Can we assign attitudes to a computer based on its beeps? If so, which kinds of beeps are perceived as specific attitudes, such as " disagreement " , " hesitation " or " agreement " ? To examine this issue, I carried out an experiment to observe how participants perceive or assign an attitude to a computer according to beeps of different durations and F0 con-tour's slopes. The results revealed ...

| 2017 | 1 To conclude, considering the fact that getting immunized with a vaccine can be a difference between life and death, it is quite essential that we provide people with the reliable information on vaccination safety, especially through Internet, as it is the most preferred source of option accessed by people in the current era. This will neutralize all incidents of vaccine hesitancy and...

This systematic review describes the current relationship between health literacy (HL) and vaccination (including attitude to vaccines, intention to vaccinate, and vaccine uptake). The aim is to comprehend the role of HL as a determinant of vaccine hesitancy. For this purpose, the following databases were explored from 1 January 2007 to 15 January 2017: PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, ERIC, Health Ev...

We ask whether lexical hesitations in spontaneous speech tend to precede words that are difficult to predict. We define predictability in terms of both transition probability and entropy, in the context of an N-gram language model. Results show that transition probability is significantly lower at hesitation transitions, and that this is attributable to both the following word and the word hist...

In this study, we used a case study approach to obtain an in-depth understanding of the change process of two university instructors who were involved with redesigning a biology course. Given the hesitancy of many biology instructors to adopt evidence-based, learner-centered teaching methods, there is a critical need to understand how biology instructors transition from teacher-centered (i.e., ...

There is not as much resistance to COVID-19 mitigation there seems, but are structural features that make seem worse than it is. Here, we describe two ways the problem seeming be can worse. First, visible hesitation implement responses signals wider society measures may succeed, which undermines people’s conditional willingness join in on those efforts. Second, our evaluations of others’ these ...