Information, beliefs, and motivation: The antecedents to human resource attributions

Children’s Attributions 1 Running head: CHILDREN’S ATTRIBUTIONS OF BELIEFS Children’s Attributions of Beliefs to Humans and God: Cross-Cultural Evidence

The capacity to attribute beliefs to others in order to understand action is one of the mainstays of human cognition. Yet it is debatable whether children attribute beliefs in the same way to all agents. In this paper, we present the results of a false-belief task concerning humans and God run with a sample of Maya children aged 4 to 7, and place them in the context of several psychological the...

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...

Human resource oriented antecedents to post-adoption technology performance

This study investigated the influence of human resource oriented antecedents to user perceptions toward the performance capabilities of a new logistics information tracking technology. Willingness to take risks, job relevance, trialability and technology trust were evaluated as antecedents to technology performance. The research examined the effect of these constructs on technology acceptance a...

Attributions, beliefs about control, and adjustment to breast cancer.

Attributions for cancer and beliefs about control over cancer were examined for their association with adjustment to breast cancer. Although 95% of the respondents made attributions for their cancer, no particular attribution (e.g., stress, diet) was associated with better adjustment. Analyses of attributions of responsibility for the cancer to the self, environment, another person, or chance y...

Historical antecedents to archaeological resource management