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  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,841 Views
38 Pages

The Psychology behind Knowledge Hiding in an Organization

  • Roksana Binte Rezwan and
  • Yoshi Takahashi

This study aimed to understand the psychological process behind employees’ knowledge hiding (KH) behaviors in organizations. KH is an intentional act of concealing knowledge when it is requested by a colleague and can lead to counterproductive conseq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,944 Views
18 Pages

Using the theory of motivation, and the theory of planned behavior, this study establishes the “motivation-cognition-behavior” model of green utilization of agricultural waste from the perspective of farmers. In the motivational dimension...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,082 Views
11 Pages

17 January 2024

This research investigated the relation between motivation to avoid uncertainty, as reflected in the need for cognitive closure, implicit theories about the malleability of human attributes, and attitudes toward women as leaders vs. followers. In a c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,743 Views
29 Pages

15 March 2023

This systematic review aimed to investigate the impact of different psychological models, strategies, and methods to improve plaque control and/or gingival inflammation in patients with periodontal diseases. Methods: The PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane Libr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,682 Views
20 Pages

Testing Variation in Esports Spectators’ Motivations in Relation to Consumption Behaviour

  • Yueh-Tung Hua,
  • Kun-Yu Liu,
  • Hsien-Che Huang,
  • Ian D. Rotherham and
  • Shang-Chun Ma

20 January 2023

This study aims to examine firstly the motivations of esports spectators driving them to engage in consumption behaviour, and secondly, two spectator groups (League of Legends, LOL; Hearthstone) to compare the findings of the independence model and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,975 Views
25 Pages

Cognitive-Motivational Determinants of Residents’ Civic Engagement and Health (Inequities) in the Context of Noise Action Planning: A Conceptual Model

  • Natalie Riedel,
  • Irene Van Kamp,
  • Heike Köckler,
  • Joachim Scheiner,
  • Adrian Loerbroks,
  • Thomas Claßen and
  • Gabriele Bolte

The Environmental Noise Directive expects residents to be actively involved in localising and selecting noise abatement interventions during the noise action planning process. Its intervention impact is meant to be homogeneous across population group...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,789 Views
27 Pages

4 February 2025

The purpose of this study is to identify motivational profiles in sustainable career trajectories via emerging latent class methods using a multilevel schema between engagement in sustainable career practices, developing and utilizing job competency&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,159 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2018

Student organization is considered an important approach for the sustainable development of ideological and political education, and it helps construct learning style and campus culture. This research studies college students’ motivations for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,259 Views
29 Pages

28 October 2016

Human beings do not observe the world from the outside, but rather are fully embedded in it. The sciences, however, often give the observer both a “god’s eye” perspective and substantial a priori knowledge. Motivated by W. Ross Ashby’s statement, “th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,767 Views
15 Pages

15 October 2020

Individual innovative behavior has an important relationship with the sustainable development of an organization. Thus, mostly drawing on social cognitive theory, this study examined the relationship between abusive supervision and employees’ i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,780 Views
13 Pages

Teaching Algorithms to Develop the Algorithmic Thinking of Informatics Students

  • Dalibor Gonda,
  • Viliam Ďuriš,
  • Anna Tirpáková and
  • Gabriela Pavlovičová

18 October 2022

Modernization and the ever-increasing trend of introducing modern technologies into various areas of everyday life require school graduates with programming skills. The ability to program is closely related to computational thinking, which is based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
131 Citations
25,862 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Emotional Intelligence, Motivation and Resilience on Academic Performance and the Adoption of Healthy Lifestyle Habits among Adolescents

  • Rubén Trigueros,
  • José M. Aguilar-Parra,
  • Adolfo J. Cangas,
  • Rosario Bermejo,
  • Carmen Ferrandiz and
  • Remedios López-Liria

Included among the basic objectives of Physical Education (PE) classes is the consolidation of habits of a healthy lifestyle among adolescents. However, the main studies in this field have focused on cognitive aspects related to students during these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,850 Views
25 Pages

13 December 2022

Organizations strive to motivate employees to thrive at work. However, employees’ motivation is likely to vary over a short period (e.g., a few months) to cope with the routine dynamics of organizations’ activities. These motivation dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
691 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into organizational processes brings both opportunities and challenges for knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing remains a cornerstone of organizational learning and innovation, yet the emergence of AI i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,880 Views
15 Pages

Understanding Behavioral Regulation Towards Physical Activity Participation: Do We Need a Paradigm Shift to Close the Gender Gap?

  • Antonio Luque-Casado,
  • Xian Mayo,
  • Ana Myriam Lavín-Pérez,
  • Alfonso Jiménez and
  • Fernando Del Villar

4 February 2021

Despite the well-established benefits of physical activity for both physical and psychological health, current inactivity prevalence continues to be particularly alarming among adolescents and youth. Equally of great concern is the existence of strik...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,547 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2024

This study investigates the impact of theory of mind, anticipated emotions before actual behavior, and consequential emotions following the behavior on sharing and allocation behavior in 4–6-year-old children. In Experiment 1, 95 children were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,517 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2020

Does the increasing awareness of environmental risk exposure also affect intentions to create enterprises which address these social and environmental failures? Besides economic explanations that social and environmental needs and market failure crea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,345 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2023

During the COVID-19 epidemic, social media has become the main channel for people to learn information related to the epidemic, among which information in the form of videos has played a significant role in the prevention and control of COVID-19. How...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,036 Views
16 Pages

Information that is complicated and ambiguous entails high cognitive load. Trying to understand such information can involve a lot of cognitive effort. An alternative to expending a lot of cognitive effort is to engage in motivated cognition, which c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,866 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2025

This study examines how employees perceive technology-based demands during the digital transformation process and how these perceptions affect job performance. The research utilized data obtained from 388 experts in the accounting and financial repor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
13,609 Views
24 Pages

9 April 2021

Previous studies indicated that K-12 teachers generally felt reluctant to incorporate sustainable development in their teaching due to a lack of skills, knowledge and interest, particularly language teachers. This qualitative case study, grounded in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,991 Views
25 Pages

6 August 2019

Moral foundations theory (MFT) suggests that individuals on the political left draw upon moral intuitions relating primarily to care and fairness, whereas conservatives are more motivated than liberals by authority, ingroup, and purity concerns. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,432 Views
22 Pages

Investigating the Relationship Between Boredom and Creativity: The Role of Academic Challenge

  • Maike Krannich,
  • Basak Calik,
  • Thomas Goetz,
  • Anna-Lena Ullrich and
  • Anastasiya Lipnevich

This study examined the boredom–creativity link by including students’ levels of over- and underchallenge. Based on the Meaning and Attentional Components model and the Cognitive Load Theory, we proposed the negative effects of students&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
807 Views
22 Pages

Exploring Opportunities for More Effective Acquisition and Interpretation of New Knowledge by Students in the Field of Architectural Visualization Through Multimedia Learning

  • Desislava Angelova,
  • Tsvetan Stoykov,
  • Vanina Tabakova,
  • Denislav Lyubenov,
  • Eli-Naya Konetsovska and
  • Anna-Maria Sofianska

26 August 2025

This study explores opportunities for improving the learning process of design students using multimedia and microlearning, with a focus on architectural visualization. It analyzes the learning habits of students and faculty in higher education, refl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,080 Views
24 Pages

Driven by fast-growing economies worldwide, the number of international construction projects is booming, and employing expatriates has inevitably become a strategy used by construction firms. However, stress arising from expatriate assignments can l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,296 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2018

The present study examined consumer responses to strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspectives of consumer moral emotions (empathy) and cognition (moral identity), and investigated charitable activities conducted by convenienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
19,484 Views
15 Pages

Relationship Analysis among Apparel Brand Image, Self-Congruity, and Consumers’ Purchase Intention

  • Lihong Chen,
  • Habiba Halepoto,
  • Chunhong Liu,
  • Naveeta Kumari,
  • Xinfeng Yan,
  • Qinying Du and
  • Hafeezullah Memon

18 November 2021

Brand image has been a crucial clue to making subjective judgment for consumers to determine the brand, which is critical to making a purchase decision. The influence mechanism from apparel brand images on consumers’ purchase intention was explored f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
7,364 Views
19 Pages

Public acceptance of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is vital for a society to reap their intended benefits such as reduced traffic accidents, land usage, congestion and environmental pollution. The purpose of this paper is to use the theory of planned beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,092 Views
28 Pages

Despite the ubiquitous application of gamification in livestreaming commerce, the mechanisms driving its impact on consumer participation remain underexplored. To address this research gap, this study integrated two theoretical frameworks: the &ldquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,617 Views
21 Pages

We present a framework for electroencephalography (EEG)-based classification between patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and robust normal elderly (RNE) via a graph theory approach using visibility graphs (VGs). This EEG VG approach is motiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
13,388 Views
11 Pages

28 September 2020

Conspiracy narratives and speculative rumors of a conspiracist nature are intermittently popular in youth culture, as well as in political discourse. The general motivations of conspiracy beliefs relate to essential needs (for knowledge, to feel safe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,003 Views
10 Pages

3 June 2018

This paper inspects editorial production in the field of Japanese contemporary architecture, screening the contents of essays written during the last decade (2007–2010) by four selected authors in which a recurring interplay with nature-related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,284 Views
16 Pages

The agricultural organization based on digital platforms in C2F (Company–Platform–Farmers) may be an effective way to reduce the increased risk of green production caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the specific mechanism and impact inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,782 Views
21 Pages

As an important indicator to measure the adaptability and development potential of individuals in an organization, political skill is rarely considered as an antecedent variable in the field of safety voice. This study is based on impression manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,218 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2021

Internships are increasingly being used in the hospitality industry, as these can provide students with opportunities to examine their abilities, interests, and career decisions in a workplace context, as well as help cultivate human resources within...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
11,733 Views
22 Pages

Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained significant popularity as a scientific construct over the past three decades, yet its conceptualization and measurement still face limitations. Applied EI research often overlooks its components, treating it as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,979 Views
13 Pages

2 January 2021

The latest research suggests that the relationships between the risk of contracting COVID-19, personal resources and subjective well-being have rather an indirect character and can include the occurrence of mediating factors related to meaning-making...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,983 Views
12 Pages

Perspectives Associated with Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in Adults: A Qualitative Study

  • Alina Cernasev,
  • Kenneth C. Hohmeier,
  • Oluwafemifola Oyedeji,
  • Tracy Hagemann,
  • Kristina W. Kintziger,
  • Taylor Wisdom and
  • Justin Gatwood

15 April 2023

Background: In the last several decades, vaccine hesitancy has become a significant global public health concern. The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been on the United States of America (USA) market since 2006, with extended approval up to ag...

  • Review
  • Open Access
233 Citations
51,173 Views
43 Pages

Augmented Reality and Gamification in Education: A Systematic Literature Review of Research, Applications, and Empirical Studies

  • Georgios Lampropoulos,
  • Euclid Keramopoulos,
  • Konstantinos Diamantaras and
  • Georgios Evangelidis

5 July 2022

This study scrutinizes the existing literature regarding the use of augmented reality and gamification in education to establish its theoretical basis. A systematic literature review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,459 Views
12 Pages

18 October 2021

A shortage of qualified teachers has been a long-term problem in many school districts and education systems internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the current human resource gap in teaching significantly impacted the quality of teaching serv...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,856 Views
12 Pages

Get Outside! Promoting Adolescent Health through Outdoor After-School Activity

  • Patricia Ann Barfield,
  • Katelyn Ridder,
  • Justin Hughes and
  • Kelly Rice-McNeil

Background: The Get Outside: After School Activity Program (GO-ASAP) exemplifies how a rural community can utilize its natural resources and community partnerships to promote adolescent health. Methods: A qualitative descriptive inquiry was conducted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,033 Views
20 Pages

Bridging the Attitude–Behavior Gap in Sustainable Tourism: An Extended TPB Model of Green Hotel Purchase Intentions

  • Arthur Araújo,
  • Isabel Andrés Marques,
  • Lorenza López Moreno and
  • Patricia Carrasco García

15 October 2025

The awareness of tourism’s environmental impact has increased interest in sustainable alternatives such as green hotels, yet tourists often fail to translate pro-environmental attitudes into action, reflecting the attitude–behavior gap. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,024 Views
23 Pages

5 August 2023

A lack of qualitative studies examining adolescent students’ voices regarding the contextual, relational, and self-regulatory factors that drive their language achievement has been observed. Therefore, the present study aimed to address this is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,972 Views
14 Pages

Determinants of Weight-Related Behaviors in Male Saudi University Students: A Qualitative Approach Using Focus Group Discussions

  • Abdulaziz Balhareth,
  • Mohammed Jafer,
  • Ester van der Borgh-Sleddens,
  • Stef Kremers and
  • Ree Meertens

Obesity is a serious public health concern in the Gulf States. Students are exposed to many unhealthy weight-related behaviors due to college life. However, research that gives insight into regional and culture-specific aspects and determinants of we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,008 Views
28 Pages

Digital Markets, Local Products: Psychological Drivers of Buying Nomadic Local Foods Online

  • Samira Esfandyari Bayat,
  • Armin Artang,
  • Naser Valizadeh,
  • Morteza Akbari,
  • Masoud Bijani,
  • Pouria Ataei and
  • Imaneh Goli

11 October 2025

E-commerce is quickly increasing purchasing behavior across the globe, but little is known about how psychological paradigms underscore online buying intentions for locally essential items as nomadic local foods. The primary goal of this research is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,065 Views
20 Pages

11 February 2021

Using study abroad as a vehicle for sustainable education is a growing trend. However, an examination of the impact of study abroad on participants’ sustainability-related attitudes and behaviors years after their programs is scarce. Therefore, the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,966 Views
19 Pages

A Cognitive Systems Engineering Approach Using Unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means Technique, Exploratory Factor Analysis and Network Analysis—A Preliminary Statistical Investigation of the Bean Counter Profiling Scale Robustness

  • Dana Rad,
  • Lavinia Denisia Cuc,
  • Ramona Lile,
  • Valentina E. Balas,
  • Cornel Barna,
  • Mioara Florina Pantea,
  • Graziella Corina Bâtcă-Dumitru,
  • Silviu Gabriel Szentesi and
  • Gavril Rad

A bean counter is defined as an accountant or economist who makes financial decisions for a company or government, especially someone who wants to severely limit the amount of money spent. The rise of the bean counter in both public and private compa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,563 Views
16 Pages

Urban villages are a modern heritage in China that provide affordable housing for urban immigrants and accommodate diverse communities of cohabitation. The regeneration and displacement of urban villages in the past decade have raised the potential r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,015 Views
20 Pages

The green behaviors of engineering project designers can improve the green performance of engineering projects. Moral factors are likely to influence designers’ behavior related to green design. Therefore, this study takes mindfulness leadershi...

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