Prior exposure to difficult motor conflicts has been shown to impede later performance in resolving easier conflicts. To determine if similar negative transfer occurred with verbal conflicts, 80 undergraduates resolved conflicts formed by pairi~g seven personal characteristic adjectives. Additional transfer effects associated with moving from easier to more difficult conflicts were also exami~e...

Using survey data from 240 employees working in a variety of organizations, the authors examined the relations among commitment to the supervisor, leader-member exchange, supervisor-based self-esteem (SBSE), and relationship and substantive supervisor-subordinate conflicts. They found affective commitment was negatively related to both types of conflicts; perceived lack of alternatives commitme...

With increasing pressure for shorter delivery schedules, space is a critical resource at construction sites. Current industry practice lacks a formalized approach or a tool to help project managers analyze spatial conflicts between activities prior to construction. Consequently, time-space conflicts occur frequently and significantly impact construction processes. Time-space conflicts have thre...

Population trends are in two-way relationships with the entire realm of what is commonly defined as ‘social’; from another perspective demographics constitute an important dimension of society. Yet, most often these relationships are not balanced. Social (in the wide sense, e.g. including cultural, economic and political) determinants of demographic characteristics and population trends are und...

Humans tend to respond differently between each other to rewards being dished out unfairly in different social groups, yet little is known about the potential for such variation in other species. A new study has examined responses to such inequity in several groups of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). The study, by Sarah Brosnan, Hillary Schiff and Frans de Waal, at the Yerkes National Primate Cen...

Policy conflict is the equivalent of feature interaction in traditional services. Conflicts between the actions of policies occur at execution time. Potential conflicts must be detected and resolved. Using an established policy system and core language, a specialised policy language for wireless sensor network management has been defined. This short paper describes the policy language and discu...

This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players’ success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed “battlefields.” In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield outcomes and costs aggregate in...

R e p o r t s o f v a l u e c o n f l i c t s b e t w e e n c o u n s e l l o r s f r o m the d o m i n a n t g r o u p a n d c u l t u r a l l y d i f f e r e n t c l i e n t s have served as the i m p e t u s f o r m a t c h i n g c o u n s e l l o r s a n d c l i e n t s b a s e d o n c u l t u r a l b a c k g r o u n d , as w e l l as f o r the d e v e l o p m e n t o f the T h e o r y o f ...

the aim of this research work is to study the impact of teaching the verbal communication pattern based on the holy quranic verses on the reduction of mother-daughter conflicts. three experimental groups (mothers, daughters and mothers-daughters) and one control group were selected from isfahan, iran using the cluster sampling method. the murray a. straus conflict tactics scale was utilized to ...