Rather than a new feature of modern industrial society, we argue that the much-discussed problem of "risk" represents only a modern conceptual language for discussing the age-old problems of uncertainty and control. What is different about the worries of the present day is not the number of hazards we face or the degree of uncertainty we feel about our lives, but rather it is the language we us...

Following a telephonic deposition, the author discovered that a psychiatrist expert witness for the other side had electronically eavesdropped on the entire six-hour proceedings. Under cross-examination the expert admitted eavesdropping on instruction of state's attorneys, and directing their deposition of the author, but denied wrongdoing. The ethical implications of such deceptive behavior an...

OBJECTIVES To examine construct and predictive utility of an adapted cognitive rationalization scale for tanning-bed use. METHODS Current/former tanning-bedusing undergraduate students (N = 216; 87.6% females; 78.4% white) at a large northeastern university participated in a survey. A cognitive rationalization for tanning-bed use scale was adapted. Standardized self-report measures of past ta...

In recent years, the prices of city commercial housing are soaring, causing wide attention of public and fierce discussion about whether it is reasonable for the housing prices in China. This paper attempts to establish a method to measure housing price-rationalization. Firstly, the paper establishes rationalization evaluation system of housing price from commercial housing price formation, res...