On Vested Interests, Sacred Cows and Such

Through the looking glass: anemia guidelines, vested interests, and distortions.

T he most recent National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-KDOQI) Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations for Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease report, released in May 2006, has led to intense debate and scrutiny in both the scientific and the lay press. At issue are the process and the timing of the report, the role of participants and...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy: more than "economic vested interests".

Some Remarks On Sacred Cows: Revisiting Method Technique

Theater historians often speak of theories of acting (Carlson, 1983), although the term tends to shift in meaning across much of their commentary. Theories of broader sweep, as instanced in the writings of Grotowski, Brecht, Craig, Artaud, Chaikin, Lecoq, or Copeau involve alternative theatrical directions, and differ in scope from those about processes necessary for actors to achieve stage rea...

Policy for physical education and school sport in England, 2003-2010: Vested interests and dominant discourses

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The Dynamic Reactance Interaction – How Vested Interests Affect People’s Experience, Behavior, and Cognition in Social Interactions

In social interactions, individuals may sometimes pursue their own interests at the expense of their interaction partner. Such self-interested behaviors impose a threat to the interaction partner's freedom to act. The current article investigates this threat in the context of interdependence and reactance theory. We explore how vested interests influence reactance process stages of an advisor-c...