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Educating programmers: A reflection on barriers to deliberate practice [PDF]

, 2013
Copyright @ 2013 HEAProgramming is a craft which often demands that learners engage in a significantly high level of individual practice and experimentation in order to acquire basic competencies.
Ghinea, G, Scott, M
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The Sound of Success: Investigating Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Motivational Music in Sports

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated.
Paul Elvers, Jochen Steffens
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Individual differences in self-enhancement and self-protection strategies: an integrative analysis [PDF]

, 2010
Research has identified a large number of strategies that people use to self-enhance or self-protect. We aimed for an empirical integration of these strategies. Two studies used self-report items to assess all commonly recognized self-enhancement or self-
Gramzow, Richard H., Hepper, Erica G., Sedikides, Constantine   +2 more
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Immune to Situation: The Self-Serving Bias in Unambiguous Contexts

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Traditionally, the self-serving bias has been investigated in ambiguous contexts in which participants work on tasks that measure novel abilities before making attributions without clear criteria for success or failure feedback.
Xiaoyan Wang, Li Zheng, Li Zheng, Li Zheng, Lin Li, Yijie Zheng, Peng Sun, Fanzhi A. Zhou, Xiuyan Guo, Xiuyan Guo   +9 more
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Luxury purchase intentions: the role of individualism-collectivism, personal values and value-expressive influence in South Africa

Cogent Psychology, 2021
This study examines the underlying mechanisms for predicting luxury purchase intentions in the context of an emerging market. The authors propose a conceptual model that tests the predictive role of culture and the mediating effect of individual values ...
Ayanda Zici, Emmanuel Silva Quaye, Divaries Cosmas Jaravaza, Yvonne Saini   +3 more
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The Adaptation Challenges and Strategies of Adolescent Aboriginal Athletes Competing Off Reserve [PDF]

, 2010
Within the motivation literature, it has been indicated that athletes respond more effectively to sport’s contextual challenges through effective adaptation skills.
Battochio, Randy C., Blodgett, Amy T., Eys, Mark, Peltier, Duke, Pickard, Patricia, Recollet-Saikkonen, Danielle, Ritchie, Stephen, Schinke, Robert J., Wabano, Mary Jo, Yungblut, Hope E.   +9 more
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Academic goals orientation questionnaire for Colombian nursing students:Validity and reliability study [PDF]

, 2020
Background Academic motivation guides students toward the achievement of academic objectives and influences their learning. However, there is little research on this subject in nursing education, and validated instruments are not available in Latin ...
Cervera-Gasch, Agueda, González-Chordá, Victor M., Herrera-Amaya, Giomar M, Manrique Abril, Fred, Morales Morales, Lina María, Ospina-Rojas, Andrés Fernando   +5 more
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When does self-improvement undermine materialistic tendencies, and when does it strengthen them?

Current Issues in Personality Psychology, 2017
Background In view of the fact that materialism may be caused by feelings of insecurity and low self-esteem, this paper attempts to answer the question of what the role of self-improvement is in the development of materialistic tendencies ...
Anna Maria Zawadzka
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Cultural Values and Career Goal of Gen-x and Gen-y Employees: Evidence From Selected Malaysian Companies

Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 2016
This paper seeks to compare the influence of dimensions of cultural values of self-enhancement, self-transcendence, conservation, and openness to change on career goal among Gen-X and Gen-Y employees in selected Malaysian industrial companies. This study
Maimunah Ismail, Atikah Nadia Abd Rahim, Kim Hou Lee, Nurul Fariza Mohd Thahrir   +3 more
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Inclusion of theory-relevant moderators yield the same conclusions as Sedikides, Gaertner, and Vevea (2005): A meta-analytical reply to Heine, Kitayama, and Hamamura (2007)

, 2007
Heine, Kitayama and Hamamura (2007) attributed the Sedikides, Gaertner and Vevea (2005) findings to the exclusion of six papers. We report a meta-analysis that includes those six papers. The Heine et al.
Gaertner, Lowell, Sedikides, Constantine, Vevea, Jack L.   +2 more
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