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Resolve in International Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Resolve in International Politics

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and political scientists usually relates to issues of resolve. Yet, though we rely on resolve to explain almost every phenomenon in international politics—from prevailing at the bargaining table to winning on the battlefield—we don't understand what it is, how it works, or where it comes from. Resolve in International Politics draws on a growing body of research in psychology and behavioral economics to explore the foundations of this important idea. Joshua Kertzer argues that political will is more...

Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

  • Categories: Law

This book enables attorneys and law students to enhance their professional performance through the key soft skills of self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. It serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and fulfillment, organizational respect and accomplishment, client satisfaction and appreciation, and professional improvement and distinction.

Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 4
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 4

The field of culture and psychology is one of the fastest growing areas in the social sciences. Advances in Culture and Psychology: Volume 4 belongs to an annual series that is the first to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research programs in the growing field of culture and psychology.

Cognition in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Cognition in Education

This volume contains overviews of research projects at the intersection of cognitive science and education. The prominent contributors were chosen both for the quality of their work and the variety of their contributions.

Culture and Resource Conflict
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Culture and Resource Conflict

In a multi-cultural society, differing worldviews among groups can lead to conflict over competing values and behaviors. Nowhere is this tension more concrete than in the wilderness, where people of different cultures hunt and fish for the same animals. White Americans tend to see nature as something external which they have some responsibility to care for. In contrast, Native Americans are more likely to see themselves as one with nature. In Culture and Resource Conflict, authors Douglas Medin, Norbert Ross, and Douglas Cox investigate the discord between whites and Menominee American Indians over hunting and fishing, and in the process, contribute to our understanding of how and why cultur...

Giving Now
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Giving Now

Patricia Illingworth looks at the ethics of philanthropy, arguing that philanthropic donors have human rights responsibilities. She makes an urgent case that philanthropy will be more ethical, and more effective, if it is reconfigured around human rights.

Psychology of Learning and Motivation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Psychology of Learning and Motivation

This volume presents a variety of perspectives from within and outside moral psychology. Recently there has been an explosion of research in moral psychology, but it is one of the subfields most in need of bridge-building, both within and across areas. Interests in moral phenomena have spawned several separate lines of research that appear to address similar concerns from a variety of perspectives. The contributions to this volume examine key theoretical and empirical issues these perspectives share that connect these issues with the broader base of theory and research in social and cognitive psychology. The first two chapters discuss the role of mental representation in moral judgment and r...

Who's Asking?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Who's Asking?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-03
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scientists do not shed their cultures at the laboratory or classroom door; their practices reflect their values, belief systems, and worldviews. Med...

Emotional Success
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Emotional Success

A pioneering psychologist draws on fresh research to reveal the most effective--and least appreciated--route to achievement: our emotions.