This paper tries to study the effective factors involving in social identity among high school students in Amol (Northern Iran) from three different viewpoints: Religion, family and national ones. This research is done by survey and questionnaire method. The sample were 372 Boys and girls. The findings show variables like self satisfaction, rationalization of affairs, and self-steastm influen...

<p align="justify">This study aims to examine the influence of pressure, opportunity, rationalization, ability, arrogance, and collusion in detecting village fund management fraud with materialism as moderator. The population this are all village/traditional state apparatus Ambon City, totaling 15 states, namely: 3 customary lands each sub-district. sample consisted 66 respondents consist...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), one of three administrations within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is the largest integrated health system in the United States. Suffering deservedly or not during the 1980s and early 1990s from a tarnished reputation of bureaucracy, inefficiency, and mediocre care, the VA sought to reinvent itself beginning in 1995 as a model system character...

Moral rationalization is an individual’s ability to reinterpret his or her immoral actions as, in fact, moral. It arises out of a conflict of motivations and a need to see the self as moral. This article presents a model of evil behavior demonstrating how situational factors that obscure moral relevance can interact with moral rationalization and lead to a violation of moral principles. Concept...

This paper presents an intr{gluction to a theory of rationalization for autonomous agents covering three kinds of rationalization: goal-bas~xl, belief based, and assumption-based rationalization. Wc show that the COMINT model of decisioa making (Botclho & (’oelho 1996) enables us to approach rationalization in a rather natural fashion. Namely, it presents an automatic (as opposed to deliberativ...

An ever broader availability of freeform designs together with an increasing demand for product customization has lead to a rising interest in efficient physical realization of such designs, the trend toward personal fabrication. Not only large-scale architectural applications are (becoming increasingly) popular but also different consumer-level rapid-prototyping applications, including toy and...

In 1908 the Welsh neurologist and psychoanlayst Ernest Jones described human beings as rationalizers whose behavior is governed by "the necessity of providing an explanation." We construct a formal model of rationalization. In our model a decision maker selects the best feasible alternative (according to her preferences) from among those that she can rationalize. We show that this theory can ac...