Is taking up smoking a reasoned action?

Reasoned action theoRy

think so because the hatred occurs in the unconscious mind. This circular reasoning has received much criticism, but belief in the unconscious still persists. As another example, educators often assume that people wish to express themselves, and when a student is reluctant to participate in class or in a discussion, the student is suffering from social fears, sometimes called communication appr...

The Theory of Reasoned Action: A Decision Theory of Crime

The rational choice perspective as outlined in the Introduction to this volume is concerned mainly with presenting in a general way the advantages of treating criminal behavior as a broadly rational activity. It therefore has little directly to say about the specific nature of the decision-making processes used in making criminal choices. Despite the criticisms of expected utility theories met ...

What Determines Interest in an IS Career? An Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action

Theory of Reasoned Action application for Green Information Technology acceptance

The increase in the use of Information Technology (IT) in recent decades has contributed to additional power consumption as well as a potential overuse of scarce resources. Also, IT is quickly surpassing air transportation in terms of its carbon footprint. For these reasons, increased environmental awareness has increased interest in Green Information Technology (GIT) among IT practitioners. Th...

Physicians Taking Action Against Smoking: an intervention program to optimize smoking cessation counselling by Montreal general practitioners.

In 1997 the Direction de la santé publique de Montréal-Centre initiated "Physicians Taking Action Against Smoking," a 5-year intervention program to improve the smoking cessation counselling practices of general practitioners (GPs) in Montreal. Program development was guided by the precede-proceed model. This model advocates identifying factors influencing the outcome, in this case counselling ...