The current research examined the role of the belief in free will on prejudice across Han Chinese and white samples. Belief in free will refers to the extent to which people believe human beings truly have free will. In Study 1, the beliefs of Han Chinese people in free will were measured, and their social distances from the Tibetan Chinese were used as an index of ethnic prejudice. The results...

Background: One of the most important strategies in preventing addiction is changing positive attitudes and stabilizing negative attitudes towards opiate abuse. Current research has been comparing the effectiveness of behavioral recognition and stress surmounting techniques instructions on changing students' positive attitudes towards opiate abuse.Methods: To determine the effectiveness of beha...

The following paper attempts to discuss the connection between meaning and use in language by examining how we can speak of sharing and not sharing with others. As an introduction to this theme a passage is presented and discussed from Raimond Gaita‟s book A common humanity: thinking about love truth and justice, in which he speaks of the importance of other human beings. This subject of others...