On Facilitating Reading Habits and Related Activities

In this study, it was aimed to examine the reading habits levels and making the correct decision styles of basketball, handball, volleyball, and football coaches and referees in terms of some variables, the research was carried out with the general survey model, one of the quantitative research designs, the active coaches and referees of basketball, football, volleyball, and handball in İzmir, Denizli and Uşak provinces constituted the universe of the study, the sample of the study, on the other hand, consisted of 98 participants, 52 of whom were coaches and 46 were referees, determined by the simple random sampling method, one sample t-test at a 0.05 significance level was conducted to determine whether the sample represented the universe equally and homogeneously. Melbourne decision making scale I-II, and book reading habits scale were used to collect data in the study. Since the data are suitable for normal distribution, the t-test in comparing the pairwise means; parametric tests such as one-way ANOVA tests were used at 0.05 significance level in comparing the mean scores of more than two groups. In terms of education levels, it has been observed that female coaches and referees studying at faculties of sports sciences have higher levels of reading habit, love of reading, and being influenced by books. In addition, it was determined that individuals who trust and respect the decisions of their families have higher reading habits and correct decision-making styles and do not panic during the decision-making process.

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Visual asymmetries during face encoding Increased dwell time and fixations in the upper and left hemifields

10.31234/osf.io/pc649 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Fatima Maria Felisberti

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Eye Movements ◽

Visual Field ◽

Face Processing ◽

Dwell Time ◽

The Other ◽

Environmental Cues ◽

Reading Habits ◽

The Right

Visual field asymmetries (VFA) in the encoding of groups rather than individual faces has been rarely investigated. Here, eye movements (dwell time (DT) and fixations (Fix)) were recorded during the encoding of three groups of four faces tagged with cheating, cooperative, or neutral behaviours. Faces in each of the three groups were placed in the upper left (UL), upper right (UR), lower left (LL), or lower right (LR) quadrants. Face recognition was equally high in the three groups. In contrast, the proportion of DT and Fix were higher for faces in the left than the right hemifield and in the upper rather than the lower hemifield. The overall time spent looking at the UL was higher than in the other quadrants. The findings are relevant to the understanding of VFA in face processing, especially groups of faces, and might be linked to environmental cues and/or reading habits.

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Queering Delilah with Critical Theory and Gendered Bible Hermeneutics

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.34 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 493-507

Author(s):

Caroline Blyth

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Femme Fatale ◽

Reading Habits ◽

Biblical Narrative ◽

Queer Spaces ◽

Holy Man

Close your eyes and think of Delilah. Whom do you see? What does she look like? More often than not, this biblical character is visualized in both interpretive traditions and cultural retellings of Judges 16 as a femme fatale par excellence—a fatal woman whose exotic feminine allure and lethal sexuality ultimately destroyed Samson, that most heroic Hebrew holy man. In this chapter, I use gender-queer theory to interrogate the very “straight” ways in which these retellings make sense of the multiple ambiguities surrounding Delilah’s character within the biblical narrative. I take an intersectional approach, interpreting Delilah’s sexuality, gender, and ethnicity through a queer lens to conjuring up a myriad of alternative performances that her persona may inhabit. By so doing, I invite readers into delightfully queer spaces in the text that challenge essentialist reading habits and bring to light critical theoretical insights about Delilah’s interpretive and cultural afterlives.

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Talking, Reading, and Writing on Smartphones

The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190864385.013.27 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 407-422

Author(s):

Naomi S. Baron

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phones ◽

Easy Access ◽

Reading Habits ◽

Internet Protocols ◽

Reading And Writing ◽

Reading Material ◽

Voice Calls ◽

News Headlines ◽

Communication Preference

Mobile phones have increasingly been transformed from speaking technologies to devices for reading and writing. Cost helped drive this shift since written short messages were historically less expensive than voice calls. A second factor was communication preference for texting over talking, especially among younger users. With ready Internet access on smartphones, reading habits began shifting as well. Social networking messages, along with other short texts such as weather reports or news headlines, made for obvious reading material, as did the plethora of longer written documents available online. The e-book revolution enabled readers to retrieve entire books on their phones. Mobile phones are also writing platforms. Developments in hardware and software dramatically simplified the input process. Instead of multi-taps, users now rely on virtual keyboards for easy access not only to alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks but also to sophisticated predictive texting and autocorrection. Interestingly, while technically we are writing when inputting text on smartphones, many users do not perceive such input as real “writing”—a term they reserve for writing by hand or with a computer. Additional writing issues include norms regarding so-called textisms, along with the role of culture in shaping attitudes regarding linguistic correctness. Many organizations are discontinuing voicemail systems in favor of written messaging. At the same time, voice over Internet protocols continue to grow, and small voice-activated social robots designed for home use are proliferating. The chapter closes by asking what the spoken–written balance on smartphones might look like in the future.

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Klopstock, the Art of Declamation and the Reading Revolution: An Inquiry into One Author's Remarkable Impact on the Changes and Counter-Changes in Reading Habits between 1750 and 1800

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies ◽

10.1111/j.1754-0208.2008.00006.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 101-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

JOHANNES BIRGFELD

Keyword(s):

Reading Habits

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Reliability of the Amplitude of the Return-Sweep Velocity of Eye Movements during Reading

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1992.75.2.425 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 75 (2) ◽

pp. 425-426 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jin Ong ◽

James L. Summers

Keyword(s):

Eye Movements ◽

Equivalent Form ◽

College Men ◽

Reliability Coefficient ◽

Reading Habits ◽

Reading Remediation ◽

Eye Movements During Reading

A Beckman Type RM Dynograph was used to record the eye movements of 26 professional college men, once without spectacle corrections and then with piano lenses on a trial frame, during reading equivalent print at a distance of 33 cm. Amplitudes of the return-sweep velocity on these two trials were used to calculate an equivalent form reliability coefficient. A Pearson r of 0.88 indicates that their reliability is moderately high, meaning that both the desirable as well as the undesirable reading habits are probably deeply rooted by college, and imply that any reading remediation or improvement training should be performed at some much earlier stages to be efficiently effective.

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