Evolutionary psychologists argue that strong reciprocity is primarily shaped by an evolutionary history of repeated interactions in which it was in the self-interest of people to reciprocate favors. For this reason modern humans are hypothesized to respond to variations in all kinds of subtle reputational cues such as human voices in the environment, whether actions take place in the dark or du...

BACKGROUND An estimated one fifth of all U.S. adult smokers receive health benefits through insurance plans administered by Taft-Hartley Health and Welfare Funds. Most funds do not offer comprehensive tobacco-cessation services to fund participants despite evidence that doing so would be cost effective and save lives. PURPOSE This paper examines the decision-making processes of Minnesota-base...

Not just a viable source of revenue, charitable giving can create another meaningful role for trustees.

Traducción del texto de Yvonne Daniel. From Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship. Copyright 2011 by the Board of Trustees University Illinois. Used with permission Illinois Press.

In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the “tobacco strategy”, which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy makers regarding the health risks of tobacco products. The strategy involved two parts, consisting of (1) promoting and sharing independent research supporting the industry’s preferred position and (2) fundi...

Historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, authors of Merchants of Doubt, have written a new book as ambitious as it is concise. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future is told from the perspective of a Chinese historian several centuries in the future, looking back at our current time and attempting to explain to readers the irrationality of our behavior. In the ...

This article describes the development and evolution of governing boards and summarizes critical findings from a research study on hospital governing boards. The purpose of the research was to examine factors that measure performance of governing boards and the relationship of governing board effectiveness to the organizational performance of hospitals. Board leaders from 64 nonprofit hospitals...