Fireside Fantasies

Improving the Performance of Process Heaters through Fireside Modeling

Fireside Issues Associated with Coal-Biomass Cofiring

This document describes the motivations for and the effects of cofiring biomass with pulverized coal (pc) in pc-fired boilers. Such cofiring represents a near-term, low-risk, low-cost option for reducing the net CO2 emissions from the power generation sector. This document focuses on four of the critical fireside issues associated with cofiring: ash deposition, NOx production, corrosion, and ca...

Sex Differences in Homicidal Fantasies among Finnish University Students

Homicidal behavior is sex-linked. But research comparing male and female homicidal fantasies is sparse even though there is a potential link between fantasies and behavior. The aim of this study was to examine the frequency and contents of homicidal fantasies (targets, triggers, instruments, and emotional reactions) and their relation to substance abuse among 617 Finnish university students (me...

Implicit theories moderate the relation of positive future fantasies to academic outcomes

We hypothesized and observed that the degree to which students endorsed entity theories – the view that intelligence is fixed rather than malleable – attenuated the affective benefits and exacerbated the achievement drawbacks of positive fantasies in the academic domain. Positive fantasies only predicted low anger and anxiety for schoolchildren who did not strongly endorse entity theories (Stud...

Law and the Fireside Inductions

522 Meehl: Law and the Fireside Inductions THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FIRESIDE Lawmen will immediately see the point of my title, but for social science readers I should explain. The phrase “fireside equities” is legalese for what the legal layman feels intuitively or commonsensically would be a fair or just result (Llewellyn, 1960). Sometimes the law accords with the fireside equities, sometimes no...