Acknowledged by most researchers and scholars, human resource productivity is the most important factor in the resistive economy and business. On the other hand, Workforce diversity is one of the major challenges of this century; and perhaps for managers, managing diversity is more important than seeking diversity to maximize the human resource productivity. The present study aims to analyze th...

CONTEXT The potentially toxic effects of psychopathology and poorly regulated emotion on physical health have long been considered, but less work has addressed whether healthy psychological functioning may also benefit physical health. Emotional vitality--characterized by a sense of energy, positive well-being, and effective emotion regulation--has been hypothesized to reduce risk of heart dise...

This research paper proposes a webgraph dynamics model for research institutes based on a webgraph constructed on a set of instants of time and “return back” through removal of multiple hyperlinks. Analysis of the dynamics model, conducted for the webgraph of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) using real data obtained from websites age determination, shows that emergence of new links for eac...

a r t i c l e i n f o Although much of the research on human mate preference assumes that mate preference and partner choice will be related to some extent, evidence for correlations between mate preference and mate choice is mixed. Inspired by biological market theories of mate choice, which propose that individuals with greater market value will be better placed to translate their preference ...

Investigations of similarity and opinion change seem to have inadvertently fostered the conclusion that any communicator-communicatee similarity will lead to opinion change, and that the resultant change is due directly to similarity and not to increased feelings of attractiveness for similar communicators. It was hypothesized and confirmed that, when communicator attractiveness is controlled, ...

The Interaction of Endorser Attractiveness and Involvement in Persuasion Depends on the Goal That Guides Message Processing Author(s): Sharon Shavitt, Suzanne Swan, Tina M. Lowrey, Michaela Wanke Source: Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994), pp. 137-162 Published by: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Taylor & Francis Group) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1480669 Accessed: 26...

Beauty and cuteness are considered to represent different aspects of attractiveness and to be distinguishable from each other by their respective reliance on neonate and sexually mature features found in attractive faces. In this study, we investigated whether baby schema features in adult faces affect not only cuteness, but also beauty and attractiveness. We also investigated possible differen...

The Beauty-is-Good stereotype refers to the assumption that attractive people possess sociably desirable personalities and higher moral standards. The existence of this bias suggests that the neural mechanisms for judging facial attractiveness and moral goodness overlap. To investigate this idea, we scanned participants with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they made attractiveness j...

Purpose Street vendors create a vital urban street and significant important part of our areas are streets, they cater to leisure, social functional needs. There many debates concerning vendors; on one hand, there those who argue against them because believe problems should be abolished, the other arguments that defend life. Design/methodology/approach This paper aims identify people's percepti...