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Showing 1 to 20 of 653 for “"social contexts"”.
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Source Memory in Social Contexts
… addressed the role of source memory in social contexts and memory for source identity. Four experiments were designed to investigate the effects of information valence, target familiarity, and source congruence. 120 participants viewed a series of negative and positive statements about …
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Testing the Waters: The Social Contexts of Homeowner Flood Mitigation
South Louisiana regularly experiences effects from flooding. This study looks at what homeowners are doing to reduce their losses from floods through the practices of flood mitigation. I developed four hypotheses to predict homeowners' mitigation behavior. (1) Homeowners with a history of flooding …
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Communicative behaviors of toddlers with very low birth weight in social contexts
… purpose of this investigation was to examine the social-communicative behaviors of toddlers born with Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) in contexts of social interaction and communicative temptation. Nineteen toddlers with VLBW were compared to nineteen NBW toddlers on communicative means, …
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ATTITUDES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS TOWARD PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN VARIOUS SOCIAL CONTEXTS
… influence on their willingness to engage in the social relationship with people with disabilities such as forming friendship at the workplace or romantic relationship with people with disabilities. This study explored the attitudes of students toward people with disabilities and their attitudes …
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What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
… a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social and communicative deficits, such as being able to identify and understand a joke. These social deficits can be understood in a cognitive framework; smaller differences in perceptual processing can snowball into tangible larger differences in …
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An ecological approach to researching biliteracy development of Indonesian bilingual children in Australian social contexts
… in the three intersecting of Australian social context: schools, homes, and community. The philosophical base of this study is the concept of language ecology utilising Honberger‟s proposal „the continua of biliteracy (1989, 2002, 2003 & 2004) and Cummins‟ hypothesis of simultaneously …
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The beats of the pen: social contexts of reading and writing poetry in 11th-century Constantinople
… production and reception of Byzantine poetry as social and cultural practices in a contemporary context. The texts under view are poems composed in the period from 1028 to 1081, predominantly by the three poets Christopher Mitylenaios, John Mauropous and Michael Psellos. The dissertation first …
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Examining the Role of Physiological Arousal in Laboratory Risk-Taking in Social and Non-Social Contexts
… processing brain regions when in the presence of social and non-social rewarding stimuli. However, non-rewarding, but very salient stimuli, have also been shown to increase activity in reward processing brain regions and could, in theory, also increase risk taking propensity in adolescents. To …
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Scientific controversy and the new astronomy: the intellectual and social contexts of the Hevelius-Hooke dispute
… not influenced by intellectual issues alone -- social factors also guided and influenced the course of controversies. This study is an analysis of one scientific controversy in which the participants deviated from the prescribed code of behavior in scientific disputes, and, although the …
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How do organisational and social contexts influence mealtimes on wards caring for the older person aged 65 years and above?
… Research question: “How do organisational and social contexts influence mealtimes on wards caring for the older person aged 65 years and above?” Research objectives: (1) to explore individual patients’ mealtime experience, (2) to explore individual ward staff mealtime practice, (3) to observe …
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Action and inaction in consumer and social contexts: the effects of prior and ongoing activity levels on intentions and decisions
… or subsequent, often unrelated consumer and social behavior through various psychological processes. I investigate this proposition through two series of studies designed to look at (a) situational conditions that trigger active and inactive behaviors in the decision making process (Essay 1) …
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Planting Missional Mennonite Churches in Complex Social Contexts as the Denomination Undergoes a Paradigm Shift in Ecclesiology: a Multiple Case Study
… the churches that are being planted in complex social contexts while relating to a denomination in the midst of an ecclesial paradigm shift in mission.</p> <p>Method. This qualitative research used a multiple case design with an emphasis on narrative inquiry. Data collection involved conducting …
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Flesh, Blood, and Puffed-Up Livers: The Theological, Political, and Social Contexts behind the 1550-1551 Written Eucharistic Debate between Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner
… theological debate with a complicated underlying social context. The dissertation will also show that it was because of this debate that Cranmer created a clearly defined Reformed Eucharistic position that would later be adapted in the Protestant Elizabethan settlement. Thus, this debate directly …
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The Role of Social Cognition and Person Perception in Economic Social Decision-Making
<p>Social decision-making is often complex, requiring the decision-maker to make social inferences about another person in addition to engaging traditional decision-making processes. However, until recently, much research in neuroeconomics and behavioral economics has examined social …
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Social Context and Decisions : Essays in experimental economics
Humans are social animals who evolved to live in societies. They are "encultured" actors as their preferences, perceptions and values are shaped by the social context to which they are exposed. Part of economic failures is due to suboptimal social contexts which determine individuals' decisions. …
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Entrepreneurship and Generation Z: the behavioural characteristics of Generation Z entrepreneurs in Wales
… behaviours of Generation Z and the social contexts surrounding the described entrepreneurial behaviours. It also investigates how Generation Z entrepreneurs’ perceptions of social contexts interplay with their described entrepreneurial behaviours. Data was collected through …
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Linguistic Interactions of Spanish Speaking Mexican American Families
… their daily linguistic interactions in various social contexts, and the features, themes and roles of linguistic interactions participants. Study results assisted in gaining deeper understanding of daily conversations happening in different social contexts and their impact on the language and …
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Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust
… behavioral economics experiments, largely ignore social factors such as personal relationships between subjects. In this study, we designed a new experimental procedure, the "Social Lending Game", in which aspects of trust are measured as a function of differing social contexts. The procedure …
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