OBJECTIVE Being a mother has become a realizable life role for women with disabilities and chronic illnesses, including multiple sclerosis (MS). Identifying psychosocial factors that facilitate participation in important life roles-including motherhood-is essential to help women have fuller lives despite the challenge of their illness. By integrating the International Classification of Function...

Piles of research in psychology show that personality factors influence behavior. In fact, the first involvement of psychology in safety focused on finding the injury-prone personality. This research occurred in the 1950's, and was not very successful, partly because the assessment techniques were not sufficiently reliable nor valid; and because individual differences were overwhelmed by situat...

Kevin Lyn The Image of the City remains one of the most important books in environmental design research. Its approach relies upon behavioral observations and systematic surveys of environmental cognition. We can perceive only what we see; thus, sight is the most important sense in landscape design. The spaces and objects of landscape design are stored temporally in the mind; they cannot be use...

Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and Univer...

Contingent valuation of the environment has proven popular amongst environmental economists in recent years and has increased the role of monetary valuation in public policy. However, the underlying economic model of human psychology fails to explain why certain types of stated behaviour are observed. Thus, good scope exists for interdisciplinary research in the area of economics and psychology...

Correction to: Relationship between Religious Attitude and Prosocial Behavior Considering the Mediating Role of Empathy and Altruism in Nursing and Medical Students   Abdolzahra Naami1, Mahnaz Mehrabizadeh Honarmand1, Soodabeh Bassak Nejad2, Mahdi Hassanvand Amouzadeh3, Auob Asadi4 Nematollah Sanaeenasab4,   1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Sh...