This article examines future mindedness among single middle adult women. In line with the dominant culture, most parents in Indonesia rely on their children for support old age. Some women, however, choose to remain and childless. focuses its exploration ways which these unmarried, childless women plan prepare lives Using case-study approach employing, as theoretical framework, Seginer’s concep...

We developed a strategic-planning model to optimize BMW’s allocation of various products to global production sites over a 12-year planning horizon. It includes the supply of materials as well as the distribution of finished cars to the global markets. It determines the investments needed in the three production departments, body assembly, paint shop, and final assembly, for every site and the ...

Individuals who believe that racial groups have fixed underlying essences use stereotypes more than do individuals who believe that racial categories are arbitrary and malleable social-political constructions. Would this essentialist mind-set also lead to less creativity? We suggest that the functional utility derived from essentialism induces a habitual closed-mindedness that transcends the so...

This paper presents five studies on the development and validation of a scale of intellectual humility. This scale captures cognitive, affective, behavioral, and motivational components of the construct that have been identified by various philosophers in their conceptual analyses of intellectual humility. We find that intellectual humility has four core dimensions: Open-mindedness (versus Arro...

The purported environmental, social, psychological, and economic benefits of urban agricultural initiatives (UAIs) are context-dependent. However, little research has been done on UAIs in Asia, to our knowledge, no conducted Singapore. This study investigated the perceived by employees volunteers at an UAI Singapore, Asian city–state, how these were achieved or impeded. A secondary aim was exam...