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This study, which was conducted with data obtained from students studying at Düzce University and benefiting from the Erasmus program, aimed to reveal how orientation training for students going abroad within the scope of the Erasmus Program contributes to students in academic, social and personal aspects.
Research results show that orientation training strengthens social relations between students, provides general satisfaction, and offers benefits in different educational fields. According to the results of the study, students state that the orientation training serves the purpose of introducing the local culture, meeting the authorities, adapting, getting to know international students and exploring the university.
The results of the study show that the duration of orientation training generally varies between two hours and one week, and this time is sufficient for students. However, some students stated that they did not make any personal contribution. This suggests that orientation programs need to be better designed and focus more on students' needs.
In conclusion, the research emphasizes that orientation training helps new students adapt to university life and encourages them to establish social relationships. The content, duration and methods of orientation programs should be arranged in accordance with the needs of the students. In this way, orientation training will help students have a more positive and successful university experience. This research provides an important guide for universities to develop their orientation programs.

Research by Heller suggested that speed and accuracy of reading may be seriously compromised by the inclusion of noncanonical (tilted) braille text. The study presented here extended that research by including characters other than those used by Heller and whole words. Similar results were found for Heller's original character set ( B–J), but the effect of orientation was reduced with other letters and whole words. The authors conclude that braille readers, especially experienced ones, have more facility with noncanonical braille than would be inferred from Heller's results.

Three motivational orientations (individualistic, competitive, and coopera-tive) were replicated from Deutsch (1960), and their effects on deindividua-tion in small groups were compared to a control condition. Indices were replicated from other studies of deindividuation, and behavior in the groups was coded in order to analyze the factors of deindividuation. Three factors were extracted, and they were disorganization, cohesion, and egocentrism. Composite indices were constructed, which revealed that deindividuation occurred in the individualistic condition more strongly than in any other condition. Also, while typically the three factors also occurred most strongly in the individualistic condition, cohesion was highest in the cooper-ative group, and egocentrism did not differ between individualistic and competitive conditions. It was noted that, while deindividuation has been conceptualized as the loss of inner restraints, the disorganization factor included indices of both individual and group restraints. It was suggested that research investigate the relationship between internal and external forms of social control.

This study explores the interrelationship among goal orientation, self-regulatory mechanisms and error orientation with a view to predicting performance in a management task involving decision making at a furniture factory in an uncertain situation. The sample was randomly assigned
as a control group and an experimental group, but only the participants in the latter group received fictitious information about job insecurity in the furniture sector. Successive self-assessments evaluated their judgments about self-efficacy and emotional state during the task. The results
show that, initially, the setting of uncertainty negatively affects selfregulatory mechanisms and performance; this effect disappears with time, while affective state and a positive error orientation guarantee better long-term performance.