Abstract Employees remaining silent about ethical aspects of work or organization-related issues, termed employee silence, perpetuates misconduct in today’s business setting. However, how and why it occurs is not yet well specified the ethics literature, which insufficient to manage corporate misconducts. In this research, we investigate when exploitative leadership associates with silence. We ...

In this paper, I review some standard approaches to the cases of contingent a priori truths that emerge from Kripke’s (1980) discussion of proper names and Kaplan’s (1989) theory of indexicals. In particular, I discuss Evans’ (1979) distinction between superfi cially and deeply contingent truths. I shall raise doubts about Evans’ strategy in general, and also about the roots and meaningfulness ...

LSD induces profound psychedelic effects, including changes in the meaning of percepts. The subjective effects of LSD are fully blocked by a 5-HT2A receptor antagonist. LSD may alter meaningfulness by increasing activity in cortical regions responsible for processing personal attribution.

In this lecture, we give a brief review of what theorists now know, understand, or guess about static and kinetic properties of quark–gluon plasma. A particular attention is payed to the problem of physical observability, i.e. the physical meaningfulness of various characteristics of QGP discussed in the literature.

Selective attention increased the proportion of time that the attended members of a pair of either simple (gratings) or more complex (movie clips) dichoptic stimuli were visible during binocular rivalry. Lower-level stimulus attributes appear to be more important than meaningfulness in directing attention, which is a finding that may have relevance to the design of head-worn displays.

According to the dual process model of coping, assimilative or accommodative strategies can be applied to deal with aversive life situations. In people with chronic pain, the tenacious focus on achieving analgesia is often referred to as assimilative coping and associated with more disability and catastrophic thinking. In contrast, accommodative coping (accepting one's pain and setting new goal...

success of effective communication of traffic sign messages to road users may not only relate to the user characteristics but also the signs themselves. The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive design features of 120 Mainland China traffic signs. The features included familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness, and semantic closeness. Forty-one Hong Kong Chinese en...