1 © 2012 Guilford Publications, Inc. The present studies were financed by a “La Caixa-DAAD” fellowship to the first author, funds of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Intentions and Intentionality at the University of Konstanz to all authors, the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación grant PSI2009-07066 to the first and third author, a New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sci...

explain unique variance associated with sunbathing intentions and intentions to sun protect. For both analyses, age, sex, skin type, and perceived susceptibility were entered in step 1, followed by the 3 appearance-based tanning motives (appearance reasons to tan, appearance reasons not to tan, and sociocultural influences) entered in step 2. The overall R for both analyses was significant and ...

Substantial evidence comparing men's perceptions of women's sexual intentions with women's own reports of their sexual intentions has shown a systematic pattern of results that has been interpreted as support for the idea that men overestimate women's true sexual intentions. However, because women's true sexual intentions cannot be directly measured, an alternative interpretation of the existin...

On a reductivist conception of intentions, an intention to do an action or a plan A is reducible to a predominant desire to A, to the belief that one will A or to the judgment that A is the best thing to do or even to some combination of these states. Against these views, non-reductivist about intentions have argued that decisions and intentions move us a step beyond the simple possession of de...

the scholars of the principles of the islamic jurisprudence are divided the intentions of god in islamic figh to universal intentions and particular intentions. and the universal intentions are divided to necessaries and needs and goods. the necessaries are observation of religion and spirit and intellect and tradition and property. the author tries to manifest the decreases of this theses by a...

entrepreneurship is considered as an appropriate approach to accelerate economic development and provide employment opportunities. with this regard, entrepreneurial intention is the main determinant factor in deciding to be an entrepreneur. in order to obtain sufficient knowledge about entrepreneurship and its determinants, entrepreneurial intention of payame noor university students was studie...

the present study was conducted to investigate and formulate the effects of social capital dimensions on entrepreneurial intentions. the population of this study consisted of all fourth year agricultural students of yasouj university (n=196), that by using patten (2002) sampling table, 130 student were selected as the sample using the random simple sampling method. the main instrument of study ...

Intention from Motion Christopher Crick 2009 I present a system which observes humans participating in various playground games and infers their goals and intentions through detecting and analyzing their spatiotemporal activity in relation to one another, and then builds a coherent narrative out of the succession of these intentional states. I show that these narratives capture a great deal of ...

Introduction: The present study aimed to find an appropriate method toinform senior high school students to correctly select their academic field ofstudy and their intentions.Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study. A verifiedquestionnaire was given to a total of 2600 students selected by stratified random sampling method (ten different colleges and entrance year from ...

With a diverse sample (n = 231 paired responses) of employees from various organizations in Pakistan, we tested for the main effects of perceived organizational politics and psychological capital on turnover intentions, job satisfaction, and supervisor rated job performance. We also examined the moderating influence of psychological capital in the politics – outcomes relationships. Results prov...