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Children's explanations of the intentions underlying others' behaviour
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011This study investigated developmental differences in children's explanations of the intentions underlying the behaviours of others, including behaviours that conflicted with their expectations. Children aged 6–13 and adults explained the intentions underlying their predictions of behaviour following stories with ambiguous, positive, and negative cues ...
Meridith G, Grant, Candice M, Mills
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The intention-behaviour gap and the nature of intentions
This thesis addresses significant limitations in the intention-behaviour gap literature, particularly the absence of a clear definition and nuanced understanding of intentions as well as the imprecise methods of measuring them. This oversight may lead to unreliable study results and hinder the development of effective economic interventions.openaire +1 more source
Mother conversational behaviour as a function of interactional intent
Journal of Child Language, 1982ABSTRACTPrevious research has suggested that the syntactic and semantic characteristics of mother speech are determined by the underlying intention of mothers to control (Newport 1977) or to converse with (Snow 1977) the child. The present study attempts to delineate the structure among functionally categorized mother conversational behaviours ...
L, McDonald, D, Pien
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Entrepreneurial Intentions and Entrepreneurial Behaviour
2019Entrepreneurial intent is of interest to entrepreneurship scholars because intent of a purposive behaviour may be an antecedent to that behaviour. This chapter reviews key aspects of the literature on entrepreneurial intent. The first section explores definitional issues—asking ‘what is entrepreneurial intent?’ and ‘why is intent important to ...
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Biological Explanation and Intentional Behaviour
1990Abstract The problem that I want to address in this paper is one that is encountered in many different fields of science. It sometimes appears as an argument between reductionist and non-reductionist modes of explanation. In that form the argument can occur at the boundaries between, for example, chemistry and biology. Claude Bernard,
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