Interpersonal conflict related to sociocultural group membership was examined with a multicultural university sample. The Social Group Conflict Scale (SGCS), collective self-esteem (CSE), and Bradburn affect scale were administered to 248 university students. The current study attempted to replicate and extend the findings on social group-based conflict recently proposed by Dunbar, Sue, and Liu...

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS ON THE IMPACT OF CONFLICT AND REGULATIONS ON THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Trang Thu Tran, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Anna Alberini Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics My dissertation explores the effect of ethnic conflict, or regulations meant to avoid ethnic strife, on firm employment and productivity i...

See related article, p XXX Physicists, politicians, poets, and punters understand the pitfalls of predicting the future. Similarly, predicting outcomes after stroke rehabilitation can be difficult when based on clinical impression, and several approaches to combining key variables in predictive models have been developed. In this issue, Scrutinio et al introduce a predictive model of functional...

I am writing this column in early December, prior to the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Florence, but after the IEEE Technical Activity Board (TAB) meeting in New Jersey and the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Executive Committee meeting that was held in Stutt-gart. Amid all this travel, I have been contemplating reoccurring themes at the TAB and CSS meetings, both this yea...

Three lessons can be learned from this: first, there is a need for a less invasive and preferably reversible technique for lung volume reduction. Secondly, there is a need for prospective, randomized and (preferably sham) control of these techniques, and thirdly, there is a need for an a priori selection of patients, to predict the future. So, are there less invasive techniques out there? Inter...

a r t i c l e i n f o Research on intergroup attitudes in children has focused on contact with out-group peers but neglected the role of adults. This cross-sectional self-report study examined the association between the ethnic attitudes of 174 minority (Turkish-and Moroccan–Dutch) preadolescents (ages 9–13) and the perceived interpersonal relationships with their (native Dutch) majority group ...

In this paper, we analyze a sample of 46 ethnic boundaries drawn from the literature. The principal aim is to test whether there is a universal syndrome of ethnocentrism, the idea that ethnic relations can be characterized along a single dimension of differences, or, whether there are instead multiple types of ethnic relations. The latter hypothesis is based on a cultural evolutionary perspecti...

All wars generate controversy, though some more so than others. The current US-led intervention in Iraq and the catastrophic explosion of ethnic violence it incited is especially contentious. Whilst acrimonious disagreement over the raison d’etre of the Iraq war persists in capitals around the world, few deny that it has been an especially bloody and traumatic experience for Iraqi civilians. Th...