This study was to investigate the stability of self-concept in nonchronic, nonparanoid schizophrenics. Self-Concept, Health-Concept, and Food-Preference questionnaires were administered to 84 Ss. Schizophrenics and controls were divided into failure and nonfailure groups (N = 21 per group). Test-retest method with failure or neutral condition immediately preceding the 2nd testing showed schizop...

– Despite some research on self-management and self-organization, the control and the coordination of an organization without hierarchy remains a mysterious phenomenon. However, the dissemination of the responsibilities and the decentralized decisions in a business network require improving our knowledge in this field. From this theoretical point of view, our article aims to explore the modes o...

Rationalizability and similar notions of consistency have proved to be highly problematic in the context of social choice, as witnessed by a range of impossibility results, among which Arrow’s is the most prominent. We propose to rationalize choice functions by preference relations over sets of alternatives (set-rationalizability) and introduce two consistency conditions, α̂ and γ̂, which are def...

The present studies examined the association between self-concept structure and stability of self-esteem. In two daily diary studies, evaluative integration (organizing positively and negatively valenced self-beliefs into the same self-aspects) was associated with more stable self-esteem than evaluative compartmentalization (organizing positively and negatively valenced self-beliefs into separa...