background: a nurse’s commitment is the most important factor that influences her performance and depends on other variables. the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between length of service of the nurses with the amount of occupational commitment and organizational commitment. methods: from winter 2012 to spring 2013, 266 nurses were chosen in selected hospitals of social s...

We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously-formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual’s: (1) opportunity to commit to their partner; (2) the cost of dissolving committed partnerships; and (3) the distribution of these dissolution costs between partners. Our findings show that pledg...

We present the JaCaMo+ framework for programming multiagent systems (MAS), where agents interact thanks to commitment-based interaction protocols. Commitment protocols are realized as artifacts that maintain a social state and notify to the participating agents those events that are relevant to the interaction. We discuss the advantages, like increased modularity and flexibility, that are broug...

This paper provides a starting point for psychological research on the sense of commitment within the context of joint action. We begin by formulating three desiderata: to illuminate the motivational factors that lead agents to feel and act committed, to pick out the cognitive processes and situational factors that lead agents to sense that implicit commitments are in place, and to illuminate t...

The investment model of commitment processes is rooted in interdependence theory and emerged from the broader scientific zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s that sought to understand seemingly irrational persistence in social behavior. The investment model was developed originally to move social psychology beyond focusing only on positive affect in predicting persistence in a close interpersonal r...

the results of the present research show that coinmitting delinquencies inside and outside the school is increasingly common among junior high school third grade students in khorassan province. a comparison of boys and girl students shows that girls commit considerably less delinquencies than boy students. a study of the reasons of delinquencies inside the school shows that the following factor...