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Definition of 'Behavioral Research'

Research that involves the application of the behavioral and social sciences to the study of the actions or reactions of persons or animals in response to external or internal stimuli. (from American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed)

Common names: Behavioral Research; Research, Behavioral

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Selection-based virtual keyboard prototypes and data collection application.

30 Jul 2009 An emerging area of research in engineering psychology is the evaluation of text entry for mobile devices using a small number of keys for the control of cursor direction and character selection from a matrix of characters (i.e., selection-based ... Read more...


New algorithms assessing short summaries in expository texts using latent semantic analysis.

30 Jul 2009 In this study, we compared four expert graders with latent semantic analysis (LSA) to assess short summaries of an expository text. As is well known, there are technical difficulties for LSA to establish a good semantic representation when analyzing ... Read more...


Evaluating the two-component inspection model in a simplified luggage search task.

30 Jul 2009 Visual inspection of X-ray images of luggage is a time-pressured task that typically shows large initial training effects, but there exists a paucity of models capable of evaluating performance and speed concurrently. In the present study, visual ... Read more...

 

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Definition: Research that involves the application of the behavioral and social sciences to the study of the actions or reactions of persons or animals in response to external or internal stimuli. (from American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed)

Descriptor UI: D035841

Alternative terms: Behavioral Research; Research, Behavioral;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.144; H01.770.644.108;

History Note: 2003

Technical Notes: behavioral research as a field or the progress or status of behavioral research; do not add routinely for specific studies in behavior: Manual 29.16

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