Explorations of anticipatory behavioral control (ABC): a report from the cognitive psychology unit of the University of Würzburg

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Hoffmann ◽  
Michael Berner ◽  
Martin V. Butz ◽  
Oliver Herbort ◽  
Andrea Kiesel ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Bazan ◽  
Aparajita Datta ◽  
Hannah Gaultois ◽  
Arifusalam Shaikh ◽  
Katie Gillespie ◽  
...  

Abstract Many researchers have studied gender differences in the entrepreneurial intention of students by analyzing the influence of several intrinsic and extrinsic factors on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention. Fewer researchers have analyzed the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of the entrepreneurial intention of students in general and of female students in particular. This study aims to fill that gap by analyzing the influence of the university’s environment and support system on the precursors of entrepreneurial intention of female students at a university in Atlantic Canada. Findings of this study confirm that two precursors of entrepreneurial intention—i.e., attitude toward behavior and perceived behavioral control—mediate the effects of the university’s environment and support system on the entrepreneurial intention of female students. They also confirm that the university’s environment and support system comprises three distinct but interrelated dimensions, namely entrepreneurship training, start-up support, and entrepreneurial milieu. Results of this study also suggest that the university’s environment and support system has a positive relation with the perceived behavioral control of female students. However, findings of this study also suggest that the university’s environment and support system has a positive but negligible influence on the attitude toward the behavior of the same students. The outcomes of this study will help the university assess the efficacy of its innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives in promoting entrepreneurial activities. By understanding its entrepreneurial efficacy, the institution will be better equipped to raise the perceptions of venture feasibility and desirability, thus increasing students’ perceptions of opportunity.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Guelton

<p><strong>CORES: Interactions of artistic and scientific perspectives</strong></p><p><strong>Bernard GUELTON, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, ANR CORES</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Artistic context</p><p>The research team Fictions & Interactions of the University Paris 1 and the media company ORBE have developed since 2013 collective artistic experiments between distant cities (Paris, Shanghai, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro). Using specially designed interactive applications and creative scenarios, the goal was to connect remote walkers between one or the other of these cities. The project was to hybridize urban spaces of different conformities through physical, virtual and fictional interactions between participants.</p><p>The artistic practices of space and especially the interactions between distant walkers do not simply provide a context for study here, but form a kind of anticipation of the post-representational paradigm of cartography with examples such as the psycho-geography of the situationists in the late 1950s. As early as 1994, an artist like Fujihata used GPS technology in his project Impressing Velocity. The data collected by Fujihata models the itinerary by producing a contraction of the form during a rapid movement, or an expansion of the form during a slow movement. However, it is from the 2000s that groups of artists from participatory theater such as Blast Theory use GPS technologies, visual and verbal interactions to connect walkers in tasks of exploration or playful interaction.</p><p>Scientific implications</p><p>After several years of experimentation on collective walks using instrumental and shared CTs, a central scientific question has clearly emerged: to what extent are instrumental and shared maps likely to modify our behaviours and spatial representations?</p><p>To answer the question of the impact of mapping tools and collective interactions on collective representations, the CORES project associates and crosses geography, geomatics, cognitive psychology, computer science, artistic practices of walking, design and data visualization. Each of these disciplines contributes to the proposed methodology. Spatial cognition from cognitive psychology is now extended and transformed by the neurophysiology of brain areas dedicated to spatial behaviors. If the study of representations in space has long associated cognitive psychology and geographical sciences, the CORES project renews this association in an original way by closely linking representations of space to behaviours with an approach that is no longer only static, but above all dynamic. Thus, a dynamic approach to the trackings of walkers in relation to a dynamic approach to drawn representations forms an important stake at the level of the proposed methodology.</p>


Entrepreneurs are the fortitude of any industry as they come up with an innovative business plan which eventually provides to cultural and business growth. In Ethiopia, thousands of students graduate from universities every year, but merely a rare of them plans to begin their businesses. This paper is designed to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions among undergraduate business students of the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), personal attitude toward entrepreneurship, subjective measures and perceived behavioral control are the main determinants that influence entrepreneurial purposes. However, attitudes have improved in this regard, and there have been diverse efforts to magnify the position of university graduates as patrons of innovative firms. The paper brings out the students’ approach and perceived behavioral control is an important impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate business students.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Rini Mirayanti ◽  
Rossje V. Suryaputri ◽  
Nia Susnita Sari

<span class="fontstyle0">This study aims to examine the factors that affect the interests of students in choosing courses sharia accounting as elective courses. This study uses a modified model Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) which test relationship attitude with interest, subjective norms with interest, behavior control perceived interests and add construct another, which is the spiritual motivation with interest and consideration of the labor<br />market by student interest in choosing accounting sharia as elective courses. This study uses survey data collection. Samples from this study are students who are still active academic year 2015/2016 S1 majoring in Accounting and Business class of 2012 and 2013 in the Trisakti University, Mercu Buana University, and the University of Esa Unggul. A total of 110 respondents of data that can be processed by using SPSS 20. The results showed that the variables attitude, subjective norms, spiritual motivation, labor market consideration, and perceived behavioral control positive effect on student interest in choosing sharia accounting as elective courses.</span>


Author(s):  
Rubén Molina-Sánchez ◽  
Patricia Hernández García

This chapter describes the role played by universities in the graduate students' attitudes and social values, since they will be the future CEOs of businesses and organizations. It considers that everybody is able to launch a startup or to become a social innovator provided he or she has grown up in an adequate environment, with a social paradigm. The chapter presents the first data collection from a theoretic perspective (Ajzen, 1991; and Sieger, 2014), enunciating the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey (GUESSS) to consider how the university context exerts a great deal of influence on students' entrepreneurial and innovative intentions. The chapter also considers that the aim of starting a business or practicing social innovation can be measured from students' attitudes, norms, and perceptions. Thus, perceived behavioral control is an essential explanatory variable for students' entrepreneurial and innovative intentions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Juan Agustín Franco Martínez ◽  
Miguel Angel Garcia-Gordillo

Since the last global crisis, the critical debate on economy and the teaching of heterodox economy has resurfaced. To review the magnitude and pedagogical consequences for critical education in economics and finance is the objective of this paper, which also proposes a didactic strategy based on an experience developed at the University of Extremadura (Spain) within the framework of the Didactic Innovation Group named “Ethics of University Teaching”. For this purpose, the educational implications of teaching and learning the conventional economy that derive from behavioral and cognitive psychology and discourses on entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility are reviewed. It is concluded that the bias in the education of heterodox economy supposes a deterioration of the fundamental educational objectives, tending towards an indoctrination in the neoliberal ideology (patriarcapitalist) and to a serious loss of democratic values. For all the above, a more pluralist pedagogy at the epistemological and methodological levels—from critical psychology to critical economics or critical management studies—would help to favor a more emancipatory educational process, committed to social justice.


Author(s):  
WeiLee Lim

Entrepreneurship has been the central focus for both policy makers and scholars alike for its role in economic and social transformation of a nation. University students are widely regarded as future builders of nation and thus, their role and intention towards entrepreneurship is of much concern. This study applies the theory of planned behaviour to analyse the factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intention with the inclusion of university environment. This study aims to incorporate the various variables as a comprehensive model simultaneously analysing the relationships between using SEM-PLS technique. A quantitative research design was employed with the use of 317 sample of university students from Malaysia and China universities. The study explores the effect of individual factors: attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control; together with university environment on their effect on university students’ entrepreneurial intention. The finding suggests that university environment is a significant influence of university students’ intention to entrepreneurship as a career choice. A conducive environment and support within the university elevates student’s belief in their capability to be an entrepreneur and the intention to embark on an entrepreneurial journey.


1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot J. Schofield ◽  
Raoul A. Walsh ◽  
Robert W. Sanson-Fisher

It is argued that psychologists have an important role in ensuring appropriate training of medical students in behavioural and cognitive strategies. This paper outlines the innovative medical curriculum at the University of Newcastle and describes the contribution of cognitive psychology to the problem-solving method which underlies the curriculum. It also describes the medical school's approach to training students in interactional skills. One focus of the interactional skills training is to provide practical skills which incorporate behavioural and cognitive strategies to address common, preventable health problems, such as excessive alcohol consumption.


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