Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) seek to influence corporate responsibility practices by pursuing either collaborative or confrontational approaches toward companies. In doing so, they frequently attempt households' perceptions of companies and, extension, their consumption decisions. To what extent NPOs adopting varying are successful in affecting and decisions, however, remains underexamined. F...

Identity has remained a popular concept for many decades, being widely used in scientific research. This reflects not only the importance of phenomena standing behind this notion, but also wide and deep changes accompanying transition societies from industrial to post-industrial, late modern, post-modern, network or information society. Regardless disputes about nature new era, researchers agre...

Motivational interviewing is a directive, non-confrontational intervention to promote behavior change. The current study examined therapist behaviors during a successful brief motivational interviewing intervention for physically aggressive college dating couples (Woodin & O'Leary, 2010). Forty-five minute motivational interviews with each partner were videotaped and coded using the Motivationa...

An alternative method to the Johnson Institute's "Intervention" is presented which, while incorporating many of Johnson's innovations, is, additionally: (a) less confrontative, thereby avoiding the reactivity in clients and family members that such confrontational approaches have tended to evoke; (b) takes into account both the needs of the chemically dependent person as well as the needs of th...

Innovation is often associated with positive descriptors such as “fun” or “creativity”, but the authors suggest it is really about hard work and is a challenging process, both emotionally and intellectually taxing. Successful innovation emanates from the diverse thinking of diverse people. However, that same diversity often leads to passionate disagreement that must be carefully managed. Manage...

This article develops a model of how culture affects negotiation processes and outcomes. It begins with a description of negotiation from a Western perspective: confrontational, focused on transactions or the resolutionof disputes, evaluated in terms of integrative and distributive outcomes. It proposes that power and information processes are fundamental to negotiations and that one impact of ...

The Central Park jogger case and other recent exonerations highlight the problem of wrongful convictions, 15% to 25% of which have contained confessions in evidence. Recent research suggests that actual innocence does not protect people across a sequence of pivotal decisions: (a) In preinterrogation interviews, investigators commit false-positive errors, presuming innocent suspects guilty; (b) ...

Evidence for carcass access times and levels of early hominid mobility is synthesized using studies of carnivore ethology and theories of interspecific competition to arrive at tentative conclusions about the organization of Plio-Pleistocene hominid foraging groups. The model presented suggests that group foraging tactics, in combination with high mobility, are central to successful confrontati...