The structure of people's perceptions of situation attributes

Food and gastronomic values of a country are distinguished assets in marketing places. The aim of this article is exploring the ways in which Serbia rebrands itself through promoting the local food and culture and positions the nation brand in a transnational marketing context. The key concepts for this research originate from the literature in place marketing and branding. The gastronomic offer is an instrument shaping people’s perceptions about Serbia that is represented and communicated through values, narratives and manifestations. Accordingly, semiotics is adopted for analysing the data, which builds on three levels: axiological, narrative and discursive. Content analysis is used as a supportive method to infer meanings from codes and to determine emerging themes overarching the units of meaning. The tourism marketing strategy of The National Tourism Organization of Serbia (TOS) is closely examined through the touristic promotion materials (i.e. catalogues, posters, Soul Food video). In sum, the analysis results reveal how the country branding strategy of Serbia is handled in terms of the impact on the perceptions with a focus on food as a tourist attraction. The research is valuable for place-marketers, strategists, governments, and scholars from different fields of academia.

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Facial Perceptions: Age's Influence on People's Perceptions of Facial Modifications

Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal ◽

10.15695/vurj.v6i0.2889 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Nascine Howell ◽

Lindsey Erin Overhalser ◽

Abigail Eliza Randall ◽

Rachael Dillon

Keyword(s):

Age Groups ◽

Likert Scale ◽

Online Surveys ◽

People’S Perception ◽

The Face ◽

Subject Experiment ◽

People’S Perceptions

A 2x7 between-subject experiment examined the affect of age on people’s perceptions of facial modifications. Researchers instructed participants aged 18-60 to complete two online surveys. One survey contained 10 modified faces (facial piercings and neck tattoos) and the second survey contained 10 non-modified faces. Participants were instructed to look at each face and rate the face using a 5 point Likert scale on five traits: Trustworthiness, Attractiveness, Confidence, Intelligence and Friendliness. Modified faces were rated higher and perceived more positively than the non-modified faces by participants in all age groups. There was an effect of modification on age groups one (18-23 years old), two (24-29 years), five (30-35 years) and six (36-41 years) for the traits Attractiveness and Confidence. These findings suggest people’s perception of strangers’ is influenced by their own age at the time of the encounter and the age of the faces.

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The Social Specificity of Societal Nature Relations in a Flexible Capitalist Society

Environmental Values ◽

10.3197/096327120x15916910310581 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dennis Eversberg

Keyword(s):

Social Relationships ◽

Social Relations ◽

Social Space ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Capitalist Society ◽

Ideal Types ◽

Mutual Dependency ◽

The Social ◽

People’S Perceptions

Based on analyses of a 2016 German survey, this article contributes to debates on ‘societal nature relations’ by investigating the systematic differences between socially specific types of social relations with nature in a flexible capitalist society. It presents a typology of ten different ‘syndromes’ of attitudes toward social and environmental issues, which are then grouped to distinguish between four ideal types of social relationships with nature: dominance, conscious mutual dependency, alienation and contradiction. These are located in Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984) social space to illustrate how social relationships with nature correspond to people’s positions within the totality of social relations. Understanding how people’s perceptions of and actions pertaining to nature are shaped by their positions in these intersecting relations of domination – both within social space and between society and nature – is an important precondition for developing transformative strategies that will be capable of gaining majority support in flexible capitalist societies.

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A Framework for Understanding Radicalization

10.1093/oso/9780190657345.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kees Van Den Bos

Keyword(s):

General Feeling ◽

People’S Perceptions

Chapter 1 introduces and defines the concept of radicalization and associated issues such as extremism and terrorism. In doing so, this chapter introduces a framework that is used in this book to understand the process of radicalization, including extremist beliefs and terrorist behaviors. The chapter notes that an important reason why people radicalize lies in people’s perceptions of unfairness. Especially when one focuses on earlier phases of radicalization, perceptions of unfairness (and associated experiences such as injustice, the opinion that some issues are immoral, and the general feeling that things are “not right”) are key to understanding radicalization, extremism, and terrorism. Figure 1.2 summarizes the process of growing radicalization on which the book focuses. Figure 1.3 depicts the process of prevented or attenuated radicalization on which the book focuses. The chapter ends with an overview of the chapters presented in the book.

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Rural people's perceptions regarding causes and solutions of poverty: The Lesotho milieu

Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review ◽

10.1353/eas.2021.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 103-121

Author(s):

Josphine Hapazari ◽

ND. Loubser

Keyword(s):

People’S Perceptions

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Enhancing spatial perception through sound: mapping human movements into MIDI

Multimedia Tools and Applications ◽

10.1007/s11042-021-11077-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bernardo Breve ◽

Stefano Cirillo ◽

Mariano Cuofano ◽

Domenico Desiato

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

User Study ◽

Spatial Perception ◽

Human Movements ◽

Different Types ◽

Real Time Tracking ◽

People’S Perceptions ◽

Novel Algorithm

AbstractGestural expressiveness plays a fundamental role in the interaction with people, environments, animals, things, and so on. Thus, several emerging application domains would exploit the interpretation of movements to support their critical designing processes. To this end, new forms to express the people’s perceptions could help their interpretation, like in the case of music. In this paper, we investigate the user’s perception associated with the interpretation of sounds by highlighting how sounds can be exploited for helping users in adapting to a specific environment. We present a novel algorithm for mapping human movements into MIDI music. The algorithm has been implemented in a system that integrates a module for real-time tracking of movements through a sample based synthesizer using different types of filters to modulate frequencies. The system has been evaluated through a user study, in which several users have participated in a room experience, yielding significant results about their perceptions with respect to the environment they were immersed.

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Uncertainty about the risks associated with microplastics among lay and topic-experienced respondents

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-86569-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Christina J. Thiele ◽

Malcolm D. Hudson

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Environmental Issue ◽

Contaminants Of Emerging Concern ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Present Part ◽

Fact Checking ◽

Level Of Concern ◽

People’S Perceptions

AbstractMicroplastics are contaminants of emerging concern but there is currently a lack of evidence on actual risks relating to them, despite claims in media and scientific articles. Research on people’s perceptions on microplastics is in its infancy. Here we present part of a larger survey about people’s perceptions of issues with microplastics. Our analysis of 1681 responses across the globe to an online questionnaire demonstrates a certain level of uncertainty, not only in lay people but also respondents who study/work on the topic of plastics and microplastics as a pollutant. This uncertainty ranges from level of concern about microplastics as an environmental issue to existing evidence for effects. Further, there is some discrepancy between risk perception and state of the research. Some of this may be driven by scientific work with some serious limitations in reporting and methods. This highlights the need for fact-checking of circulating information about microplastics, but also for addressing the discordance between ecotoxicological risk and how risk is framed within the scientific community.

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