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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"wishful thinking"”.
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Wishful Thinking
The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who left has decided to come back. What it means to be the one left behind. Among those who come back are a cousin who married …
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The role of illness representations in the process of coping and psychosocial adjustment among adults with epilepsy
… were distinguished by greater reliance on wishful thinking and avoidance coping. Avoidance coping strategies were least prevalent among chronic (GP) patients. In terms of illness representations, recent onset patients were characterised by, weaker illness identity, acute timeline and …
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Three papers on belief updating and its applications
… the first paper, I explore the consequences of wishful thinking on mechanism design. It suggests that wishful thinking bias could be profit-generating for mechanism designers. In the second paper, I investigate conservative updating and provide a foundation for it. The main behavioral axiom, …
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Stress, appraisals, and well-being of staff working with adults with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour
… organisational support, social support, wishful thinking, and practical coping (resources), positive feelings and negative feelings (outcomes). Results: Five significant relationships were found (p < .001). Appraisals of emotional exhaustion were positively associated with organisational …
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Outcome Coping Efficacy of Firefighters
… a second. The coping strategies of Blamed Self, Wishful Thinking, and Avoidance appeared to have a negative significant relationship to Mobilization Efficacy in overall Outcome Coping Efficacy. Additionally, the Appraisals of Challenge and Positive Reappraisal to meet the Challenge appeared to …
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Stress and coping among adoptive parents
… (accepting responsibility, emphasize positives, wishful thinking, distancing). Multiple regression analysis revealed that parents reporting higher levels of emotional distress were significantly more likely to indicate a pile-up of chronic stressful circumstances related to their status as …
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
… the first of its kind to link these preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students were surveyed using a new instrument called the Cognitive Bias Assessment For Science Students – Evolution. The …
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Depression in Freshmen College Students
… by WOC questionnaire subscales, keep to self and wishful thinking, significantly mediated the relationship between stress and depression in this study.</p>
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Pain State as a Mediator in the Psychological and Behavioral Assessment of Migraine and Tension Headache Sufferers
… and pain-state effects, such that scores on wishful thinking and social withdrawal subscales were higher during pain state. Results of a repeated measures MANOVA for the Daily Hassles Scale showed a significant group effect, such that migraine, tension and control groups differed on all seven …
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Dysfunctional Attitudes, Life Stress and Coping Processes
… led to more hostility and confrontive behavior, wishful thinking, detachment to minimize the significance of the problem, and attempts to control outcomes by controlling one's feelings occurred more frequently. As hypothesized, dysfunctional attitudes augmented the use of less productive coping …
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Northern Ireland and the Anglo-Irish agreement: peace in our time?
… To an extent initial accolades were functions of wishful thinking and condemnation that of knee-jerk reaction based upon instinctive fear. One can only hope that a path to resolution had been created despite such misgivings and high expectations. One thing has been evident, there has been a …
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An Internet-Based Self-Change Program for Trauma Sequelae
… perceived social support levels and decreased wishful thinking coping were significantly correlated with symptom improvement. Both exposure and cognitive skills mastery levels were significantly correlated with decreased intensity and frequency of avoidance behavior.
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A Developmental Theory of Intention
… how cognitivism makes forming an intention into wishful thinking. DPA non-cognitivism has the advantage of avoiding this problem, but it maintains the idea that intention is a mental state and (most naturally) explains acting with an intention in terms of causation by a state. In Chapter 3, I …
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Cast Upon The Shadows: Essays Toward The Culturalogic Turn In Critical Race Theory
… changes in whites. Unfortunately this is merely wishful thinking that fails to consider the empirical research that confirms the undeniable failure of integration. This inability by Blacks to accept and explore racism without the illusion of racial coexistence in America makes current approaches …
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BOTTLED FANTASIES: COLLEGE STUDENTS' INTERPRETATIONS OF ALCOHOL ADVERTISING AND ITS EFFECTS
… interpret alcohol advertising, how their desire, wishful thinking and expectancies toward drinking may account for both the impact of exposure to alcohol advertising and reasons for drinking. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to (1) assess the MIP model and (2) explore the impact of …
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HYPER-IMAGE NETWORK? An investigation into the role of text and image in the design of hypertext networks with specific consideration of the World Wide Web
… have been misled by early day phenomena and wishful thinking. This thesis draws from cognitive science, cultural history, information theory and linguistics as well as from current design practice. Design practice plays an important role in the discussion regarding digital writing and the …
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Entstehung von Clustern unter Berücksichtigung der Effekte regionalisierter Innovationspolitik
… direkte Steuerung und Initiierung von Clustern „wishful thinking“ bleiben muss (Enright 2003, S. 104; Rosenfeld et al. 2006). Indes zeigen sich unternehmerische Akteure im Umfeld von Forschungseinrichtungen bevorteilt, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse in neuen Technologiefeldern zu verwerten. In …
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Soggy sovereignty on the Irish border
… violent image of the Irish border's past, and wishful thinking given the administrative imperative of border management. This thesis instead argues that if construction is going to happen, it should be an architecture that takes the border town as its subject, and serves local life while …
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Quality of life and coping in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease
… used by children were cognitive restructuring, wishful thinking and distraction and the least popular were blaming others and self criticism. Resignation and self criticism were more frequently used by older children (13-17 years). Younger males (8-12) used distraction more often than females …
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Essays in Industrial Organization and Political Economy
… scheme in the two periods when consumers are wishful — overly optimistic about the high state even after a bad experience. I provide a comparative study of prices in each periods when the monopolist announces prices with and without commitment when consumers are either naive or sophisticated. …