It has been suggested that an everyday preference for holistic and emotional thought is related to the ability to enter hypnosis, although research addressing the idea has often yielded inconsistent results. This study correlated hypnotic susceptibility, as measured by the Harvard Group Scale (Shor and Orne, 1962), with three measures of a holistic/emotional thinking style: the experiential sub...

The Status of Spontaneous Order in von Hayek’s Theory of Freedom and Its Educational Implications M. Moosivand Y. Ghaa’edi, Ph.D. S. Zarghaami, Ph.D. A. R. Mahmoodniyaa, Ph.D. The history of human thought shows that the concept of freedom and its use in different frameworks has been a major topic of discussion in philosophy. Within the educational system, freedom ...

People constantly have to make efficient use of their limited cognitive resources. Recently, T. Mussweiler and K. Epstude (2009) demonstrated that comparative thinking simplifies information processing and increases the efficiency of judgment. However, there are different types of comparative thinking. While comparing 2 entities, people may focus on either similarities or dissimilarities betwee...

Exposure to environmental stressors exert debilitating effects on the health of employees. Workforce in Egypt does not receive -in most casessuitable preventive measures to face such a problem. Moreover, they lack the awareness of early signs and symptoms of stress. The aim of the present work was to investigate the interrelationship between work stress in terms of physiological and psychologic...

Investigating cognitive processes that underlie privacy-related decisions, prior research has primarily adopted a “privacy calculus” view, indicating privacy-related decisions to constitute rational anticipations of risks and benefits connected to data disclosure. Referring to psychological limitations and heuristic thinking, however, recent research has discussed notions of bounded rationality...

Management accounting system (MAS) improves business growth through quality decision making process, but scholars have mixed views about MAS and constantly debate its efficacy. Drawing on the decision-making theories, current research deviates from debates adopts a ‘think-outside-the-box’ approach, aiming to advance knowledge of MAS's Research data are gathered literatures cognate studies. Foll...

The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of Romanian entrepreneurs’ thinking styles on their entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and emotional intelligence (EI). More specifically, we examine how thinking style and risk preference – both separately and interactively – contribute to an individual’s EO and EI. In addition, we examine the ways in which EO and EI impact affective orga...

PURPOSE An increasing number of elderly individuals are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD), many of whom receive daily caregiving from spouse or adult child. Caregiving is a "cultural activity," and as such it is strongly influenced by sociocultural beliefs about caregiving and how it should be enacted. Understanding this thinking-action process has important implic...