Issues surrounding the upcoming presidential election season highlight the need for a better understanding of the relationship between human motivation and political orientation. The neurophysiological trait systems of approach (BAS) and avoidance (BIS) are crucial to understanding human motivation (Gable, Mechin, Hicks, and Adams, 2015). The behavioral inhibition system (BIS) is sensitivity to...

This is a brief note on ecotourism typologies as reported by different authors at different points of time. As such, this note tries to throw light on the research done so far on segmentation of ecotourists. One important parameter of ecotourist market segmentation that is receiving increased attention is the concept of a hard-to-soft spectrum that allows for identification of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’...

Narcissist” is a term that may be used lightly to describe or label someone that is selfcentered. However, research that suggests a possible increase in narcissistic personality tendencies among college-aged American students has a very real and serious impact on society. The goal of this paper is to examine the evolution of the concept of narcissism and its detrimental effects on society. This...

Conservatives are often thought to have a negativity bias – responding more intensely to negative than positive information. Yet, recent research has found that greater endorsement of conservative beliefs follow from both positive and negative emotion inductions. This suggests that the role of affect in political thought may not be restricted to negative valence, and more attention should be gi...