Research on self-serving biases in judgments and decision-making suggests that individuals first evaluate the outcomes they get, and then the procedures by which these outcomes were obtained. Evidence also suggests that the appraisal of the former (outcome favorability) can bias the appraisal of the latter (procedural fairness). We investigated the nature of the emotions that are elicited by th...

The purpose of this article was to study the economics of Sweden's scheme of 'multiple' arable nitrogen abatement instruments. A large-scale, spatially distributed mathematical programming model that linked changes in agricultural production practices to coastal nitrogen load was developed. Actual abatement policy induced 21% abatement. A rst-best solution to 21% abatement required increased co...

This article argues that the targeting of certain narratives womanhood, those deemed ‘respectable’ and ‘responsible’, operated as a key performative affective strategy during Irish 2018 Referendum on 8th Amendment Constitution. When to ‘repeal 8th’ amendment was announced, both pro-choice pro-life campaigns affiliated themselves with idealised imagery, strategies focused outdated patriarchal he...

Positive cueing (i.e., when commonly performed environmentally friendly behaviors are cued as being pro-environmental) has been proposed a social marketing technique to promote sustainable behavior. In three studies (N = 2489), we show that the impact of positive is rather limited. two specific choice contexts, results point spillover effect consumers more likely make after cueing). However, th...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of different topical agents utilized for prevention of enamel decalcification around orthodontic brackets bonded to bleached and non-bleached enamel. METHODS Human maxillary premolars (n = 120) were divided into two equal groups. Teeth in group I were left without bleaching while those in group II were bleached with Vivastyle g...

Abstract In polarized societal debates, it is often assumed that perceiving polarization leads individuals to take sides (e.g., “pro‐life” or “pro‐choice”). However, can also make ambivalent because they feel “caught in the social crossfire” of debate. We conducted a survey study (N total = 863 women) on ambivalents’ perspectives U.S. abortion Findings supported hypothesis perceived related pos...

The article deals with the story of Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures Pinocchio”, translated by Nina Petrovskaya and revised Aleksey Tolstoy in Berlin at time their collaboration newspaper “Nakanune”. Attention is drawn to use commedia dell’arte characters’ names international political newspeak connection press appearances A. Gramsci whose biography closely linked pro-Bolshevik circles Moscow. i...