Olfactory Effects on Human Behavior within a Simulation Experiment

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Tanja Feit ◽  
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Simulation Experiment ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

In the study at hand, the authors pose the question how people are influenced by olfactory stimulation while solving an economic problem? The economic problem involves managing a strategic planning simulation experiment. To demonstrate the fundamental task of economic decisions, the authors run experiments in the laboratory. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between several economic parameters and a firm’s success within a simulation experiment. Teams of students are assigned the role of managers of a firm within a competitive market situation. Subjects had the task of managing the complex situation in which they act in a group as managers to increase the performance of a firm by setting specific parameters. The authors will demonstrate to what extent a strong peppermint scent is able to influence the decision-makers within such a reasonably complex situation when they are to manage a firm's product range and compete against other firms. The authors are able to show that the smell of peppermint improved the overall mood considerably and thus also the results of the given task.

scholarly journals Novel Parameterized Distance Measures on Hesitant Fuzzy Sets with Credibility Degree and Their Application in Decision-Making

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaru Li ◽  
Fangwei Zhang ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Janney Yee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Cardinal Number ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Distance Measures ◽  
Hesitant Fuzzy Set ◽  
Hesitant Fuzzy Sets ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The subject of this study is to explore the role of cardinality of hesitant fuzzy element (HFE) in distance measures on hesitant fuzzy sets (HFSs). Firstly, three parameters, i.e., credibility factor, conservative factor, and a risk factor are introduced, thereafter, a series of novel distance measures on HFSs are proposed using these three parameters. These newly proposed distance measures handle the relationship between the cardinal number and the element values of hesitant fuzzy set well, and are suitable to combine subjective and objective decision-making information. When using these functions, decision makers with different risk preferences are allowed to give different values for these three parameters. In particular, this study transfers the hesitance degree index to a credibility of the values in HFEs, which is consistent with people’s intuition. Finally, the practicability of the newly proposed distance measures is verified by two examples.

scholarly journals Coping strategies as mediators in the relationship between test anxiety and academic achievement

Psihologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Genc
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

In most modern societies, nearly every realm of life involves some form of evaluation of our knowledge, abilities and skills. Given the potentially significant consequences of exams, it is not surprising that they are often very stressful. This study aimed to determine the existence and nature of the relationships between level of test anxiety, coping strategies, and achieved success on a mid-term test. As well as examining the direct relations between the given variables, our primary interest was to investigate the potential mediating role of coping mechanisms between the input and output variables of the examined stressful transaction. The study was conducted on a sample of 263 students from the Psychology and German Studies Departments of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. According to our results, only emotion-focused coping mechanisms were statistically significant mediators in the relationship between level of test anxiety and mid-term test achievement. The results indicate that students with high test anxiety who employ predominantly emotion-focused coping strategies score lower on a pre-exam knowledge test.

Sovereignty and Property

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-136
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Robé
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The State ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Natural State ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
The Relationship

The Chapter deals with the relationship between the two concepts of sovereignty and property. It first addresses the thesis developed by North, Wallis and Weingast on the role of organized violence in the development of a modern, open access society. Their intuition is that the « limited access order » of the « natural state » in which personal relationships form the basis of social organization had to leave the way to an « open access order » in which impersonal categories of individuals interact. This is generally correct. But they neglected the role of law in the process and, in particular, the role of the development of constitutional modes of government. Via modern international law, starting in Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century, sovereignty was allocated among States. Via modern liberal constitutions, internal sovereignty was decentralized as a matter of principle to owners, who are decision-makers as a matter of principle towards the objects of property. The operations of political Organs of the State, of administrative Organs of the State and of law can usefully be viewed in this perspective.

Crowdsourcing Terrorism: Utopia, Martyrdom and Citizenship Reimagined

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-352
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yang Hui
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Individual Contribution ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Relationship

The role of social media in aiding terrorist attacks worldwide has been widely discussed among counterterrorism officials and academics. Since 2014, the idea of ‘crowdsourced terrorism’, whereby the Islamic State (IS) outsourced the conduct of attacks to their followers and attempted to attract them to Syria, has been popularly used by Western policymakers. This article critically examines the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and the IS’s online appeal in the case of Indonesia. The participant–curator crowdsourcing model outlined by Laurie Philips and Daren Brabham explains the online appeal of the IS, with social media facilitating the IS’s establishment of the relationship with Internet users in faraway countries such as Indonesia and allowing them to participate in the making of the IS brand. Participatory culture therefore encourages an e-supporter’s faith in the importance of their individual contribution and social connection that transcend offline realities in areas such as citizenship. IS opinion leaders work alongside online supporters to craft the meaning of martyrdom and imagination of citizenship through social media posts about life in the Caliphate. The land of Syria is imagined simultaneously as paradise for those who take their faith seriously as well as the venue for the Islamic equivalent of Armageddon. Hijrah (jihad by emigration) to Syria and martyrdom are represented as obligatory in the quest for equalization of power and freedom from slavery of those who are against the establishment of the Caliphate. Crowdsourced imaginations of the IS have had implications in several areas of policymaking. The article will discuss the implications of online imaginaries on IS’s approaches to militancy in its operations, Indonesian decision makers’ debate to revoke the citizenship of those who had travelled to IS and for the Indonesian military in its quest for expansion of their role in counterterror operations.

scholarly journals The Intervening Role of Competitiveness on the Relationship Between Sustainability and Tourism Performance: A Research on European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paşa Mustafa Özyurt ◽  
Kemal Kantarcı
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Competitiveness Index ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Being green and being an economically successful and competitive destination has been the core topic in the sustainable development literature in recent years. The link between sustainability and competitiveness in the market is fairly important to study in the tourism industry in order to support and encourage decision makers and stakeholders in their decisions. In this sense, this study has two aims. First aim is to cluster European countries based on their sustainability scores reported in World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index. Second aim is to reveal the intervening role of competitiveness on the relationship between sustainability and tourism performance for European countries. We employed a K-means cluster analysis and several multiple regression analyses. Analyses results revealed three clusters for European countries. Another finding postulated that competitiveness of these countries have been influenced by their level of sustainability. Our final finding posits that tourism performance of these countries in terms of tourist arrivals and tourism receipts has been found to be impacted by the level of tourism competitiveness.

scholarly journals Cultural-anthropological origins of the mask of initiation physicality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Kostiuk
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Social Character ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the article is to study the cultural-anthropological origins of the mask, which make it possible to interpret the initiation of physicality, which in the process of initiation acquired the signs of psychosomatic modification. The research methodology is based on the use of psychoanalytic, structural-functional, semiotic, and cultural-anthropological methods. Scientific novelty. In the study of cultural-anthropological origins of the mask of initiation physicality, used ideas of the «collective unconscious» of K. Jung, the theory of social character by E. Fromm, the methods of structural anthropology by K. Levi-Strauss, and analysis of ritual functions by K. Lorenz were used. The given examples of initiation in youth associations, male unions, subcultures, countercultures allow us to determine the cultural-anthropological origins of the mask in rituals and initiation rituals as an appeal to a perfect image, which symbolically possessed an advantage in natural-biological and psychological aspects. Conclusions. In the interpretation of the initiation physicality, which in the process of initiation acquired signs of psychosomatic modification, the cultural-anthropological origins of the mask are considered, represented by the ideas of the «collective unconscious» of K. Jung (Persona – Anima), the theory of social character by E. Fromm («to have» – «to be»). The study of experience, the relationship between biological and social in human behavior is represented by the methods of structural anthropology by K. Levi-Strauss, by the analysis of ritual functions from the standpoint of natural-biological existence – according to K. Lorentz. The given examples of initiation in youth associations, male unions, subcultures, countercultures allow us to determine that most often in rituals and initiation rituals, a perfect image was chosen, which symbolically possessed an advantage in natural-biological and psychological aspects.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF DYNAMIC STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES ON STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PRESENCE OF OUTSOURCING OF FIVE STARS HOTELS IN JORDAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 578-587
Author(s):  
Sulieman Ibraheem Al-Hawary ◽  
Mohammad Sultan Al-Syasneh
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Strategic Capabilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to investigate whether outsourcing mediates the impact of dynamic strategic capabilities on strategic entrepreneurship. The population of the research consists of top managers in five stars hotels. A sample of 215 respondents were selected for the research in which 186 questionnaires were valid for statistical analysis. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses of the research. The results of the research indicate that outsourcing does not mediate the relationship between dynamic strategic capabilities and strategic entrepreneurship. All the dimensions of dynamic strategic capabilities have a statistical impact on strategic entrepreneurship, while the dynamic strategic capabilities dimension all affect outsourcing except the seizing capability. Based on the research results, managers and decision-makers have to focus on innovation functions by enhancing the role of knowledge management and R&D activities, as well as concentrate on employees training programs.

scholarly journals La biojurídica o el bioderecho como mediador de los nuevos dilemas biomédicos

Telos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-617
Author(s):  
Juan Araujo-Cuauro
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

The advance of bioethics as a science has exceeded the ethical scenario to fully immerse oneself in other environments of knowledge, essentially in the sphere of the legal, as it is, the bio-legal and towards a new protagonist of an emerging science such as the biolaw. There are dilemmas or bioethical premises from which generate the great juridical questions, around the legal sciences, which must be adjusted to the social reality generated by the great biotechnological advances, in order to regulate the behavior generated by human behavior. The objective of the research is to analyze the role of bioethics in the development of biolaw or biolaw as a mediator of new biomedical dilemmas. The methodology used is a bibliographic documentary research which focuses on the positions of some authors such as Aparisi (2007) and Schaefer (2017), among others. A documentary review was made from a critical stance of the literary sources selected and used for the development of the research, this with the purpose of identifying the different conceptions that biotechnological advances have had on human behavior and its need to be regulated by law. It is concluded that the relationship between bioethics and law has been very useful, at the time of responding to the theme of the debate on the great bioethical dilemmas, which results in the emergence of a novel legal branch such as bio-legal or biolaw.

scholarly journals A template-based approach to the modification of binding properties of globular proteins II: Rationale and proposed approach.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imadol V Jeff-Eke
Keyword(s):  
Structural Reorganization ◽  
Binding Properties ◽  
Site Structure ◽  
Probability Bias ◽  
Specific Complex ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

We present a rationale and proposed approach to the modification and development of bind sites using their respective cognate ligands as template. This is in support of a plausible “instructive” role for the ligand and therefore its involvement in determination of the structure and properties of bind sites. We emphasize the relationship between substrate and active site as an example of the relationship between ligand and bind sites, respectively. This is based on the assumption that there are shared features between all ligand:bind site complexes. Therefore, principles that apply to a specific complex can be applied, in general, to other protein-based complexes. We define ligand-associated probability bias as the difference between the probability of finding activity-determining conformations (ADCs) in the presence- and absence of ligands. For cognate ligands, the given bias is in favor of these ADCs. Thus, bind sites are more likely to assume ADCs when their cognate ligands are present. We relate such probability bias to structural reorganization, disorganization, and preorganization events. We then propose a means of deriving an [apparent] preorganized bind site structure by way of reorganization events that occur with cognate ligand. Finally, we propose a means of deriving an [actual] preorganized bind site structure by way of reorganization events that occur with cognate ligand, albeit during the folding process. The assumption is that the role of the ligand in derivation of such [actual] preorganized bind site structures is an instructive role, and is in support of the Haurowitz-Pauling hypothesis.

scholarly journals A template-based approach to the modification of binding properties of globular proteins II: Rationale and proposed approach.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imadol V Jeff-Eke
Keyword(s):  
Structural Reorganization ◽  
Binding Properties ◽  
Site Structure ◽  
Probability Bias ◽  
Specific Complex ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

We present a rationale and proposed approach to the modification and development of bind sites using their respective cognate ligands as template. This is in support of a plausible “instructive” role for the ligand and therefore its involvement in determination of the structure and properties of bind sites. We emphasize the relationship between substrate and active site as an example of the relationship between ligand and bind sites, respectively. This is based on the assumption that there are shared features between all ligand:bind site complexes. Therefore, principles that apply to a specific complex can be applied, in general, to other protein-based complexes. We define ligand-associated probability bias as the difference between the probability of finding activity-determining conformations (ADCs) in the presence- and absence of ligands. For cognate ligands, the given bias is in favor of these ADCs. Thus, bind sites are more likely to assume ADCs when their cognate ligands are present. We relate such probability bias to structural reorganization, disorganization, and preorganization events. We then propose a means of deriving an [apparent] preorganized bind site structure by way of reorganization events that occur with cognate ligand. Finally, we propose a means of deriving an [actual] preorganized bind site structure by way of reorganization events that occur with cognate ligand, albeit during the folding process. The assumption is that the role of the ligand in derivation of such [actual] preorganized bind site structures is an instructive role, and is in support of the Haurowitz-Pauling hypothesis.

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