Three studies investigated the implicit constructions of reality associated with cultural differences in enemyship (personal relationship of hatred, malice, and sabotage). Results of interview (Study 1; N = 98) and questionnaire (Study 2; N = 166) research indicated that enemyship was more prominent among Ghanaian participants than among U.S. participants. Additional evidence located a potentia...

“It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all Sperm Whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick (ch...

I have two friends who I think are drinking too much. I don't know what to do. They are very defensive should anyone say anything to them about their excessive habit, and a lot of our friends are giving up on them. This has become a daily thing and their schoolwork and friendships are all suffering. They are both 21; one recently broke up with his girlfriend of several years and the other has b...

Most current approaches to characterize and detect hate speech focus on content posted in Online Social Networks. They face shortcomings to collect and annotate hateful speech due to the incompleteness and noisiness of OSN text and the subjectivity of hate speech. These limitations are often aided with constraints that oversimplify the problem, such as considering only tweets containing hate-re...

This article analyses the issues involved with deciding which identity groups are categorised as specific hate crime victim groups and which are not. It assesses whether theories of hate crime based around hierarchical notions of group dominance and subordination are helpful in determining which groups should be included under this hate crime ‘umbrella’. Through a discussion of the victimisatio...

Five studies across cultures involving 661 American Democrats and Republicans, 995 Israelis, and 1,266 Palestinians provide previously unidentified evidence of a fundamental bias, what we term the "motive attribution asymmetry," driving seemingly intractable human conflict. These studies show that in political and ethnoreligious intergroup conflict, adversaries tend to attribute their own group...

This is an investigation into the similarities and shared values between Identitarianism, xenophobia vigilantism, by analyzing recent xenophobic vigilante attacks of foreigners migrants in Europe Africa. Identitarianism or European brand Far-Right political dogma built on adherence to concept homogeneity race ethnicity, culture, religion, language, general aspiration a body politic. same as bas...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which brand experience affects brand credit, brand attitude, and customer-based brand equity. by five-point likert scale, the data will be collected through questionnaire filled by 385 students in islamic azad university-firouzkouh branch using samsung, apple, nokia, sony, sony ericsson, and lg cell phones. lisrel is used to test researc...

Purpose In brand activism, a promotes contested sociopolitical causes to highlight its values. Brand activism also alienates those consumers who disagree with the cause, might, consequently, target critical, negative or even aggressive actions. This paper aims study triggers and strategies of consumers’ antibrand actions given in response activism. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative conten...

nowadays, suppliers in order to maintain and improve their positions against othernational and international suppliers take advantage of their brand equity, but the problem is that industrial suppliers do not know what factors are influencing for development and promotion industrial brand equity and also do not know how to enhance brand equity, to improve brand performance in industrial markets...