Especially in this economy : the effect of personal and situational factors on charitable intentions and attitudes toward the homelessEspecially in this economy : the effect of personal and situational factors on charitable intentions and attitudes toward the homeless" (2010). Honors Theses. Paper 165.

Social comparison-the tendency to self-evaluate by comparing ourselves to others-is an important source of competitive behavior. We propose a new model that distinguishes between individual and situational factors that increase social comparison and thus lead to a range of competitive attitudes and behavior. Individual factors are those that vary from person to person: the relevance of the perf...

Generation of interesting narratives in a simulated dramatic story-world requires situated software agents with emotional competences. The operationalisation of concepts from appraisal theories of emotion can provide flexible roleplayers that reduce the required external macro-level control. Situatedness and the analysis of the social lifeworld of characters are the foundations of the presented...

Clarke's classification of situational crime prevention techniques is designed to provide a conceptual analysis of situational strategies, and to offer practical guidance on their use in reducing criminal opportunities. It has developed in parallel with a long program of empirical research, conducted by many researchers, on the situational determinants and the prevention of a wide variety of cr...

green space, as a social development indicator has environmental, social, cultural, economical, and skeletal aspects and to be able to play its role effectively, the first and most important step is to select an appropriate site for it. site selection necessitates stability analysis of urban green space. the main three steps are identifying stability factors, ahp-based weighting factors and lay...

This article proposes and tests a social-cognitive framework for examining the joint influence of situational factors and the centrality of moral identity on moral intentions and behaviors. The authors hypothesized that if a situational factor increases the current accessibility of moral identity within the working self-concept, then it strengthens the motivation to act morally. In contrast, if...

Three theories contend as explanations of perpetrator behavior in the Holocaust as well as other cases of genocide: structural, intentional, and situational. Structural explanations emphasize the sense in which no single individual or choice accounts for the course of events. In opposition, intentional/cutltural accounts insist upon the genocides as intended outcomes, for how can one explain si...