Structural theories predict that the cues of social identity, particularly ethnicity, should exert a strong influence upon voting choices and party support in traditional agrarian societies, characterized by low levels of education and minimal access to the news media. To explore these issues, this study seeks to analyze the influence of ethno-linguistic and ethno-racial characteristics on iden...

Typically, facial expressions convey conversational signals and signs of attitudinal states—such as interest and boredom—that are usually displayed as one or few facial muscle actions, such as raising the eyebrows in disbelief. Instead of classifying facial expressions into a few basic emotion categories, we attempt to measure a large range of facial behaviour by recognizing facial muscle actio...

Several ongoing national surveys, including the Monitoring the Future study, the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, are investigating the drinking behaviors of adolescents in the United States. These studies have found that the majority of adolescents under the age of 18 have consumed alcohol, although the minimum legal drinking age is 21. Drinking rate...

Several philosophers have argued that de se beliefs—one’s thoughts about oneself in a characteristically ‘first-personal’ way—have special features that set them apart from other kinds of belief. Frege famously seemed to argue that everyone’s thoughts about themselves are distinct, and unshareable. Other philosophers have argued that some de se beliefs require a refinement of attitudinal conten...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to review literature relevant to cohesion measurement, explore developing measurement approaches, and provide theoretical and practical recommendations for optimizing cohesion measurement. BACKGROUND Cohesion is essential for team effectiveness and performance, leading researchers to focus attention on understanding how to enhance it. However, cohesion is i...

The present study examined the different levels of (im)politeness strategies in expressing request, apology, and refusal speech acts across intermediate and advanced Iranian EFL learners to identify their attitudinal ratings of their produced structures in terms of pragmatic success and (im)politeness mannerism. A discourse completion test including 2 Likert scales on attitudinal appropriatenes...

The current study qualitatively examined blurbs in the discipline of physics which is perceived to be less infused with evaluative resources and more objective and impersonal in its textual argumentation. The study followed the appraisal framework proposed by Martin and White (2005) to see how interpersonal meaning is textually constructed in blurbs. Findings indicated that writers of the blurb...

This article addresses key questions arising from the economic and social disparities that individuals with disabilities experience in the United States. For instance, "What role does corporate culture play in the employment of people with disabilities?" "How does it facilitate or hinder their employment and promotional opportunities, and how can corporations develop supportive cultures that be...

This paper reviews findings from 58 prospective studies of illicit substance use (ISU) among adolescents. It arranges 384 findings according to three types of influence (viz., social, attitudinal, and intrapersonal) and four levels of influence (viz., ultimate, distal, proximal, and immediate). The bulk of evidence reconfirms the importance of several predictors of ISU (e.g., intentions and pri...

this study investigates the effect of co-production on customer loyalty (attitudinal and behavioral separately) and factors which may boost co-production in an iranian bank. to investigate co-production in banking services, the proposed model of auh et al. (2007) was applied. given the fact that many banks try to get the status of their main customers, co-production was examined due to its pote...