research is focused on understanding how people collaborate across professional, organizational, and geographical boundaries on outsourced systems development projects. Her research interests deal with situated learning and the construction of intra-organizational boundaries and with IS use as well as with the relationships between representations and practices in the context of IS use. Her wor...

Social neuroscience offers a window into the mental origins of empathy. People must appreciate another mind in order to empathize. People first categorize the other as human, assuming a mind, and then differentiate among social categories according to universal dimensions of perceived traits: warmth and competence. The least warm and competent groups (poor people, homeless, drug addicts) may ev...

ion (henceforth: ‘MoA’) promises, will not try to achieve more than it can deliver. In particular, this means that if a concept of free action is applied prospectively or retrospectively, the action does not really have to be free to underpin the causal judgment to which the concept of free action is applied. Causes are evaluated as hypothetically performed actions, but actions have been explai...

This short text is the second in a series of articles from the recently established “Bio-Objects” research network supported by the European Commission’s Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program (1). Here we explore in more detail the ways in which we understand the boundaries of bio-objects determined through a “bio-objectification” process wherein life-forms or living entities are...

Abstract A growing amount of empirical evidence shows that sexual objectification can be elicited within the context romantic relationships, leading to adverse consequences for women's well‐being. However, most this research assessed self‐reported perceptions being objectified by their partner, while scant and not converging has considered men's objectifying toward partners. Furthermore, little...