Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is central to modern biology, but is resisted by many people. This paper discusses the major psychological obstacles to accepting Darwin’s theory. Cognitive obstacles to adopting evolution by natural selection include conceptual difficulties, methodological issues, and coherence problems that derive from the intuitiveness of alternative theories...

background : the ability to accept illness is a major issue in the life of a person with cancer. acceptance of disease is simultaneously conducted at two levels: the emotional and cognitive-behavioral one. it is consequential to cancer af-fecting numerous aspects of patient's life, i.e. the physical, mental, social and the spiritual area. the aim of the study was to verify the influence of soci...

This paper presents two possible visions of the future, one where the status quo of consumer Identity Management remains largely unaffected by the emerging technologies, the other where these new technologies gain popularity and wide-spread acceptance. More importantly, we give arguments that support both futures occurring. The object of this exercise is to try to enumerate those obstacles that...

Through a questionnaire survey, this study identifies and investigates seven antecedents of consumer acceptance of mobile TV advertising. Negative factors include intrusiveness, lack of trust in the advertiser, and excessive frequency; positive influences include enjoyment, originality, value, and relevance. The study proposes and validates two measurement models of these antecedents and provid...

because of the progressive nature of addiction in all aspects of life, it influences the health of society individuals and has bad effects on psychological, physical, social, emotional, spiritual and cognitive health. the purpose of this study was to investigate the social acceptance and the quality of addict’s life referred to addiction centers in golestan province. 244 patients were selected ...

Usability evaluation is an important and strategic activity in software projects (IEEE Computer Society, 2004). Its relevance had been recognized in the context of the user (Lindgaard & Chattratichart, 2007) and the software organization (Bak et al., 2008). However, several studies had identified important obstacles to its applicacion in software developement process (Bak et al., 2008; Ardito e...