Abstract Nearly all contemporary countries were colonized at some point in their history by a foreign power, but do citizens resent former metropoles for past colonial abuses? We exploit survey questions which respondents asked opinion of named country. Our analyses responses from over ninety yield the surprising finding that today's are more favourable toward country's colonizer – 40 per cent ...

This study aims to determine the effects of consumer animosity on boycott motivation through Negative WOM. The sample population this study, which was carried out rival football fans, consists 408 people selected by a convenient sampling method. Considering research analyses, relationship levels between variables were determined. Reliability and validity analyses applied. Then, effect mediation...

Conventional sciences have brought forth a wealth of knowledge and benefits, but they have not always been clear and precise about their legitimate scope and methodological limitations. In contrast, new and critical approaches in modern sciences question and reflect their own presuppositions, dependencies, and constraints. Examples are quantum physics, theory and history of science, as well as ...

One approach to science treats science as a cognitive accomplishment of individuals and so defines a scientific community as an aggregate of individual enquirers. Another treats science as a fundamentally collective endeavor and so defines a scientist as a member of a scientific community. Distributed cognition has been offered as a framework that could be used to reconcile these two approaches...

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects up to 80% of women, often leading to significant personal, social and economic costs. When apparently maladaptive states are widespread, they sometimes confer a hidden advantage, or did so in our evolutionary past. We suggest that PMS had a selective advantage because it increased the chance that infertile pair bonds would dissolve, thus improving the reprodu...