At odds with a worldview

Insurers Again at Odds With Hospitals and Physicians.

Group choices seemingly at odds with individual preferences

Numerous studies have focused on the influence of the social environment and the interactions between individuals on the collective decision-making of groups. They showed, for example, that attraction between individuals is at the origin of an amplification of individual preferences. These preferences may concern various environmental cues such as biomolecules that convey information about the ...

Reality at odds with perceptions: narcissistic leaders and group performance.

Although narcissistic individuals are generally perceived as arrogant and overly dominant, they are particularly skilled at radiating an image of a prototypically effective leader. As a result, they tend to emerge as leaders in group settings. Despite people's positive perceptions of narcissists as leaders, it was previously unknown if and how leaders' narcissism is related to the performance o...

Is "professionalism" at odds with practice-management education and success?

In late 2004, 2 opinion pieces in JCDA 1,2 alluded to the profession of dentistry as somewhat tarnished by a for-profit orientation, suggesting that because of this, it is less of a profession today than it was. Is this a bad thing? Both pieces were written by ethicists who work for university dental schools that have very strong practice-management programs. They make the point that financial ...

What is a worldview?

The first part of this paper proposes a precise definition of what a worldview is, and why there is a necessity to have one. The second part suggests how to construct integrated scientific worldviews. For this attempts, three general scientific approaches are proposed: the general systems theory as the endeavor for a universal language for science, a general problem-solving approach and the ide...