We propose that two psychological dimensions, one relevant to relationships and group life (communion, C) and the other to skill acquisition, talent, and accomplishment (agency, A), aid people in interpreting their social worlds. Moreover, our analysis demonstrates the privileged nature of the C dimension and its relative stability compared to the A dimension across contexts and cultures. In St...

The present study examines how individuals with different social value orientations (i.e. prosocial, individualistic, and competitive) construe the rationality, morality, and power of choices in four distinct interdependence structures which systematically differ in the motives that could underlie the most prosocial or least aggressive choice: (a) altruism only, (b) altruism and cooperation, (c...

Multimedia Communications involves itself with the communications of highly distributed multimedia data objects that require precise timing at and between multiple locations. This paper proposes a way to handle this level of communications through enhancements made at the Session Layer of the OSI protocol standard. The approach taken starts with a definition of multimedia data objects and then ...

This quantitative study investigated the levels of optimism and self-concepts of 76, fourth-sixth graders who attend an academically successful, Englishimmersion, private school serving a majority Latino and urban population. Two instruments measured the students‟ self-perceptions with expected and unexpected results. Although academically successful and functioning as the majority, these Latin...

F. Abe,17 H. Akimoto,39 A. Akopian,31 M. G. Albrow,7 A. Amadon,5 S. R. Amendolia,27 D. Amidei,20 J. Antos,33 S. Aota,37 G. Apollinari,31 T. Arisawa,39 T. Asakawa,37 W. Ashmanskas,18 M. Atac,7 P. Azzi-Bacchetta,25 N. Bacchetta,25 S. Bagdasarov,31 M. W. Bailey,22 P. de Barbaro,30 A. Barbaro-Galtieri,18 V. E. Barnes,29 B. A. Barnett,15 M. Barone,9 G. Bauer,19 T. Baumann,11 F. Bedeschi,27 S. Behren...

This study examines processes of diffusion affecting the spread of 52 innovations among Israel’s 248 nonreligious kibbutzim 1990-1998. We look closely not only at the adoption of innovations, but also at processes of deliberation and implementation, rejection and abandonment. Increasing frequencies of innovations increase the frequencies of all transitions. At the relatively low levels of adopt...

IN ORDER TO TEACH HUMANISTS how to search effectively the variety of information technologies available to them, librarians should reassess traditional instruction techniques. Teaching methods must be considered in view of the special characteristics inherent in humanities disciplines, humanities databases, and the humanist’s own attitudes and learning styles. This article analyzes the attitude...

P 13-5, 7th World Congress on Endourology and ESWL,Kyoto, 27.-30. 11. 1989 16. Brfimmer F, Staudenraus J, Nesper M, Suhr D, Eisenmenger W, H~ilser DF (1989) Biological effects and physical characterizationof shock waves generated by an XL-1 experimental lithotripter. ProcUltrasonics Int 89:1130-1135 17. Chaussy Ch, Schmied E, Jocham D, Fuchs G, Brendel W, ForssmanB, Hepp W (1986...

This content analysis examined the chivalry hypothesis in six months of crime reporting in a local newspaper. This hypothesis posits that female criminals receive more lenient treatment in the criminal justice system and in news coverage of their crimes than their male counterparts. The study found partial support for the chivalry hypothesis and prompts a more nuanced formulation of the hypothe...

In a within-subjects design that varied whether speakers were allowed to gesture and the difficulty of lexical access, speakers were videotaped as they described animated action cartoons to a listener. When speakers were permitted to gesture, they gestured more often during phrases with spatial content than during phrases with other content. Speech with spatial content was less fluent when spea...