Unlike other forms of positive thinking (e.g., expectations), research finds that positive fantasies (experiencing one’s thoughts and mental images about the future positively) predict low effort and little success in several domains. However, for vocational education students of low socioeconomic status and minority ethnicity, for whom the present environment is especially difficult, perhaps i...

In the past, TV commercials for the Dutch national lottery traditionally featured ordinary people enjoying expensive luxury products after winning big on the lottery. (Picture a local farmer driving a Lamborghini: see www.youtube.com/ watch?v=MWWkysK7FGo.) The message was straightforward: “Money generates happiness because it enables you to buy the products that you can only dream of with your ...

Several activities in the European Parliament in Strasbourg bringing together patient, scientific and political communities served to launch the first ever European Obesity Day (EOD) on May 22, 2010 to raise awareness of the need for action at the European level. In the 27 member states of the European Union approximately 60% of adults and 20% of school-age children are overweight or obese, wit...

for EGOS conference Copenhagen July 3-5, 2003. Gudbjörg Erlingsdóttir Dept of Business Administration, Lund University PO Box 7080, SE-220 07 LUND, Sweden Phone: +46-46-222 3273 Fax: +46-46-222 4437 E-mail: [email protected] Karin Jonnergård Department of Business Administration, Växjö University According to several studies there has been an ongoing institutionalisation of new f...

1. introduction the presence of some woman beside epic and mythical persons has been a widely common feature in many epicsas, for instance, ohrmazd with spenta armaiti or ahriman accompanied byjahi; jamshid, also, is blessed with his own sisters or daughters and freydun and kai khosrow with the mother as well. in these cases, the hero is led to success and fortune with the help of a feminine el...

Renaissance scholar Ada Palmer estimates we know 1 percent of what happened five hundred years ago and that two-thirds is wrong. I have no reason to doubt her expertise—and every suppose the numbers aren't much better when consider two ago.All scuttlebutt last couple decades over “real” details surrounding Joseph Smith—whether his polygamy, treasure-hunting, translating with a stone, whatever—h...

Studies of attention, often conducted in artificial laboratory experiments, may have limited validity when performance in the natural world is considered. For instance, for over two decades investigations of "reflexive" and "volitional" attention have tended to be grounded in methodologies that do not capture the demands of attention in everyday life. Recent studies suggest these laboratory inv...

Edmund Spenser’s poetry notoriously battles itself, contorting the surface of his poetical works into an ambiguous representation of how he perceived Elizabethan England in terms of theology, sexuality, nobility, and ideology. Written as what he termed “an historicall fiction[sic],” Spenser allowed his imagination to capture and epitomize the perspectives of Elizabethan society, but in a twiste...

Nietzsche's analysis of the self-poisoning of ‘the will to power’ and his insistence upon overcoming its ideological outcome (the dogmatist's fake ‘Truth’) by recognizing the ‘un-truth’ of a ‘logic of contamination,’ demonstrates that he understands ‘truth’ as a paradox. What may one accordingly expect in response to the question ‘Supposing truth is a woman – what then?’, posed in the preface t...

This essay reflects on the ambivalent reception of The Death of Nature among Englishspeaking historians of early modern science. It argues that, despite its importance, the book was mostly ignored or marginalized by these historians (as opposed to historians interested in feminist or environmental studies) for a variety of reasons. These included the special role played by the “Scientific Revol...