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Chen, Ming-Puu; Lord, Asta Y. Z.; Cheng, Yu-Yao; Tai, Ku-Chou; Pan, Wen-Harn – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2020
Reflective judgement is crucial for medical-related practitioners in dealing with controversial issues. However, the conformity phenomenon is likely to occur and interfere with reflective judgement learning during interactive activities. Effective strategies are required to moderate the conformity behaviour tendency (CBT) and improve reflective…
Descriptors: Reflection, Decision Making, Physicians, Health Personnel
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Zhan, Zhan; Tan, Tih Koon – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2022
Different from the objective risk of self-financed study-abroad behavior, the perceived risk thereof is the basis for individuals to assess the educational consumption risk from their own points of view. The perceived risk in self-financed study-abroad behavior falls into seven aspects, i.e., economic risk, functional risk, completion risk,…
Descriptors: Risk, Risk Assessment, Study Abroad, Safety
Diamond, Abigail; Vorley, Tim; Roberts, Jennifer; Jones, Stephen – Higher Education Academy, 2012
The Higher Education Academy (HEA), in partnership with the National Union of Students (NUS), commissioned CFE and The University of Sheffield to undertake research to explore behavioural approaches to understanding student choice. Within the research, the authors' applied insights from behavioural economics to help aid understanding of student…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Case Studies, Student Attitudes, Social Mobility
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Grunig, James E. – Journalism Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Higher Education
Lautenschlager, Gary; Morris, Debbie – 1992
The study of ethical decision making has gained considerable interest among organizational scientists due to the widespread occurrence of wrongdoing in business, industry, government and various other institutions. This study examined the effects of priming and organizational level manipulation on an individual's ethical decision-making behavior.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Decision Making, Ethics
Bokoros, Michael A.; And Others – 1990
The relevance of cognitive style is not limited to specifically defined learning situations. Information is being processed continually in support of our daily activities and interactions with others. For this reason, an individual's cognitive style determines much of what is called personality. It has been observed that behavior patterns…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Students
Strube, Michael J.; Werner, Carol – 1982
Past research suggests that Type A's have a higher need for control than Type B's, and empirical evidence documents their greater reactivity to control loss. To extend investigation to control decisions and examine the hypothesis that Type A's would be less willing than Type B's to relinquish control to another person, 160 male undergraduates were…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Decision Making, Feedback
Strube, Michael J.; And Others – 1983
Previous research has indicated that Type A's have a higher need to control their environments, and respond more reactively to control loss than Type B's. To clarify the role of information processing in the control relinquishment decisions of Type A's and B's, 147 male and female college students took part in a problem solving experiment. Pairs…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Decision Making
Plax, Timothy G.; Rosenfeld, Lawrence B. – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1976
Examines the influence of dogmatism on risk-taking behavior of groups and individuals and cites additional variables to be considered in a modification of the old risky shift paradigm. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Decision Making, Dogmatism
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Taylor, Karen M.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983
Developed a measure of self-efficacy expectations with regard to 50 behaviors required in career decision making and examined the relationships of career decision-making self-efficacy to several components of vocational indecision for 346 subjects. Results indicated that college students expressed considerable confidence in their ability to make…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making
Cope, Robert G. – 1970
The objective of this study was to examine the ways existing and preferred influence relationships differed in academic departments in two situations. A questionnaire examining perceived power relationships was sent to 131 randomly selected faculty members in 6 social science departments at a state university. Three of the departments were in a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Decision Making, Faculty
DeStephen, RoLayne S. – 1981
A study investigated whether the interaction patterns of high consensus groups differed significantly from the patterns of low consensus groups in the final stage of a decision-making task. Eighty-four college students placed into 19 groups were told to select a social problem, investigate it, and develop a solution. At the end of the three-week…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Jacobs, M. Kathryne – 1976
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate an experimental procedure which lends itself to the controlled study of adult moral behavior. The procedure is a variation of Prisoner's Dilemma, a game widely used for the study of conflict resolution. The conflict generated by the game is both interpersonal and intrapersonal. The key issue in the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Conflict Resolution, Contracts
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Reynolds, Paul D. – Small Group Behavior, 1984
Presents two studies of the influence of group size, prior acquaintance, and gender composition on talking and silence in decision making groups (N=157). Results suggested that friends talked more than strangers, and leaders talked more than nonleaders. Group differences were reflected more dramatically in patterns of silence. (JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Decision Making, Group Discussion
Gouran, Dennis S. – 1975
This essay explores the group dynamics relating to the events surrounding the Watergate coverup and attempts to identify the factors that predispose of the parties involved to make inappropriate, foolish, and ineffective choices concerning a criminal case in which none of them initially was culpable. The initial Watergate breakin is briefly…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Ethics
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