Self-Regulation and Power: How Self-Regulatory Failures Can Enhance Social Power

How can self-regulation enhance our understanding of trauma and dissociation?

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Mechanisms, Power, and Links to Social Problems

A core theme of social psychology is that perceivers can shape targets’ future behaviors through self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-fulfilling prophecies occur when perceivers’ false beliefs about targets initiate a sequence of events that ultimately cause targets to exhibit expectancy-consistent behaviors, thereby causing perceivers’ initially false beliefs to become true. This article reviews t...

Self-Similarity and Power Laws

Can Self - Regulation work ?

This paper analyses reputation-based incentives for self regulation from a principal-agent perspective, in a context of asymmetric information. Self Regulatory Organisations (SROs) have scant incentives to monitor quality and expose fraud because fraud exposure is often interpreted by Bayesian consumers as a bad signal of SRO quality. However, public regulation in parallel to Self Regulation ca...

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...