The theory of symbolic self-completion is a psychological theory which holds that individuals seek to acquire and display symbols that are strongly related...

Gollwitzer has developed several models of action control: the symbolic self-completion theory (with Robert A. Wicklund); the Rubicon Model of Action Phases...

-categorical theory, then it always has a model companion. A model completion for a theory T is a model companion T* such that for any model M of T, the theory of...

Psychoanalysis is a theory developed by Sigmund Freud. It describes the human soul as an apparatus that emerged along the path of evolution and consists...

the more optimistic theory, Y, was more valid. This theory holds that employees can view work as natural, are creative, can be self-motivated, and appreciate...

This concept of how the mind and self emerge from the social process of communication by signs founded the symbolic interactionist school of sociology...

first part, the discounted sum, is the total weighted reward for the completion of a current episode. More weight will be given to a specific action that...

tasks involve pattern completion from masked input patterns (silent pauses in speech or image portions masked in black). Self-supervised learning has...

coevolution theory" exemplifies this approach. Scholars in this intellectual camp point to the fact that even chimpanzees and bonobos have latent symbolic capacities...

attitude theories such as Ajzen & Fishbein's (1980) theory of reasoned action, or Sears et al.'s (1980) symbolic politics (Herek, 1987), but because Smith (1956)...