Less Is More: The Lure of Ambiguity, or Why Familiarity Breeds
... predicted, the percentage of shared traits was negatively related to the number of traits, r(304) ⫽ ⫺.17, p ⬍ .005, but remained positively related to liking, r(304) ⫽ .37, p ⬍ .001. Thus, as predicted, more information led to cascading dissimilarity accompanied by decreases in liking. To show that ...
... predicted, the percentage of shared traits was negatively related to the number of traits, r(304) ⫽ ⫺.17, p ⬍ .005, but remained positively related to liking, r(304) ⫽ .37, p ⬍ .001. Thus, as predicted, more information led to cascading dissimilarity accompanied by decreases in liking. To show that ...
Influence of Advertising Appeals and Personality on Telecoms
... be beneficial to own or use the product brand. Print media is particularly well suited for rational appeals and is often used with good success. It is also suited for business to business advertisers and for products that are complex and that need high degree of attention and involvement and this ha ...
... be beneficial to own or use the product brand. Print media is particularly well suited for rational appeals and is often used with good success. It is also suited for business to business advertisers and for products that are complex and that need high degree of attention and involvement and this ha ...
Chapter 3 – Organizational Culture and Environment: The Constraints
... a. Planning – involves the process of defining goals, establishing strategies for achieving those goals, and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities. b. Organizing – involves the process of determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who ...
... a. Planning – involves the process of defining goals, establishing strategies for achieving those goals, and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities. b. Organizing – involves the process of determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who ...
it is good to be stressed: improving performance and body
... Reappraisal in a real-life setting Study conducted by Jamieson, Peters, Greenwood and Altose (2016) was the first that tested arousal reappraisal on exam performance in a classroom setting. Participants were students of a community college attending developmental mathematic course. Community college ...
... Reappraisal in a real-life setting Study conducted by Jamieson, Peters, Greenwood and Altose (2016) was the first that tested arousal reappraisal on exam performance in a classroom setting. Participants were students of a community college attending developmental mathematic course. Community college ...
Chapter 11 - Select Term or Date Range
... –job sharing - more than one employee shares one full-time position Selection Selection Process –screening job applicants to ensure that the most appropriate candidates are hired What Is Selection? –prediction exercise to determine which applicants will be successful if hired •success defined by goo ...
... –job sharing - more than one employee shares one full-time position Selection Selection Process –screening job applicants to ensure that the most appropriate candidates are hired What Is Selection? –prediction exercise to determine which applicants will be successful if hired •success defined by goo ...
The Effect of Competitiveness on Person Perception
... accurately after each meeting and the variance in their perceptions decreased. They were more likely to agree on a smaller number of traits after each meeting. Married couples are also higher in agreement of perception of each other’s personalities than dating couples or friendship dyads (Watson, Hu ...
... accurately after each meeting and the variance in their perceptions decreased. They were more likely to agree on a smaller number of traits after each meeting. Married couples are also higher in agreement of perception of each other’s personalities than dating couples or friendship dyads (Watson, Hu ...
Ensuring quality in the new culture
... organisation. It should be noted that no single quality standard can be established; rather we should attempt to set what might be called a comfort zone within which good enough quality is supplied. To achieve more than the top line is to exceed expectations. Not to hit minimum quality standard is t ...
... organisation. It should be noted that no single quality standard can be established; rather we should attempt to set what might be called a comfort zone within which good enough quality is supplied. To achieve more than the top line is to exceed expectations. Not to hit minimum quality standard is t ...
Free-Format Self-Report Measures
... • People may not be able to accurately selfreport on the causes of their behavior • People may not want to accurately self-report on the causes of their behavior • Reactivity – changes in responding that occur when individuals know the are being ...
... • People may not be able to accurately selfreport on the causes of their behavior • People may not want to accurately self-report on the causes of their behavior • Reactivity – changes in responding that occur when individuals know the are being ...
Paradox and Puzzlement in Twin IQ studies: an inquiry into
... The classical twin research design has been frequently used to describe sources of variance in cognitive abilities and attainments. Because monozygotic (MZ) twins are genetically identical, whilst dizygotic (DZ) pairs share only half their variable genes, on average, it is assumed differences in int ...
... The classical twin research design has been frequently used to describe sources of variance in cognitive abilities and attainments. Because monozygotic (MZ) twins are genetically identical, whilst dizygotic (DZ) pairs share only half their variable genes, on average, it is assumed differences in int ...
Differentiating diversities: Moral diversity is not like other kinds
... demographic attributes from personal attributes. Demographic attributes are “those that are immutable, that can be readily detected during a brief interaction with a person, and for which social consensus can be assumed (e.g., sex, race, ethnicity, age).” Personal attributes, on the other hand, are ...
... demographic attributes from personal attributes. Demographic attributes are “those that are immutable, that can be readily detected during a brief interaction with a person, and for which social consensus can be assumed (e.g., sex, race, ethnicity, age).” Personal attributes, on the other hand, are ...
Team Size, Dispersion, and Social Loafing in
... emergence of teams as an intra- and interorganizational structure is driven in part by two factors. First, teams often have more, and better, informational resources than individuals [26]. Initially, this advantage was viewed as a luxury that organizations could use at their convenience. However, wi ...
... emergence of teams as an intra- and interorganizational structure is driven in part by two factors. First, teams often have more, and better, informational resources than individuals [26]. Initially, this advantage was viewed as a luxury that organizations could use at their convenience. However, wi ...
Personalizing Politics
... operated for the common good. Personality involves systems of distinctive self-regulatory mechanisms and structures for guiding affective, cognitive, and motivational processes. These internal systems guide people toward achieving individual and collective goals, while providing coherence and contin ...
... operated for the common good. Personality involves systems of distinctive self-regulatory mechanisms and structures for guiding affective, cognitive, and motivational processes. These internal systems guide people toward achieving individual and collective goals, while providing coherence and contin ...
A Dual Process Model of Defense Against Conscious and
... influence a wide range of superficially unrelated human behaviors. TMT posits that many more specific human motives, such as needs for self-esteem, faith in our conceptions of reality, and close personal relationships exist, at least in part, because they provide protection from a deeply rooted fear ...
... influence a wide range of superficially unrelated human behaviors. TMT posits that many more specific human motives, such as needs for self-esteem, faith in our conceptions of reality, and close personal relationships exist, at least in part, because they provide protection from a deeply rooted fear ...
Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality
... USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Blue line, number of citations of Wilson et al. (1994); navy blue line, publications in journals specializing in the study of behaviour; black line, publications in journals in ecology and ...
... USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Blue line, number of citations of Wilson et al. (1994); navy blue line, publications in journals specializing in the study of behaviour; black line, publications in journals in ecology and ...
Reflections on the Impact of Modernity in Evolving a Multi
... increasing the efficiency of individual laborers and leveraging individual capabilities, goods could be mass-produced. As such, Smith proposed, individuals would have increased access to luxuries and more opportunity for leisure. Although fundamentally discussed in terms of economic productivity, th ...
... increasing the efficiency of individual laborers and leveraging individual capabilities, goods could be mass-produced. As such, Smith proposed, individuals would have increased access to luxuries and more opportunity for leisure. Although fundamentally discussed in terms of economic productivity, th ...
Perception, Attitudes, and Individual Differences
... Self-schemas capture generalizations we make about our own behaviors that are shaped by past experience and current situations. Organizational members, for instance, often exhibit self-schemas of competence or decisiveness when confronted with particular tasks they are familiar with. Person schemas ...
... Self-schemas capture generalizations we make about our own behaviors that are shaped by past experience and current situations. Organizational members, for instance, often exhibit self-schemas of competence or decisiveness when confronted with particular tasks they are familiar with. Person schemas ...
Consistent behavioural traits and behavioural syndromes in pairs of
... be an important cue of mate choice and affect fitness within a social context. Alternatively, such limited plasticity could arise because of high costs of behavioural plasticity, for example, if flexible responses are costly owing to errors made in behavioural adjustment to different conditions (Dal ...
... be an important cue of mate choice and affect fitness within a social context. Alternatively, such limited plasticity could arise because of high costs of behavioural plasticity, for example, if flexible responses are costly owing to errors made in behavioural adjustment to different conditions (Dal ...
Stamps, J. (2003) Behavioural processes affecting development
... faced with environmental change than individuals that slowly and thoroughly explore novel environments. These differences in exploratory style and the traits correlated with them are consistent (repeatable) across time, and juvenile great tits have exploratory scores similar to those of their parent ...
... faced with environmental change than individuals that slowly and thoroughly explore novel environments. These differences in exploratory style and the traits correlated with them are consistent (repeatable) across time, and juvenile great tits have exploratory scores similar to those of their parent ...
Happiness at work - ePublications@bond
... psychology, person level constructs and the nomothetic relationships between them have attracted the lion’s share of research attention. Transient level. Weiss and Cropanzano’s (1996) influential chapter introduced Affective Events Theory and drew the attention of researchers to real time affective ...
... psychology, person level constructs and the nomothetic relationships between them have attracted the lion’s share of research attention. Transient level. Weiss and Cropanzano’s (1996) influential chapter introduced Affective Events Theory and drew the attention of researchers to real time affective ...
Character: The Prospects for a PersonalityBased Perspective on
... and/or social cognition require it, and are, in fact, incomplete without it. The construct of character is powerfully and perhaps inextricably ingrained in the way people think about and evaluate themselves and others. A belief in enduring character traits is at the heart of much of social life: Wha ...
... and/or social cognition require it, and are, in fact, incomplete without it. The construct of character is powerfully and perhaps inextricably ingrained in the way people think about and evaluate themselves and others. A belief in enduring character traits is at the heart of much of social life: Wha ...
Retirement raises happiness of unemployed people
... Unemployed people are much happier as soon as they retire. Indeed, their life satisfaction is exactly the same as before they became unemployed. This jump in happiness is typically 50% higher than most people report after they have just got married. And it comes about because they no longer feel ina ...
... Unemployed people are much happier as soon as they retire. Indeed, their life satisfaction is exactly the same as before they became unemployed. This jump in happiness is typically 50% higher than most people report after they have just got married. And it comes about because they no longer feel ina ...
Rage against the Iron Cage - Scholars at Harvard
... had “special programs for recruiting minorities, such as sending recruiters to historically black colleges or black communities,” and whether they had “special programs for recruiting women, such as sending recruiters to women’s colleges.” Management training and targeted nomination of women and min ...
... had “special programs for recruiting minorities, such as sending recruiters to historically black colleges or black communities,” and whether they had “special programs for recruiting women, such as sending recruiters to women’s colleges.” Management training and targeted nomination of women and min ...
Indigenous Measures of Personality Assessment in Asian Countries
... subjective experiences, including meaning, goals, and consciousness, are important building blocks for understanding Korean behaviors. Subjective experiences are considered essential to supplement the objective “third-person” analysis intrinsic to the positivistic Western approach to psychology. It ...
... subjective experiences, including meaning, goals, and consciousness, are important building blocks for understanding Korean behaviors. Subjective experiences are considered essential to supplement the objective “third-person” analysis intrinsic to the positivistic Western approach to psychology. It ...
Chapter 02 Individual Behavior, Personality, and
... C. altering situational factors and making it difficult to practice wasteful behavior. D. increasing aptitudes that make employees less wasteful. E. increasing organizational citizenship so that employees will be less wasteful. ...
... C. altering situational factors and making it difficult to practice wasteful behavior. D. increasing aptitudes that make employees less wasteful. E. increasing organizational citizenship so that employees will be less wasteful. ...