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Andrew J. Hoffman, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University Michigan, has written “The Engaged Scholar — Expanding Impact Academic Research in Today's World” (2021 Stanford Press). According to author, most researchers want make a difference, but academic institutions often do not value public engagement, leading disengaged scientists. Hoffman gives and reexamines arguments for why...

This study investigated 832 college students' experiences with hooking up, a term that refers to a range of physically intimate behavior (e.g., passionate kissing, oral sex, and intercourse) that occurs outside of a committed relationship. Specifically, we examined how five demographic variables (sex, ethnicity, parental income, parental divorce, and religiosity) and six psychosocial factors (e...

This article examines how passion affects an entrepreneur’s business failure experiences. Our study explores the link between type of entrepreneur exhibits and effect this has on entrepreneurs’ attitudes reactions to failure. We analyse way in which informs entrepreneurs identification with their business, entrepreneurial process. Entrepreneurs who experienced harmonious maintained emotional di...

Objectives: To examine the interplay between harmonious and obsessive passion and aggressive behavior in sports. It was hypothesized that players who are obsessively-passionate about basketball should report higher levels of aggressive behaviors than harmoniously-passionate players in general, and especially under self threat. Methods: Using the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand et al. (200...

A defining feature of passionate love is idealization--evaluating romantic partners in an overly favorable light. Although passionate love can be expected to color how favorably individuals represent their partner in their mind, little is known about how passionate love is linked with visual representations of the partner. Using reverse correlation techniques for the first time to study partner...

We examined whether ambiance, a qualitative relationship characteristic, predicted condom use in Greek young adults’ dating relationships, along with other objective relationship characteristics, such as relationship duration and coital sex frequency. Ambiance definition was based on the fundamental companionate-passionate love distinction. Participants were 277 Greek university students, 18-25...

The Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) shows that people can experience a harmonious or an obsessive passion toward an activity. Mageau and Vallerand (2007; Mageau et al., 2009) have argued that self-related processes, such as contingencies of self-worth, are central in the distinction between the two types of passion. Specifically, it was proposed that people with an obsessive...

Humor is an advanced emotional and cognitive ability of mankind that involves complex semantic inference and deep passionate appreciation. This paper presents the cognitive foundations of amusement and a general theory of humor based on the recent advances in cognitive informatics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive computing, and fuzzy causal analyses. A theory of fuzzy false causation (FFC) is ...