We present a dynamic reputation model of news reporting by a profitmaximizing media outlet whose credibility is uncertain to the public. In each period, the media outlet chooses its source of news: a costly independent investigation or, possibly, a free report prepared by an interest group. The revenue of the media outlet consists of the subscription fees for the public and the access fees for ...

Andrew J. Hoffman, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University Michigan, has written “The Engaged Scholar — Expanding Impact Academic Research in Today's World” (2021 Stanford Press). According to author, most researchers want make a difference, but academic institutions often do not value public engagement, leading disengaged scientists. Hoffman gives and reexamines arguments for why...

PHILOMENA VALLANCE is passionate about ensuring her staff provide patients with the fundamentals of care they deserve when in hospital.

Two decades ago, experimental social psychologists became interested in the emotion of passionate love, "the desire for union with another." Recently, sex researchers have begun to focus on sexual desire, "the desire for sexual union with another," or the loss thereof. In this paper we review what experimental social psychologists have learned about the nature of passionate love in the last two...