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Álvarez-Sánchez, Cristina; Guillén, Héctor; Contento, Isobel R.; Koch, Pamela; Théodore, Florence L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
This study explored the psychosocial determinants of consumption of soda and other taxed sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Mexican construction workers (CWs) and whether consumption changed as a result of the 2014 SSB tax. We conducted a qualitative case study involving in-depth interviews and focus groups (FGs) with 30 Mexican CWs; supplemented…
Descriptors: Food, Foreign Countries, Building Trades, Taxes
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Wa, Janet Law Wai – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
Objectives: The current research has three primary hypotheses: (i) There is a positive relationship between the use of Facebook word messages and cognitive empathy in university students. (ii) There is a positive relationship between participating in the Facebook video and affective empathy in university students. (iii) Virtual affective and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Influences, Empathy, Social Support Groups
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List, Alexandra; Alexander, Patricia A. – Educational Psychologist, 2017
This article introduces the cognitive affective engagement model (CAEM) of multiple source use. The CAEM is presented as a way of unifying cognitive and behaviorally focused models of multiple text engagement with research on the role of affective factors (e.g., interest) in text processing. The CAEM proposes that students' engagement with…
Descriptors: Models, Cognitive Processes, Affective Behavior, Reading Interests
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Small, Felicity; Attree, Kath – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This research is a qualitative exploration of first and second year university students' experiences of feedback, specifically focused on their expectations and feelings. The data (n = 46) were collected from internal and distance-learning students in their first or second year, who are of lower socio-economic status and first in family to attend.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Expectation, Feedback (Response), Qualitative Research
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Locatelli, Sara M.; Kluwe, Katharina; Bryant, Fred B. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
Studies have found that general use of Facebook influences subjective well-being. However, fewer studies have explored the impact of specific use behaviors, such as information posted in status updates. The current study uses data collected from 251 Facebook-using undergraduate students through an online survey, and examines the valence and…
Descriptors: College Students, Web 2.0 Technologies, Web Sites, Social Networks
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Mao, Xia; Li, Zheng – Computers & Education, 2010
An important trend in the development of Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) has been that providing the student with a more personalized and friendly environment for learning. Many researchers now feel strongly that the ITSs would significantly improve performance if they could adapt to the affective state of the learner. This idea has spawned…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Sanchez-Franco, Manuel J. – Computers & Education, 2010
Perceived affective quality is an attractive area of research in Information System. Specifically, understanding the intrinsic and extrinsic individual factors and interaction effects that influence Information and Communications Technology (ICT) acceptance and adoption--in higher education--continues to be a focal interest in learning research.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intention, Interaction, Higher Education
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van der Meij, Hans – Learning and Instruction, 2008
In this paper we examine how to design software instructions for user cognition and affect. A basic and co-user manual are compared. The first provides fundamental support for both; the latter includes a buddy to further optimize support for user affect. The basic manual was faster and judged as easier to process than the co-user manual. In…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Cognitive Processes, Use Studies, Guides
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Lin, Hao-Chiang Koong; Wang, Cheng-Hung; Chao, Ching-Ju; Chien, Ming-Kuan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Emotional expression in Artificial Intelligence has gained lots of attention in recent years, people applied its affective computing not only in enhancing and realizing the interaction between computers and human, it also makes computer more humane. In this study, emotional expressions were applied into intelligent tutoring system, where learners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Focus Groups
Alepis, Efthymios; Virvou, Maria – Online Submission, 2010
Mobile computing facilities may provide many assets to the educational process. Mobile technology provides software access from anywhere and at any time, as well as computer equipment independence. The need for time and place independence is even greater for medical instructors and medical students. Medical instructors are usually doctors that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Medical Education, Medical Students
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Zhang, Li; Gillies, Marco; Dhaliwal, Kulwant; Gower, Amanda; Robertson, Dale; Crabtree, Barry – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
This paper describes a multi-user role-playing environment, referred to as "e-drama", which enables groups of people to converse online, in scenario driven virtual environments. The starting point of this research, is an existing application known as "edrama", a 2D graphical environment in which users are represented by static…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Cartoons, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
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Christ, William G.; Biggers, Thompson – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1984
This exploratory study applies Mehrabian and Russell's newly formulated theory of emotion to the problem of explaining television program preference. Results suggest that emotion-eliciting qualities (pleasure, arousal, and dominance) can account for up to 43 percent of the program preference of television viewers. (PD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Theories, College Students, Emotional Response
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Morahan-Martin, J.; Schumacher, P. – Computers in Human Behavior, 2000
Describes a study that surveyed undergraduates who were considered at high risk for pathological Internet use. Discusses questions that assessed evidence that Internet use was causing academic, work, or interpersonal problems, distress, tolerance symptoms, and mood-alterations; addresses gender issues; and reports results from the UCLA Loneliness…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Computer Use, Gender Issues
Rubin, Alan M.; And Others – 1987
Cultivation theory states that television engenders negative emotions in heavy viewers. Noting that cultivation methodology contains an apparent response bias, a study examined relationships between television exposure and positive restatements of cultivation concepts and tested a more instrumental media uses and effects model. Cultivation was…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Audiences, Information Sources, Mass Media Effects
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Nahl, Diane – Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 1998
This study of 18 novice Internet users employed a structured self-report method to investigate affective and cognitive operations in the following phases of World Wide Web searching: presearch formulation, search statement formulation, search strategy, and evaluation of results. Users also rated their self-confidence as searchers and satisfaction…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Ethnography
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