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Showing 1 to 20 of 747 for “"social-context"”.
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The social context of LAN gaming
… a Local Area Network (LAN) has become a complex social activity. Engaging with these games requires more than simply accomplishing the games’ objectives: it is also a process of socialisation within a community of gamers. Through my observation of players' activities at a Cape Town based LAN …
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Social Context and the Pathways to Happiness
… that the determinants of happiness vary across social contexts. Chapter one tests the hypothesis that relationship between religiosity and happiness depends upon economic conditions; chapter two examines the impact of unemployment on happiness across four countries; chapter three explores the …
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Understanding implicit social context in electronic communication
… is to demonstrate that Al can help people with social decisions. In this work Artificial Intelligence of Social Networks is used to improve human-human communication, recognizing the social characteristics of human relations in order to achieve a more natural online communication interface. Can …
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The Physical-Social Context in Information Refinding
… to organize and refind information using many contextual keys such as timestamps, content, custom tags, origin and even location. As humans naturally engage in activities with people and groups of people, we want to investigate how we can use the context of people's social interactions to …
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Social Context and Muslim Women's Attitudes Towards Counseling
Although there is a recognized need for counseling Muslims and underutilization of mental health services by this population is assumed, research regarding the attitudes of Muslims towards counseling is scarce. This qualitative study explored Muslim women's attitudes towards counseling and …
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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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SOCIAL CONTEXT & ITS INFLUENCE ON PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL
… of black students and how variations in their social context can trigger high or low achievement. In order to analyze the differing outcomes in student performance, I look at their social context on the basis of 3 contextual categories: (1) home characteristics (e.g., parent background, number …
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Second Generation Korean-American Parents: Social Context Influence on Parenting
… qualitative grounded theory dissertation used a social constructionist lens to understand how American born second generation Korean-Americans, raised amidst contrasting Korean and western cultural ideologies, conceptualize parenting and position themselves in relation to their children within …
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Primary school textbooks in Zimbabwe : an analysis in social context
This thesis is based on an examination of some of the variables that affect schooling in Zimbabwe, a Southern African country. The study consisted mainly of a content analysis of selected primary textbooks for language and gender related matters. It addressed the following questions: (1) Is the …
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Going with the flow : social context, uncertainty and decision-making
… AWS literature has given limited attention to social-psychological factors that may be linked to this resistance. This thesis addresses that gap by examining two AWS uses: drinking and the washing of hands. It does so from the perspective of emotions and two national cultures, US American and …
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Going with the flow : social context, uncertainty and decision-making
… AWS literature has given limited attention to social-psychological factors that may be linked to this resistance. This thesis addresses that gap by examining two AWS uses: drinking and the washing of hands. It does so from the perspective of emotions and two national cultures, US American and …
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COLAB: social context and user experience in collaborative multiplayer games
Recent studies have shown that the social context in which people play digital multiplayer games has an effect on their experience. Whether co-players are in the same location ("co-located") or in different locations ("mediated") changes how they interact with the game and with one another. We set …
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The social context of adolescent pregnancy : the case of Mamre
The present study examines the social context and experiences of pregnant adolescents with the aim of forwarding suggestions for intervention. The study was conducted in Mamre, a semi-rural, predominantly Moravian village near. Cape Town. The study consisted of two parts. For the first part, names …
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The basis of racial classification: Ancestry-informative marker versus social context
… life as it has a significant impact on many social issues. There have been different approaches to the basis of racial classification. In the latter part of the 19th century, race was believed to be biologically determined. Mid-20th century philosophers embraced structuralism that linked …
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Decision-making Across Development: The Impact of Ambiguity and Social Context
… health and laboratory findings: ambiguity and social context. Everyday decisions tend to involve ambiguous decisions (choices with unknown probabilities), while previous laboratory studies have largely focused on risky decisions (choices with known probabilities). Consequently, little is known …
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The Interaction of Motivational Orientation and Social Context in a Flight Setting
… the effects of motivational orientation and social context on decisions made during flight. Cultural dimensions such as power distance, uncertainty avoidance and individualism have been found to correlate with aviation accident rates. Self-determination theory provides a schedule of social …
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Parenting in the age of Prozac: Parental decision -making in social context
… without, in an effort to gain insights into the social contexts that shape decisions around diagnoses and treatment. The bases of the theoretical underpinnings of this research are situated at the intersection of medicalization and mother-blame.</p><p>Survey data were collected from 235 parents …
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