BACKGROUND This study attempts to understand whether medical undergraduates in Sri Lanka would seek help for depression. This was done by examining their perceptions and intentions relating to seeking help for depression, using the responses of non-medical undergraduates as the baseline for comparison. METHOD Medical (n = 620) and non-medical undergraduates (n = 4050) at the University of Col...

This ‘Russian Cards’ problem originated at the Moscow Math Olympiad 2000. An analysis in dynamic epistemic logic and various solutions are presented in [vD03]. But there remained some open questions related to the dynamics. In this contribution we answer one of those questions. They are not trivial, because the interpretation of an announcement that is made towards a solution of the problem, al...

In the past researchers have questioned the effectiveness of ethics training in higher education. Also, there are observations that support the view that ethical behaviour (range of actions)/ethical decision making models used in the past make use of vignettes to explain ethical behaviour. The understanding remains in the perspective that these vignettes play a limited role in determining indiv...

Implementation intentions (if-then plans) help people to automatically perform goaldirected behaviors when they encounter goal-relevant critical situations. Besides the intended beneficial effects on goal attainment, however, goal-directed behaviors might entail various costs. Successful goal striving then requires flexible tenacity: tenaciously holding on to behaviors that inflict bearable cos...

In the past researchers have questioned the effectiveness of ethics training in higher education. Also, there are observations that support the view that ethical behaviour (range of actions)/ethical decision making models used in the past make use of vignettes to explain ethical behaviour. The understanding remains in the perspective that these vignettes play a limited role in determining indiv...

This research was initiated in an attempt to understand customer intentions towards purchasing from an Internet bookstore. Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior was used to predict the intentions and behavior of different customer groupings based on their lifestyle and personality. Factor and cluster analyses were used to segment the sample into three clusters. Data were then collected in seven co...

The educational community’s demands for e-learning resources are analyzed in the paper. The intentions to individualize the learning material by modelling, developing and renewing the existing e-learning resources are emphasized. A successfully operating environment of e-material collaborative development, designed for knowledge community users with different competences, is examined. Various m...