This study compared two forms of accountability that can be used to promote diversity and fairness in personnel selections: identity-conscious accountability (holding decision makers accountable for which groups are selected) versus identity-blind accountability (holding decision makers accountable for making fair selections). In a simulated application screening process, undergraduate particip...

For reasons well known, change has always been uncomfortable to business systems. There is some resistance and resentment whenever changes are made in the existing set-up more so in the case of technological change. New technologies have often brought structural changes to the business systems, which affect their cultural complexion as well. In recent years, there has been a stream of new innov...

The Engagement With Beauty Scale (EBS), designed from the aesthetics of I. Kant (1790/1987), G. W. F. Hegel (ca. 1835/1993), and T. Aquinas (ca. 1260/1947) and the psychological work of J. Haidt (J. Haidt & D. Keltner, 2004), measures engagement with natural, artistic, and moral beauty. In Studies 1 and 2, the authors describe scale construction, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor...

A steep decline in biologically based racial animus over the past four decades has not led to a softening of opposition to race-conscious policies such as affirmative action. One explanation for this is that a new racial belief system—referred to as symbolic racism or racial resentment—has replaced “old-fashioned racism.” Another is that nonracial values such as ideology and a preference for sm...

Scholarly peer review is both central to scientific progress and deeply flawed. Peer review is prejudiced, capricious, inefficient, ineffective, and generally unscientific. Management journals have longer review cycles than journals in other fields. Long cycle times demonstrably harm early-career researchers. Meanwhile, a lack of transparency conceals and facilitates editorial misconduct, and s...

This paper traces the emotions of 29 Canadian secondary school department heads as they engage with their own and others' educational purposes, with the power relationships of secondary schooling and with their relationships with other individuals around them who are a!ected by and have expectations for their role. Such interactions have embedded within them a range of emotions which point to i...

The authors conducted 2 studies of 9th-grade Israeli adolescents (169 in Study 1, 156 in Study 2) to compare the parenting practices of conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support using data from multiple reporters. Two socialization domains were studied: emotion control and academics. Results were consistent with the self-determination theory model of interna...

To identify potential counseling needs of grade-retained students, in-depth qualitative interviews with eight adolescent subjects focused on their (and a parent’s) psychosocial responses to being “left behind”. The participants universally reported highly negative developmental changes related to grade retention, including lower self-esteem, social isolation from peers, shame about being older ...

Introduction We are all aware that this is an increasingly volatile issue, both within the Church and in the wider political arena. It causes deep pain and anguish for some, anger and resentment for others, and very likely a degree of apprehension and anxiety all the way around. As you might guess, I would dearly love not to have to address this at all because none of us wants to be labeled and...

Three studies involving 328 married couples were conducted to validate the Marital Offence-Specific Forgiveness Scale, a new measure assessing offence-specific forgiveness for marital transgressions. The studies examined the dimensionality; internal consistency; and discriminant, concurrent, and predictive validity of the new measure. The final scale comprised 2 distinct correlated dimensions, ...