Project evaluation and selection are usually complex processes in large organizations, for they involve several stakeholders who are to evaluate competing alternatives with respect to a certain set of criteria and then make a choice as to which projects are to be implemented. This is particularly more so in the case of international organizations where the competing projects are proposed by uni...

that at least 90 per cent, of all midwifery falls into this class, and that, furthermore, a great part of the mortality and morbidity figures consist of women who suffer in the performance of what is an entirely physiological function. No maternity service, domiciliary or hospital, is adequate which fails to recognise that its primary duty must be the safeguarding of the interests of this overw...

The psychologic aspects of the prescribing, giving, and taking of medicines are especially important when trying to modify the emotion-laden behavior of hyperkinetic children. The physician should start by cultivating positive expectations in child, parents, and teacher. This is necessary in order to break up existing complex vicious cycles of negative expectations, low self-esteem, discouragem...

Bride burning and suicide by young married females has been a focus of attention in the midia during the last few years. It has been discussed across forums resulting in loud protest against dowry and cruelty to young married women. That even in the late 20th century women could bo bartered for money and treated ignominously by their husbands and inlaws has created a wide-spread resentment. A f...

in the house, broken windows and filth. Compared with my own home it looked appalling?and yet, and yet?somehow it was the desperate human need that came across rather than the physical aspects of the environment. Later that day I met the parents. His dull eyes bore no resentment, just a vague lack of interest; her aggression regarding implied criticism of her treatment of the children harboured...

How does civil war affect society and citizen interaction with politics? Civilians who live through warfare face numerous challenges that can have permanent effects on society even after peace is achieved. This project uses the Liberian civil wars as a case study to examine the impact of war through one channel – disruptions in education for an entire generation of children. The paper shows tha...

We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace their origins to slavery’s prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks...

We compared two groups of aggressive drivers, those who met criteria for Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) (n=10) and comparable aggressive drivers who did not meet IED criteria (n=20), to a group of non-aggressive driving controls (n=20) on measures of psychological distress, anger, hostility, and Type A behavior as well as measures of aggressive driving and driving anger and their driving...

Decisional forgiveness is a behavioral intention to act less negatively and more positively toward an offender. Emotional forgiveness is a process in which positive otheroriented emotions replace unforgiving emotions. We present five studies, involving N=832 participants, to (a) develop the Decisional Forgiveness Scale (DFS) and Emotional Forgiveness Scale (EFS; Studies 1 & 2), and (b) assess i...

Women’s participation in slut shaming is often viewed as internalized oppression: they apply disadvantageous sexual double standards established by men. This perspective grants women little agency and neglects their simultaneous location in other social structures. In this article we synthesize insights from social psychology, gender, and culture to argue that undergraduate women use slut stigm...