0022-1031/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.07.009 q We thank Robert Arkin, Kentaro Fujita, Richard E. P Cognition Research Group for their helpful comments paper. Special thanks to Pablo Briñol and Travis Julia the experimental videos and Jen Morrison for serving 2b. The work reported in this paper is supported by a Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to the firs...

Elizabeth Anscombe’s classic paper Causality and Determination claims that causation can be perceived. It also defends causal singularism, the idea relation is fundamentally between particular cause effect, does not depend on regularities holding elsewhere in universe. But former furnish an argument for latter? The present analyses a special type of experience involving emotional reactions to s...

van Merriënboer [1] defines complex cognitive skills as skills that have a number of constituent skills some of which are cognitive. Based on this definition, conducting a performance systems analysis (PSA) of an organizational performance issue can be considered a complex cognitive skill. PSA contains many whole and sub tasks whose accomplishments require complex cognitive strategies that lear...

A two-year study of Web portal use in a large university has found a number of results that can help in management decision making about the use of university Web portals as a communication channel. The study involved the collection and analysis of Web usage statistics for a business information technology school in a large city university over a two-year period. Findings initially indicate tha...

Purpose – This study aims to assess the impact of a JIT-selling strategy on organizational structure by generally replicating the previous work of Germain et al. Design/methodology/approach – In contrast to the sample population of logistics managers surveyed by Germain et al. this research draws on data from manufacturing executives with marketing responsibilities. More importantly, a major li...

This article questions· ~hether it is useful to think of problem behavior as caused, and whether causal information about problem behavior is a necessary prerequisite to changing it. Psychoanalytic, behavioral, systemic, and solutionRfocused approaches to the issue are discussed briefly. Taking the perspective that the cause or causes of a particular client's problem behavior cmmot be known, it...