Naming latency experiments in which monosyllabic items are read aloud are based on the assumption that the vocal response is not initiated until the phonology of the entire syllable has been computed. Recently, this assumption has been challenged by A. H. Kawamoto, C. T. Kello, R. Jones, and K. Bame (1998), who argued instead that the reading-aloud response begins as soon as the initial phoneme...

The major objective of this research was to assess the impact of corruption upon the prevalent religious values in Peshawar. The conceptual framework comprise of perception of religious values as independent variable, and corruption perception as dependent variable. The objectives were to find out people’s perception, causes and institutional role regarding corruption and social values, and sug...

Greek society in the early Dark Age consisted of small isolated settlements with almost no social stratification. In the course of the following four centuries, the city-state emerged as a community of citizens, as a political, geographical, religious, and judicial unit, with assembly, council, elected magistrates and written laws. A rational-actor perspective is used to shed additional light o...

At a time when people are losing faith in public institutions, trust the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is high. Using Carolina’s pandemic journey as communication case study offers lessons for health leaders. This article shares elements that helped build provides recommendations.

While evidence indicates that religious persons are more generous on average than nonreligious persons, little work has been done to determine if this greater generosity is a general pattern or specific to church-based institutions. Limited research addresses if, or how, religious and nonreligious givers respond to subsidies. This paper uses experimental data to examine differences in the amoun...