Ecological Approaches to Creating Healthy Local Food Environments in the United States: Push and Pull Forces

2014 ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Carol Devine ◽  
Jennifer Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Food ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
Push And Pull

Globalization, Cross Border Education, and Student Migration

2015 ◽  
pp. 397-442
Author(s):  
Ryan Vance Guffey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
The Relationship

Presently, there are more than two million students studying outside their home countries and the total number is expected to grow to eight million by 2025. This trend has inspired research into the “push” and “pull” factors that drive student mobility within the global higher education environment. However, despite the growing presence of cross border student enrollments throughout the United States, which is also the number one location for cross border students to study in the world, limited efforts have been made to identify what characteristics motivate particular groups of cross border students to leave their home countries to attend particular types of higher education in the United States. This chapter addresses that gap in the literature. In response, this study sought to build upon existing global higher education literature by determining the relationship between the perceived importance of institutional characteristics and cross border students' age, gender, and country of origin.

scholarly journals Altruism in a Time of Crisis: Dissociable Social Valuation and Perception during COVID-19 in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Luo ◽  
Anastasia Shuster ◽  
Dongil Chung ◽  
Madeline O'Brien ◽  
Matt Heflin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Perceptual Systems ◽  
Game Theoretic Approach

Human prosocial behaviors are constantly shaped by the push-and-pull between societal need for cooperation and one’s natural tendency to self-prioritize. Nevertheless, it remains elusive how our valuation and perceptual systems might contribute to altruistic acts under the influence of a real-world crisis. Here, using computational modeling and a game-theoretic approach, we investigated how the coronavirus pandemic perturbed altruistic choices in the United States between April and May 2020. Overall, people made more altruistic choices as the pandemic became worse, an effect primarily driven by increased preference for social welfare. Paradoxically, participants also processed self-relevant information (i.e., “self-prioritization”) more efficiently at the perceptual level, as the pandemic became worse. Furthermore, individuals’ prosocial choices and preferences did not correlate with their self-prioritization efficiency. Collectively, these results revealed a more nuanced view of human altruism — that as a dynamic and context-dependent construct, altruism can co-exist with increased attention to the self.

scholarly journals Altruism in a Time of Crisis: Dissociable Social Valuation and Perception during COVID-19 in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Luo ◽  
Anastasia Shuster ◽  
Dongil Chung ◽  
Madeline O'Brien ◽  
Matthew Heflin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretic Approach ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
One Year ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Perceptual Systems

Abstract Human prosocial behaviors are constantly shaped by the push-and-pull between societal need for cooperation and one’s natural tendency to self-prioritize. Nevertheless, it remains elusive how our valuation and perceptual systems might contribute to altruistic acts under the influence of a real-world crisis. Here, using computational modeling and a game-theoretic approach, we investigated how the coronavirus pandemic perturbed altruistic choices in the United States, April-May, 2020. Overall, people made more altruistic choices as the pandemic worsened, an effect primarily driven by increased preference for social welfare. Paradoxically, participants also processed self-relevant information (i.e., “self-prioritization”) more efficiently at the perceptual level, as the pandemic became worse. These effects were not observed one year later (May-June, 2021) when the variability of the pandemic diminished. Furthermore, individuals’ prosocial choices and preferences did not correlate with their self-prioritization efficiency. Collectively, these results revealed a more nuanced view of human altruism — that as a dynamic and context-dependent construct, altruism can co-exist with increased attention to the self.

scholarly journals Change in Obesity Prevalence across the United States Is Influenced by Recreational and Healthcare Contexts, Food Environments, and Hispanic Populations

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. e0148394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice A. Myers ◽  
Tim Slack ◽  
Corby K. Martin ◽  
Stephanie T. Broyles ◽  
Steven B. Heymsfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
Hispanic Populations

Career Duration in the NBA

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 873-883
Author(s):  
Peter A. Groothuis ◽  
James Richard Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
College Basketball ◽  
Career Length ◽  
Push And Pull

Using a panel of National Basketball Association players from 1990 through 2013, we analyze the determinants of career length in the league. We find that foreign-born players who did not play college basketball in the United States have shorter careers than do American-born players holding performance constant. Foreign-born players who played college basketball in the United States do not have shorter careers. We suggest that both push and pull immigration factors might cause this early exit.

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