If you read this, then you personally or professionally know me pretty well, and it doesn’t matter if we talk in English, Romanian or Italian. I just wrote it in English because I know you’ll understand it. I don’t usually like to talk about my problems (or publicly express my emotions about them). Still, I… Read More How It Feels to Live With a Chronic Tooth Infection
Motto: “The place where you always take from and never put back will soon be empty.” Romanian Proverb The “holes” theory I have a theory. Every man has certain “holes” or “hollows” or “empty spaces” their the soul, some basic necessities that must be filled with love. For example, there is a hole that must… Read More To Have and to Hold
Motto: “Personality is not who we are but what we do.” L. Michael Hall Definition Hall & Bodenhamer (2005) and Woodmall (1988) are still considering between metaprograms and Jung’s classical concepts: Sensing / Intuition (metaprogram no. 2, Epistemological), introversion/extraversion (metaprogram no. 26, Rejuvenation), judging/perceiving (metaprogram no. 37, adaption), which according to the correspondence analyses… Read More Meta-types
The industry is forced to achieve performance. That’s why merchandising techniques are very sought after by those who want to streamline their shelf sales. Consumer behavior studies conducted in the US at the end of the past century estimated that 10% of the population was addicted to shopping. From a conceptual point of view, this… Read More The Shopping Addiction
Named after research psychologist Abraham Maslow, this model has been one of the great successes in establishing specific consumer categories; subsequently, VALS I and VALS II consumer classification systems have been developed based on findings and segmentations. The model assumes that each individual has a series of levels of fundamental needs, gradually placed in ascending order starting… Read More Maslow’s Extended Pyramid
Many people imagine that the price of the real estate market is the one communicated by the agencies and that they cannot find anything below those rates. This is false. Imobiliare-net features an advanced search form that will help you find a convenient rent price in Bucharest. Please find below the links to the form… Read More How to Find Cheap Rent in Bucharest
Purpose of the endeavor This project aims to perform a 360-degree evaluation for Marcus Victor Grant and, by extension, for all his clients who wish to use this process. How this project is performed annually, for the previous year, is measuring the subjective perceptions of the persons from different networking categories with which Marcus… Read More The 360-Degrees Evaluation Devised by Marcus Victor Grant – General Principles
What I wish you, contemporary woman, celebrated today: Stop and look in the mirror, into your eyes, stop the train of your thoughts, and only feel what your eyes tell you. If your eyes are conveying a positive emotion, then this is what others will also perceive. If your eyes don’t get a positive emotion,… Read More What I Wish You, Discerning Woman
Specific research tends to prove that men have a slight advantage regarding intelligence compared to women, which increases with age. At the same time, when it comes to stupidity, men are absolute champions both in numbers and in intensity, as this research shows (here, here) So, to draw an oversimplified and non-scientific conclusion, men have… Read More How to Make a Scientific Comparison Between Men and Women in Terms of Intelligence and Stupidity
The terminology “Schema” comes from schema-focused therapy and refers to the maladaptive schemas taxonomy developed by Jeffrey Young, Ph.D., and his collaborators since the ’80s. It is the problem-oriented component of the field, using psychometric questionnaires developed and tested by scientists to evaluate which are the schemas and modes which pathologically influence the emotions,… Read More What is Schema Dynamics Programming
Psychologists have worked for more than 100 years to find explanations for how the human mind and personality work to heal the problems deep inside us. Personal development fields such as neuro-linguistic programming and transactional analysis have developed effective and efficient solutions for a successful breakthrough. However, clinical psychology and the development of excellence have… Read More Schema Dynamics Programming with Marcus Victor Grant
Today I want to write about an extraordinary person who inspired me a lot. His name is Ticu Constantin. He is an academic teacher (conf. dr.) at the Psychology and Education Sciences in Iaşi, and I have learned from some of his experience and sharing many things I consider my professional basis as an HR… Read More Happy Birthday, Ticu Constantin!
We are all aware of the preached necessity of forgiving. So, starting from a personal development material I got from training concerning the benefits of forgiveness, I asked myself the following questions: Which are the causes of forgiveness? (what determines people to forgive?) what are the benefits of forgiveness? What are the barriers to forgiving?… Read More Benefits of Forgiveness
When designing questions, a known problem is the façade effect. The responders tend to understand what the researcher wants to discover and give “politically correct answers”. Although it might be difficult, there are ways to circumvent that. It’s all in mastering the words and the language so that the answer reflects what you want to… Read More Overcoming the Façade Effect
Here I gave you some examples of items. I have proven how they DON’T work here. This article is part IV from a series of English articles about survey-type research focusing on quantitative measures. Please also consider this list of articles in Romanian about research. To attain the same goal in the second context, let’s… Read More Rich Item Conceptualization.
This article is a follow-up to this one, and it refers to the questions presented as an example here: Let’s take it to step by step. First of all, methodologically. The first question uses a scale with an even number, which requires the responder to mark only one answer. The second item presents an odd… Read More The Questionnaire Design for Surveys, part III
Once defined an audience, step into their shoes. Create items in such a manner that your responder knows what to answer very clearly. Use words (s)he will understand. For example, suppose you want to test someone’s knowledge of pricing in marketing. In that case, it’s preferable to ask: “How do you decide the price of… Read More The Questionnaire Design for Surveys, part II
Motto: “How often do you prefer not to think hard about the questions you ask? a) Always b) In Most Cases c) Sometimes d) Soft.” There’s a way of doing the right things in the right way. Fortunately, I’ve been to a good school for formulating items in questionnaire design, and I must tell you… Read More The Questionnaire Design for Surveys, part I
“An investigation of the cross-national determinants of customer satisfaction”, by Forrest V. Morgeson III, Sunil Mithas, Timothy L. Keiningham, and Lerman Aksoy. Published by Academy of Marketing Science, Oct. 2010. Retrieved from Springer Link, Nov. 2010 Original Abstract of the Thesis Many multinational corporations have implemented cross-national satisfaction measurement programs for tracking and benchmarking… Read More Customer Satisfaction in Modern Society
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