Research on mediation has shown that mediation can be an effective conflict management tool to contain intrastate conflicts, prevent escalation of low intensity conflicts, and foster de-escalation. But can ripe moments for conflict prevention effectively be anticipated? This article argues that the short-term conflict history provides a good predictor of the probability of mediation onset in lo...

Citation: Indregard A-MR, Ulleberg P, Knardahl S and Nielsen MB (2018) Emotional Dissonance and Sickness Absence Among Employees Working With Customers and Clients: A Moderated Mediation Model via Exhaustion and Human Resource Primacy. Front. Psychol. 9:436. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00436 Emotional Dissonance and Sickness Absence Among Employees Working With Customers and Clients: A Moderated Me...

Research has consistently shown that males play violent video games more frequently than females, but factors underlying this gender gap have not been examined to date. The present approach examines the assumption that males play violent video games more, because they anticipate more enjoyment and less guilt from engaging in virtual violence than females. This may be because males are less empa...

Interactive narratives are branching stories with events that change based on feedback from participants. One method of generating interactive narratives is a planbased process called mediation. A sub-process within mediation called accommodation creates new story content when a participant deviates from the main storyline. We show that a model of character knowledge allows accommodation to fin...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has experienced dramatic backlogs of pending charges over the years. In 1977, the backlog reached an all-time high of 130,000 cases pending. Recently, the EEOC announced that the backlog had been reduced to 29,890 cases. A significant portion of this reduction is attributab le to an increased use of mediation. During FY 2001, 7,800 of the 94,59...

This study is conducted under the domain of Vygotskian Socio-cultural Theory (SCT) of mind and the notion of dynamic assessment to elevate the linguistic accuracy of EFL learners’ writing skill. 40 homogenous intermediate EFL learners from four intact classes were divided into two dynamic assessment (DA) and non-dynamic assessment (NDA) groups. As a pre-test, the participants were given writing...

Today, an overwhelming number of states and local jurisdictions presume domestic violence victims unsuitable for divorce mediation. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges ("NCJFCJ") Model Code on Domestic and Family Violence ("Model Code") and similar state codes have codified this presumption. This Article argues that these statutes grew out of 1980s and early 1990s critiques...

The Health Belief Model (HBM) posits that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat. While the model seems to be an ideal explanatory framework for communication research, theoretical limitations have limited its use in the field. Notably, variable ordering is currently undefined in the HBM. Thus, it is uncl...

We generalize the so-called “deflected anomaly mediation” scenario to the case where threshold corrections of heavy messengers to the sparticle squared-masses are positive. A concrete model realizing this scenario is also presented. The tachyonic slepton problem can be fixed with only a pair of messengers. The resultant sparticle mass spectrum is quite different from that in the conventional de...