Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / The date on cover and spine was mis-printed as "1995." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-173).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / The date on cover and spine was mis-printed as "1995". Includes bibliographical references (leave 146-173). Also available in print.

本項研究的目的主要是探討兒童和成人如何評鑑不同類別的溝通技巧，並分析成長過程對其之影響。當中我們會進一步探究道德規範和社會常規如何影響人們對於「坦率的真話」和「扭曲的謊言」的分析和評價。為了研究環境因素會否影響人們對於溝通技巧的分析，我們分別掌控了故事當中資訊接收者和資訊提供者的關係，以及資訊對於資訊接收者的重要性。 / 是次的研究對象為七歲，九歲，十一歲的兒童以及一群大學生。他們需要閱讀八個有關日常對話的小故事，並對故事當中主角所說的「傷人真話」和「漂亮謊言」給予評分。結果指出隨著年齡的增長，人們對於善意的謊言有著更正面的評分，而對於傷人的真話之評分則恰恰相反。 / 此外，在分析真話與謊言時，人們處理有關資訊接收者的相關變素亦有著不同的態度。當分析真話時，不論資訊對於接收者的重要性，成人皆會偏好於好朋友說出的真話多於向新同學說出的真話。近似地，兒童也傾向偏好於向好朋友說出的真話多於向新同學說出的真話，但這個差距在資訊重要性較高時會更被放大。當分析謊話時，成人會同時考慮到資訊接收者和資訊提供者的關係以及資訊對於資訊接收者的重要性。他們比較重視較近的關係，於好朋友是資訊接收者時更留意資訊的重要性，並對於重要情況下所說的謊言當予以更負面的評價。但兒童只會集中於分析資訊對於資訊接收者的重要性，因此不論是好朋友還是新同學，他們也會對於在重要情況下所說的謊言予以負面評價。 / 從自我評分分析中，我們更可以肯定不同的年齡層在分析溝通技巧時所著重的價值有所不同。年齡較輕的傾向注重誠信價值，比較偏好於提供正確的資訊，而年長的則更會留意有關社交及環境因素的影響(如獲貌，資訊提供者和接收者的關係，資料重要性等等) ，誘使他們更接受善意的謊言。我們更發現不同的家庭管教方式能夠顯著地預測人們應用哪些道德和社交價值去分析不同的溝通技巧。 / 總結以上的結果，是次研究展示了成長過程對於人們分析及評鑑不同類別的溝通技巧有著顯著的影響作用。 / The current study investigated the developmental trend on the evaluation of different communicative strategies among children and adult. Their justification on the appraisal of blunt truth and twisted information in prosocial situations were examined in relation to their emphasis on moral values and social-conventional rules. To test the sensitivity of contextual factors for analyzing these conversational strategies, recipient-related factors including the relationship between the interlocutors and the importance of the feedback were manipulated. Children aged 7, 9 and 11 year-olds with a group of college students participated in the present study. Participants were given eight daily social scenarios of which the protagonist either told a hurtful blunt truth or a pleasing twisted discourse to the recipient, and the participants were asked to evaluate what the protagonist had said. Result revealed that as one grew older, individuals tended to evaluate more positively for false information with prosocial intentions, and rated more negatively for hurtful blunt truth. Age differences on the impact of recipient-related variables were found to be varied across the statement valence. When evaluating the truthful statements, adults rated those told to close friends more positively as compared to new classmates; consistent across the consequence factors. Similar to adults, children favored blunt truth for close friends compared to new classmates; but the effect would be magnifying in high consequence situations. Whereas when evaluating the manipulated statements, adults take into consideration both the factor of intimacy and consequence, and rated falsify message told in high consequence situations more negative as compared to low consequence situations when the recipients were their close friends. While the children group only focused on the consequence impact and rated more negatively for any twisted information in high consequence situation as bad across friendships. The two piece of information together illustrated that children who valued more on honesty would evaluate deeper on the blunt truth condition, while adults who valued more on politeness would have a more thorough analysis for the manipulated speech condition. Justification analysis provided further support on the age difference on values weighting in analyzing the usage of these speech strategies. While younger generation focused more on the importance of honesty, which enhanced the preference of accurate information; older participants on the other hand attended more on social and contextual factors including politeness, relationship factors, and feedback consequences, encouraging their acceptance of prosocial speech manipulation. Parenting styles were found to predict significantly the adoption of different moral and social values in explaining the evaluation. Overall, our study revealed significant developmental changes for the evaluation and justification of the conversational strategies. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Szeto, Ching Yee Lovenner. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-96). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese; appendix A includes Chinese. / Chapter 1 / Introduction --- p.11 / Definition of Manipulated Speech --- p.11 / Prevalence of Manipulated Speech among Adults --- p.12 / Necessary Conditions for the Employment of Speech Manipulation --- p.14 / Language and cognitive abilities --- p.14 / Theory of mind --- p.14 / Emotion understanding --- p.15 / Summary --- p.16 / Impact of Socialization on the Appraisal of Speech Manipulation --- p.16 / Parenting styles --- p.16 / Summary --- p.18 / Developmental trend for Various Manipulated Discourse --- p.18 / Egocentric lies --- p.19 / Prosocial lies --- p.20 / Conclusion --- p.21 / Developmental trend for Conceptual and Moral Understanding --- p.21 / Conceptual understanding of manipulated discourses --- p.21 / Evaluation of lies --- p.23 / Linkage between moral evaluation and moral behaviors --- p.25 / Conclusion --- p.26 / Other Important Factors Guiding the Usage of Conversational Strategies --- p.27 / Consequential factors --- p.27 / Relational factors --- p.28 / Conclusion --- p.30 / Current Studies --- p.30 / Conceptual understanding --- p.31 / Evaluation of statement (Overall) --- p.31 / Evaluation of statement (Recipient Intimacy) --- p.31 / Evaluation of statement (Recipient Consequence) --- p.31 / Evaluation of statement (Interaction) --- p.32 / Justification of the rating --- p.32 / Parenting styles analysis --- p.33 / Evaluation of statement (Emotion understanding) --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 2 / Method --- p.35 / Participants (Overall) --- p.35 / Procedure --- p.35 / Procedure for child participants --- p.35 / Procedure for undergraduates --- p.36 / Materials --- p.36 / Blunt truth and strategic speech vignettes --- p.36 / Need for approval --- p.40 / Theory of mind understanding --- p.40 / Parenting styles --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter 3 / Result --- p.43 / Analysis on the evaluative ratings of the target statements --- p.43 / Preliminary analysis --- p.43 / Combined analysis (blunt truth or strategic speech) --- p.43 / Analysis for the scenarios of blunt truth --- p.44 / Analysis for the scenarios of strategic speech --- p.45 / Adoption of justification by age (statement values, intimacy and consequence) --- p.46 / Usage of honesty as justification of the evaluative ratings --- p.46 / Usage of politeness as justification of the evaluative ratings --- p.46 / Usage of intimacy as justification of the evaluative ratings --- p.46 / Usage of consequence as justification of the evaluative ratings --- p.46 / Analysis of evaluative ratings by justification types --- p.47 / Blunt truth scenarios --- p.47 / Strategic speech scenarios --- p.47 / Adoption of justification by parenting styles --- p.48 / Justification: honesty --- p.48 / Justification: politeness --- p.48 / Justification: intimacy --- p.49 / Justification: consequence --- p.49 / Analysis of evaluative ratings by emotion perception of the speakers and the recipients --- p.49 / Blunt truth scenarios --- p.49 / Strategic speech scenarios --- p.49 / Chapter Chapter 4 / Discussion --- p.50 / Overview --- p.50 / Conceptualization of blunt truth and manipulated speech --- p.50 / Valence of the Statements --- p.51 / Sensitivity of Contextual Factors - Recipient-related Variables --- p.52 / Blunt Truth Scenarios --- p.53 / Manipulated Speech Scenarios --- p.55 / Moral Values and Social-Conventional Rules --- p.56 / Parenting --- p.57 / Emotion Understanding --- p.59 / Contribution, Limitation and Future Research --- p.60 / Conclusion --- p.64

The popularity of peer-to-peer networks has grown tremendously in recent times as a result of the ever-improving capabilities of host entities at the edge and the ubiquitous reach of the Internet. The growth has fueled the realization of many peer-to-peer networks in both academia and the commercial arena. Peer-to-peer networks generally fall into one of these categories ??? centralized systems with server-like entities in the network; unstructured systems with random topology and message routing, and structured systems with deterministic topology and routing behavior. Surveying the major peer-to-peer networks in each category, one can conclude that the each of the categories exhibit very different characteristics and properties from one another. This thesis addresses the problems in the peer-to-peer networking space by employing two overarching principles. Firstly, desirable properties of systems in one category can be adopted by another to achieve restructuring. In short, restructuring involves the injection of structure into unstructured networks and conversely loosening the rigidity in structured systems. Secondly, as much as possible, participating peers in the network are designed to be homogeneous in functionality recognizing that they are heterogeneous in capabilities. True to the concept of the peer-to-peer paradigm, this principle keeps participants functioning as fellow peers rather than imposing hierarchical differences in the roles within the network. We describe three contexts in which the issues pertaining to the peer-to-peer networks in view can be addressed by applying the principle of restructuring. For the Mobile Agent Peer-to-Peer architecture, we adopt centralized concepts into the unstructured peer-to-peer network while maintaining homogeneity in functionality through the use of mobile agents. The architecture shields excessive traffic from peers with limited resources and allows more capable peers to share others??? burden. Through the use of mobile agents, logical hierarchy is avoided and thus the second overarching principle of homogeneity is preserved. For Gnutella Clusters, concepts from the structured systems are adopted to facilitate the formation and maintenance of clustering in unstructured networks. Clustering limits the amount of flooding in the network and thus conserves bandwith. The clustering algorithm is decentralized to all peers, and does not need a set of participants to have special functionality ??? thus preserving the generic nature of all peers. In Autonomic Decentralized Service Directory platform, structure is released from the underlying Chord network to provide better support for service registration and searching. The strict requirements for deterministic routing and lookup which characterize structured systems are granted some leniency for the ability to avoid misbehaving nodes and provide incentives for peers to behave properly.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the professional interaction and interpersonal communication factors in the management of biomedical instructional development projects which involved the use of electronic media. Reference is made, repeatedly, in instructional development literature to the need to include interpersonal communication skills in the education and training of present and future instructional systems developers. It has been suggested that subject specialist consultation is one of the most vital instructional design skills. However, this skill may not be taught in educational and training programs. Before specific skills can be identified and included in the professional preparation of ISDs, it is necessary to determine what the communication factors are, as well as exactly where and when interpersonal communication conflicts occur within the ISD process. To provide relevancy, these issues need to be linked to actual occurrences in actual settings. This study provides insight into actual roles, relationships and interpersonal communication factors in the context within which they occur. / Graduation date: 1995

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-187). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 38 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-21).

An evolutionary model of long-term romantic relationship termination is proposed. According to the model, relationship termination is the functional output of psychological mechanisms evolved to solve adaptive problems faced by humans over evolutionary history. To the extent that men and women have faced similar adaptive problems in romantic relationships, their psychologies of romantic relationship termination are expected to be similar. To the extent that these adaptive problems have differed, their psychologies of relationship termination are expected to differ. Consequently, men and women are hypothesized to have evolved similar, but distinct psychological mechanisms that underlie the decision rules in the termination of long-term romantic relationships. Specific hypotheses and predictions about the contexts and tactics of relationship termination have been derived from this perspective, including: 1) a greater sensitivity in men than in women to declines in their long-term mate's physical attractiveness; 2) a greater sensitivity in women than in men to declines in their long-term mate's investment of resources in them. To test these and other hypotheses about functional design in the psychological mechanisms underlying mating relationship termination several studies were conducted to investigate: 1) perceptions regarding the contexts in which men and women are likely to terminate romantic relationships; 2) perceptions regarding the tactics men and women employ to terminate romantic relationships; 3) thoughts of relationship termination; and 4) personal accounts of relationship termination. Men were judged more sensitive than women to decreases in their long-term mate's physical attractiveness, but did not differ from women in reporting decreased physical attractiveness as a cause of relationship termination. Women were judged more sensitive than men to a partner the decreasing investment of resources in them and reported decreased investment more frequently as a cause of relationship termination. Because several tests of the hypotheses described in this dissertation were disconfirmed, the results should be interpreted with caution. / text

Ingenjörers arbete bygger ofta på teamarbete vilket ställer krav på deras förmåga till samarbete och kommunikation. Medvetenheten om kommunikationens betydelse för ingenjören och dennes arbetsprestation har framkommit i tidigare studier och även motivationens betydelse för förändrat beteende. Syftet med denna undersökning var att undersöka vad som skulle kunna hjälpa ingenjörer inom tillverkningsindustrin att utveckla sitt kommunikativa beteende gentemot sina kollegor. En enkät konstruerades och följdes upp med 4 intervjuer. Studien genomfördes på ett internationellt företag inom tillverkningsindustrin. Deltagarna utgjordes av 44 utvecklingsingenjörer där alla nyligen deltagit i en internutbildning som behandlade ämnet kommunikation. Undersökningen visade att ingenjörerna främst motiverades att göra kommunikativa förändringar som ökade deras arbetskvalitet och effektivitet, men att brist på tid påverkade möjligheterna att vidareutveckla samt införliva nya sätt att kommunicera i det dagliga arbetet. Företagets insatser i form av frigörande av tid, resurser samt tydliga mål framkom som viktiga förutsättningar för en kommunikativ beteendeförändring hos ingenjörerna.

The popularity of peer-to-peer networks has grown tremendously in recent times as a result of the ever-improving capabilities of host entities at the edge and the ubiquitous reach of the Internet. The growth has fueled the realization of many peer-to-peer networks in both academia and the commercial arena. Peer-to-peer networks generally fall into one of these categories ??? centralized systems with server-like entities in the network; unstructured systems with random topology and message routing, and structured systems with deterministic topology and routing behavior. Surveying the major peer-to-peer networks in each category, one can conclude that the each of the categories exhibit very different characteristics and properties from one another. This thesis addresses the problems in the peer-to-peer networking space by employing two overarching principles. Firstly, desirable properties of systems in one category can be adopted by another to achieve restructuring. In short, restructuring involves the injection of structure into unstructured networks and conversely loosening the rigidity in structured systems. Secondly, as much as possible, participating peers in the network are designed to be homogeneous in functionality recognizing that they are heterogeneous in capabilities. True to the concept of the peer-to-peer paradigm, this principle keeps participants functioning as fellow peers rather than imposing hierarchical differences in the roles within the network. We describe three contexts in which the issues pertaining to the peer-to-peer networks in view can be addressed by applying the principle of restructuring. For the Mobile Agent Peer-to-Peer architecture, we adopt centralized concepts into the unstructured peer-to-peer network while maintaining homogeneity in functionality through the use of mobile agents. The architecture shields excessive traffic from peers with limited resources and allows more capable peers to share others??? burden. Through the use of mobile agents, logical hierarchy is avoided and thus the second overarching principle of homogeneity is preserved. For Gnutella Clusters, concepts from the structured systems are adopted to facilitate the formation and maintenance of clustering in unstructured networks. Clustering limits the amount of flooding in the network and thus conserves bandwith. The clustering algorithm is decentralized to all peers, and does not need a set of participants to have special functionality ??? thus preserving the generic nature of all peers. In Autonomic Decentralized Service Directory platform, structure is released from the underlying Chord network to provide better support for service registration and searching. The strict requirements for deterministic routing and lookup which characterize structured systems are granted some leniency for the ability to avoid misbehaving nodes and provide incentives for peers to behave properly.