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Collins, Aron Shawn. "Conflict and Cooperation: Self-Interest Versus Other-Interest?" W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625683.
Full textHardwicke, Tery Vance. "Virtue and self-interest." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2670.
Full textSutherland, Debbie. "Empathy and self-interest." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0024/MQ33854.pdf.
Full textBitter, James Robert. "Self-Care, Self-Awareness, and Social Interest." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5239.
Full textMessing, Aaron Isaac. "Understanding cooperation and self-interest." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.
Find full textMinjarez, Jennifer Marie, and Jennifer Marie Minjarez. "On Morality and Self-Interest." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625104.
Full textBaldwin, Sharon. "Self-interest and the public interest, professional regulation in Saskatchewan, 1905-1948." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0022/MQ35827.pdf.
Full textGottheil, Allen. "Redefining marketing, self-interest, altruism and solidarity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25993.pdf.
Full textBoyle, Mary O. "Personality and interest predictors of academic self-concept." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28645.
Full textRobson, Matthew. "Inequality aversion and self-interest : an experimental approach." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20316/.
Full textTaylor, Sarah G. "Virtue or Success? It Depends on Self-interest." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1369217510.
Full textScherwin, Vicki Mara. "The overlooked dimension of leadership follower self-interest /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872216381&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textGreen-Demers, Isabelle. "When boredom gives birth to motivation, interrelations between interest-enhancing strategies, interest, and self-determination." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/NQ28344.pdf.
Full textBishop, Elizabeth J. "An analysis of christian morality : inconsistency and self-interest." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2002. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/260.
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Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
Donoghue, E. D. "Self-regulation and the public interest : A question of confidence." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517277.
Full textGibbs, David. "Non-executive directors' self-interest : fiduciary duties and corporate governance." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/49712/.
Full textLiskey, Natalie A. "Clothing interest and self-perception of female adolescents with scoliosis." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43095.
Full textThis research investigated the relationships between clothing interest and self-perception among scoliosis patients and their non-handicapped peers. The objectives were (1) to investigate the differences in selected clothing interest factors and self-perception domains between female adolescents with scoliosis and non-handicapped female adolescents and (2) to investigate relationships between clothing interests and self-perception among female adolescents with scoliosis and non-handicapped female adolescents.
Data were obtained from 70 female adolescents of which 35 had scoliosis and 35 were non-handicapped. A clothing inventory, developed by Creekmore in 1963 and revised by Borsari in 1978, titled "Dimensions of Clothing Interest," was used to measure clothing dimensions of interest, conformity, modesty, psychological awareness, and self concept.
A second instrument, the "Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents", developed by Harter in 1988, was used to measure five domains of self-perception which were: social acceptance, athletic competence, romantic appeal, physical attractiveness, and global self-worth.
Master of Science
Arbuckle, Nathan L. "Exploring the Conflict between Self-Interest and Concern for Others." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316547011.
Full textWoods, Robert Cathal. "The virtuous polity Aristotle on justice, self-Interest and citizenship /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086112327.
Full textDou, Remy. "The Interactions of Relationships, Interest, and Self-Efficacy in Undergraduate Physics." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3228.
Full textAbel, Karen Chandler Cynthia K. "Factors affecting academic interest and self perception of adolescent Hispanic females." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-4011.
Full textAbel, Karen. "Factors Affecting Academic Interest and Self Perception of Adolescent Hispanic Females." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4011/.
Full textBonfiglio, Robert A. "The history of public relations in American higher education in the twentieth century : from self-interest to national interest /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10937778.
Full textOrr, Shannon. "National self-interest in the cosmos, a regime analysis of outer space." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0020/MQ27534.pdf.
Full textKrueger, Guy J. "In the interest of students : exploring the efficacy of directed self-placement /." Available to subscribers only, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1079668311&sid=21&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textFrimer, Jeremy Abraham. "Why be good? the development of enlightened self-interest in moral personality." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37673.
Full textDe, Cremer David. "Beyond self-interest in social dilemmas : a relational model of co-operation." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299416.
Full textStarr, Nicholas Comfort. "From Self-Interest to Virtue: On the Moral Imagination in Rousseau's "Emile"." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3819.
Full textThis dissertation is a study of the moral and political significance of the imagination in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. Rousseau attributes to the imagination a pervasive influence over human life, claiming that it "gives birth not only to the virtues and vices, but to the goods and ills of human life" and that its "empire" makes men "good or bad, happy or unhappy on this earth." The dissertation examines the ambivalence of Rousseau's account, and shows how the model "natural education" of Emile depends on the proper handling of the imagination to cultivate virtue and to secure individual happiness. After first establishing what Rousseau means by "natural education" and what its particular goals are, I turn to the threat the imagination poses to the success of that education. Rousseau's attack on the imagination centers on its power to open the human heart to infinite desire. By generating ever-new and ever-expanding desires, the imagination renders men necessary to one another, causing dependence, weakness, and, ultimately, wickedness, and unhappiness. As a principal agent of man's departure from natural self-sufficiency, the imagination is at the center of the process that transforms natural self-love (amour de soi) into amour-propre, and makes genuine human satisfaction fundamentally elusive. Following these introductory chapters, the remainder of the dissertation argues that, despite this critique, Rousseau in fact relies on the imagination in the successive stages of Emile's moral education to protect his independence and to strengthen those aspects of natural self-love (amour de soi) that lend themselves to the cultivation of the social virtues. Tracing the role of the imagination through Emile's education in compassion, justice, natural religion, love, and virtue, I argue that the proper habituation of the imagination proves to be indispensable for securing both happiness and morality, for defending individual autonomy in the context of social life, and for reconciling, to the extent possible, the private and the public good. Moreover, although Rousseau's recourse to the imagination might initially seem to introduce an element of irrationality into Emile's education, Emile's imagination in fact aids his ability to live not only a moral life but also a rational life. In a variety of ways, detailed in the dissertation, Rousseau employs the imagination and its illusions to forestall other more crippling illusions, to reveal the social world and the passions of men for what they truly are, and to make Emile both moderate and wise. Finally, however, while Emile's moral education engages his imagination in the most salutary manner possible, both for himself and for others, it cannot wholly prevent the imagination from giving birth to desires that betray a disruption of natural wholeness. While these desires present a complicated set of issues, in general, they represent the compromise with natural self-sufficiency that is involved in even the most promising moral education
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
Gilliam, Kimberly A. "Effects of Professional Socialization Factors on Career Counseling Self-Efficacy and Interest." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1353088238.
Full textBenz, Jennifer Kirstin Carsey Thomas M. "A framework for understanding the role of self-interest in attitude formation." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1940.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
Dutra, Paula H. "Institution interaction and regime purpose considerations based on TRIPS/CBD /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180729582.
Full textLuke, Iain Ronald Mackenzie. "Moral thinking and the self-interest axiom in the history of economic analysis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624794.
Full textNeeves, Peter M. "Performance Implications of Fortune 500 Companies' Self-Interest in Corporate Social Responsibility Activities." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2674.
Full textCaines, Valerie Dawn. "Late-Life Career Choice: The Antecedents of Self-Employment Interest for Older Workers." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142418.
Full textMay, Melissa M. "Whites opposition to race targeted policies : the effects of racial attitudes and self-interest." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1293375.
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Winters, Desiree Marie. "Using Playable Case Studies to Influence Teen Girls' Self-Efficacy and Interest in Cybersecurity." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7558.
Full textMalmin, Kareema Najme Rahim. "Predicting Academic Success and Failure Implications for Stereotype Threat, Motivation, Interest, and Self-Regulation /." [Chico, Calif. : California State University, Chico], 2009. http://csuchico-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/handle/10211.4/172.
Full textShichida, Toshi. "The Workings of Admiration and Adoration in Contrast to Self-Interest Within Religious Families." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5843.
Full textLindgren, Emilie, and Inara Rudko. "Speglingen av organisationers egenintresse i remissvar : En studie av yttranden över fyra av Statens Offentliga Utredningar." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Business Studies, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2786.
Full textObjective: In this thesis, we assume that the organizations' interests are governing their behavior/positions. It seems possible to draw conclusions about organizations'interests on the basis of the behavior / positions that will appear in the givenopinions on Swedish Public Investigations. The purpose of this thesis is toidentify self-interests of the studied organizations as they appear in their givenopinions.
Method: The authors have made a qualitative and quantitative study of the opinions.
Theoretical perspective: The basis of the study is the organization theories that focus the self-interest oforganizations.
Empiric: Information is taken from four Swedish Public Investigations: the New Company Act, International Accounting for Swedish companies, Abolition of the audit requirement for small and medium sized enterprise and Simplified accounting. Altogether 310 opinions have been given on these, out of which we have studied 59. Furthermore, we have collected information on tasks, activities and objectives from the websites of the opinion giving organizations.
Conclusions: In the literature, we found, as mentioned, that organizations havet hree self- interests which we define as general self-interests. They are the interest in survival, resources and power. We have found - what we believe – an additional general self-interest of organizations, namely the interest to avoid accountability and transparency. It was possible to divide the organizations intogroups with high community of interest within each group while the community between the groups was low. This provides an empirical support to Dimaggio’s and Powell’s theory which says that organizations in specific areas are similar. This means that it is possible to study the interest of organizations, without studying the individuals in an organization. We found that the owner's interests expressed in tasks, activities and objectives of the organization are important factors affecting the organization's interest structure. We also found indications - however unclear - that the public interest has an impact on the organizations' self interests. We also found an interest to protect its own market which can be related to the general interest of resource influx under Pfeffers and Salanciks theories of resource dependence.
Baldino, Donald James. "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues: An Egoist Conception of Rights." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/121248.
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Rights today are a jumble of conflicting and incompatible claims. Without correction, the concept of rights will be eroded and eventually abandoned. The loss would be tragic, because rights are essential to our long-term planning and success. Incompatible claims have arisen from incommensurable conceptual foundations. Historically and essentially, rights are egoistic. Attempts to justify rights according to other criteria - divine command, human dignity, altruism, utilitarianism - fail on their own terms. Egoism or self-interest is fully compatible with social responsibility and with regard for the interests of others. The nature of rights is examined and ethical diversity is defended. The evolution of rights is traced from Roman antiquity through medieval developments through modern refinements, with particular attention paid to the rights theories of Gerson, Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke. A will theory of rights is proposed based on contract rather than on natural law and teleology. This will theory is explained using state of nature theory, with reference to Olson's logic of collective action. It is contrasted with the egoistic theories of Rand and Smith, with the utilitarian will theories of Hart and Wellman, and with the interest theories of MacCormick and Kramer.
Temple University--Theses
Lin, Yuet-yim Veronica. "The fable of economic animals an empirical study of the impacts of shocks and crises on the Hong Kong real estate industry /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36224856.
Full textKuhn, Tatjana. "The International Science Programme in Bangladesh : A case of self-interest, interdependence or social empowerment?" Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-81854.
Full textMcWhaw, Katherine A. "The interaction of goal orientation and interest on students' use of self-regulated learning strategies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/MQ44890.pdf.
Full textArhinful, Daniel Kojo. "The solidarity of self-interest social and cultural feasibility of rural health insurance in Ghana /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2003. http://dare.uva.nl/document/71020.
Full textBano, Masooda. "Self-interest, rationality and cooperative behaviour : aid and problems of cooperation within voluntary groups in Pakistan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440557.
Full textBirtles, Sara. "A green space beyond self-interest: the evolution of common land in Norfolk, c.750-2003." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399801.
Full textPaton, Paul Douglas. ""In the public interest" : threats to self-regulation of the legal profession in Ontario, 1998-2006 /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
Full textLuccioni, Noelle Alexandra. "Elementary students perceptions of their teachers' self-efficacy, interest, and enjoyment of science and science teaching." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/556018.
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Current literature reveals that researchers are not using student perceptions as a large component to their data collection nor as an avenue to investigate how students pick up on their teachers’ self-efficacy (SE) for, interest in, and enjoyment of science teaching. In my dissertation, I explored the relationship between teacher beliefs, student perceptions of teacher beliefs, and student beliefs by developing and implementing instrumentation measuring students’ perceptions of their teachers’ SE, interest, and enjoyment for science and science teaching. In an effort to measure elementary students’ perceptions of their teacher’s SE, interest, and enjoyment of science and science teaching, I developed nine instruments and established reliability () for each. These instruments are the: (a) Teacher Instrument for Science Self-Efficacy ( = .852); (b) Teacher Instrument for Science Interest ( = .900); (c) Teacher Instrument for Science Enjoyment ( = .923); (d) Student Perceptions of Teacher Self-Efficacy Instrument ( = .635); (e) Student Perceptions of Teacher Interest Instrument ( = .661); (f) Student Perceptions of Teacher Enjoyment Instrument ( = .762); (g) Student Instrument for Science Self-Efficacy ( = .723); (h) Student Instrument for Science Interest ( = .767); and (i) Student Instrument for Science Enjoyment ( = .763). I administered these instruments to grade 3 elementary teachers (NT = 7) and grade 3 students (NS = 73) in three combined surveys: The Teacher Instrument for Science Self-Efficacy, Interest, and Enjoyment, which was made up of 51 Likert-scale items with six open-ended response prompts; the Student Instrument for Perceptions of Self-Efficacy, Interest, and Enjoyment of Science, which was made up of 25 Likert-scale items; and the Student Instrument for Science Self-Efficacy, Interest, and Enjoyment, which was composed of 24 Likert-scale items. The results of a MANOVA showed that there were no differences between groups, in this case teachers, when considering either student perceptions or student beliefs. The results of regression analysis showed that student perceptions of their teachers’ self-efficacy, interest, and enjoyment of science and science teaching are predictive of student interest in and enjoyment of science. Finally, the results of an SEM analysis showed specific predictive pathways that exist between the independent variables (perceptions of self-efficacy, interest, and enjoyment) and the dependent variables (student self-efficacy, interest, and enjoyment). More specifically, student perceptions of teacher self-efficacy predicted student interest; student perceptions of teacher interest predicted student interest and enjoyment; and student perceptions of enjoyment predicted student self-efficacy, interest, and enjoyment of science. Overall, I found that students generally perceive their teachers’ beliefs in science more negatively than teachers report for themselves and that student perceptions of their teachers’ beliefs are predictive of their own beliefs in science. These results hold implications for both research and practice. More specifically, my research provides a meaningful application of student perceptions and gives it weight to be considered in other areas of educational research such as teacher preparation and student achievement. My research provides more support for the impact teacher unpreparedness has on student belief development and on student achievement, given that my research has shown that student perceptions of their teacher SE, interest, and enjoyment are predictive of student beliefs in science. As educational researchers, we have to pay more attention to elementary teacher preparation in science. When teachers are not self-efficacious in science, they have a lower interest in science, thus enjoying it less and further perpetuating the cycle of beliefs development. My research in teacher and student beliefs supports what is already known about elementary teacher SE while also adding new findings regarding teacher interest and enjoyment of science. Further, by including student perceptions, we can continue to gauge the current conditions of various aspects of elementary teacher preparation and practice in science and reconsider its impacts.
Temple University--Theses
Vargas-Machuca, Isabel. "Hispanic women's views on affirmative action: Self-interest, fairness, socio-political orientation, past discrimination, and acculturation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1405.
Full textTsakissiris, Jane. "The role of professional identity & self-interest in career choices in the emerging ICT workforce." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91646/1/Jane_Tsakissiris_Thesis.pdf.
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