Helen Salisbury: Hanging on the telephone

Auditory Chronostasis Hanging on the Telephone

The perception of time can be illusory: we have all waited anxiously for important seconds to tick away slowly at the end of a football game and have experienced the truth of the adage "time flies when you're having fun." One illusion of time experience that has recently been investigated, the apparent slowing of the movement of the second hand on the clock when one first looks at it, has been ...

Hanging by a Thread: The Telephone Interviewers Tell (Their) Story

From behaviourism to cognitivism and to constructivism the role attributed to the interviewer changes but remains central. Specific methodological studies have shown that during the interview it is rare to find the strict application of the behaviouristic dictates which, still today, impose a passive role on the interviewer; often, the interviewers act in a non-programmed manner and reformulate...

(Not) Hanging on the Telephone: Payment Systems in the New Sweatshops

“The ultimate objective of empirical work on incentives should be to find out why firms use the compensation systems they do...huge advances in our understanding could be made by a concerted effort to collect data on contracts.” So concludes the 1998 Journal of Economic Literature survey on compensation systems. This paper does just that. It presents very detailed case study evidence on contrac...

Walter Salisbury

Mr. Walter Salisbury died suddenly at Northampton on "th January, 1935, at the age of forty-six. He had been suffering from pneumonia following influenza. He entered the Bristol Medical School in 1906, and was a student at the -ftoyal Infirmary, winning the Tibbits Prize for Surgery. He qualified M.B., B.S. London, in 1913, and held the offices ?f House Surgeon and Casualty Officer at the Royal...

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