Vol. XLVIII (April 2011), 381 –392 *Iris W. Hung is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (e-mail: [email protected]). Robert S. Wyer Jr. is Visiting Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing, Chinese University of Hong Kong (e-mail: [email protected]). This research was supported in part by grants HKUST6053/01H, HK...

The right career choice for the students entering into the professional education is critical having high impact on their professional life and future achievement. This is the turning point: it cannot be left, on intuition, preconceived notions, wild imaginations or popular concepts. A missperceived career choice directs all individual efforts and resources into wrong direction, when not aligne...

Embryos have different meanings for different people and in different contexts. Seen under the microscope, the biological embryo starts out as one cell and then becomes a bunch of cells. Gradually these divide and differentiate to make up the embryo, which in humans becomes a fetus at eight weeks, and then eventually a baby. At least, that happens in those cases that carry through normally and ...

Over the past fifteen years, the city of Kisumu in western Kenya has emerged as an epicentre of 'global health' interventions, organized by non-governmental and transnational groups. These interventions involve concrete, practical engagements with the city's populations, but also imaginations and desires, as they intersect with residents' expectations of development. This article follows the ho...

I propose a new concept of the evolutionary psychological imagination, t o replace C. Wright Mills’ half-century-old notion of the sociological imagination, as a way to link personal experiences with wider social phenomena. To illustrate, I discuss how one’s difficulty in dating might be connected to the current world war, and how the evolutionary psychological imagination sometimes allows us t...

J HENRY NEWMAN was one of the greatest English prose writers whose works spanned the nineteenth century. His penchant for figurative language revealed a literary talent that was rhetorically exciting and highly imaginative. In the wake of Romanticism he used the imagination in his theological method to portray the intellectual depth of religious belief. He understood the imagination as a mental...