background: current study is aimed on researching the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance in employees of mashhad university of medical sciences in 2011-2012. methods:this is a descriptive correlational study. subjects were 200 employees of mashhad university of medical sciences, multi-stage cluster method was used for sampling. data gathering methods were bar-on emo...

At least three traditions in sociological thought address the question of social inclusion. In the systems theory proposed by Luhmann, inclusion means that individuals are able to adapt and gain access to functional subsystems, such as the labor market or the welfare state. In the tradition of Simmel, social inclusion is seen as an outcome of “cross-cutting social circles”. Both perspectives ar...

Living with cultural, religious, and ideological diversity inevitably creates situations where people are confronted beliefs, values, or practices that they disapprove of. In such situations, may consider reasons to nevertheless tolerate what of (i.e., forbearance tolerance), reject these intolerance). the current review, we empirical research on processes intergroup tolerance different manifes...

Previous research indicates that men typically tolerate more pain in experimental settings than women. One likely explanation for these group differences in pain tolerance is conformity to traditional, gender group social norms (i.e., the ideal man is masculine and tolerates more pain; the ideal woman is feminine and tolerates less pain). According to self-categorization theory, norms guide beh...