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Gendered STEM career choices: Altruistic values, beliefs, and identity

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2019
Abstract Female representation remains uneven across STEM fields. Expectancy-Value Theory provides a framework for understanding complexities of STEM career choices; values, as well as gendered beliefs and identity, predict achievement-related behaviors and are associated with STEM gender differences.
Christopher M. Wegemer, Jacquelynne S. Eccles   +1 more
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Altruistic values, satisfaction and loyalty among first‐time blood donors [PDF]

International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 2011
This article is related to the recently initiated discussion on mechanisms of charitable giving and the lack of research on the mix of those mechanisms. On the basis of a comprehensive and interdisciplinary literature review in the area of blood donation management (1970–2010), the authors found that pure altruism, respectively altruistic values, is ...
Silke Boenigk, Sigrun Leipnitz, Christian Scherhag   +2 more
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Prosocial behaviour in primary and secondary school students. Effects of the CYBUPRE intervention

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Prosocial behaviour is regarded as a critical factor in reducing aggressive behaviours among peers, both in physical settings and virtual spaces. This variable facilitates the enhancement of social relationships, promoting empathy, deep listening, physical and verbal service, and even solidarity, among other benefits.
Mercedes Chicote‐Beato, Ana Rosa Bodoque‐Osma, Fernando Martins, Sixto González‐Víllora   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of perceived value in virtual brand communities on purchase intention of domestic electric vehicles

Acta Psychologica
The consumption value seems to be insufficient to explain consumers' domestic electric vehicle purchase behaviour, especially in a highly competitive global environment.
Zi-Xu Wang, Wei Ming Chee, Amer Hamzah Bin Jantan, Yu-He Xia, Hui Xue, Meng-Jie Ye, Qi Zhang, Philip Pong Weng Wong, Yue Gong, Lei Wang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Beliefs Supportive of Environmental Action and Inaction: A Reinterpretation of the Awareness of Consequences Scale [PDF]

The Value-Belief-Norm model assumes that egoistic, social-altruistic and biospheric value orientations causally influence how people cognitively structure beliefs regarding adverse environmental consequences.
Ryan, Anthony M., Spash, Clive L.
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Altruistic Behavior and Correlated Equilibrium Selection [PDF]

This paper studies new refinement concepts for correlated equilibria based on altruistic behavior of the players and which generalize some refinement concepts introduced by the authors in previous papers for Nash equilibria. Effectiveness of the concepts,
Jacqueline Morgan, Giuseppe De Marco
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Gray Matter Volume Among Japanese Workers: An Exploratory Cross‐Sectional Study

Brain Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is generally considered beneficial to organizations, but extra‐role behavior may also impose costs on employees under some circumstances. Whether the workplace, personality, and neuroanatomical correlates of OCB differ between men and women remains unclear.
Keisuke Kokubun, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Yoshinori Yamakawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kin discrimination in plants: overview and implications for population and community ecology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the discovery of identity discrimination, particularly self and kin discrimination amongst plant competitors, research on interplant interactions has advanced significantly within plant physiology and evolutionary ecology. This review synthesizes current knowledge on how both self and kin discrimination influence plant growth ...
Akira Yamawo
wiley   +1 more source

Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen, Maja Griem, Ludwig Huber, Thomas Bugnyar, Aaron Blaisdell, Simone Pika   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source