Scientific Pronouncements

Identity and the New Nationalist Pronouncements

It is a common mistake to believe that identity deals with history, our memory, and our roots. While the center of identity-related processes is quite different, it cannot certainly ignore objective reality, and the individual’s past. The inflationary use of the term dates only half a century back. Before that (except for administration) rarely was there any question of identity posed, because ...

Rational and irrational thinking in terrorist pronouncements: An REBT analysis

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When Tactical Pronouncements of Change Become Real Change: The Case of Reciprocal Persuasion

In 3 experiments, Ss' public statements of attitude change conformed to the norm of reciprocity, in that the most change on a topic was accorded to a persuader who had yielded to the S's earlier persuasive attempt on a prior topic, and the least such change was accorded to a persuader who had resisted the S's persuasive attempt. This tendency was unaffected by perceptions of the persuader's lik...

Scientific Lectures

Introduction of Scientific Quality Index

The Scientific Quality Index (SQI) was proposed as a qualitative index in 2017 to evaluate the scientific outputs of researchers. In this article, in addition to introducing this index, the results of the most recent researches using this index are mentioned to provide the necessary background for related researches within the country.