We propose that people treat prejudice as more legitimate when it seems rationalistic-that is, linked to a group's pursuit of collective interests. Groups that appear to be coherent and unified wholes (entitative groups) are most likely to have such interests. We thus predicted that belonging to an entitative group licenses people to express prejudice against outgroups. Support for this idea ca...

This is an Erratum to BMC Medicine 2015, 13:59, highlighting previously undeclared competing interests and including more information in the acknowledgements section.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/59. The statement in the competing interests should read as follows: This study is funded by unrestricted research fund from NutraSource. Susan Cho is founder an...

Governments have paid great attention to the results of happiness research. In many countries, the object of government policy is no longer taken to be development in terms of raising GNP. Their focus has shifted to a National Index of Happiness. This paper analyses whether such an aggregate Happiness Index is a better guide to development than GNP or other indices of development. We argue that...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank Ms. Patricia Erwin, Medical Librarian at the Mayo Clinic Library for helping in the literature search for this systematic review and meta-analysis. Declaration of personal interests: None. Declaration of funding interests: This study was made possible by support from the Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery, Mayo Clinic and a CTSA Grant UL1 TR000135 from the N...

However, in 1988 the National Forest Policy heralded a significant shift in forest policy by acknowledging the needs and interests of local communities concerning their utilization of forest resources, and involving them in the protection and regeneration of forests. However, deforestation and violation of local community interests continued, due to the conflict between conserving endangered na...

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