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The influence of context on information processing

Cognitive Processing, 2020
The main research question of this study is how the processing of information relates to different contextual characteristics. More specifically, how the context is associated with efficiency of information processing (success and speed), size of chunks, speed of chunk processing and the recall of a chunk. The research domain was the game of chess. The
Jana Krivec, Matej Guid
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Informational Influences on Physician Referrals

Journal of Hospital Marketing, 1992
Today's health care marketers are devoting significant resources to increase physician referrals, an area vital to their continued survival. The goal of this investigation was to integrate the findings of previous research on physician referrals, and to provide an up-to-date assessment of those influences underlying physician referral behavior.
R F, Beltramini, A K, Sirsi
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Continuing Influences of To-Be-Forgotten Information

Consciousness and Cognition, 1996
In the present paper, we first argue that it is critical for humans to forget; that is, to have some means of preventing out-of-date information from interfering with the recall of current information. We then argue that the primary means of accomplishing such adaptive updating of human memory is retrieval inhibition: Information that is rendered out ...
E L, Bjork, R A, Bjork
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Information and Influence in Social Networks

2006
Most research on social networks is concerned with information transmission per se Our aim here is to supplement the social network perspective by incorporating mechanisms that govern social influence Research in social psychology suggests that individuals interact, in large part, to construct a shared reality that consists not only of shared ...
Andrzej Nowak, Robin R. Vallacher, Wieslaw Bartkowski   +2 more
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Scrutiny and Information Influencing

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of imposing scrutiny to fight firms' information garbling. We study a setting in which both firms with good and bad projects are able to influence the informativeness of a public signal regarding their project types through unobservable efforts, and scrutiny will be imposed if the outcome of the project is
Lin Nan, Xiaoyan Wen
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The Influence of Information Technology on the Quality of Accounting Information System

Proceedings of the 2018 2nd High Performance Computing and Cluster Technologies Conference, 2018
Information technology is factor which can improve the quality of accounting information systems. In Indonesia, this phenomenon happens in many organizations showing that there is disintegrated accounting information systems which then causes unqualified accounting information. This research was carried out in order to find out fact through examination
Meiryani, Azhar Susanto
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DESTRUCTIVE INFORMATION INFLUENCE AS AN ELEMENT OF INFORMATION WARFARE

Herald of criminal justice, 2023
The article stated that from the moment Ukraine was declared an independent state, a rapid transition from totalitarianism to democracy began. However, in addition to positive changes, there are also certain negative points that may threaten national sovereignty against the background of the war unleashed by the Russian Federation.
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Information subsidies and influence

Public Relations Review, 1985
A basic assumption of the media-relations facet of public relations is that getting an organization's message, its view of what is “real” and important, into media content is “good.” It's not so much that organizations want journalists to accept their versions of reality, but that they expect to influence the opinions and perhaps even the subsequent ...
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INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION ON CROWD DISPERSION PROCESS

International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2009
The influence of information on the pedestrian in crowd dispersion process is investigated under the open boundary condition on the square lattice by the use of the lattice gas model of biased random walkers without the back step. It is found that the jamming phenomenon occurs when the total entrance density is small in spite of influence of ...
Tian, H., Xue, Y., Wei, Y.-F.
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Factors influencing informal care-giving

The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 1998
BACKGROUND: As downsizing of institutional care continues, patients discharged are likely to have more severe mental illnesses, and to have experienced longer tenures within institutions than patients who have been discharged in the past. As greater numbers of patients are removed from mental hospitals, the objective burden experienced by informal care-
Ann M., Holmes, Partha, Deb
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