There are many studies that look into the relationship between public debt and economic growth. It is hard to find, however, research addressing the role of corruption between these two variables. Noticing this vacancy in current literature, we strive to investigate the effect of corruption on the relationship between public debt and economic growth. For this purpose, the pooled ordinary least ...

The meaning-maintenance model posits that threats to schemas lead people to affirm unrelated schemas. In two studies testing this hypothesis, participants who were presented with a perceptual anomaly (viz., the experimenter was switched without participants consciously noticing) demonstrated greater affirmation of moral beliefs compared with participants in a control condition. Another study in...

Science standards across 44 states in the United States are often assumed to be equivalent because they all based on National Research Council’s (NRC) Framework for K-12 Education. Twenty of those adopted Next Generation Standards (NGSS), which is NRC Framework, and 24 other developed their own Framework-based science standards. In this article, two related studies described that focused assess...