We investigated the influence of slight thinning (percentage of woods: 16.6%, basal area: 9.3%) on landscape appreciation and the psychological restorative effect of an on-site setting by exposing respondents to an ordinarily managed coniferous woodland. The experiments were conducted in an experimental plot in the same coniferous woodland in May (unthinned) and October 2013 (thinned). The resp...

In slogans used in public information, politics, and advertising, and also in titles of books, documentaries, or articles, ambiguity is often employed to pique the interest of the reader in the message that is conveyed. According to several theories of text processing, this deliberate ambiguity may gain greater appreciation than slogans employing other rhetorical means. A special form of delibe...

abstract this research studies the relationship between students’ and teachers’ appreciation and anticipation of the classroom atmosphere and the students’ educational promotion. to this end, 44 fifth grade classes were randomly selected from kashan city out of each 4 boys and girls were drawn out (totally 176) together with their teachers (n=44). data were collected using social mental classro...

Background Social relationships and interactions are largely based on mutual affection, trust and appreciation, as with friendship formation (Simmel 1964). When social relationships are based on mutual benefit and exchange, affection, trust and appreciation may play a significant role in shaping the relationships within a group (Lawler et al. 2000, 2008; Lawler 2001). In this case, the common t...

The acceptance model of intuitive eating posits that body acceptance by others facilitates body appreciation and internal body orientation, which contribute to intuitive eating. Two domains of exercise motives (functional and appearance) may also be linked to these variables, and thus were integrated into the model. The model fit the data well for 406 physically active U.S. college students, al...

abstract urban parks are important public multifunctional space used for a wide range of activities. the usage levels of parks depend on the spatial characteristics of the spaces, where its forms and occupancies are referred as the usage-spatial relationship. natural elements spatial complexity and park usability is of interest in this study. a photo - questionnaire was conducted among 296 of p...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyzing the role of motivation factors in Herzberg’s theory on teacher’s job satisfaction. Methods: The population of this study consisted of elementary school teachers in Talesh city (N=850), that 265 of them selected as the sample by using the systematic random sampling. The data collection tool was questionnaire that it's  face and content validi...