The aim of this paper is to recognize the factors limiting journalists’ sense autonomy and affecting level their self-censorship during last three decades post-transformation period. issue will be addressed two-fold. First, we analyze changes in perception on professional autonomy. Second, examine trends relations between political system media Poland since 1990s. findings show that 1990s journ...

In social insect colonies, many tasks are performed by higherorder entities, such as groups and teams whose task solving capacities transcend those of the individual participants. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of such higher-order entities using a colony of up to 12 physical robots. We report on an experimental study in which the robots engage in a range of different activities, i...

This study seeks to better understand the impact of self-esteem on attitudes towards others, specifically the perception of women’s abilities in power positions in the work force. The hypothesis states that men and women who have higher self-esteem will perceive women more competent in a managerial role than men and women with lower self-esteem. Another hypothesis states that women will rank th...

This paper develops and tests several models of pure Nash strategies of individuals who extract from a common pool resource when they are motivated by a combination of selfinterest and preferences for altruism, reciprocity, inequity aversion and conformity. Using data from a series of common pool resource experiments conducted in three rural areas of Colombia, we test whether an econometric sum...

Americans are not saving enough for retirement. Previous research suggests that this is due, in part, to people’s tendency to think of the future self as more like another person than like the present self, making saving feel like giving money away rather than like investing in oneself. Using objective employer saving data, a field experiment capitalized on this phenomenon to increase saving. I...

The search for a theoretical peg on which to hang this paper led me, inevitably, to Homi Bhabha. Yet when I pulled out Nation and Narration in quest of an apt quote to use as an epigraph, the best I could come up with was actually a passage from Benedict Anderson, whom Bhabha himself quotes in his introduction. Anderson, through Bhabha, states: “What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be...

This paper takes a constitutivist approach to self-deception, and argues that this phenomenon should be evaluated under several dimensions of rationality. The constitutivist approach has the merit of explaining the selective nature of self-deception as well as its being subject to moral sanction. Self-deception is a pragmatic strategy for maintaining the stability of the self, hence continuous ...

Participants in a negative or a neutral mood performed an impression formation task in Experiment 1, a word fragment completion task in Experiment 2, and both tasks in Experiment 3. A self-referent versus other-referent sentence completion task was used to induce a negative mood. As a result, participants exhibited fewer mood-congruent effects on impression rating in the self-referent than in t...

Background Success of footwear as a modifiable intervention is complex and various qualitative studies have revealed that for women in particular shoes form an important part of clothing, self-identity and self-esteem. Whilst it is accepted that heel height may be an important differentiating characteristic of shoes that affect biomechanical function there is very little epidemiological longitu...

Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of selfexplanation on learning well-defined domains like math, biology, and physics. However, these findings have yet to be replicated in probabilistic domains like second language acquisition. Working with adult English as a Second Language students (n=61) within the domain of the English article system (i.e. teaching students the difference betwe...