OBJECTIVES Health-behaviour change is not predicted well by behavioural intentions alone. Action planning and coping planning are two self-regulatory strategies that may help bridge the gap between intentions and behaviour. Action planning comprises the when, where and how of implementing a behaviour. Coping planning involves the anticipation of barriers and ways to overcome them. The study exa...

In this fine book philosopher Pierre Jacob and well-known cognitive neuroscientist Marc Jeannerod collaborate to bring together many key findings in the visual ventral (‘what’) and dorsal (‘where’ and ‘how’) systems. One of Jacob and Jeannerod’s major contribution is to highlight the mechanisms that allow for skilful social interactions. They propose a distinction between the ‘mirror neuron’ sy...

Intentions are seemingly ubiquitous in the criminal law. Their presence can turn reckless homicide into first-degree murder, reckless endangerment into attempted murder, violation of a security clearance into treason, and inadvertent mistake of fact into perjury. But should intentions play the pivotal role that they do in determining the categorization of crimes? Recently, there has been a live...

OBJECTIVE The present study tested whether taking into account both the reflective and the impulsive processes of physical activity (PA) is helpful in understanding how, and for whom, PA-promoting messages will be (in)effective in changing behavior. METHOD Participants (N = 101) were presented with a persuasive message promoting either PA (experimental condition) or healthy eating (control co...

EMILY McDONALD EVENS: Conceptualizing and Testing a New Measure of Fertility Intentions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Factors that Affect the Achievement of Childbearing Plans (Under the direction of Sian Curtis and Herbert Peterson) Understanding fertility intentions is crucial for reproductive health research and programs. While quantitative research has identified factors associated with f...

Due to the critical shortage and continued need of blood and organ donations (ODs), research exploring similarities and differences in the motivational determinants of these behaviors is needed. In a sample of 258 university students, we used a cross-sectional design to test the utility of an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) including moral norm, self-identity and in-group altruism (fa...

The aim of this study was to determine to what extent the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) extended with moral norm and descriptive norm is able to predict intentions not to drink and drive. We also wanted to examine whether different processes guide intentions among young drivers (35 years and below) versus drivers aged above 35 years, and women's versus men's intentions. Questionnaires were ...

The rapid growth of Facebook has become an important channel of eWOM. Facebook users can openly illustrate their attitudes toward products to their friends, either by casually clicking a like or deliberately writing a comment on advertisements. This study explored how friends’ involvement in advertisements and tie strength affected Facebook users’ product attitudes, intentions to purchase, and ...

BACKGROUND Social norms influence adolescent smoking intentions, but this effect may differentiate depending on current smoking experiences. The presented study assessed the moderation effects of smoking status on the relationship between social norms and smoking intentions among Greek adolescents. METHODS A cross-section survey-based design was used. Overall, 251 Greek secondary school stude...

For context-based recommendation systems, it is necessary to detect affirmative and negative intentions from answers. However, traditional studies cannot determine these intentions from indirect speech acts. In order to determine these intentions from indirect speech acts, this paper defines a recommendation tree and proposes an algorithm of deriving intentions of indirect speech acts by the tr...