The aim was to examine how exercise motives differ across stages of change. British government employees completed questionnaires measuring exercise motives and exercise stage of change at baseline (N = 425) and at 3-month follow-up (247 of the original sample). Discriminant analysis was used to determine whether exercise motives (and age and gender) could collectively discriminate between base...

This study employs uses and gratifications (U&G) theory to examine the motives and face-to-face bullying experiences of cyberbullies and how those motives and experiences influence their Internet bullying. An online survey and multiple regressions were employed to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that a cyberbully with more victim experience in faceto-face bullying will be more likely ...

The program of constructing spacetime geometry from string theoretic modular forms is extended to Calabi-Yau varieties of dimensions two, three, and four, as well as higher rank motives. Modular forms on the worldsheet can be constructed from the geometry of spacetime by computing the L-functions associated to omega motives of Calabi-Yau varieties, generated by their holomorphic n−forms via Gal...

Theories put forth to explain cooperation in public goods experiments usually assume either that subjects cooperate because they do not understand the game’s incentives or that cooperation stems from social motives such as altruism and reciprocity. Recent research by Andreoni (1995) is an important first attempt to distinguish the roles of confusion and social motives in these environments. How...

The study examined models of marijuana (n = 309) and alcohol (n = 731) problems. Impulsivity was directly associated with both marijuana- and alcohol-related problems. Negative mood regulation expectancies were indirectly associated with marijuana problems through coping motives. Sensation seeking was indirectly associated with alcohol problems through enhancement motives. Affect lability and n...

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Sarcasm is a form of speech act in which the speakers convey their message in an implicit way. It is a sophisticated form of speech act widely used in online communities. The inherently ambiguous nature of sarcasm sometimes makes it hard even for humans to decide whether an utterance is sarcastic in nature or not. Recognition of sarcasm may anticipate benefits in many sentiment analysis of NLP ...