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Rachel Holmes; Amanda Ravetz – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Diffracting a research project in a UK primary school, this paper concerns feminist materialist orientations to odd-ness as a relational, distributed, and affective form of "thinking-feeling". It suggests that attuning to affect as it moves through a context resistant to disruption, involves becoming "bad researchers"; bad for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Inclusion, Research Projects, Elementary Schools
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Chughtai, Muhammad Salman; Mushtaque, Iqra; Waqas, Hamid; Raza, Hassan; Angulo-Cabanillas, Luis – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2022
Working in a toxic environment makes it harder to be productive. This study examines the direct impact of Machiavellianism and professional envy on research productivity (individual and group) with the moderating role of knowledge-hiding behaviors. For this purpose, through convenience sampling, an online survey through Google Docs was conducted,…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Psychological Patterns, Productivity, College Faculty
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Katherine Ann Ayers; Robyn Ann Pennella; Olayinka Mohorn-Mintah; Summer Jane Jasper; Susan Naomi Nordstrom – Science Education, 2024
Lack of access to STEMM mentors has been identified as a critical barrier to biomedical research careers, leading to a lack of diversity in this field. To address such a barrier, the National Institutes of Health invested funds to support institutions in developing research immersion programs to provide "underrepresented" students with…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Medical Education, Medical Research, Research Projects
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Vince, Russ – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
In this polemical essay, Professor Russ Vince argues that it is important to understand the contradictions that can be generated by action learning. This method is a powerful and effective approach to managers' learning that can underpin transformations of management practice. However, any method for learning, no matter how convinced we are of its…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Research Projects, Psychological Patterns, Leaders
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Molefe, S.; Bengesai, A.; Davey, B.; Goba, B.; Lekena, L.; Madiya, N.; Nkambule, T. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Students within academic research projects usually assume a role of supporting the academics/scholars who are undertaking those research projects. The students' identity in this case is regarded as research assistants, with minimal valued input to the project itself. With time, however, this identity may change based on the roles and relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Graduate Students, Researchers
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Thompson, Patrick W.; Carlson, Marilyn P.; Silverman, Jason – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2007
We examine the role of tasks that have the intended effect of teachers re-conceiving the mathematics they teach as comprising a coherent body of meaningful ideas. We ground our discussion in ideas of trigonometry and modular functions and draw from a professional development research project to illustrate our approach. In this project, many…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Faculty Development, Natural Language Processing, Arithmetic
Epting, Franz R.; And Others – Death Education, 1979
Fear of death was measured in 60 subjects at conscious, fantasy and nonconscious levels using two different instruments. Most individuals were seen as denying fear at a conscious level, being ambivalent at mid-level, and exhibiting a fear pattern at the nonconscious level. (BP)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Death, Fear, Psychological Patterns
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Viney, Linda L.; Manton, Monica – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
The study was designed to assess the relationships between certain expressions of anxiety and preferences for defense mechanisms. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Research Projects
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Suedfeld, Peter; Ikard, Frederick F. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Twelve months after a 24-hour period in a socially isolated, monotonous environment, subjects had reduced their rate of cigarette smoking by an average of 48 percent, compared with 16 percent for control subjects. A smaller sample reported similar results at the end of 24 months. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Psychological Patterns, Research Projects, Sensory Deprivation
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Emmons, Timothy D.; Webb, Warren W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Results lend support to the position that psychopaths are pathological stimulation seekers. Channeling their stimulation seeking into socially accepted behaviors may facilitate treatment. (Author)
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Individual Differences, Neurosis, Psychological Patterns
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Johnson, Lynn S.; Weight, David G. – 1976
This paper examines and compares tyo hypnotic modes in terms of behavioral and experimental responses. The two modes are: (1) autohypnosis and (2) heterohypnosis. The two types of hypnosis experiences were administered to each of two randomly assigned groups. Subjects were 25 male and 23 female volunteer introductory psychology students. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Experimental Psychology, Hypnosis, Psychological Patterns
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Hepner, Alain; Cauthen, Nelson R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
The influence of two of the variables in Leitenberg's graduated exposure technique for treating phobias, graduated exposure and subject control of the exposure time, was investigated using 15 snake-phobic subjects. Subjective fear significantly decreased from pretesting to posttesting. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Conditioning
Ball, Klonda Marlene; Wurster, Stanley R. – 1973
This study: (1) determines and quantifies the degree of fear expressed by graduate students at Arizona State University toward a research methods course (EF 500); identifies graduate students who indicate a high measure of anxiety for EF 500; and (3) compares them with students in whom measured fear is expressed to a low degree, is absent, or is…
Descriptors: Fear, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Psychological Patterns
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Linn, Margaret W.; Hunter, Kathleen – Journal of Gerontology, 1979
A group of 150 persons, age 65 and over, who identified themselves as feeling younger or older than their age, were studied in terms of seven dependent variables describing psychological functioning. Younger age perceptions were associated with better psychological functioning. The variable that discriminated best was locus of control. (Author)
Descriptors: Age, Older Adults, Psychological Patterns, Research Projects
Fabricatore, Joseph M.; Dash, Jerry – Essence: Issues in the Study of Ageing, Dying, and Death, 1977
This paper examines the informal consensus that psychological dysfunction, manifested by suicide and divorce, is unusually high among the occupational group of police officers. Results indicate that those officers studied may, in fact, have lower psychological dysfunction rates than presumed. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Divorce, Mental Health, Police
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