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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 9

September 2020 - 15 articles

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Cover Story: This paper describes how participants coordinate their movement behavior in relation to a virtual crowd that surrounds them. The participants were immersed in a virtual metropolitan city and were instructed to cross the road and reach the opposite sidewalk. Several measurements were obtained to evaluate human movement coordination. Significant differences between the movement behaviors of the participants and the simulated characters were found. Moreover, simple linear regression analyses indicated that the movement behavior of participants was moderately associated with the simulated characters' movements when performing a locomotive task within a virtual crowd population. This study can be considered as a baseline for further research that evaluates the movement coordination of participants during human–virtual crowd interactions using measurements obtained by the simulated characters. View this paper

Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,307 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2020

Background: Despite substantial literature exploring language treatment effects in multilingual people with aphasia (PWA), inconsistent results reported across studies make it difficult to draw firm conclusions. Methods: We highlight and illustrate v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,127 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2020

Trustworthiness includes at least two dimensions: one dimension captures the authority’s benevolence; the other captures authority’s competence. This qualitative study explores the representation of the two dimensions of authority trustwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,735 Views
13 Pages

The Mediator Role of Body Image-Related Cognitive Fusion in the Relationship between Disease Severity Perception, Acceptance and Psoriasis Disability

  • Vera Almeida,
  • Ângela Leite,
  • Diana Constante,
  • Rita Correia,
  • Isabel Filipa Almeida,
  • Maribel Teixeira,
  • Diogo Guedes Vidal,
  • Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e Sousa,
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis and
  • Ana Teixeira

19 September 2020

Psoriasis is a long-term skin disorder without a cure, whose patients are particularly susceptible to mental health diseases. Using a sample of patients diagnosed with psoriasis, this study aimed to: (1) identify the clinical and positive psychologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,083 Views
19 Pages

A Time-Lagged Examination of the Greenhaus and Allen Work-Family Balance Model

  • Alfonso Landolfi,
  • Massimiliano Barattucci and
  • Alessandro Lo Presti

18 September 2020

The work-family interface is a compelling topic that calls into question labor market dynamics and work processes, together with important social and family composition changes. The present study aimed at examining the antecedents of Work-Family Bala...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,253 Views
23 Pages

Voluntary Language Switching in the Context of Bilingual Aphasia

  • Nicholas Grunden,
  • Giorgio Piazza,
  • Carmen García-Sánchez and
  • Marco Calabria

18 September 2020

As studies of bilingual language control (BLC) seek to explore the underpinnings of bilinguals’ abilities to juggle two languages, different types of language switching tasks have been used to uncover switching and mixing effects and thereby re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,683 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2020

This paper reports on the development of a novel 10-item scale that measures beliefs about aging as well as religious-based beliefs about aging. The Religious Beliefs and Aging Scale (RBAS) shows acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.74) and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,440 Views
14 Pages

14 September 2020

In today’s dynamic organizational environment, employees with a tendency to display discretional behaviors beyond their prescribed formal job duties represent a plus. Underpinned by the theories of social exchange and conservation of resources,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
28,452 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2020

Flow states have been shown to help people reach peak performance, yet this elusive state is not easily attained. The review describes the current state of literature on flow by addressing the environmental influences as well as the cognitive and neu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,795 Views
9 Pages

7 September 2020

Longer survivorship is possible due to advances enabling early detection and treatment. However, cancer survivors are faced with prognostic uncertainty regarding survival, long-term symptoms, surveillance, and consequences of treatment. This study ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,363 Views
18 Pages

Attitudes and Approaches to Use of Meal Replacement Products among Healthcare Professionals in Management of Excess Weight

  • Gabrielle Maston,
  • Janet Franklin,
  • Alice A. Gibson,
  • Elisa Manson,
  • Samantha Hocking,
  • Amanda Sainsbury and
  • Tania P. Markovic

7 September 2020

Meal replacement product-based diets are an effective weight loss intervention used in the management of obesity. Historically, these diets have been underutilised by HealthCare Professionals (HCPs). An online survey of mixed methods design was distr...

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