We propose a model of job passion that links two types of passion, harmonious and obsessive passion, to employees’ work performance, via the mediating mechanism of cognitive engagement (comprising attention and absorption). Results from a survey conducted with 509 employees from an insurance firm indicate that employees with harmonious passion performed better at work, and that this relationshi...

Recent research (Vallerand et al., 2003) has supported the existence of two types of passion for activities: a harmonious and an obsessive passion. The purpose of this investigation was to study the processes likely to lead to the development of passion. Three studies using correlational and short-term longitudinal designs with varied populations ranging from beginners to experts reveal that id...

Bob Anthony and Tom McGarity both maki a number of important, perceptive points, and I find myself in substantial agreement with each of them. I have only two principal disagreements with Bob Anthony. First, I believe that a court should not go behind the objective terms of a statement of agency policy to speculate about whether the statement was "really intended" to bind the public. If by its ...

The male-female dichotomy has evolved independently in nearly all lineages of multicellular organisms. Why this should be the case is still uncertain, but recent studies of mating-type genes in green algae open a promising new way to explore molecular-genetic aspects of the evolution of dichotomous sexes.

Node capture attack is one of the most dreadful security attack exist in wireless sensor networks. An adversary steals cryptographic key information from a captured node to compromise entire network. So, Security of wireless sensor network is an important issue for maintaining confidentiality and integrity of wireless links. Now-a-days, researchers are paying attention towards developing securi...

0191-8869/$ see front matter Crown Copyright 2 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.017 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Laboratoire de Re Social, Département de Psychologie, Université du Q Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada. E-mail address: [email protected] The Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand, 2010) regards passion as a strong inclination toward a self-defining act...