Perceived Threats and Real Killers

Terrorism's Fear : Perceived Personal and National Threats

Terrorism represents an unexpected and unwanted change which challenges one’s social identity. We carried out a study to explore the demographic variables’ role on the perception of personal and national threat, and to investigate the effects of perceived terrorist threat on people’s ways of life, moods, opinions and hopes. 313 residents of Palermo (Italy) were interviewed. The results pointed ...

Perceived Threats in Changing the Traits of Organizational Identity

Natural born killers.

This year, 30 million acres of the corn, cotton, and potatoes planted in the United States will have been genetically engineered to produce an endotoxin normally found in the microbe Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a self-contained pesticide that will be toxic only to target insects. Transgenic pest-resistant crops are a cost-effective alternative to chemical pesticides, and may offer a way to hel...

Hidden Killers: Molds and Mycotoxins

Confidence and Self-confidence: Perceived and Real

There are many situations in which social interactions and emerging social phenomena play important and, sometimes, fundamental roles. In our particular case we are studying networks of small to medium enterprises. In these enterprise networks each individual enterprise keeps its own identity but works in close collaboration with the others in order to produce something that the enterprises wor...