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Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature; she was also a nurturing force, as is...

International Assignments: An Integration of Strategy, Research, and Practice

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Although the authors of this book and I approach the strategic challenges of globalization
from different perspectives, we've come to a similar conclusion: that the
"people" imperative is often overlooked when companies decide to enter new
countries or world regions. Stroh, Black, Mendenhall, and Gregersen base their...

Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

It is the argument of this book that the contemporary Progressive movement in the United States, designed to replace the Liberalism whose demise was the object and accomplishment of the Reagan Revolution, is the product of a series of strategic experiments and decisions by activists in organized labor, in the environmental and human rights...

Emotions in Organizational Behavior

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This edited volume looks at the range of research on emotions within an organizational behaviour framework and it organized in terms of the individual and interpersonal and organizational levels. Particular emphasis was made to bring in leading researchers from international areas.

This volume was conceived and compiled to meet the need...

Psychology's Grand Theorists: How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

I first had the idea of writing this book when I was in my senior year as an undergraduate at Williams College. I had just read Robert Heilbroner's book, The Worldly Philosophers (1972), for a class on the history of economic thought. In his book, Heilbroner brings the field of economics to life by showing how the theories of the major economists...

Discourse of Character Education: Culture Wars in the Classroom

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s.

The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character...

Personality and Intellectual Competence

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

After a century of psychometric testing (Binet, 1903), the prediction of
future achievement still remains a relatively unaddressed issue. In applied
settings, workers in organizations and academic institutions are
uncertain about the choice of robust instruments to maximize the prediction
of success and failure. At a theoretical...

Online Consumer Psychology: Understanding and Influencing Consumer Behavior in the Virtual World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

This volume contains edited versions of papers that were presented at the 2001 Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference in Seattle, Washington. This annual conference was sponsored by the Society for Consumer Psychology (Division 23 of the American Psychological Association) with sponsorship assistance from Accenture Institute for Strategic...

Troubles of Journalism: A Critical Look at What's Right and Wrong With the Press

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This book looks at criticisms of the journalism profession and evaluates many of the changes in journalism--both positive and negative. In addition, it suggests what the many changes mean for this nation and indeed for the world at large, as American journalism--its methods and standards--has markedly influenced the way many millions overseas...

Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media provides a foundation for historical research in electronic media by addressing the literature and the methods—traditional and the eclectic methods of scholarship as applied to electronic media. It is about history—broadcast electronic media history and history that has been broadcast,...

Multicultural Assessment: Principles, Applications and Examples

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

If you are reading this preface, you are probably currently taking a graduate
assessment course, or have completed assessment training, or practice
as a professional psychologist. You may wonder why these courses contain
little that is relevant for assessment practice with all those persons
who are not included in normative data...

Discrimination at Work: The Psychological and Organizational Bases

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination. Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination held at Rice University in May 2000. The idea came...

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