Participants: Gabrielle Strobel, Moderator (Alzheimer Research Forum), Pete Nelson (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), Davi Bock (University of Vermont, Burlington), Marcos Marques (University of Cincinnati, Ohio), Mikolaj Pawlak (Department of Neurology, University of Medical Science, Poznan, Poland), Alexei Koudinov (Russian Academy of Medical Sciences), Edward Zamrini (University of ...

This study used meta-analysis to examine the relationship between childhood exposure to domestic violence and children’s internalizing, externalizing, and trauma symptoms. Results from 60 reviewed studies revealed mean weighted effect size d-­values of .48 and .47 for the relationship between exposure to domestic violence and childhood internaliz-­ ing and externalizing symptoms, respectively, ...

This paper examines engagement with an online discussion forum, aiming to identify the different levels of participation and to investigate factors that encourage or discourage student participation. The case involved the posing of a short real-life problem via a forum on the university’s virtual learning environment. An in-class survey was conducted to identify students’ participation and atti...

Moderator: Michael Schneider (University of Trier, Germany, [email protected]) Discussant: Stella Vosniadou (University of Athens, Greece) Participants: Andrew Shtulman & Kelsey Harrington (Occidental College, USA) Michael Schneider (University of Trier, Germany) & Ilonca Hardy (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Lindsey J. Powell & Susan Carey (Harvard University, USA) Stellan Ohlsson (U...

A statistical meta-analysis of the technology acceptance model (TAM) as applied in various fields was conducted using 88 published studies that provided sufficient data to be credible. The results show TAM to be a valid and robust model that has been widely used, but which potentially has wider applicability. A moderator analysis involving user types and usage types was performed to investigate...

The reaching of consensus in group decision-making (GDM) problems is a common task in group decision processes. In this contribution, we consider GDM with linguistic information. Different experts may have different levels of knowledge about a problem and, therefore, different linguistic term sets (multi-granular linguistic information) can be used to express their opinions. The aim of this pap...

This paper presents a methodology for supporting the moderation phase in DCC (Democratic Citizenship Community), a virtual community for supporting e-democratic processes in e-life systems and applications. Based on the Government-Citizen Interactive Model, the DCC encompasses an innovative debate structure, as well as the moderator’s participation based on Discourse Theory, specially concernin...

Motivating people to contribute knowledge to others has become a major challenge in knowledge management. To help understand knowledge contribution in virtual communities (VCs)—a popular area for knowledge sharing, this study investigates individuals’ motivations to contribute knowledge based on the nature of knowledge contribution behavior. In particular, the influences of two key moderating v...

Studies on cyberbullying are replete with questions about whether certain risk or protective factors are likely to predict cyberbullying outcomes such as cybervictimization. Such questions can often be reframed in terms of moderation effects, or hypotheses about how the effect of a predictor variable on an outcome variable depends on the value of a moderator variable. Demonstrating how question...

Social media are in the top of the agenda for many companies to date, however there seems to be very limited understanding of the usage of social media for work purposes. In this study, we investigate what values increase this usage, and whether that usage is related with employees’ performance. Additionally, we explore the impact of employees’ work experience on their social media behaviour. O...