To appropriately weight dimensions of quality life instruments for health economic evaluations, population and patient preferences need to be elicited. Two commonly used elicitation methods this purpose are discrete choice experiments (DCE) case 2 best-worst scaling (BWS). These differ in terms their cognitive burden, which is especially relevant when eliciting among older people. Using a rando...

Modern techniques such as virtual-reality (VR) tasks might offer a unique method for eliciting state-variable fluctuations in body satisfaction and associated behaviors. The study aim was to develop the application of biometric avatars VR useful tool investigate changes within representation adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). All were created on basis 3D scans bodies real female patients wi...

We studied the effects of non-pain transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) and pain-eliciting TES on vibration-induced finger flexion reflex (VFR) in 12 healthy volunteers. Tonic finger flexion reflex in the upper limb was induced by the application of vibratory stimulation on the volar side of the middle fingertip in the right hand before and after TES. Non-pain TES or pain-eliciting TES w...

This study investigated the importance of emotion-eliciting context (positive and negative) and mother's behaviors (constrained and involved) on toddlers' emotion regulation behavioral strategies, emotional expressiveness and intensity, during three episodes eliciting fear, frustration/anger and positive affect. Fifty-five children between 18 and 26 months of age and their mothers participated ...

Teacher research tends to focus on either teacher cognition or actions, both. However, an understanding of behaviour that does not take multiple goals into account is incomplete. We integrate insights from self-regulation in a goal system model and methodology for eliciting teachers’ systems representations (GSRs). GSRs are personal constructs show how people connect hierarchies actions pursuit...

The aim of appraisal theory in the psychology of emotion is to identify the features of the emotion-eliciting situation that lead to the production of one emotion rather than another. A model of emotional appraisal takes the form of a set of dimensions against which potentially emotion-eliciting situations are assessed. The dimensions of the emotion hyperspace might include, for example, whethe...

investigating transfer of one’s pragmatic knowledge of first language to his second or foreign language has been one of the areas of interest for researchers. however, there are contradictory results even within the scarce studies which have addressed transferability. this study was an attempt to investigate perceived pragmatic transferability of l1 refusal strategies by persian efl learners. s...