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Direct linkBecker, Christoph K.; Ert, Eyal; Trautmann, Stefan T.; van de Kuilen, Gijs – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Risky decisions are often characterized by (a) imprecision about consequences and their likelihoods that can be reduced by information collection, and by (b) unavoidable background risk. This article addresses both aspects by eliciting risk attitude, prudence, and temperance in decisions from description and decisions from experience. The results…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making, Attitudes, Personality Traits
Weisser, Reinhard A. – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
This study investigates how personality and individual experiences influence decision-making processes during the transition into Higher Education (HE). It offers insights into application choices, where applicants employ different quantitative hedging strategies against non-admission. These strategies are assessed by the number of applications…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Attendance, Decision Making, College Admission
Svenja Lemmrich; Timo Ehmke – Cogent Education, 2024
This study conducted a quantitative study analysis of teacher competence in linguistically responsive teaching (LRT). To assess performance-oriented competence, we used a test instrument with video vignettes and corresponding items based on situation-specific skills "perception" (What do you perceive?) and "decision-making"…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Positive Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Evaluation
Mendzheritskaya, Julia; Hansen, Miriam – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
University lecturers tend to show emotions in congruence with the cultural-educational practices with which they are familiar. As lecturers' display of emotion can affect students' learning, it is important to understand how culture influences students' perception and interpretation of their lecturers' display of emotion. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Personality Traits, Cross Cultural Studies
Petzold, Knut; Moog, Petra – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
In contrast to previous studies, this investigation aims to get deeper insights into the causes of the intention to study abroad by using an experimental approach. Although international experience is often considered as important, many students at German universities do not even consider abroad. Referring to the Theory of Rational Choice (RCT)…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intention, Educational Benefits, Student Attitudes
Lundgren, Henriette; Kroon, Brigitte; Poell, Rob F. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how and why personality tests are used in workplace training. This research paper is guided by three research questions that inquire about the role of external and internal stakeholders, the value of psychometric and practical considerations in test selection, and the purpose of personality test use…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Personality Measures
Jahnke, Isa; Haertel, Tobias; Wildt, Johannes – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Creativity is one of the important skills of the twenty-first century and central to higher education (HE). When we look closer into research on creativity in HE, however, it is not clear how university teachers conceptualise student creativity. How do teachers grasp, observe and express student creativity? Different methods such as interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
By bringing together the national German sports game community and an international scientific community in a joint conference, the 6th International Teaching Games for Understanding Conference (TGfU) Meets the 10th German Sports Games Symposium of the German Association of Sport Science (DVS), held July 25-27, 2016, at the German Sport University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Racquet Sports, Athletics
Smith, Aileen; Hume, Evelyn C.; Zimmermann, Ray; Davis, Alan – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2007
Locus of control (LOC) is a personality variable shown to possess potential explanatory power in the study of ethical decision making. There have been, however, diverse results reported in the literature. Whenever differences on this variable are indicated by the research, individuals with an Internal LOC report the more ethical responses. This…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Decision Making, Ethics, College Students
Raab, Markus; Johnson, Joseph G. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004
The goal of this article is to explain empirical risk-taking behavior in sports from an individual cognitive modeling perspective. A basketball task was used in which participants viewed four video options that varied in the degree of associated risk. The participants were independently classified by scores on the Questionnaire for Assessing…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Team Sports, Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns
Download full textPracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
