In this review, we briefly summarize much of the existing literature on gender-related concerns and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), drawing attention to critical shortcomings in our current understanding and potential clinical implications. Some authors have concluded that gender identity disorder (GID), or gender dysphoria (GD), is more common in individuals with ASD, providing a range of pot...

In present day world when identity circumferences many social, personal, professional outlooks, the identification of identity is highly critical. In pursuit of the same if we consider biological identity of person as a resource to identify his identity, we are approaching towards a new arena of a metric system call biometric system which enables us for automatic identification of an individual...

Does support for tough policies against undocumented immigration reflect antiimmigrant sentiments or a neutral concern about upholding laws? This study addresses the question by examining the relationship between different expressions of national identification and ethnocentric enforcement bias—that is, support for punishment of law-breaking immigrants but not law-breaking American employers wh...

This paper presents a reflection on the process of doing critical discourse research. Examples from a current project on the discursive construction of ‘older worker’ identity are used to illustrate how major challenges inherent in undertaking discourse research can be addressed. These involved initial justifications of discourse theory as a research framework, research design and the selection...

Organizations need to maintain enduring and stable organizational identity to gain long-term success while must adapt quickly to the increasingly volatile environment as a critical condition for profitability and survival. Such ongoing paradoxical challenge concerning management of organizational identity has been left unaddressed in the existing literature. Drawing on the ambidexterity and org...

During everyday interactions, we continuously monitor and maintain information about different individuals and their changing emotions in memory. Yet to date, working memory (WM) studies have primarily focused on mechanisms for maintaining face identity, but not emotional expression, and studies investigating the neural basis of emotion have focused on transient activity, not delay related acti...

Abstract The link between identity and creativity has received attention from developmental psychology only recently, even if these competences are also critical for the formation processes of vocational identity, mainly during late adolescence when young people have to define plans their professional future. current study aims at identifying typologies ‘creativity–vocational interplay’ in 190 ...

• The adoption of SDG target 16.9 has brought belated recognition the importance a person’s ‘legal identity’. New identity’ systems are being implemented out without sufficient attention to potential negative impacts. To achieve desired positive impacts, detailed is needed regulation enrolment processes. avoid doing harm, independent oversight and reduced state discretion critical. right legal ...

Community mobilisation among sex workers is recognised as an important HIV/STI prevention strategy. However, factors such as poverty and stigma often negatively influence participation in activities that attempt to mobilise around a common identity of 'sex workers'. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the relationship between social identity and participation among 24 sex workers enrol...

In present day world when identity circumferences many social, personal, professional outlooks, the identification of identity is highly critical. In pursuit of the same if we consider biological identity of person as a resource to identify his identity, we are approaching towards a new arena of a metric system call biometric system which enables us for automatic identification of an individual...