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Arora, Nilesh, Sanjeev Prashar, Sai Vijay Tata, and Chandan Parsad. "Measuring personality congruency effects on consumer brand intentions in celebrity-endorsed brands." Journal of Consumer Marketing 38, no. 3 (February 8, 2021): 251–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-02-2020-3634.
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Purpose Brand managers frequently use well-known celebrities to position their brands and capture consumers’ attention to improve the brand’s market share. The attachment of a celebrity with a brand creates a human image for a brand and helps in personifying its image. The consumer perceives the brand as an individual and relates his personality, as well as the personality of the celebrity with that of the brand. It becomes pertinent for marketers to understand how brand-celebrity personality congruence and brand-consumer personality congruence affect the brand reputation, uniqueness and purchase intentions. Thus, the purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between the two personality congruence aspects – brand & celebrity personalities and brand & consumer personalities, and their impact on the reputation of the brand and its uniqueness. Further, the paper aims to examine the impact of the brand reputation and brand uniqueness on purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach The present study uses Aaker’s five-factor personality scale to study the personality congruence effects on brand reputation, brand uniqueness and purchase intentions. The literature review was carried out to categorize factors related to celebrity personality, brand personality and consumer personality. The data for this study was collected through questionnaires from 1,235 respondents. In the first step, congruencies between celebrity, brand and consumer personality were determined. This was followed by a two-stage structural equation modelling for assessing the model fit and testing the hypotheses. Findings From the study results, it is observed that brand-celebrity congruency influences brand reputation and brand uniqueness. However, brand-consumer congruency had an effect only on brand reputation and not on brand uniqueness. Both brand reputation and uniqueness have favourable impact on consumers purchase intentions. Originality/value This study contributes to the existing literature on celebrity endorsement by extending the discussion with personality-based congruence. The research deciphered two aspects of identification, i.e. consumer-brand personality congruence and brand-celebrity congruence. The paper hypothesized the favourable association between brand personality and consumer personality congruence and brand uniqueness. However, it was observed that brand personality-consumer personality identification had an insignificant influence on brand uniqueness. This is contrary to the findings of some studies in the literature. Further investigation of this relationship in the future may add a new dimension to the identification context.
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McQueen, Kelsey A., Kelly E. Fredericksen, and Chad L. Samuelsen. "Experience Informs Consummatory Choices for Congruent and Incongruent Odor–Taste Mixtures in Rats." Chemical Senses 45, no. 5 (April 2, 2020): 371–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa025.
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Abstract Experience is an essential factor informing food choice. Eating food generates enduring odor–taste associations that link an odor with a taste’s quality and hedonic value (pleasantness/unpleasantness) and creates the perception of a congruent odor–taste combination. Previous human psychophysical experiments demonstrate that experience with odor–taste mixtures shapes perceptual judgments related to the intensity, familiarity, and pleasantness of chemosensory stimuli. However, how these perceptual judgments inform consummatory choice is less clear. Using rats as a model system and a 2-bottle brief-access task, we investigated how experience with palatable and unpalatable odor–taste mixtures influences consummatory choice related to odor–taste congruence and stimulus familiarity. We found that the association between an odor and a taste, not the odor’s identity or its congruence with a taste, informs consummatory choice for odor–taste mixtures. Furthermore, we showed that the association between an odor and a taste, not odor neophobia, informs consummatory choice for odors dissolved in water. Our results provide further evidence that the association between an odor and a taste, after odor–taste mixture experience, is a fundamental feature guiding consummatory choice.
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Cohen. "Congruence-Association Model and Experiments in Film Music: Toward Interdisciplinary Collaboration." Music and the Moving Image 8, no. 2 (2015): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/musimoviimag.8.2.0005.
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Brochado, Ana, Pedro Dionísio, and Maria Carmo Leal. "Sponsoring the football national team." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 33, no. 5 (June 4, 2018): 625–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbim-03-2017-0076.
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Purpose A key concern in sports sponsorship decisions is knowing under what conditions sponsorship can effectively act as a brand building tool. The purpose of this study is to list attributes to use when examining congruency in the sponsorship of national football teams. The second aim was to test whether being a client of the sponsor brand and being involved with the sponsee moderates the relationship between image congruence and sponsorship response. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected on four sponsors of the Portuguese national team, just before the 20th Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup. Analyses were conducted on a representative national sample of fans. The research design encompassed a two-step approach. First, qualitative analysis identified the main attributes that fans associate with the national team. In the second quantitative phase, moderated regression analysis was used to test the proposed model. Findings This study confirmed sponsor–sponsee congruence in seven attributes (i.e. national symbol, strength, strong emotions, happiness, optimism, connection and positive feelings) enhances positive brand image and fans’ involvement with the national team moderates this relationship. Positive sponsorship outcomes tend to be higher for sponsors when fans are currently clients of the sponsor brand. Originality/value This study adds to previous research by using mixed methods to study sponsor–sponsee congruence regarding national teams and by testing whether fans being clients of sponsors and being involved with sponsees moderate sponsor–sponsee congruence.
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Pingmuang, Chutima, Somboon Sirisunhirun, Mohd Ekhwan Toriman, and . "The Model for Thais Physician Competency Development Based on Focus Discussion Group (FDG): A Review." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3.14 (July 25, 2018): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.14.16863.
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Current changes and priorities in the country regarding population patterns and health care programs will require reforms in older health care and the increasing incidence of chronic diseases. In this study, the data was collected using with a systematic-purposive sampling using the snowball Delphi technique, key informants comprising 21 experts were selected from the Medical Council of Thailand, the Medical Association of Thailand and Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI). The tools used in this research include in-depth interview, the Likert scale with five-level Likert items for measuring the dispersion and congruence of consensus, and the Likert scale with three-level Likert items for content validity which is analyzed using the items of objectives congruence (IOC), the median (MD) and the quartile deviation (QD). The results show to be both valid and reliable for measuring physicians’ competency in Thailand. The results of the competency-based instrument can be used as of to be the healthcare public policy to encourage and guide regarding healthcare agencies to modify their competency according to the evaluation criteria, and also cultivate physicians with strong knowledge and skills, innovation and redesign the curriculum in medical schools inevitably. Overall, the level of physician’s desirable competency will be increased in Thailand.
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Cieślak, Agnieszka. "Meanings of music in film from a cognitive perspective." Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, no. 19 (December 31, 2019): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ism.2019.19.7.
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Cognitive psychology, with its focus on mind and its processes, is one of the approaches to study film music. Although music alone is said to be already meaningful, it gains and transfers specific meanings in the film context. This article aims to contribute to understanding of what film music means and how these meanings are processed in the cross-modal perception of a film. A review of the selected empirical research on film music with regard to meaning is followed by a short overview of the Annabel J. Cohen’s Congruence-Association Model (CAM) of media cognition. The model provides a framework for the experiments’ results and encourages future interdisciplinary studies in this area.
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Adams, Nancy E. "A Comparison of Evidence-Based Practice and the ACRL Information Literacy Standards: Implications for Information Literacy Practice." College & Research Libraries 75, no. 2 (March 1, 2014): 232–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl12-417.
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Evidence-based practice (EBP), like information literacy, is concerned with an individual’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes relating to using information. EBP is now a professional competency in fields as diverse as social work, nursing and allied health fields, and public policy. A comparison of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education with the commonly accepted EBP model shows congruence, but the two models diverge in their use of authority of the producer as a marker of information quality and in their relative emphasis on formulation of the research question and application of information.
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McIlveen, Peter, P. Nancey Hoare, Harsha N. Perera, Chris Kossen, Louisa Mason, Shannon Munday, Carolyn Alchin, Allison Creed, and Nicole McDonald. "Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults." Journal of Career Assessment 29, no. 1 (May 11, 2020): 18–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069072720922959.
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The present research is focused on the measurement properties of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) in Australia and adds to the cumulative evidence of the measure’s international utility for psychological research into the role of work in people’s lives. The study contributes new evidence via a survey of a sample of workers ( N = 201) who completed the DWS and criterion measures of career-related factors including job satisfaction, work engagement, and withdrawal intentions. Correlated factors, higher order, and bifactor models were tested using confirmatory factor analysis. All models were satisfactory and the bifactor model evinced preferable fit. The DWS Values Congruence subscale predicted all criterion measures. Workers’ incomes and ratings of their occupations’ prestige had no main effects or interaction effect on the DWS subscales. Recommendations for future research include testing the DWS’s relations with measures of mental health which are known correlates of career-related outcomes.
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Isabella, Giuliana, and Valter Afonso Vieira. "The effect of facial expression on emotional contagion and product evaluation in print advertising." RAUSP Management Journal 55, no. 3 (January 2, 2020): 375–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rausp-03-2019-0038.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the emotional contagion theory in print ads, and expand the literature of smiling to different type of smiles and gender congruency. Emotional contagion happens when an emotion is transferred from a sender to a receiver by the synchronization of emotions from the emitter. Drawing on emotional contagion theory, the authors expand this concept and propose that smiles in static facial expressions influence product evaluation. They suggest that false smiles do not have the same impact as genuine smiles on product evaluation, and the congruence between the model gender–product in a static ad and the gender of the viewer moderates the effects. Design/methodology/approach In Experiment 1, subjects were randomly assigned to view one of the two ad treatments to guard against systematic error (e.g. bias). In Experiment 2, it was investigated whether viewing a static ad featuring a model with a false smile can result in a positive product evaluation as was the case with genuine smiles (H3). In Experiment 3, it was assumed that when consumers evaluate an ad featuring a smiling face, the facial expression influences product evaluation, and this influence is moderated by the congruence between the gender of the ad viewer and the product H gender of the model in the ad. Findings Across three experiments, the authors found that the model’s facial expression influenced the product evaluation. Second, they supported the association between a model’s facial expression and mimicry synchronization. Third, they showed that genuine smiles have a higher impact on product evaluation than false smiles. This novel result enlarges the research on genuine smiles to include false smiles. Fourth, the authors supported the gender–product congruence effect in that the gender of the ad’s reader and the model have a moderating effect on the relationship between the model’s facial expression and the reader’s product evaluation. Originality/value Marketing managers would benefit from understanding that genuine smiles can encourage positive emotions on the part of consumers via emotional contagion, which would be very useful to create a positive effect on products. The authors improved upon previous psychological theory (Gunnery et al., 2013; Hennig-Thurau et al., 2006) showing that a genuine smile results in higher evaluation scores of products presented in static ads. The theoretical explanation for this effect is the genuine smile, which involves contraction of both zygomatic major and orbicularis oculi muscles. These facial muscles can be better perceived and transmit positive emotions (Hennig-Thurau et al., 2006).
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Bennett, Roger, and Rohini Vijaygopal. "Consumer attitudes towards electric vehicles." European Journal of Marketing 52, no. 3/4 (April 9, 2018): 499–527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-09-2016-0538.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of gamification on connections between consumers’ self-image congruence in relation to the purchasers of an environmentally friendly product electric vehicles (EVs) and their possession of a stereotype of EV owners as being “unconventional”, and their attitudes towards EVs, having regard to their levels of environmental concern and prior knowledge of EVs. Additionally, the research explored the link between attitudes towards and willingness to purchase EVs. Design/methodology/approach Participants completed a questionnaire and an Implicit Association Test (IAT) both before and after playing a computer game wherein the player assumed the identity of an EV driver. A structural equation model was constructed to predict attitude to EVs. The relationship between attitude and willingness to purchase was examined via a conditional process analysis. Findings The experience of playing the game improved the favourability of the respondents’ stereotype of EV owners by an average of 19 per cent, and their attitude towards EVs by 17 per cent. Self-image congruence in relation to EV ownership increased on the average by 14 per cent and reported EV product knowledge by 8 per cent. However, willingness to purchase an EV was not substantially affected. The link between attitude and willingness to purchase was weak, but was significantly moderated by stereotype favourability and self-image congruence with EV owners. Research limitations/implications As with any IAT study, it was necessary to pre-specify a particular form of stereotype. Future research could employ alternative stereotypes. The investigation took place in a single country and involved a single environmentally friendly product. Practical implications Gamification has much potential for helping manufacturers and government agencies to stimulate the mass market for EVs. To negate unfavourable images of EV owners, marketing communications promoting EVs might usefully employ celebrities, sports personalities and/or leading political figures as exemplars of the types of people who drive electric cars. Originality/value The research is the first to explore the effects of gamification on product user self-image congruence and stereotype formation. It is novel both in its employment of an IAT to measure the consumer stereotype of an environmentally friendly product and in its examination of the moderating influences of stereotype and product user self-image congruence on the attitude-willingness to purchase link.
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Chen, Xiao, Min Liu, Chaojie Liu, Fang Ruan, Yan Yuan, and Change Xiong. "Job Satisfaction and Hospital Performance Rated by Physicians in China: A Moderated Mediation Analysis on the Role of Income and Person–Organization Fit." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 16 (August 12, 2020): 5846. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165846.
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This study tested the effect of person–organization fit (P-O fit) in mediating the link between job satisfaction and hospital performance with income as a moderator. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 301 physicians from two public hospitals in Zhejiang province of China. Respondents were asked to rate their job satisfaction, value congruence (P-O fit) with the hospital, and the hospital’s performance. The mediating effect of P-O fit on the link between job satisfaction and hospital performance was tested through partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Income was introduced to the model as a moderator on the “P-O fit → hospital performance” and “job satisfaction → hospital performance” path, respectively. Higher job satisfaction and P-O fit were associated with higher ratings on hospital performance (p < 0.01). P-O fit had a partial mediating effect on the association between job satisfaction and hospital performance, accounting for 73% of the total effect. The effects of P-O fit and job satisfaction on hospital performance were stronger in the respondents with higher income. Overall, high job satisfaction is associated with high ratings on hospital performance, which is partially mediated through P-O fit. Value congruence is particularly important when financial tools are used to incentivize hospital physicians.
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Rossier, Jérôme, Anton Aluja, Angel Blanch, Oumar Barry, Michel Hansenne, André F. Carvalho, Mauricio Valdivia, et al. "Cross–cultural Generalizability of the Alternative Five–factor Model Using the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire." European Journal of Personality 30, no. 2 (March 2016): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.2045.
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Several personality models are known for being replicable across cultures, such as the Five–Factor Model (FFM) or Eysenck's Psychoticism–Extraversion–Neuroticism (PEN) model, and are for this reason considered universal. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the cross–cultural replicability of the recently revised Alternative FFM (AFFM). A total of 15 048 participants from 23 cultures completed the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA–PQ) aimed at assessing personality according to this revised AFFM. Internal consistencies, gender differences and correlations with age were similar across cultures for all five factors and facet scales. The AFFM structure was very similar across samples and can be considered as highly replicable with total congruence coefficients ranging from .94 to .99. Measurement invariance across cultures was assessed using multi–group confirmatory factor analyses, and each higher–order personality factor did reach configural and metric invariance. Scalar invariance was never reached, which implies that culture–specific norms should be considered. The underlying structure of the ZKA–PQ replicates well across cultures, suggesting that this questionnaire can be used in a large diversity of cultures and that the AFFM might be as universal as the FFM or the PEN model. This suggests that more research is needed to identify and define an integrative framework underlying these personality models. Copyright © 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology
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Koh, Ling En, Chetna Malhotra, and Eric Finkelstein. "A prospective cohort study of stability in preference for place of death among patients with stage IV cancer." Journal of Clinical Oncology 38, no. 15_suppl (May 20, 2020): e24148-e24148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.e24148.
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e24148 Background: Advanced care planning (ACP) involves discussion and documentation of patients’ care preferences including their preference for place of death. This process assumes that patients’ preference will not change over time; yet evidence for this is inconclusive. The primary aim of this study was to test whether patient preference for place of death changes over time and to identify factors associated with this change. We also assessed whether patients who do not change their preference for place of death during the study duration have greater congruence between actual and baseline preference for place of death. Methods: As part of an ongoing cohort study, we surveyed 466 advanced cancer patients every 6 months in Singapore for a period of two years. We asked patients their preference for place of death (home/ institution/ unclear). We assessed proportion of patients who changed their preference from baseline and at every time point. We ran univariable and multivariable multinomial logistic regression models to assess the association between change in preference for place of death and patient socio-demographics (gender, race, education, housing, marital status) as well as time varying variables (quality of life (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy- General), pain severity (Brief Pain Inventory), psychological distress (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), any intervening hospitalization). We used a logistic regression model to assess if no change in preference during the study period was associated with congruence between actual and baseline preference for place of death. Results: More than a quarter of patients changed their preference for place of death every 6 months with 55% changing their preference at least once within 2 years. There was no clear trend in direction of change in preference. Patients who were psychologically distressed at the time of survey had a greater relative risk of changing their preferred place of death to home (Relative Risk Ratio (RRR) 1.81; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.16-2.82) and to institution (RRR 2.00; 95% CI: 1.17-3.42) relative to no change in preference. Having no change in preference for place of death during the study period was not associated with congruence between actual and baseline preference for place of death. Conclusions: The study provides evidence of instability in advanced cancer patients’ preference for place of death. It calls into question the validity of patient preference for place of death recorded on ACP documents and suggests that we should regularly re-evaluate these documents.
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Brunner, Christian Boris, Sebastian Ullrich, Patrik Jungen, and Franz-Rudolf Esch. "Impact of symbolic product design on brand evaluations." Journal of Product & Brand Management 25, no. 3 (May 16, 2016): 307–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpbm-06-2015-0896.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of symbolic product information (symbolic product design) on consumers’ perceived brand evaluations. In an experimental setting, the authors consider as key factors the congruence between symbolic product design and product category, the level of product involvement as well as brand strength. Design/methodology/approach In an experiment of 490 participants, consumers are confronted to different symbolic product designs connotations. Based on the cognitive process model “SARA” (selective activation, reconstruction and anchoring), the authors examined how symbolic product design associations are used as heuristics in the working memory when making brand judgement. Findings The results show that product design associations are used in consumers’ information processing as anchor for brand evaluations. This effect is stronger if symbolic design associations are incongruent to the product category because of consumers’ deeper elaboration process. Furthermore, the impact of symbolic product design is higher for weak compared to strong brands. Research limitations/implications This research supports the cognitive process model “SARA” being an appropriate foundation explaining the effects of symbolic product design. Further research should extend this experiment, using a field study in a more realistic setting and/or a choice situation between different alternative product designs at the point of sale. Furthermore, the consumers’ elaboration process should be manipulated differently, e.g. in a mental load condition. Practical implications Symbolic product design is important to enhance brand association networks in the consumers’ mind, particularly if the brand is weak. Marketers should use incongruent symbolic product information to differentiate from competitors who use “stereotype” product designs. Originality/value Research about product design in the marketing discipline is still limited. The authors analyse the impact of symbolic product design on brand evaluations in an experimental setting of 490 respondents in four product categories. The findings support that consumers use product design as heuristics to evaluate brands.
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Engelhardt, Ellen G., Ellen M. A. Smets, Irini Sorial, Anne M. Stiggelbout, Arwen H. Pieterse, and Marij A. Hillen. "Is There a Relationship between Shared Decision Making and Breast Cancer Patients’ Trust in Their Medical Oncologists?" Medical Decision Making 40, no. 1 (December 2, 2019): 52–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x19889905.
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Background. Adjuvant systemic treatment for early stage breast cancer significantly reduces the risk of mortality but is associated with side effects, reducing patients’ quality of life. Decisions about adjuvant treatment are preference sensitive and are thus ideally suited to a shared decision making (SDM) approach. Whether and how SDM affects patients’ trust in their oncologist is currently unknown. We investigated the association between patients’ trust in their oncologist and 1) observed level of SDM in the consultation, 2) congruence between patients’ preferred and perceived level of participation, and 3) patient and oncologist characteristics. Methods. Decision consultations ( n = 101) between breast cancer patients and their medical oncologist were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Patients’ trust in their oncologist was measured using the Trust in Oncologist Scale (TiOS). The observed level of SDM was scored using the 12-item Observing Patient Involvement In Decision Making scale (OPTION-12), preferred level of participation with the Control Preferences Scale, and perceived level of participation with an open question in telephonic interviews. Results. The average TiOS score was high overall (mean [SD] = 4.1 [.56]; range, 2.6–5.0). Low levels of SDM were observed (mean [SD] = 16 [11.6]; range, 2–56). Neither observed nor perceived level of participation in SDM was associated with trust. Patients’ preferred and perceived role in decision making was incongruent in almost 50% of treatment decisions. Congruence was not related to trust. A larger tumor size (β = 4.5, P = 0.03) and the use of a risk prediction model during the consultation (β = 4.1, P = 0.04) were associated with stronger trust. Conclusion. Patients reported strong trust in their oncologist. While low levels of SDM were observed, SDM was not associated with trust. These findings suggest it may not be necessary to worry about negative consequences for trust of using SDM or risk prediction models in oncological consultations. Considering the increased emphasis on implementing SDM, it is important to further explore how SDM affects trust in clinical practice.
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Goodman, Ashley, Stephanie M. Mazerolle, and Christianne M. Eason. "Organizational Infrastructure in the Collegiate Athletic Training Setting, Part II: Benefits of and Barriers in the Athletics Model." Journal of Athletic Training 52, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-51.12.24.
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Context: The athletics model, in which athletic training clinical programs are part of the athletics department, is the predominant model in the collegiate athletic training setting. Little is known about athletic trainers' (ATs') perceptions of this model, particularly as it relates to organizational hierarchy. Objective: To explore the perceived benefits of and barriers in the athletics model. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: National Collegiate Athletic Association Divisions I and III. Patients or Other Participants: Eight full-time ATs (5 men, 3 women; age = 41 ± 13 years, time employed at the current institution = 14 ± 14 years, experience as a certified AT = 18 ± 13 years) working in the collegiate setting using the athletics model. Data Collection and Analysis: We conducted semistructured interviews via telephone or in person and used a general inductive approach to analyze the qualitative data. Multiple-analyst triangulation and peer review established trustworthiness. Results: Two benefits and 3 barriers emerged from the data. Role identity emerged as a benefit that occurred with role clarity, validation, and acceptance of the collegiate AT personality. Role congruence emerged as a benefit of the athletics model that occurred with 2 lower-order themes: relationship building and physician alignment and support. Role strain, staffing concerns, and work-life conflict emerged as barriers in the athletics model. Role strain occurred with 2 primary lower-order themes: role incongruity and role conflict. Conclusions: The athletics model is the most common infrastructure for employing ATs in collegiate athletics. Participants expressed positive experiences via character identity, support, trust relationships, and longevity. However, common barriers remain. To reduce role strain, misaligning values, and work-life conflict, ATs working in the athletics model are encouraged to evaluate their relationships with coaches and their supervisor and consider team physician alignment. Moreover, measures to increase quality athletic training staff from a care rather than a coverage standpoint should be considered.
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Nelson, LaRon E., Leo Wilton, Nanhua Zhang, Rotrease Regan, Chia T. Thach, Typhanye V. Dyer, Sameer Kushwaha, Rev Edwin C. Sanders, Omar Ndoye, and Kenneth H. Mayer. "Childhood Exposure to Religions With High Prevalence of Members Who Discourage Homosexuality Is Associated With Adult HIV Risk Behaviors and HIV Infection in Black Men Who Have Sex With Men." American Journal of Men's Health 11, no. 5 (January 12, 2016): 1309–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988315626264.
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Exposure to childhood religious affiliations where the majority of members discourage homosexuality may have negative psychological impacts for Black men who have sex with men. This study tested the hypothesis that exposures to these environments during childhood were associated with adulthood human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted infection (STI) behavioral risk and HIV infection, because these exposures influenced HIV/STI risk by undermining race/sexual identity congruence and increasing internalized homophobia and interpersonal anxiety. Structural equation modeling as well as logistic and Poisson regressions were performed using baseline data from HIV Prevention Trials Network 061 ( N = 1,553). Childhood religion affiliations that were more discouraging of homosexuality were associated with increased likelihood of HIV infection; however, the association was no longer significant after adjusting for age, income, and education. Having a childhood religion affiliation with high prevalence of beliefs discouraging homosexuality was associated with increased numbers of sexual partners (adjusted odds ratio = 4.31; 95% confidence interval [3.76, 4.94], p < .01). The hypothesized path model was largely supported and accounted for 37% of the variance in HIV infection; however, interpersonal anxiety was not associated with HIV/STI risk behaviors. Structural interventions are needed that focus on developing affirming theologies in religious institutions with Black men who have sex with men congregants.
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Kutlu, Mustafa. "Mapping multiple brand-celebrity congruence with OVERALS: An evidence for the meaning transfer model." Journal of Process Management and New Technologies 10, no. 1-2 (2022): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/jouproman2201033k.
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This study aims to provide evidence for the meaning transfer model. In Turkey, five apparel retailer brands and five celebrities are evaluated with brand personality and credibility models, respectively via pick any scales. 305 respondents selected with a convenience sampling approach attend the study. In order to compare different types of entities (brands and celebrities) with nominal variables, OVERALS analysis is performed. Associations regarding brands and celebrities are treated as sets of variables in OVERALS analysis. Three out of five brand-celebrity pairs are found to be closely congruent. In the context of multiple brand-celebrity comparisons, this relativistic congruence provides evidence for the meaning transfer model. Moreover, several essential associations in the meaning transfer process (for celebrities sexy, big fan following, and non-controversial public image and for brands stable, responsible, and active) are revealed. Findings of the study and OVERALS analysis are expected to deepen the understanding of the meaning transfer model.
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Kutlu, Mustafa Bilgehan. "MAPPING MULTIPLE BRAND-CELEBRITY CONGRUENCE WITH OVERALS: AN EVIDENCE FOR THE MEANING TRANSFER MODEL." Journal of process management and new technologies 10, no. 1-2 (April 13, 2022): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/jpmnt10-37184.
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This study aims to provide evidence for the meaning transfer model. In Turkey, five apparel retailer brands and five celebrities are evaluated with brand personality and credibility models, respectively via pick any scales. 305 respondents selected with a convenience sampling approach attend the study. In order to compare different types of entities (brands and celebrities) with nominal variables, OVERALS analysis is performed. Associations regarding brands and celebrities are treated as sets of variables in OVERALS analysis. Three out of five brand-celebrity pairs are found to be closely congruent. In the context of multiple brand-celebrity comparisons, this relativistic congruence provides evidence for the meaning transfer model. Moreover, several essential associations in the meaning transfer process (for celebrities sexy, big fan following, and non-controversial public image and for brands stable, responsible, and active) are revealed. Findings of the study and OVERALS analysis are expected to deepen the understanding of the meaning transfer model.
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Eitan, Zohar, Asi Schupak, Alex Gotler, and Lawrence E. Marks. "Lower Pitch Is Larger, Yet Falling Pitches Shrink." Experimental Psychology 61, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 273–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000246.
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Experiments using diverse paradigms, including speeded discrimination, indicate that pitch and visually-perceived size interact perceptually, and that higher pitch is congruent with smaller size. While nearly all of these studies used static stimuli, here we examine the interaction of dynamic pitch and dynamic size, using Garner’s speeded discrimination paradigm. Experiment 1 examined the interaction of continuous rise/fall in pitch and increase/decrease in object size. Experiment 2 examined the interaction of static pitch and size (steady high/low pitches and large/small visual objects), using an identical procedure. Results indicate that static and dynamic auditory and visual stimuli interact in opposite ways. While for static stimuli (Experiment 2), higher pitch is congruent with smaller size (as suggested by earlier work), for dynamic stimuli (Experiment 1), ascending pitch is congruent with growing size, and descending pitch with shrinking size. In addition, while static stimuli (Experiment 2) exhibit both congruence and Garner effects, dynamic stimuli (Experiment 1) present congruence effects without Garner interference, a pattern that is not consistent with prevalent interpretations of Garner’s paradigm. Our interpretation of these results focuses on effects of within-trial changes on processing in dynamic tasks and on the association of changes in apparent size with implied changes in distance. Results suggest that static and dynamic stimuli can differ substantially in their cross-modal mappings, and may rely on different processing mechanisms.
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Nagai, Kanto, Tom Gale, James J. Irrgang, Scott Tashman, Freddie H. Fu, and William Anderst. "Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Affects Tibiofemoral Joint Congruency During Dynamic Functional Movement." American Journal of Sports Medicine 46, no. 7 (April 3, 2018): 1566–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363546518764675.
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Background: Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) has been shown to alter kinematics, which may influence dynamic tibiofemoral joint congruency (a measure of how well the bone surfaces fit together). This may lead to abnormal loading of cartilage and joint degeneration. However, joint congruency after ACLR has never been investigated. Hypotheses: The ACLR knee will be more congruent than the contralateral uninjured knee, and dynamic congruency will increase over time after ACLR. Side-to-side differences (SSD) in dynamic congruency will be related to cartilage contact location/area and subchondral bone curvatures. Study Design: Descriptive laboratory study. Methods: The authors examined 43 patients who underwent unilateral ACLR. At 6 months and 24 months after ACLR, patients performed downhill running on a treadmill while synchronized biplane radiographs were acquired at 150 images per second. Dynamic tibiofemoral kinematic values were determined by use of a validated volumetric model-based tracking process that matched patient-specific bone models, obtained from computed tomography, to biplane radiographs. Patient-specific cartilage models, obtained from magnetic resonance imaging, were registered to tracked bone models and used to calculate dynamic cartilage contact regions. Principle curvatures of the subchondral bone surfaces under each cartilage contact area were calculated to determine joint congruency. Repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to test the differences. Multiple linear regression was used to identify associations between SSD in congruency index, cartilage contact area, contact location, and global curvatures of femoral or tibial subchondral bone. Results: Lateral compartment congruency in the ACLR knee was greater than in the contralateral knee ( P < .001 at 6 months and P = .010 at 24 months). From 6 to 24 months after surgery, dynamic congruency decreased in the medial compartment ( P = .002) and increased in the lateral compartment ( P = .007) in the ACLR knee. In the lateral compartment, SSD in joint congruency was related to contact location and femur global curvature, and in the medial compartment, SSD in joint congruency was related to contact area. Conclusion: ACLR appears to affect dynamic joint congruency. SSD in joint congruency was associated with changes in contact location, contact area, and femoral bony curvature. Clinical Relevance: Alterations in tibiofemoral contact location, contact area, and bone shape affect dynamic joint congruency, potentially contributing to long-term degeneration after ACLR.
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Atienza, Mercedes, Maite Crespo-Garcia, and Jose L. Cantero. "Semantic Congruence Enhances Memory of Episodic Associations: Role of Theta Oscillations." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23, no. 1 (January 2011): 75–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21358.
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Growing evidence suggests that theta oscillations play a crucial role in episodic encoding. The present study evaluates whether changes in electroencephalographic theta source dynamics mediate the positive influence of semantic congruence on incidental associative learning. Here we show that memory for episodic associations (face–location) is more accurate when studied under semantically congruent contexts. However, only participants showing RT priming effect in a conceptual priming test (priming group) also gave faster responses when recollecting source information of semantically congruent faces as compared with semantically incongruent faces. This improved episodic retrieval was positively correlated with increases in theta power during the study phase mainly in the bilateral parahippocampal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus, and left lateral posterior parietal lobe. Reconstructed signals from the estimated sources showed higher theta power for congruent than incongruent faces and also for the priming than the nonpriming group. These results are in agreement with the attention to memory model. Besides directing top–down attention to goal-relevant semantic information during encoding, the dorsal parietal lobe may also be involved in redirecting attention to bottom–up-driven memories thanks to connections between the medial-temporal and the left ventral parietal lobe. The latter function can either facilitate or interfere with encoding of face–location associations depending on whether they are preceded by semantically congruent or incongruent contexts, respectively, because only in the former condition retrieved representations related to the cue and the face are both coherent with the person identity and are both associated with the same location.
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Zhu, Yujun, and Susan Enguidanos. "Advance Directive Completion and Hospital Out-of-Pocket Expenditures." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 568–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2185.
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Abstract Healthcare costs remain high at end of life. Although advance directives (AD) have been shown to improve care congruence with patients’ preferences and lower cost of healthcare services, little is known about the relationship between AD completion and hospital out-of-pocket costs. This study examined whether AD completion was associated with lower hospital out-of-pocket spending at end of life. We used the Health and Retirement Study participants who died between 2000 and 2014 (N=9,228) to examine the association through the use of a two-part analytic model that has been widely used in health economics. We controlled for socioeconomic status, death-related characteristics, and health insurance coverage and imputed missing data using multiple imputation by chained equations. Of the 43.9% of decedents who completed an AD, 90.7% chose to limit care or to be kept comfortable; 78.8% indicated that they wanted to withhold treatment, and 5.6% wanted to prolong life. Having an AD was significantly associated with $632 (95% CI: [-$1,116.47, -$146.71]) lower hospital out-of-pocket costs, with greater savings among younger decedents, dropping from $1,560 (95% CI: [-$2,652, -$268]) at age 50 to $230 (95% CI: [-$445, -$14]) at age 110. Decedents who completed an AD 12 months or less before death had higher out-of-pocket spending ($1,591 on average) than those who completed more than a year before death ($1,001 on average). Our findings have policy implications for physician-patient communication about costs of care and may provide an opportunity for physicians to involve cost-sharing discussions when completing ADs with patients.
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Conrad, Christopher J., and Nicole S. Lovenduski. "Climate-Driven Variability in the Southern Ocean Carbonate System." Journal of Climate 28, no. 13 (July 1, 2015): 5335–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-14-00481.1.
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Abstract Seasonal and interannual variability in the Southern Ocean carbonate system is investigated using output from a historically forced (1948–2007) ocean general circulation model with embedded biogeochemistry. Atmospheric CO2 is fixed at preindustrial levels to investigate carbonate system variability in the absence of an anthropogenic CO2 perturbation. It is found that nearly a quarter of interannual variability in Southern Ocean Pacific sector surface carbonate ion concentration can be explained by variability in ENSO, with Pacific sector surface decreasing by 0.43 mmol m−3 per standard deviation decrease in the ENSO-3.4 index. ENSO-related variability in vertical advection of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) drives this relationship between ENSO and surface . It is also found that positive phases of the southern annular mode (SAM) are associated with decreased Southern Ocean surface , an association driven by SAM-related variability in vertical advection of DIC. Despite the influence of the SAM on interannual variability in surface , only 4.5% of the trend in natural Southern Ocean surface exhibits linear congruence with the trend in wind stress. Given this, the authors predict that the positive trend in the SAM will not have a substantial impact on ocean acidification. Last, ENSO is found to alter the wintertime minimum in surface . Assuming a business-as-usual acidification rate of 0.5 mmol m−3 yr−1, exacerbation of the wintertime minimum during La Niña conditions may advance the date of aragonite undersaturation within the central Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean by as much as 8 yr.
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Mata-Marín, José Antonio, Armando Abraham de Pablos-Leal, Stefan Mauss, Carla Ileana Arroyo-Anduiza, Mara Soraya Rodríguez-Evaristo, Luis Antonio Uribe-Noguéz, María de los Ángeles Berrospe-Silva, Juan Carlos Lara-Castañeda, Edgar Pérez-Barragán, and Jesús Gaytán-Martínez. "Risk factors for HCV transmission in HIV-positive men who have sex with men in México." PLOS ONE 17, no. 7 (July 15, 2022): e0269977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269977.
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Purpose In the last two decades transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in HIV positive men who have sex with men (MSM) has been reported globally. Chemsex and specific sexual practices have been identified as risk factors. Our study aimed to identify risk factors for HCV transmission in MSM living with HIV attending in Mexico. Methods We conducted a case-control study from April to December 2019 at the Hospital de Infectología “La Raza” National Medical Center, in Mexico City. A case was defined as an HIV-infected MSM with positive HCV-antibody test. For each case, 3 controls were included, defined as HIV infected MSM with negative HCV-antibody test. A self-questionnaire covering sexual practices and other risk factors for HCV transmission was applied. Bivariate analysis was performed to obtain odds ratio (OR) using Chi-square test. Independent risk factors were identified in a subsequent analysis performing a logistic regression model. Results A total of 324 patients participated in the study, 81 cases and 243 controls. Median age was 30.5 years (IQR: 18–52) and 28.8 years (IQR: 21–45) in the case and control group, respectively. Most prevalent HCV genotype was 1a (79%). In the logistic regression model, sharing straw during cocaine inhalation (OR: 9.03; 95% CI; 1.35–13.52; P = 0.003), sharing sex toys (OR: 17.53, 95% CI; 6.85–44.86; P = 0.002), and ethyl chloride use for chemsex (OR: 2.26; 95% CI; 1.29–5.56; P = 0.037) were significant risk factors for HCV infection. Conclusion This study identifies risk factors for HCV transmission in Mexico in HIV positive MSM in congruence with the findings of many studies performed worldwide. This is the first study that indicates a possible association between ethyl chloride use in chemsex and HCV infection. Assessment of local populations for risk factors for HCV transmission may help to develop specifically targeted behavioral interventions to reduce HCV transmission.
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Aguado, Luis, Francisco J. Román, María Fernández-Cahill, Teresa Diéguez-Risco, and Verónica Romero-Ferreiro. "Learning about Faces: Effects of Trustworthiness on Affective Evaluation." Spanish journal of psychology 14, no. 2 (November 2011): 523–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_sjop.2011.v14.n2.1.
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The results of two studies on the relationship between evaluations of trustworthiness, valence and arousal of faces are reported. In Experiment 1, valence and trustworthiness judgments of faces were positively correlated, while arousal was negatively correlated with both trustworthiness and valence. In Experiment 2, learning about faces based on their emotional expression and the extent to which this learning is influenced by perceived trustworthiness was investigated. Neutral faces of different models differing in trustworthiness were repeatedly associated with happy or with angry expressions and the participants were asked to categorize each neutral face as belonging to a “friend” or to an “enemy” based on these associations. Four pairing conditions were defined in terms of the congruency between trustworthiness level and expression: Trustworthy-congruent, trustworthy-incongruent, untrustworthy-congruent and untrustworthy-incongruent. Categorization accuracy during the learning phase and face evaluation after learning were measured. During learning, participants learned to categorize with similar efficiency trustworthy and untrustworthy faces as friends or enemies and thus no effects of congruency were found. In the evaluation phase, faces of enemies were rated as more negative and arousing than those of friends, thus showing that learning was effective to change the affective value of the faces. However, faces of untrustworthy models were still judged on average more negative and arousing than those of trustworthy ones. In conclusion, although face trustworthiness did not influence learning of associations between faces and positive or negative social information it did have a significant influence on face evaluation that was manifest even after that learning.
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Xiao, Guohua, Guirong Tang, and Chengshu Wang. "Congruence Amidst Discordance between Sequence and Protein-Content Based Phylogenies of Fungi." Journal of Fungi 6, no. 3 (August 13, 2020): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof6030134.
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Amid the genomic data explosion, phylogenomic analysis has resolved the tree of life of different organisms, including fungi. Genome-wide clustering has also been conducted based on gene content data that can lighten the issue of the unequal evolutionary rate of genes. In this study, using different fungal species as models, we performed phylogenomic and protein-content (PC)-based clustering analysis. The obtained sequence tree reflects the phylogenetic trajectory of examined fungal species. However, 15 PC-based trees constructed from the Pfam matrices of the whole genomes, four protein families, and ten subcellular locations largely failed to resolve the speciation relationship of cross-phylum fungal species. However, lifestyle and taxonomic associations were more or less evident between closely related fungal species from PC-based trees. Pairwise congruence tests indicated that a varied level of congruent or discordant relationships were observed between sequence- and PC-based trees, and among PC-based trees. It was intriguing to find that a few protein family and subcellular PC-based trees were more topologically similar to the phylogenomic tree than was the whole genome PC-based phylogeny. In particular, a most significant level of congruence was observed between sequence- and cell wall PC-based trees. Cophylogenetic analysis conducted in this study may benefit the prediction of the magnitude of evolutionary conservation, interactive associations, or networking between different family or subcellular proteins.
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Ngo, Chi T., and Marianne E. Lloyd. "Familiarity influences on direct and indirect associative memory for objects in scenes." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 71, no. 2 (January 1, 2018): 471–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1255768.
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Remembering arbitrary associations, such as unrelated word pairs or object–background pairs, appears to depend on recollection. However, for cases in which the components of an association share pre-existing semantic relations, can familiarity support associative recognition? In two experiments with congruent object–background pairings, we found that participants were successful at direct and indirect associative recognition in both 1000 ms time restriction (speeded) and unlimited response time (non-speeded) test conditions. Because dual-process theory postulates that familiarity is less impacted by speeded responses, relative to recollection, these findings suggest that congruent object–background associations may not necessitate recollection when an arbitrary link is not constructed at encoding. Experiment 3 compared direct associative memory for congruent and incongruent object–background pairs in speeded and non-speeded test conditions. We found that participants in the non-speeded condition performed comparably with congruent and incongruent pairs, whereas those in the speeded condition performed significantly worse on the incongruent pairs than on the congruent pairs. Together, these findings suggest a differential role of familiarity and recollection depending on the types of associations. Implications for dual-process recognition memory models and levels of unitization framework are discussed.
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Wallmark, Zachary. "Semantic Crosstalk in Timbre Perception." Music & Science 2 (January 1, 2019): 205920431984661. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059204319846617.
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Many adjectives for musical timbre reflect cross-modal correspondence, particularly with vision and touch (e.g., “dark–bright,” “smooth–rough”). Although multisensory integration between visual/tactile processing and hearing has been demonstrated for pitch and loudness, timbre is not well understood as a locus of cross-modal mappings. Are people consistent in these semantic associations? Do cross-modal terms reflect dimensional interactions in timbre processing? Here I designed two experiments to investigate crosstalk between timbre semantics and perception through the use of Stroop-type speeded classification. Experiment 1 found that incongruent pairings of instrument timbres and written names caused significant Stroop-type interference relative to congruent pairs, indicating bidirectional crosstalk between semantic and auditory modalities. Pre-Experiment 2 asked participants to rate natural and synthesized timbres on semantic differential scales capturing luminance (brightness) and texture (roughness) associations, finding substantial consistency for a number of timbres. Acoustic correlates of these associations were also assessed, indicating an important role for high-frequency energy in the intensity of cross-modal ratings. Experiment 2 used timbre adjectives and sound stimuli validated in the previous experiment in two variants of a semantic-auditory Stroop-type task. Results of linear mixed-effects modeling of reaction time and accuracy showed slight interference in semantic processing when adjectives were paired with cross-modally incongruent instrument timbres (e.g., the word “smooth” with a “rough” timbre). Taken together, I conclude by suggesting that semantic crosstalk in timbre processing may be partially automatic and could reflect weak synesthetic congruency between interconnected sensory domains.
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Eason, Christianne M., Stephanie M. Mazerolle, and Ashley Goodman. "Organizational Infrastructure in the Collegiate Athletic Training Setting, Part III: Benefits of and Barriers in the Medical and Academic Models." Journal of Athletic Training 52, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-51.12.25.
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Context: Academic and medical models are emerging as alternatives to the athletics model, which is the more predominant model in the collegiate athletic training setting. Little is known about athletic trainers' (ATs') perceptions of these models. Objective: To investigate the perceived benefits of and barriers in the medical and academic models. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: National Collegiate Athletic Association Divisions I, II, and III. Patients or Other Participants: A total of 16 full-time ATs (10 men, 6 women; age = 32 ± 6 years, experience = 10 ± 6 years) working in the medical (n = 8) or academic (n = 8) models. Data Collection and Analysis: We conducted semistructured telephone interviews and evaluated the qualitative data using a general inductive approach. Multiple-analyst triangulation and peer review were completed to satisfy data credibility. Results: In the medical model, role congruency and work-life balance emerged as benefits, whereas role conflict, specifically intersender conflict with coaches, was a barrier. In the academic model, role congruency emerged as a benefit, and barriers were role strain and work-life conflict. Subscales of role strain included role conflict and role ambiguity for new employees. Role conflict stemmed from intersender conflict with coaches and athletics administrative personnel and interrole conflict with fulfilling multiple overlapping roles (academic, clinical, administrative). Conclusions: The infrastructure in which ATs provide medical care needs to be evaluated. We found that the medical model can support better alignment for both patient care and the wellbeing of ATs. Whereas the academic model has perceived benefits, role incongruence exists, mostly because of the role complexity associated with balancing teaching, patient-care, and administrative duties.
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Kendler, K. S., and S. H. Aggen. "Clarifying the causal relationship in women between childhood sexual abuse and lifetime major depression." Psychological Medicine 44, no. 6 (August 13, 2013): 1213–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291713001797.
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BackgroundChildhood sexual abuse (CSA) is strongly associated with risk for major depression (MD) but the degree to which this association is causal remains uncertain.MethodWe applied structural equation modeling using the Mplus program to 1493 longitudinally assessed female twins from the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders.ResultsOur model included (i) retrospective self- and co-twin reports on CSA, (ii) major potentially confounding covariates, (iii) assessment of lifetime history of MD at two separate interviews, and (iv) mood-congruent recall (implemented by allowing current depressive symptoms to predict reporting of CSA). In a model with only measurement error, CSA explained 9.6% of MD. Including four key covariates reduced the variance explained to 5.3%, with the largest effects found for parental loss and low parental warmth. Adding the effect of mood-congruent recall to a final well-fitting model reduced the percentage of variance explained in lifetime MD (LTMD) by CSA to 4.4%. In this model, current depressive symptoms significantly predicted recall of CSA.ConclusionsIn a model correcting for measurement error, confounding and the impact of mood-congruent recall, CSA remains substantially associated with the risk for LTMD in women. These findings strongly suggest, but do not prove, that this association is causal, and are consistent with previous results in this sample using a co-twin control design, but also indicate that more than half of the uncorrected CSA–MD association is probably not causal. Traumatic life experiences contribute substantially to the risk for LTMD.
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Pilone, Carola, Federico Verdone, Roberto Rossi, Davide Bonasia, and Federica Rosso. "Prognostic Factors Influencing Outcomes of High Tibial Osteotomy in The Varus Knee: The Role of The Deformity." Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 8, no. 7_suppl6 (July 1, 2020): 2325967120S0046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2325967120s00466.
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Objectives: High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO) is widely performed to treat early arthiritis in the varus knee. The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate different prognostic factors affecting the outcomes of HTO and, with special attention to the role of the site of deformity. Methods: 231 Opening Wedge HTO (OWHTO) were performed in 202 patients and included in the study. Inclusion criteria were: 1) age > 18 years, 2) no major associated procedures (i.e. ACL reconstruction, major cartilage procedure, 3) only OWHTO, 4) pre-operative complete clinical and radiological evaluation available. Patients were evaluated with (1) the Knee Society score (KSS), (2) the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) score, (3) another self-evaluation scale, (4) long-leg radiographs, and (5) plain radiographs. On the x-ray different angles were evaluated, including Join Line Congruence Angle. Furthermore, the location of deformity was established. Three main outcomes were identified: Indication to Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), KSS poor or fair and WOMAC < 76 points), and different prognostic factors were identified (Fig. 1). All the variables were firstly tested in a single regression model to evaluate the association with each outcome. All the variables with p<0.1 were re-tested in a multiple regression model. Results: 32 patients were lost to follow-up and 31 patients did not meet the inclusion criteria, leaving 139 patients (156 OWHTOs) for the study. The average age was 52.9 ± 9.6 years, and the average follow-up was 97.7 ± 42.8 months. Post-operatively there was a significant improvement in both the KSS and WOMAC score compared to the pre-operative period (p<0.0001). The only variable related to TKA indication was a pre-operative JLCA ≥5° (OR=24.3, p=0.0483). Conversely, different variables were related to a worse KSS, including pre-operative BMI >30 Kg/m2 (OR=78.9, p=0.0028), pre-operative ROM <120° of flexion (OR=40.8, p=0.0421), pre-operative mLDFA ≥91° (OR=36,6,p=0.0401) and femoral pre-operative CORA ≥3° of varus (OR=39,9 p=0.0269). Furthermore, a pre-operative BMI >30 Kg/m2 (OR=29,5, p=0.0314) was associated to a worse WOMAC score. Conversely, patients with a pre-operative mMPTA ≤84° had lower risk to obtain a worse KSS oe WOMAC score (respectively OR= 0,2 p=0.0364 and OR=0,3 p=0.0071). The cumulative survivorship was calculated with the Kaplan-Meier method, and it resulted equal to 98.6% at 5 years and decreased to 85.5% at 10 years. Conclusion: OWHTO is a good treatment for early arthritis in the varus knee if the correct indications are applied. The outcomes can be considered good, with 85% of 10-year survivorship. It is mandatory to correctly address the location of the deformity, because the presence of a femoral varus deformity is related to worse outcomes. Similarly, presence of a pre-operative JLCA ≥5° is the only factor associated to TKA indication. [Table: see text]
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Ksinan, Albert J., and Alexander T. Vazsonyi. "Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Monitoring Discrepancy and Delinquency: An Application of the Latent Congruency Model." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45, no. 12 (June 8, 2016): 2369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0512-4.
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Frewen, Paul A., and David J. A. Dozois. "Self-Worth Appraisal of Life Events and Beck’s Congruency Model of Depression Vulnerability." Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy 20, no. 2 (June 2006): 231–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/jcop.20.2.231.
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Congruency theory predicts that sociotropic and autonomous individuals may experience negative life events differently, focusing primarily on the social and achievement themes of events, respectively. The present study investigated this hypothesis in 175 undergraduate students, who completed measures of sociotropy and autonomy, depressive symptoms, and life event self-worth impact appraisals. Both negative interpersonal and personal failure-related events were related to participants’ senses of self-worth in the social and achievement domains, supporting a continuous model of life event classification. Sociotropy and specific autonomy subfactors showed differential associations with self-worth impact ratings. Recommendations for future research, psychological assessment, and treatment of depressive responses to negative life events in sociotropic and autonomous individuals are discussed.
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Barr-Anderson, Daheia J., Ramona Robinson-O’Brien, Jess Haines, Peter Hannan, and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer. "Parental Report Versus Child Perception of Familial Support: Which Is More Associated With Child Physical Activity and Television Use?" Journal of Physical Activity and Health 7, no. 3 (May 2010): 364–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.7.3.364.
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Background:Parent-report and child perception of familial support for weight-related behaviors may not be congruent. This research explores whether parent-report or child perception is more strongly associated with child-reported physical activity and television (TV) use.Methods:Elementary school children (n = 73) participating in Ready. Set. ACTION!, a theater-based obesity prevention pilot program in Saint Paul, MN, and their parents completed surveys assessing familial support for physical activity and limitations on TV use in fall 2006. Paired t tests examined congruency between parent-report and child perception. Linear regression models adjusted for sociodemographics explored the associations between familial support and child-reported behavior.Results:Levels of agreement between parent-report and child perception for support for physical activity and limitations on TV use were approximately 70%. Compared with parent-report for physical activity support, child perception was more strongly associated with child physical activity (β = .17, P = .02). Neither parent-report nor child perception for support for limitations on TV use was associated with child TV use. Discussion:Although parent-report and child perception of familial support for physical activity and to limit TV use were similar, child perception was more strongly associated with child physical activity behavior. More research, probably qualitative, is needed to examine how parents and children define and perceive parental support.
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Bodenmann, Guy, Nathalie Meuwly, and Karen Kayser. "Two Conceptualizations of Dyadic Coping and Their Potential for Predicting Relationship Quality and Individual Well-Being." European Psychologist 16, no. 4 (January 1, 2011): 255–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000068.
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Dyadic coping has received increased attention during the last decade, both in theory and empirical studies. Two main models of dyadic coping are proposed in the current literature: (1) a comparative approach in which each partner’s individual coping is compared with the other’s individual coping with regard to congruence or discrepancy and (2) a systemic model where dyadic coping is conceptualized as an interactive and reciprocal process. In this study, the predictive power of these two different models of dyadic coping is examined regarding relationship quality and well-being. The study is conducted with 443 Swiss couples. Results reveal that both dyadic coping measures are related to relationship quality and psychological well-being. However the systemic dyadic coping measure is a stronger predictor than the discrepancy measure for relationship quality. Both measures show weaker associations with well-being. Findings are discussed with regard to theoretical issues and their implication for practical work.
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Farkas, Kinga, Zsófia Pálffy, and Bertalan Polner. "S61. COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH SCHIZOTYPAL TRAITS." Schizophrenia Bulletin 46, Supplement_1 (April 2020): S56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa031.127.
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Abstract Background Psychotic symptoms might be explained by disturbances of information processing due to errors of inference during neural coding, and hierarchical models could advance our understanding of how impaired functioning at different levels of the processing hierarchy are associated with psychotic symptoms. However, in order to examine to what extent such alterations are temporary or stable, the psychometric reliability and validity of the measurements need to be established. Individual differences in visual perception were measured by responses to uncertain stimuli presented during a probabilistic associative learning task. Our novel contributions are the measurement of cross-modal (visual and acoustic) associative learning and the assessment of the psychometric properties of indicators derived from a perceptual decision task: we evaluate its internal consistency, test-retest reliability and external validity as shown by associations with schizotypal traits. Methods Participants (32 healthy individuals, 13 men, age (SD) = 27.4 (9.4)) performed a perceptual decision task twice with one week delay. They were asked to indicate the direction of perceived motion of disambiguous and ambiguous visual stimuli (640 trials), which were preceded by visual and acoustic cues that were probabilistically associated with the motion direction and were congruent (both predict the same motion) or incongruent (cues predict different motion). Schizotypal traits were measured with the short version of the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE) questionnaire, which showed good internal consistency and test-retest reliability (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.71 – 0.83 for subscales, test-retest correlation for Cognitive Disorganization: r = 0.84, and Unusual Experiences: r = 0.79). Results We found a significant difference in response reaction times between stimuli with high and low probability (t = -2.037; p = 0.044). Acoustic cues predicted the decision significantly higher in case of ambiguous stimuli in both sessions (1. t=4.19, p<0.001; 2: t=3.46, p=0.002). Congruency of visual and acoustic cue pairs had no significant effect on response times for ambiguous stimuli. Reaction times and bias towards reliance on auditory cues during perceptual decision making under uncertainty showed stability over the two sessions (test-retest rho’s ranging from 0.56 – 0.72). Cognitive Disorganization scores showed weak negative correlation with response time under uncertainty (session 1: r= -0.24, session 2: r= -0.28), Unusual Experiences scores showed weak negative correlation with the bias towards reliance on auditory cues (session1: r= -0.21, session 2: r= -0.19). We did not find relationship between general response speed and any O-LIFE subscale scores. Discussion The results show some intraindividual stability of individual differences in perceptual decision making as measured by our paradigm. Participants with higher schiztypal scores tend to have slower response speed under uncertainty and greater bias towards reliance on auditory cues in a small healthy sample which implies it might be useful to measure these variables in clinical population and evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions or illness progression in follow-up studies. The presented preliminary results derived from descriptive statistics of the behavioral data. Our research group is currently working on fitting a trial-by-trial hierarchical computational model - which includes the representation of uncertainty - to find more detailed individual differences, e.g. the time course of parameter changes while learning in a visual perception task.
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Machado, Amanda Viana, Lidyane V. Camelo, Dora Chor, Rosane H. Griep, Joanna M. N. Guimarães, Luana Giatti, and Sandhi Maria Barreto. "Racial inequality, racial discrimination and obesity incidence in adults from the ELSA-Brasil cohort." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 75, no. 7 (January 8, 2021): 695–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214740.
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BackgroundThis study investigated whether self-reported race/skin colour and perceived racial discrimination predict higher obesity incidence after approximately 4-year follow-up of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). We also investigated whether these associations are modified by educational level.MethodsFollowing exclusion of individuals defined as obese (body mass index ≥30 kg/m2) at baseline, associations between race/skin colour and obesity incidence between the first (2008–2010) and second (2012–2014) visits were investigated in 10 130 participants. Next, associations between perceived racial discrimination and obesity incidence among black (n=1532) and brown (n=2958) individuals were investigated separately. Racial discrimination (yes/no) was assessed using the Lifetime Major Event Scale. Logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex and research site were used. All analyses were stratified for educational level.ResultsObesity risk was higher in Blacks with high education compared with white individuals to the same education level (OR: 2.22; 95% CI 1.62 to 3.04) following adjustments. After adjustments, obesity incidence was higher among black individuals reporting racial discrimination compared with peers who did not report this experience, but only among the low education group (OR: 1.64; 95% CI 1.08 to 2.51). No statistical association with perceived discrimination was observed among brown individuals.ConclusionResults are congruent with findings from other studies reporting associations between racial inequality and obesity incidence and also suggest racial discrimination may be one of the mechanisms leading to such inequalities. Also, it supports the paradox theory by which education modify the association in distinct directions.
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Mayer, Jessica, Nadia Zainuddin, Rebekah Russell-Bennett, and Rory Francis Mulcahy. "Scaring the bras off women." Journal of Service Theory and Practice 29, no. 3 (October 2, 2019): 233–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jstp-11-2017-0196.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of perceived threat, brand congruence, and social support on consumer coping strategies for a preventative health service. Design/methodology/approach An online survey of 570 women aged over 50 in one Australian state was conducted (users and non-users of the service). The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings A competing models approach reveals that threat on its own is associated with avoidance coping; however, when brand congruence is high, there is an association with active coping. Social support appears to have a buffering effect on threat and is associated positively with active coping and negatively with avoidance coping. Originality/value The study findings suggest that threat appeals should be used with caution in increasing participation in transformative preventative health services due to its double-edged sword effect (increasing both avoidance and active coping). When consumers have social support, this results in active coping and buffers avoidance coping. This research offers useful insights for social marketing and transformative service research.
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Jackson, J. A. "Analysis of parasite host-switching: limitations on the use of phylogenies." Parasitology 119, S1 (December 1999): S111—S123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000084675.
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SUMMARYEven the most generalist parasites usually occur in only a subset of potential host species, a tendency which reflects overriding environmental constraints on their distributions in nature. The periodic shifting of these limitations represented by host-switches may have been an important process in the evolution of many host-parasite assemblages. To study such events, however, it must first be established where and when they have occurred. Past host-switches within a group of parasites are usually inferred from a comparison of the parasite phylogeny with that of the hosts. Congruence between the phylogenies is often attributed to a history of association by descent with cospeciation, and incongruence to host-switching or extinction in ‘duplicated’ parasite lineages (which diverged without a corresponding branching of the host tree). The inference of host-switching from incongrucnt patterns is discussed. Difficulties arise because incongruence can frequently be explained by different combinations of biologically distinct events whose relative probabilities are uncertain. Also, the models of host parasite relationships implicit in historical reconstructions may often not allow for plausible sources of incongruence other than host-switching or duplication/extinction, or for the possibility that colonization could, in some circumstances, be disguised by ‘false’ congruence.
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Kovács, Lilla Nóra, Natália Kocsel, Attila Galambos, Anna Magi, Zsolt Demetrovics, and Gyöngyi Kökönyei. "Validating the bifactor structure of the Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire—A psychometric study." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (July 26, 2021): e0254986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254986.
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The Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire (RTSQ) is a self-report measure that aims to capture rumination globally, unbiased by depressive symptoms. We explored its psychometric properties among university students (N = 1123), as the existing models about the factor structure of the RTSQ have been inconclusive. In a second study (N = 320) we tested its convergent validity compared to the Ruminative Response Scale (RRS) and its construct validity compared to the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (ZSDS). The results of Study 1 suggest that the factor structure of the RTSQ is best described with a 19-item bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling (ESEM), where most of the variance is explained by the general factor. The model was found to be invariant across genders. The correlations in Study 2 demonstrated that the RTSQ is congruent with the RRS, and that rumination captured by the RTSQ is rather maladaptive, as it was more strongly associated with the brooding subscale of the RRS than with reflective pondering. Significant positive associations were found with depressive symptoms, reaffirming the validity of the RTSQ due to the well-known association between rumination and depressive symptoms. Our results support that RTSQ assesses rumination globally, and it is a valid measure of ruminative thinking style that is rather negatively valenced but does not solely focus on depressive mood and symptoms.
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Johnson, W. Brad, Clark D. Campbell, and Michelle L. Dykstra. "Professional Training in Religious Institutions: Articulating Models and Outcomes." Journal of Psychology and Theology 25, no. 2 (June 1997): 260–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164719702500210.
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This article calls for reconsideration and evaluation of training models among explicitly religious doctoral training programs. In light of recent modifications to the American Psychological Association (APA) accreditation criteria (APA, 1995), the authors consider the range of relevant training missions for religious institutions as well as implications for subsequent components of the curriculum. Recommendations are offered regarding mission congruent student outcomes, and programs are encouraged to utilize outcome data in ongoing consideration of the programs’ rationale and structure. The article concludes with brief consideration of the wisdom of creating a religious organization to act in collaboration with APA in evaluating the uniquely religious missions and outcomes of such programs.
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Van Os, Jim, S. B. G. Park, and Peter B. Jones. "Neuroticism, life events and mental health: evidence for person-environment correlation." British Journal of Psychiatry 178, S40 (April 2001): s72—s77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.178.40.s72.
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BackgroundThere is some evidence that genetic effects on the likelihood of experiencing stressful life events (SLEs) are mediated by heritable traits such as cognitive ability (CA) and neuroticism (N).AimsTo examine whether the association between CA, N and mental ill-health is driven in part by a predisposition to experience depressogenic SLEs.MethodChildhood measures of N and CA were available in a birth cohort of 5362 individuals. At ages 36 and 43 years, mental state and occurrence of SLEs in the previous year were assessed. Using a path-analytic approach, models with and without a hypothesised influence of N and CA on the occurrence of SLEs were compared.ResultsThe fit of the model with childhood N having a direct influence on SLEs was good with χ2=5.72, d.f.=4, P=0.22 at age 36 years and χ2=3.50, d.f.=5, P=0.62 at age 43. The fit of the model was significantly worse without this path at both ages (36 years: χ2=42,5, d.f.=1, P<0.001; 43 years χ2=15.3 d.f.=1, P<0.001). No consistent differences were seen in comparisons of models with CA.ConclusionsThe results are congruent with the suggestion that genetic effects on SLEs are mediated by personal characteristics. Part of the well-established association between N and minor psychiatric disorder may be mediated by an indirect effect of N on the likelihood of experiencing SLEs.
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LEACH, WILLIAM D., and PAUL A. SABATIER. "To Trust an Adversary: Integrating Rational and Psychological Models of Collaborative Policymaking." American Political Science Review 99, no. 4 (October 31, 2005): 491–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000305540505183x.
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This study explores how trust arises among policy elites engaged in prolonged face-to-face negotiations. Mirroring recent evidence that citizens' procedural preferences (as opposed to policy preferences) drive trust in government, we find thatinterpersonaltrust among stakeholders in consensus-seeking partnerships is explained by the perceived legitimacy and fairness of the negotiation process more so than by the partnership's track record of producing mutually agreeable policies. Overall, hypotheses derived from social psychology do as well or better than those based on rational-choice assumptions. Important predictors of trust include small and stable groups, generalized social trust, clear decision rules, political stalemate, congruence on policy-related beliefs, and absence of devil-shift (the belief that one's opponents wield more power than one's allies). Surprisingly, null or negative correlations exist between trust and network density, measured by membership in voluntary associations. The study illustrates the value of behavioral models that integrate institutional, rational, and psychological explanations.
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Grissom, Jason A., Sarah E. Kabourek, and Jenna W. Kramer. "Exposure to Same-Race or Same-Ethnicity Teachers and Advanced Math Course-Taking in High School: Evidence from a Diverse Urban District." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 122, no. 7 (July 2020): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146812012200709.
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Background/Context Research links advanced mathematics course-taking to important later outcomes, including college graduation and earnings, yet many students fail to progress into higher math courses as they move through high school. Black and Hispanic high school students are less likely than their white peers to take advanced math courses. A complex set of factors inform decisions about student course-taking, but teachers play key roles, including providing information about courses, giving students encouragement, helping students form aspirations (e.g., through role modeling), and serving as gatekeepers via grade assignment and formal recommendations. At the same time, growing empirical evidence suggests that students from different racial/ethnic groups benefit from being taught by teachers with similar demographic backgrounds, which motivates an analysis connecting math teacher–student racial or ethnic congruence with progression into higher math courses in high school. Purpose We investigate the degree to which having a math teacher of the same race or ethnicity predicts subsequent enrollment in more advanced high school math courses, as well as in honors and Advanced Placement (AP) math courses. We also investigate potential mechanisms, including impacts of student–teacher congruence on course grades and standardized test performance, which may in turn predict a higher likelihood of advanced math course enrollment. Setting We examine student-level administrative data from high schools in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the United States. Research Design We estimate the likelihood that a student will take a higher level math course as a function of student–teacher racial/ethnic congruence, plus student, teacher, and classroom characteristics, and school fixed effects. This research design compares later math course-taking between students with and without race/ethnicity-congruent teachers within the same school, holding a variety of other factors constant. We estimate similar models for honors and AP course-taking. We also estimate models for math course grades and end-of-course (EOC) exam scores using school-by-course and student fixed effects. Findings/Results We find that high school students with a same-race or same-ethnicity teacher are more likely to take a higher math course in the next year than other students taking the same course in the same school. Associations are largest for Black students, who are 2 percentage points more likely to advance to a higher math course when taught by a Black teacher. Having a demographically similar teacher is also associated with movement into honors and AP courses in the next term, on average, though results vary by student subgroup. Students receive higher EOC scores and higher grades when taught by a demographically similar teacher, with higher grades even than what would be predicted by their EOC score, particularly in algebra. Conclusions/Recommendations Our analysis contributes to growing evidence on the importance of teacher diversity for outcomes for students from minoritized groups and is among only a very small set of studies that demonstrate teachers’ impacts on student outcomes not just for one year, but also in subsequent years. Our results underscore the importance of efforts to recruit and retain teachers of color, particularly in high schools. We recommend future research to better understand the mechanisms linking diverse teachers to student course-taking outcomes.
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Franco-Gonçalo, Pedro, Diogo Moreira da Silva, Pedro Leite, Sofia Alves-Pimenta, Bruno Colaço, Manuel Ferreira, Lio Gonçalves, Vítor Filipe, Fintan McEvoy, and Mário Ginja. "Acetabular Coverage Area Occupied by the Femoral Head as an Indicator of Hip Congruency." Animals 12, no. 17 (August 26, 2022): 2201. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12172201.
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Accurate radiographic screening evaluation is essential in the genetic control of canine HD, however, the qualitative assessment of hip congruency introduces some subjectivity, leading to excessive variability in scoring. The main objective of this work was to validate a method-Hip Congruency Index (HCI)-capable of objectively measuring the relationship between the acetabulum and the femoral head and associating it with the level of congruency proposed by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI), with the aim of incorporating it into a computer vision model that classifies HD autonomously. A total of 200 dogs (400 hips) were randomly selected for the study. All radiographs were scored in five categories by an experienced examiner according to FCI criteria. Two examiners performed HCI measurements on 25 hip radiographs to study intra- and inter-examiner reliability and agreement. Additionally, each examiner measured HCI on their half of the study sample (100 dogs), and the results were compared between FCI categories. The paired t-test and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) showed no evidence of a systematic bias, and there was excellent reliability between the measurements of the two examiners and examiners’ sessions. Hips that were assigned an FCI grade of A (n = 120), B (n = 157), C (n = 68), D (n = 38) and E (n = 17) had a mean HCI of 0.739 ± 0.044, 0.666 ± 0.052, 0.605 ± 0.055, 0.494 ± 0.070 and 0.374 ± 0.122, respectively (ANOVA, p < 0.01). Therefore, these results show that HCI is a parameter capable of estimating hip congruency and has the potential to enrich conventional HD scoring criteria if incorporated into an artificial intelligence algorithm competent in diagnosing HD.
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Fuhs, Mary Wagner, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt, and Connor D. O’Rear. "Approximate number system task performance: Associations with domain-general and domain-specific cognitive skills in young children." Journal of Numerical Cognition 4, no. 3 (December 21, 2018): 590–612. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jnc.v4i3.141.
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We investigated the associations between young children’s domain-general executive functioning (EF) skills and domain-specific spontaneous focusing on number (SFON) tendencies and their performance on an approximate number system (ANS) task, paying particular attention to variations in associations across different trial types with either congruent or incongruent non-numerical continuous visual cues. We found that children’s EF skills were strongly related to their performance on ANS task trials in which continuous visual cues were incongruent with numerosity. Novel to the current study, we found that children’s SFON tendencies were specifically related to their performance on ANS task trials in which continuous visual cues were congruent with numerosity. Children’s performance on ANS task trials in which children can use both congruent numerical and non-numerical continuous visual cues to approximate large quantities may be related to their unprompted tendency to focus on number in their early environment when there are not salient distractors present. On the other hand, children’s performance on incongruent ANS trials may be less a function of number-specific knowledge but more of children’s domain-general ability to inhibit salient but conflicting or irrelevant stimuli. Importantly, these effects held even when accounting for global math achievement and children’s cardinality knowledge. Overall, results support the consideration of both domain-specific and domain-general cognitive factors in developmental models of children’s early ability to attend to numerosity and provide a possible means for reconciling previous conflicting research findings.
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Kontukoski, Maija, Harri Luomala, Bruno Mesz, Mariano Sigman, Marcos Trevisan, Minna Rotola-Pukkila, and Anu Inkeri Hopia. "Sweet and sour: music and taste associations." Nutrition & Food Science 45, no. 3 (May 11, 2015): 357–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nfs-01-2015-0005.
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Purpose – This paper aims to extend current understanding concerning the cross-modal correspondences between sounds and tastes by introducing new research tools and experimental data to study associations and their reflections between music and taste. Design/methodology/approach – The experiment design addresses the multidisciplinary approach by using cultural, chemical and statistical analysis methods. Findings – The paper provides further evidence that exposure to the “sweet” or “sour” musical pieces influences people’s food-related thinking processes and behaviors. It also demonstrates that sweet or sour elements in the music may reflect to actual sweetness (as measured by sugar content) and sourness (as measured by organic acid content) of foods developed in association with music carrying similar taste characteristics. Research limitations/implications – The findings should be replicated and expanded using larger consumer samples and wider repertoires of “taste music” and dependent variables. Also, the level of experimental control should be improved; e.g., the “sweet” and “sour” music were produced using different instruments, which may have an influence to the results. Practical implications – Ambient “taste music” that is congruent with the basic flavors of the dishes can be played in restaurants to highlight guests’ sensory experience. Social implications – By carefully considering the symbolic meanings of the music used in different social situations, it is possible to create multimodal experiences and even subconscious expectations in people’ minds. Originality/value – Cross-modal associations are made between the tastes and music. This can influence on perception of food and provide new ways to build multimodal gastronomic experiences.
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Soriano, Cristina, and Javier Valenzuela. "The size of shame and pride." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20, no. 1 (May 24, 2022): 210–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00108.sor.
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Abstract We investigate the figurative size (big or small) that more naturally fits the conceptual representation of the moral emotion concepts pride and shame. We hypothesize the pairings pride-big and shame-small to be more natural than their counterparts, because of the emotions’ expressive profile: pride’s expanded body posture makes us look big, while shame’s shrunk body posture makes us look small. These effects are part of the folk model of pride and shame observed in language and the mapping can be best described as metonymic. An Implicit Association Test is used to investigate the existence of these conceptual pairings in Spanish. Faster reaction times and fewer errors were observed for metonymy-congruent compared to incongruent pairs. These results provide the first empirical evidence of a cognitive association coherent with our hypothesized metonymic link and constitute an empirical psycholinguistic contribution to the study of conceptual metonymy.
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Anderson, Stuart. "Publicness, Organisational Characteristics and Performance." International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics 3, no. 1 (January 2013): 33–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpphme.2013010103.
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This paper reports an exploratory study utilising a publicness model in which the impact of ownership, funding and mode of control on performance is moderated by organisational characteristics such as goals, structure and management. It describes the testing in 164 English hospital pharmacies of four health sector-relevant characteristics; diffusion of ownership (number of owners), priority of financial goals, congruence of core purpose (goals of sub-unit compared to organisation), and proximity of control (hierarchical levels between sub-unit and top management). Associations between these and four indicators of performance (managerial effectiveness, utilisation of human resources, work quality and employee satisfaction) were examined. Statistically significant relationships were seen between three of the organisational characteristics and some aspect of performance. Priority of financial goals was associated with perceptions of managerial performance, and proximity of control with use of human resources, work quality and employee satisfaction. Further elucidation of such characteristics may be justified.