This paper contributes to our current knowledge about culture and e-business Web design by investigating Amazon and Taotao, two leading e-business platforms based in America and China respectively. It is revealed that the forms of cultural reification in the two Webs include categorization, representation and structuration. All of them vary from culture to culture and this variation can be capt...

BACKGROUND Shared decision making (SDM) requires health professionals to change their practice. Socio-cognitive theories, such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), provide the needed theoretical underpinnings for designing behaviour change interventions. OBJECTIVE We systematically reviewed studies that used the TPB to assess SDM behaviours in health professionals to explore how theory i...

The notion that effective relationships between groups improve coordination, cooperation and consequently performance has considerable appeal in a broad range of contexts. In particular, partnerships are viewed as critical organizational mechanisms enabling information systems groups and their clients within organizations to utilize existing information technology investments already in place a...

The paper presents computational models for investigating cognitive and socio-cognitive processes in the task of idea generation. We employed Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and its variants to model memory structures and processes in idea generation that have been theorized descriptively but not implemented and tested computationally. Existing algorithms and methods for HMM provide a new path to exa...

The main aim of this study was to explain the domain-specificity of early prosocial behavior in different domains (i.e., helping, comforting, and cooperation) by simultaneously assessing specific socio-cognitive factors (i.e., self-other-differentiation and joint attentional skills) that were hypothesized to be differentially related to the three domains of prosocial behavior. Based on a longit...

___________________ Numerous studies have shown that thinking aloud while reading can be an effective instructional technique in helping students improve their reading comprehension. However, most of the studies that examined the effects of think-aloud involve subjects reading individually and carried out in isolation away from the classroom context. Recently, researchers have begun to explore ...

In this article, generalized game theory (GGT) is used to conceptualize and explain key socio-cognitive processes in multi-agent interaction, in particular belief revision. GGT is based on the mathematics of rules and rule complexes (drawing on developments at the interface of mathematics, logic, and computer science). Rule concepts are used to formalize game, social relationships, and role as ...

Comparing theories to explain exercise behaviour: a socio-cognitive approach Sheau-Fen Yap a , Md. Nor Othman b & Yu-Ghee Wee c a Department of Marketing, Advertising, Retailing and Sales, Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology, 46 Wakefield Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand b Department of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, 50603, Ku...

  Background :Effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. Although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors ...

This paper examines how cognitive and environmental factors influence the formation of dyadic ties. We use agent models instantiated in ACT-R that interact in a social simulation, to illustrate the effect of memory constraints on networks. We also show that environmental factors are important including population size, running time, and map configuration. To examine these relationships, we ran ...