Corporate chiefs told to follow animal urges

20 Life Without Chiefs

Can humans exist without some people ruling and others being ruled? To look at the modern world, you wouldn’t think so. Democratic states may have done away with emperors and kings, but they have hardly dispensed with gross inequalities in wealth, rank, and power. However, humanity hasn’t always lived this way. For about 98 percent of our existence as a species (and for four million years befor...

Resisting Urges to Self-Injure.

The present study explored whether and how self-injurers attempt to resist urges to harm themselves. Participants were 39 young adults with a history of skin cutting and other non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. A structured interview assessed the prevalence and perceived helpfulness of 48 methods for resisting self-injurious urges. Ninety percent of participants indicated that they had made...

Urges to eat and drink in rats.

Studies of nutrition usually depend upon the animal’s urges to eat and to drink. But little has been done to find what factors of the diet rn&l3y those urges. When body weight is employed as a measure of nutritive state, the observer ordinarily is assuming that intake has been sufficient to supply whatever is available. If weight has been lost he often assumes that the diet is inadequate qualit...

More of What Chiefs Need to Know About Eyewitness Identification

The recent article by in Police Chief by Sheri H. Mecklenburg, Patricia J. Bailey, and Mark R. Larson titled “Eyewitness Identification: An Update on What Chiefs Need to Know” (July 2013) was a timely reminder that law enforcement agencies need to develop clear and defensible procedures for obtaining and documenting eyewitness identification evidence. A national survey of law enforcement agenci...

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