INTRODUCTION Our first impression of other people is greatly affected by our previous experiences. Schematic processing, proposed in social psychology, explains our behavior in interacting with other people. It suggests existence of different schemas in our brain for different groups of people, e.g., extroverts, introverts, shy, women, men, etc. and also schemas related to special people like o...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Amandeep Dhir Name of the doctoral dissertation Exploring Online Self-presentation in Computer-mediated environments: Motives and Reasons for Photo-tagging and untagging Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Computer Science Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 79/2016 Field of research Us...

Virtual worlds such as Second Life (SL) are online computer-based world-like spaces, where users assume virtual selves or avatars to interact with others, create objects, and engage in a variety of transactions. This paper examines SL residents’ avatars, activities, and the relation between residents’ offline characteristics and online avatars and activities. The authors examined whether there ...

Increased levels of stress are more frequent in the hearing-impaired population than in normal-hearing people. Because of the high frequency of stress in the hearing-impaired population and the ability of music to reduce stress, Widex has included a feature in the high end mind440 hearing aid which allows users to listen to a choice of diff erent music styles. Generally researchers agree that m...

Using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, the author conducted a mixed method research study to examine the existence of the three CoI elements in a graduate-level educational technology online course. The author also looked at student perceptions and preference for community in online learning. High mean scores on the CoI showed that all three elements of CoI were more than adequately ad...

This study compared personality traits of students in five health professions. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was completed by 1,508 osteopathic students, 654 pharmacy students, 165 physical therapy students, 211 physician assistant students, and 70 occupational therapy students. Comparing the extrovert/introvert dimension revealed that pharmacy students were more likely to score as introverte...

T here is evidence from a variety of sources that communications between members of healthcare teams emerge as a key factor in poor care and are especially apparent where medical errors occur. Lingard et al take this as their starting point for an observational study of communication failures in operating theatres published in this issue of QSHC. They found that 31% of all communications could ...

We studied 459 Ukrainian civil servants to determine how career network-building behavioral tendencies relate to network range and promotion speed. We identify two main behavioral tendencies for initiating social relationships: (a) networking within formal structured groups organized around activities created specifically to encourage members to form personal bonds (structured foci) and (b) ind...

Nonverbal decoding refers to the act of recognizing and interpreting the meaning of other people’s nonverbal cues. Decoding skills vary depending on many factors such as personality and environment (Knapp & Hall, 2009). The present study focused on six individual difference measures (the EPI, IOS, PSI, SCS-R, 20-item Shyness Scale, and TSIS) and an experimentally manipulated variable of self-co...