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Impact of incentives on tourist activity in space-time
2020
Abstract No tourism study to date, has examined the ability of incentives to shape the spatio-temporal behaviour of tourists. Data collected from the port of Palermo in Sicily (Italy), using traditional survey instruments as well as GPS technology, was employed to investigate the effect of incentives on cruise passengers' space-time activities. The results show the incentives' clear and significant impact in influencing the space-time activities of cruise passengers' while visiting the city. Understanding the movement patterns of visitors at destinations can give destination managers information that can assist in dealing with the negative effects of overtourism that are caused due to high …
Una convergenza oggettiva tra mafia, terrorismo e forze eversive
2017
«Il vero nodo da sciogliere oggi è perciò quello della mafia inserita nell’attuale sistema di potere. Affrontare questo tema significa entrare nell’ordine di idee di costruire un nuovo sistema di potere, basato veramente sulla democrazia politica e sulla democrazia economica in Sicilia». Così, nel lontano 1964, e in poche sintetiche frasi, Pio La Torre offre ai deputati dell’Assemblea Regionale siciliana una lucida analisi del fenomeno mafioso; nella quale la militanza politica è indisgiungibile da una precisa idea di società e di democrazia. La mafia è un problema politico e della politica; poiché mina alla base il principio di uguaglianza e di giustizia sociale. Lo scontro con i gabelloti…
L’operatore delle relazioni di aiuto tra comportamento prosociale, altruismo ed empatia.In M. Garro (a cura di). Psicologia e interventi educativi. T…
2020
Il comportamento prosociale è una tematica che si pone al centro del percorso formativo degli educatori di comunità, il cui profilo professionale mira alla promozione e all’incoraggiamento degli aspetti positivi negli individui e nei gruppi, implicando l’eliminazione dei comportamenti sociali indesiderati. Ma come educa in tal senso? E, soprattutto, quali motivazioni supportano il suo intervento? È necessario soffermarsi su quest’ultimo aspetto perché, come afferma Titta (2018), «È interessante non dimenticare che tale attività, fino a pochi decenni fa, era legata allo spirito di carità di religiosi e del mondo cattolico in generale, quindi a dei valori ideologici morali e spirituali di un …
Reduced salivary oxytocin after an empathic induction task in Intimate Partner Violence perpetrators: Importance of socio-affective functions and its…
2022
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been linked to difficulties in socio-affective functions. Nevertheless, the underlying psychobiological mechanisms that might be responsible for them remain unclear. Oxytocin (OXT) stands out as an important hormone that may favor the salience of social information, due to its relevance in empathy and prosocial behavior. Thus, the study of salivary OXT (sOXT) may provide further information about potential impairments in social cognition in IPV perpetrators. This study analyzed the effects of an empathic induction task, performed through negative emotion-eliciting videos, on endogenous sOXT levels, mood state, and emotional perception in 30 IPV perpetrato…
Altruistic Aptitude: Age-Dependent Influence of Temperament and Emotional Intelligence
2013
It is unclear why some people behave altruistically and others do not. This study seeks to determine what psychological features could help predict altruistic behavior. We addressed the issue by examining distinct dimensions of temperament and emotional intelligence and their associations with the level of proaltruistic aptitude in two distant age-groups, young (20–29 years) and senior (60–79 years) persons. The study was one of a self-reported psychometric survey. The major findings were that emotional intelligence, rather than temperament, is strongly associated with the expression of altruistic behavior in both young and senior subjects, despite a general decrease in the characteristics …
A Study of the Coevolution of Digital Organisms with an Evolutionary Cellular Automaton
2021
This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology.
Individual and Contextual Determinants of Cruise Passengers’ Behavior at Their Destination: A Survival Approach
2020
The proposed study will present an analysis of cruise passengers’ behavior at their destination. Mobility behavior will be analyzed in relation to socio-demographic characteristics through a survival modeling approach. Data collected through GPS devices on cruise passengers’ behavior in the ports of Palermo and Dubrovnik will be analyzed in order to determine similarities and differences among cruise passengers’ behaviors at their destination, according to socio-demographic characteristics. The authors of this chapter contend that the results of this research, involving the processing and the analysis of GPS data, will be of interest from methodological and destination management perspectiv…
Of Oaks, Erratic Boulders, and Milkmaids
2004
In the study and care for rural landscapes and their inhabitants a perpetual dilemma is knowing the different discourses those landscapes embody for a culture group, or “discourse community,” as Siri Aasbo (1999: 148) calls it (after Eco 1977). It is a well-known truism that a gap exists in the understanding and evaluation of landscapes between insiders and outsiders, natives and visitors, actors and observers, inhabitants and experts. Since this is known territory, I shall not revisit it, except to restate the obvious — expert opinion, even when well-intended, rarely agrees with the local inhabitants in what is good for them. As Sverker Sorlin expresses it, landscape is a “contested terrai…
The role of trust in cruise passenger behavioral intentions : The moderating effects of the cruise line brand
2014
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a framework to investigate the relationship between perceived value, satisfaction, trust and behavioral intentions and the moderator effect of the cruise line on cruise passengers’ perceptions.Design/methodology/approach– A structural model was developed. In order to verify the hypotheses, a total of 729 cruise passengers were sampled. The study of the data used structural equation models by means of a multi-group analysis.Findings– The results of this study suggest significant paths to increase behavioral intentions: perceived service quality? satisfaction? trust?. In addition, it has been proved that the cruise line moderates the r…