Results 251 to 260 of about 998,146 (298)

Self-confidence and performance: A little self-doubt helps

open access: yesPsychology of Sport and Exercise, 2010
Objectives: To test the hypothesis that a decrease in confidence on a well-learned task will increase effort and performance. Design: A 2 (group: control, experimental) 2 (trial: practice, competition) mixed-model with repeated measures on the second ...
Tim Woodman   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Collective Self-Confidence:

2021
Organizer and historian Lane Windham chronicles three generations of African American women organizers in the seasonal tobacco industry in North Carolina. She finds a truism that social progress is never inevitable; it grows from collective efforts, and those collective efforts rarely succeed without mindful and careful organizing, something she first ...
openaire   +1 more source

Self-Confidence and Survival [PDF]

open access: possible, 2001
We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a sufficiently bad run of luck could induce her to stop selling. When she knows her quality, a good seller never stops selling. Furthermore,
openaire   +2 more sources

Self Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
This paper explains why people value self-confidence, and how this concern shapes their informational strategies and intertemporal decisions. The theory has applications in areas as diverse as labour supply, savings and investment, or education and career decisions.
Bénabou, Roland, Tirole, Jean
openaire   +2 more sources

Prompter: A Self-Confident Recommender System

2014 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2014
Developers often consult different sources of information like Application Programming Interfaces (API) documentation, forums, Q&A websites, etc. With the aim of gathering additional knowledge for the programming task at hand. The process of searching and identifying valuable pieces of information requires developers to spend time and energy in ...
Luca Ponzanelli   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

„Self-confidence“ in der Tiermedizin

2013
Fragestellung: Im Rahmen der Etablierung und Eröffnung des ersten veterinärmedizinischen Skills Lab in Deutschland an der Stiftung Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover (TiHo) wurde eine „self-confidence“ longitudinale Befragung aller Studierenden initiiert. Ziel dieser Befragung[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
Dilly, M, Ehlers, JP
openaire   +2 more sources

Self-Confidence and Sports Performance

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, 1988
Self-confidence (SC) is one of the most cited factors thought to affect athletic performance. SC is said to playa critical role in athletes 'success; in contrast, lack ofSC seems to be closely associated with athletic failure. Thus, confidence is an importantfactor that distinguishes successful athletes from unsuccessful ones in terms of both their ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Self-Confidences

1996
Abstract Most of us understand how a married person might come to recognize that she and her husband have grown apart, or not grown together, despite their good intentions and the seriousness with which they took their vows. And we understand how the situation might be experienced as sufficiently intolerable-for any variety of reasons ...
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy