Empathy as Spontaneous Communication: At the Intersection of the Traditional Social and Behavioral Sciences and the New Affective and Communication Sciences

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Bayesian Analysis of Circular Data in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Applied Directional Statistics ◽

10.1201/9781315228570-18 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 227-256

Keyword(s):

Bayesian Analysis ◽

Circular Data ◽

Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽

Behavioral Sciences

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Visualizing Data in Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Application of PARAMAP on Judicial Statistics

Algorithms from and for Nature and Life - Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-00035-0_14 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 147-154

Author(s):

Ulas Akkucuk ◽

J. Douglas Carroll ◽

Stephen L. France

Keyword(s):

Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽

Behavioral Sciences

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When the Going Gets Tough, How Do We Perceive the Future?

10.31234/osf.io/pkaxn ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie J. Tepper ◽

Neil Anthony Lewis

Keyword(s):

Time Perception ◽

Integrated Model ◽

Future Research ◽

Social And Behavioral Sciences ◽

Behavioral Sciences ◽

Intervention Practice ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

Goal Directed Behavior ◽

Experienced Difficulty

People struggle to stay motivated to work toward difficult goals. Sometimes the feeling of difficulty signals that the goal is important and worth pursuing; other times, it signals that the goal is impossible and should be abandoned. In this paper, we argue that how difficulty is experienced depends on how we perceive and experience the timing of difficult events. We synthesize research from across the social and behavioral sciences and propose a new integrated model to explain how components of time perception interact with interpretations of experienced difficulty to influence motivation and goal-directed behavior. Although these constructs have been studied separately in previous research, we suggest that these factors are inseparable and that an integrated model will help us to better understand motivation and predict behavior. We conclude with new empirical questions to guide future research and by discussing the implications of this research for both theory and intervention practice.

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