This study aims to examine distance education students’ learning styles and critical thinking dispositions. This cross sectional survey was conducted on 114 Turkish distance education students from various departments in a state university. The data of the study were collected through Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scale (GRSLSS) and California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (...

This research aims to examine the relationship between critical thinking dispositions of preservice teachers and their decoding skills in information communication technologies (decoding skills-ICT). As a method, survey correlational models from quantitative approaches were used. Research universe is Faculty Education at state university Turkey. With use convenience sampling 262 who voluntarily...

OBJECTIVES Drawing on past studies of age identity, this article examined whether feeling older was associated with more pessimistic views about cognitive aging. METHODS Using respondents aged 55 years and older in the Midlife Development in the United States study, we estimated a series of linear regression models to predict people's dispositions toward their cognitive aging. The main compar...

This paper investigates whether and how property dispositions affect credit ratings of real estate investment trusts (REITs). We use an instrument variable to control the potential endogeneity problem associated with firm’s decision to divest assets and find that property dispositions have a positive effect on REIT corporate credit ratings. We further investigate the underlying channels for thi...

An outstanding puzzle in the social sciences remains about the forms of perceived trustworthiness sufficient to produce trust. Survey experiments adjudicated between four models of the trustworthiness-trust link—social constraints, encapsulated interests, goodwill, and virtuous dispositions—and tested novel hypotheses about other-praising emotions (admiration and gratitude) as mediating effects...

Understanding preservice teachers’ thinking styles and dispositions and how these are related to positive changes in their teacher behaviors provide valuable information for teacher preparation. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between preservice teachers’ critical-thinking dispositions and three thinking styles (judicial, legislative, and executive) and their behavior change in...

Insofar as empirical inquiry involves the coevolution of descriptive language and theoretical commitments, a satisfactory model of empirical knowledge should describe the coordinated evolution of both language and theory. But since we do not know what conceptual resources we might need to express our future theories or to provide our best future faithful descriptions of the world, we do not now...

Analyses of dispositional ascriptions in terms of conditional statements famously confront the problems of finks and masks. We argue that conditional analyses of dispositions, even those tailored to avoid finks and masks, face five further problems. These are the problems of: (i) Achilles’ heels, (ii) accidental closeness, (iii) comparatives, (iv) explaining context sensitivity, and (v) absent ...