Lankford's book makes the important point that analyses of suicide terrorists often commit the error of overestimating the importance of situational causes of behavior and underestimating dispositional causes, such as underlying pathology. Personality and individual differences are important; suicide terrorists are not ordinary people driven by situational pressures. However, citation of empiri...

Especially in this economy : the effect of personal and situational factors on charitable intentions and attitudes toward the homelessEspecially in this economy : the effect of personal and situational factors on charitable intentions and attitudes toward the homeless" (2010). Honors Theses. Paper 165.

Thirty-five years ago I argued that portraying rhetoric as the inexorable result of real situational demands, as opposed to competitive persuasion, creating perceptions of situational demands, would relegate the field to secondary disciplinary status and ethical irrelevance. Since then, this prediction has been largely fulfilled, but a change in perspective can make rhetoric a primary study wit...

While most research on use and non-use focuses on the adoption or rejection of technology, this paper proposes “situational non-use” as a framework to examine occasional non-use behaviors for established users of social technologies. I introduce the concepts of obfuscation and self-censorship as situational non-use practices and explore them in reflections of ongoing research projects. Author

Building on and extending existing research, this article proposes a 4-phase model of interest development. The model describes 4 phases in the development and deepening of learner interest: triggered situational interest, maintained situational interest, emerging (less-developed) individual interest, and well-developed individual interest. Affective as well as cognitive factors are considered....

Little is known about the situational contexts in which individuals consume processed sources of dietary sugars. This study aimed to describe the situational contexts associated with the consumption of sweetened food and drink products in a Catholic Middle Eastern Canadian community. A two-stage exploratory sequential mixed-method design was employed with a rationale of triangulation. In stage ...

The Virtual Coach is a web-centric virtual environment that creates temporally dynamic clinical exercises known as situational simulations, with the intention of exposing participants to rapidly unfolding events and the pressure of decision-making. This paper focuses on visualization of information pertinent to the semantics of situational simulations in the Virtual Coach. It analyzes and class...

green space, as a social development indicator has environmental, social, cultural, economical, and skeletal aspects and to be able to play its role effectively, the first and most important step is to select an appropriate site for it. site selection necessitates stability analysis of urban green space. the main three steps are identifying stability factors, ahp-based weighting factors and lay...

Latest studies on situational interest (SI) point out that the expressed (ESI) and observed (OSI) of students emerge during science courses differentiate from each other. However, aiming to determine this difference are rare. Accordingly, purpose qualitative case study is compare ESI OSI middle school emerging a course what type sources these show in relation their SI changes. Turkish six-grade...