A study was conducted which aimed to determine whether varying attractiveness and character integrity significantly affected the severity of the crime which participants associated with defendant portraits. Participants were shown attractive and unattractive portraits that were paired with a positive, negative or no-character statement. It was predicated that both variables would have effects o...

This study is interested in understanding curriculum as an international text and evaluating the connections between junior high school students’ global knowledge and attitudes and the required national curriculum in Taiwan. The study also examines whether the global knowledge and attitudes vary by demographic variables. By using the Global Knowledge Scale and Global Attitudes Scale, data were ...

Background and Aim: Marriage and establishing a family is one of the most important events of everyone's life which has significant effects on personal and social health if it occurs appropriately and is intertwined with enough knowledge. To reach these positive effects, pre-marriage consultation is taken into consideration and it is accurately planned. Under such an instructional program, coup...

We propose robust tests as alternatives to the classical Wilks’ Lambda test in one-way MANOVA. The robust tests use highly robust and efficient multi-sample multivariate Sor MM-estimators instead of the empirical covariances. The properties of several robust test statistics are compared. Under the null hypothesis, the distribution of the test statistics is proportional to a chi-square distribut...