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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"psychological traits"”.
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The nature of public action: social environments, psychological traits and mobilization
… by considering how our biologically-linked psychological traits can influence our experience of social processes and environmental conditions. This part of our humanity is often overlooked in discussions of citizenship and public action. However, this project demonstrates that traits not …
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Psychological Factors and Health-Related Quality of Life in Upper Extremity Conditions
… injury is influenced by both physical and psychological factors; however, the role of early psychological responses remains incompletely understood. This thesis aimed to examine how positive and negative psychological characteristics relate to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and to …
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Mass murder and motivation : the Rwandan genocide
… genocide: history, ideology and ordinary human traits. The first chapter introduces us to the topic of mass murder and discusses methodological issues in connection with the thesis. A qualitative analysis will be dominant in investigating the data; the data was gathered through interviews …
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Theory and Methodology for Forming Creative Design Teams in a Globally Distributed and Culturally Diverse Environment
… Hence, there is a need to extend the use of psychological teaming strategies for domestic team-formations to also accommodate teams that are globally distributed. Previous research efforts have investigated psychological factors for design creativity and effective global collaboration; …
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An investigation of the relationship of locus of control and self-monitoring to body image in athletic populations
… four self-report questionnaires were completed. Psychological traits of locus of control and self-monitoring were compared to perceptions of body image and predisposition to eating disorders. Measurements used were Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, Self-Monitoring Scale, …
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Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinities and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris
… participate in certain causes based on social or psychological traits. Alongside this concept, it outlines conditions of Convergence: emergent situations, frames and spaces which encourage those with such Affinity to temporarily participate in mass mobilisations. These two concepts are advanced …
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Psychological correlates of performance, injury and illness in Two Oceans Ultramarathon athletes
Background: It is well accepted that psychological factors play an important role in athletic performance, illness and injury. Yet, few studies have investigated the effects of psychological factors on performance, illness and injury in endurance athletes. While general psychological traits of …
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The positive project team : the impact of positive affectivity on project success
… by comparing two project groups based on their psychological traits and attitudes and see whether it has an influence on project success. It is done by administering psychometric tests, Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to both groups, along …
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Anger and Punishment: Natural History and Normative Significance
… evolutionary account of anger, its relation to psychological traits of other animals, and its influence on action. First, I offer a tentative evolutionary story about anger that can explain retributive intuitions concerning punishment. This explanation undercuts these intuitions as evidence for …
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Adaptive Preference Tradeoffs
… where I argue that adaptive preferences are psychological traits that cause the agent with adaptive preferences to make irrational or uninformed decisions that perpetuate their own oppression. I defend this new definition by exploring the implications of changing the definition. In …
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Longitudinal relationships between family routines and biological profiles in youth with asthma
… family routines are not just a proxy for parent psychological traits or family relationship quality. However, medication use eliminated the relationship between family routines and stimulated production of IL-13. This suggests that family routines do impact asthma outcomes at the biological …
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Towards Mastery and Control
… many City Professionals appear to share similar psychological traits and characteristics which are well suited to working in an intensely competitive, goal driven and pressurised working environment. Namely, high self-esteem and heightened perceptions of mastery and control. Consistent with past …
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The Cognitive Underpinnings of Ideological Thinking
… doctoral research was therefore to examine what psychological traits make some individuals more vulnerable to ideological thinking than others. Theory-driven and data-driven approaches were employed to map out the cognitive underpinnings of ideological thinking. A series of large online studies …
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Entrepreneurship-based factors to foster climate adaptation among Indigenous communities
… capacity (access to information, entrepreneurs' psychological traits, access to capital) and strategy (business characteristics, product range, market characteristics). I applied these factors to the Sri Lankan Indigenous community context and assessed them through case studies. My study frames …
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Assessment of Individual Differences in Online Social Networks Using Machine Learning
… records of our behaviour. An individual's psychological profile can be accurately assessed using offline behaviour, and I investigate if an automated machine learning system can measure the same psychological factors, only from observing the footprints of online behaviour, without observing …
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An exploration of the relationships among religious orientation, object relations, and positive adjustment
… how Religious Orientation might affect other psychological traits or experiences.</p>
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The effect of first-year writing programs on the retention and persistence of historically underserved students
… often emphasizes demographic differences or the psychological traits students possess. By contrast, this project specifically examined the role that first-year writing (FYW) courses can play to improve outcomes for students. I continue to be especially interested and invested in historically …
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Communication, confidence and asset pricing.
… among speculative traders and resort to psychological traits such as traders' overconfidence in information processing ability to explain the observed enormous trading activity in financial markets. Yet, a growing literature documents that social communication affects individual trading …
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Entrepreneurial Action: Community and Buddhism contexts in Sri Lanka
… has long focused on singular views – the psychological traits, behaviour and opportunity approaches. These single-focus approaches limit the potential to understand entrepreneurship more fully and there are calls to move towards a more integrated view of entrepreneurship that includes …
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