This researchers assessed informal (e.g., friends, family) social reactions to college women's (N = 139) disclosure of intimate partner violence (IPV) within their current romantic relationships and associated psychological (i.e., posttraumatic stress symptoms [PTSS] and global psychological distress symptoms) and relational (i.e., intentions to leave the abusive relationship) variables. Women ...

In this study, we propose a research model examining how self-efficacy affects consumer trust in web vendors, and how self-efficacy and consumer trust influence online consumers’ intentions to purchase from a certain web vendor. In particular, we separate the concept of self-efficacy into two types, general self-efficacy and domain-specific self-efficacy (i.e., online transaction self-efficacy)...

For need a term, and want of a better term, I have labeled this metatheory “mentalism” to suggest a focus on that aspect of mental activity given to us in any waking moment—consciousness. Mentalism proposes an analysis of mental episodes that can reveal lawfulness among those conscious states. Consciousness may symbolically represent a present out there in perception, a past in forms of remembr...

Improv is a system for the creation of real-time behavior-based animated actors. There have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents, but in general, these efforts do not focus on the author’s view. To create rich interactive worlds inhabited by believable animated actors, authors need the proper tools. Improv provides tools to create actors that respond to use...

In the last two decades of the last century there has been a shift in the studies on memory. In psychology of memory the criticism of the laboratory approach resulted in development of the ecological approach. One of the effects of this change was to initiate researches on memory that includes plans for the future, which has resulted in the distinction of the concept of prospective memory. Pros...

Recent advances in the field of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) have yielded sophisticated frameworks which relax the original modeling assumption that the behavior of an observed agent reflects only a single intention. Instead, the demonstration data is typically divided into parts, to account for the fact that different trajectories may correspond to different intentions, e.g., because t...

Purpose The aim of this study is to determine the influences work values on entrepreneurial intention among college students. moderating role psychological capital was also examined. Materials and methods A total 723 students were investigated with questionnaire, scale positive Questionnaire. Results Work significantly positively correlated ( r = 0.23, P < 0.001); Psychological 0.33, did...

As online shopping growth continues, electronic retailers are recognizing the need to understand risk perceptions of (prospective) customers so as to remove impediments to continued growth. One particularly fruitful area of research concerns the perceptions of online shoppers to product, financial, privacy, time/inconvenience, psychological, and product source risk. Equally important is to unde...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to assess both the direct and indirect effects (i.e., interacting with various job demands) of skill discretion on various psychological outcomes (i.e., emotional exhaustion, intention to leave, affective well-being, and job satisfaction). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected by a self-reported questionnaire in 3 hospitals in Italy. The sample c...