The study investigated factors influencing ethical intentions in relation to the personal use of software among Information Technology (IT) professionals in Thailand. Factors expected to affect ethical intentions were derived from previous studies and used to formulate a theoretical model based on the theory of planned behavior, the Big Five personality traits, deterrent theory, and moral inten...

This research demonstrates that preschoolers flexibly trust and mistrust the same individuals, as preschoolers recognize that their intentions may vary. In Study 1 (N=101) 3and 4-yearolds trusted speakers based on their current, rather than previous, intentions to give in/correct information. Thus preschoolers infer the meanings behind different intentions and recognize that intentions change w...

The current study has three main purposes; to investigate the impact of attitude towards celebrity endorsement on purchase intentions, to test the direct effect of religiosity on purchase intentions and finally, examine the religiosity as a moderator on attitude towards celebrity endorsement purchase intentions relationship. Data were collected through online survey. Both Stepwise and Moderated...

Teams arise in a number of important multiagent applications. Several theories of intentions for teams have been proposed. By and large, these theories tend to model team intentions exclusively on the basis of mental concepts, and fail to acknowledge the internal structure of teams. We present a formal theory of intentions for teams that considers the structure of teams explicitly. In this cont...

Implementation intentions ("If I encounter Situation X, then I'll perform Behavior Y!") are postulated to instigate automatic action initiation. In 4 studies, the hypothesis was tested that implementation intentions lead to immediate action initiation once the specified situation is encountered, even under conditions of high cognitive load. First, individuals whose action control is known to be...

Can children improve shielding an ongoing task from distractions by if-then planning (i.e., by forming implementation intentions)? In an experimental study, the situational and personal limits of action control by distraction-inhibiting implementation intentions (“If a distraction comes up, then I will ignore it!”) were tested by comparing them to simple goal intentions (“I will ignore distract...

Many studies have shown that children with autism have difficulty understanding the thoughts and beliefs of other people. However, little research has been conducted on what these children understand about simpler mental states such as intentions. The current study tested the understanding of others' intentions in 2 1/2- to 5-year-old children with autism and a control group of children with ot...

This paper addresses the problem of inferring 3D human attention in RGB-D videos at scene scale. 3D human attention describes where a human is looking in 3D scenes. We propose a probabilistic method to jointly model attention, intentions, and their interactions. Latent intentions guide human attention which conversely reveals the intention features. This mutual interaction makes attention infer...

Autonomous agents typically have several goals they are pursuing simultaneously. Even if the goals themselves are not necessarily inconsistent, choices made about how to pursue each of these goals may well result in a set of intentions which are conflicting. A rational autonomous agent should be able to reason about and modify its set of intentions to take account of such issues. This paper pre...

The present article includes separate meta-analyses showing that self-concordance and implementation intentions are significantly positively associated with goal progress. Study 1 confirmed the positive relations of both self-concordance and implementation intentions to weekend goal progress. Study 2 confirmed the positive relation of self-concordance with monthly progress on New Year's resolut...