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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"perceived similarity"”.
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The Relations between Actual and Perceived Similarity
Similarity has been frequently studied in psychology, especially in how it relates to outcomes such as relationship satisfaction (e.g., Levinger & Breedlove, 1966). The purpose of this paper is to better understand perceptions of similarity to another person and its links to personality similarity. …
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Perceived Similarity Between Complex Sounds: The Contribution Of Acoustic, Descriptive And Categorical Features
… representations of sounds focussing on similarity judgements. A range of descriptive data (including word pair and imagery/word use) was collected alongside acoustic measures for the sound stimuli employed. The sounds employed were initially all abstract in nature but environmental …
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Conflict among hikers and horseback riders in the Mount Rogers High Country of Virginia
… wilderness involvement, place attachment and perceived similarity) were examined for the hiker population in the study. Discriminant analysis revealed that the model tested can predict with more than 68% success whether hikers will experience conflict due to horses. The perceived similarity of …
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Trust Development: Testing a New Model in Undergraduate Roommate Relationships
… the roles of attachment, propensity to trust, perceived similarity of trustee to self, and social exchange processes in trust development with randomly assigned, same-sex undergraduate roommates. Two hundred and fourteen first-year students (60% female, 85% Caucasian, mean age = 18) at a large …
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Managing Someone 'Less like You' From Afar: The Role of Virtual Communication Modality
… Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) quality, trust, and perceived similarity. The results of the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis showed that while trust fully mediates the positive relationship between perceived similarity and LMX quality, the computer-mediated communication modality does not …
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"Using Communication Strategies to Design Food Marketing Strategies: The ""Pork Fat"" Rumor in Indonesia"
… addition to the variables under investigation, perceived importance of the rumor topic by subjects, subjects' focus of attention (the rumor itself or the rumored object), the culture (""high-context"" or ""low context"") from which subjects were drawn, subjects' perceived similarity to the …
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Explaining Young Adolescents’ Physical Activity Decision-Making Using the Prototype Willingness Model of Health Behaviour
… over and above reasoned action variables. Perceived similarity to active images was a significant predictor. Study 3 used implicit association tests to measure whether unconscious bias towards, and similarity to, active and inactive prototypes explained variance in physical activity. …
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Similarity and Satisfaction in Newlywed Relationships
… couples, married less than two years, perceive similarity to influence their relationship satisfaction. Individuals' perceptions of change in the importance of similarity at different relationship stages were also examined. Twenty individuals from 10 couples participated in the study. Results …
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"Interracial dating in a ""color-blind"" society: romantic attraction and ideologies among college men"
… basic tenets of romantic attraction (e.g., similarity and familiarity) and intergroup ideologies (e.g. color-blind racial ideology or multiculturalism) simultaneously. The current study uses a person-perception or vignette methodology to explore the influence of ideologies on attraction in …
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What Makes For Credible Religious Testimony? Exploring Belief And Skepticism About Others' Religious Experiences
… focusing on the factors that influence its perceived credibility. Testimony is vital for sharing and reinforcing beliefs about experiences that cannot be directly tested, as is often the case with religious beliefs. These beliefs are frequently rooted in personal, unusual, or supernatural …
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Contextual Behavioral Influences of Perceptions of Relationship Partners: An Analogue Study
… for the behavior of tacting interpersonal similarity significantly influenced perceived similarity. Results only partially supported a proposed model of interpersonal perception that predicted that particular learning histories supporting biased forms of perception and variables increasing …
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Seeing you from your point of view: perspective-taking and first impression accuracy
… person and positively), and distinctive assumed similarity (judging another’s personality 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 …
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Personality type as a predictor of interaction between student teachers and cooperating teachers
… found strength in relationships between overall perceived similarity and interaction satisfaction, personality type was found to have little influence on the variables.
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Dealing with cultural diversity: An empirical test of a causal model of intergroup relations
… approach. Specifically, the study looked at perceived cultural level variables (e.g., history of conflict, cultural distance, knowledge of culture) and interpersonal variables (e.g., perceived similarity, opportunity to interact) to predict (dis)satisfying intercultural contact, intergroup …
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Similarity in L2 Phonology
… speech perception often appeal to notions of similarity. But how is similarity best determined? In this dissertation I explored the predictions of two theoretical approaches to similarity comparison in the second language, and asked: [1] How should L2 sound similarity be measured? [2] What is …
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Using Gaze Tracking to Tackle Duplicate Questions on Community Based Question Answering Websites: A Case Study of Ifixit
… discover strategic attributes that increase the perceived similarity of question pairs. These attributes were used in the third lab experiment (20 participants) to redesign and assess the snippets from Experiment 1. Results indicated that snippets containing `symptom(s)' and `cause(s)' attributes …
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Audience involvement with entertainment-education programs: explicating processes and outcomes
… EE program characters. These measures include perceived similarity, parasocial interaction, experiential identification, likability, and wishful identification. Findings suggest that audience involvement influences a number of cognitive and affective responses to EE messages including …
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Communicating Risks: an Exploration of Uncertainty and Satisfaction in Dentist-Patient Interaction
… the most significant finding was that perceived similarity and relationships can affect the presentation of risks by the dentist to the patient. Although there is a sense that informed consent is a waste of time from some dentists, dentists are challenged in knowing how much detail to …
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Changes in Activation During Production of Syllables from a Second Language
… Model suggests that the perception and the perceived similarity between L1 and L2 sounds will affect the acquisition of these L2 sounds (Flege, 1995). Productions of vowels from L2 that were perceived as being from an L1 category were less fully acquired by participants compared L2 vowels …
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