes of aggression symptomology. However, the exact nature of this relation is unclear. The current study examined two competing models, the mediator and moderator models, to assess the nature of …
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Power, Likeability, and Perception: Evaluating Men and Women in High and Low Power Positions
<p>When asked, it is relatively easy to come up with an example of a position of high power (e.g., president) or low power (e.g., intern). One can imagine the types of tasks or behaviors each of those positions entails. The theories of social power detail how power is attained, the behaviors of …
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The Relationship between Social Behaviors and Working Memory in School-Age Children with Language Impairment
… and two subtypes of sociability (prosocial and likeability) were examined. Nonword repetition is a culturally nonbiased measurement of the ability to form phonological representation of nonwords in working memory (Edwards & Lahey, 1998). A modified version of Edwards and Lahey's nonword …
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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?
… dyadic-level individual behavior. Age predicted likeability in females, and age and rank predicted likeability in males. Neither personality factors nor SWB were correlated to likeability. An Affable domain scale and an Agonistic domain scale were constructed from the personality items. The …
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The impact of an after-school garden enhanced nutrition education (gene) program on skin carotenoids as a measure of vegetable consumption on diverse, low-income children
… the impact of the LGEG curriculum on vegetable likeability, skin carotenoid scores, and anthropometric changes among school-aged children participating in the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Houston. Two locations of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston were chosen: Havard and Morefield. …
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Who Dates Who? Using Latent Profiles to Characterize Adolescent’s Mate Value
… indicators of: attractiveness, popularity, likeability, kindness, athleticism, humour, and bullying. Three distinct profiles of perceived mate-value emerged from the data: 1) Modal- average across all traits 2) Well-liked – high in athleticism, kindness and likeability and 3) Popular– high …
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To flatter the jury: ingratiation effects during closing arguments
… of attorney attractiveness, trustworthiness, likeability, confidence, and overall credibility. As ingratiation increased ratings of attractiveness, trustworthiness, likeability and credibility increased whereas ratings of confidence decreased. Ingratiation did not significantly affect ratings …
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Interviewer biases: can first impressions be changed by displaying stereotypical or non-stereotypical behaviour?
… or white female face in terms of competence, likeability and trustworthiness. Participants rated the same face again after receiving additional information portraying the presented person as either assertive or nice. Results revealed that males and females seen as equally likeable and equally …
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The Relationship Between Pragmatic Language and Behavior Subtypes in Typically Developing Children
… withdrawal, prosocial skills, and likeability. The Children's Communication Checklist (CCC-2), a language checklist, and Teacher Behavior Rating Scale (TBRS), a behavior checklist, were completed by three 2nd-grade teachers and three 4th-grade teachers about each of their students. …
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The Effects Of Psuedo-altruistic Behavior On The Likelihood Of Reciprocity And Perceptions Of The Source
… of the source, including credibility and likeability ratings. While adding to the previous research, this investigation examines the effects on compliance when pseudo-altruistic practices are employed in a sales situation. Additionally, subjects’ compliance responses in the treatment …
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The impact of advertising controllable elements on consumers' attitude towards the advertisement, brand and purchase intention
… influenced by source credibility, source likeability and emotional message. Rational message has a positive impact on attitude towards the advertisement, albeit insignificant. Meanwhile, only source credibility and rational message have positive significant effects on attitude towards the …
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Does sex really matter? : the cognitive and emotional effects of sexual explicitness in video advertisements
… measures covered brand recognition, arousal, likeability, pleasantness and unpleasantness. Physiological results were significant for arousal and attention change over time, with moderate sexual explicitness earning the highest skin conductance and heart rate levels. Brand recognition, …
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Networks of Influence: Implementing Politically Sustainable Multinational Stakeholder Strategies
… actors in the triad—access to resources, status, likeability and number of ties (popularity)—on the likelihood of the closure of that triad. I find that a link that closes an open directed triad is more likely when the actors of the triad have different access to resources, different status, and …
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Examination of How Attraction Dimensions Predict Collaborative Mentoring Relationships in College Students.
… a collaborative mentoring relationship more than likeability or physical appearance.</p>
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Expectations Do Not Always Influence Food Liking
… influence cracker ratings on a scale of likeability. A large body of research shows that expectations affect food experiences (Wansink, 2004; Eertmans, Baeyens & Van den Bergh, 2001; Kahkonen & Tuorila, 1998). Participants were not aware that the primary interest of the study was how …
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Group collaboration with App Inventor
… interaction between users, and increases users' likeability towards collaborative programming. I anticipate that this new collaborative programming environment will change the way users use MIT App Inventor, and more curriculum based on the collaborative tools will be designed.
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The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation
… perceived race, character's race, skin color, likeability, sex appeal, ability to contribute, ability to be violent, mental health, overall positive portrayal social, and negative portrayal score. This study may suggest that the media is making attempts to rectify old stereotypes. Overall, this …
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Conflict management styles : a predictor of likability and perceived effectiveness among subordinates
… exists between conflict management styles and likeability among subordinates, c) what influence conflict management styles have upon perceived effectiveness among subordinates, and d) what correlation exists between likability and perceived effectiveness.
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ECS: Educational Communication System
… and school administrators with an overall likeability rate of 92.3%"--Document.
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The relationship between attitudes towards specific mathematics topics and achievement in those domains
… as to the importance, difficulty, and likeability of various mathematics topics were collected by the assessment. Achievement scores based on student performance on a 40-item, multiple-choice test of mathematical ability were also obtained. Each of the domains of the British Columbia …
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