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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Quasimodo genetis
signed 'max ernst' (lower right); signed again, dated and titled 'max ernst nov. 1956 Quasimodo geniti' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 x 18¼ in. (61 x 46.1 cm.)
Painted in November 1956
Mouradian et Vallotton, Paris.
Private collection, London (acquired from the above, March 1957).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
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XXe Siècle, no. 22, December 1960, no. 15, p. 130.
W. Spies, S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog: Werke 1954-1963, Cologne, 1998, p. 80, no. 3199 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Chicago, The Art Institute, Max Ernst, March-July 1961, p. 55, no. 128.
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, September-October 1961, p. 64, no. 175.
The dark, ominous forest is a recurring theme in the oeuvre of Max Ernst. The artist grew up on the outskirts of the vast forest of Brühle in the Rhineland, where his imagination was piqued by the constant proximity of this dark, mysterious and impenetrable presence on his doorstep. From an early age the forest was always a labyrinthine arena of mystery, danger and possibility that preyed on and haunted the recesses of Ernst's unconscious mind: "They are, it seems, savage and impenetrable, black and russet, extravagant, secular, swarming, diametrical, negligent, ferocious, fervent, and likeable, without yesterday or tomorrow. . . . Naked, they dress only in their majesty and their mystery" (Ernst, "Some Data on the Youth of M. E. as told by himself," Beyond Painting, New York, 1948, p. 27).
Forest imagery is most prevalent in works of the late twenties and early thirties, such as L'oiseau dans la forêt (fig. 1). The theme of the bird in the forest is laboriously reworked during this period in several media, attesting to the artist's fascination with the subject. The forest bird would later evolve into the birdman Loplop, named after Ernst's childhood pet. This semi-fictional creature would emerge from Ernst's forests as both the artist's muse and mystic alter-ego who would guide him on further adventures through the thickets and complex passages of Romantic tradition in painting and in particular to the work of Caspar David Friedrich. As Ernst himself revealingly recalled, the deep Romanticism of his forest paintings probably reflects the fact that alongside his childhood experiences of living on the edge of one, he had "always had Friedrich's paintings and ideas more or less consciously in mind, almost from the day I started painting" (quoted in "Ein Mittagessen mit Max Ernst," Der Monat, vol. 13, 1960, p. 70).
Seeing the forest, like Friedrich, as both a projection and a mirror of his own imagination, Ernst wanted his art to speak about and to the inner nature of man. Freidrich expressed his aims in these words: "Close your physical eye, so that you see your painting first of all with the eye of the spirit. Then bring out into the light what you saw in the darkness, so that it may react inwardly upon others" (Caspar David Friedrich, "Statement on the Observation of a Collection of Paintings by Artists Mostly Living or Recently Dead"). Ernst expressed the same sentiment when he claimed his art to be attempting "to bring into the light of day the results of voyages of discovery in the unconscious and ...(to record)... what is seen...and experienced...on the frontier between the inner and outer world."
The present painting continues to explore the mysteries of the forest which Ernst investigated in his earlier works. The ghoulish moon illuminates the menacing darkness and density of the trees, revealing macabre mutations and animations on the trunks' surfaces. In a masterful articulation of the patterns of nature, skeletal figures appear in the crooks and crags of the wood. One can distinguish full skeletons in the three trees in the center of the canvas. Once these figures become apparent, the eye searches for others, but finds only fragments and suggestions. Though seemingly devoid of all signs of life or growth, the presence of the animated skeletons hints at the presence of another world, lurking deep in the thick darkness.
(fig. 1) L'oiseau dans la forêt, 1927. Private collection.
(fig. 2) Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in the Oak Forest, 1809-1810. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.
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My six year old son, diagnosed at the age of two, is complaining of chest pains. About eight months ago, it was very infrequent (about 5 times in several months), but now it is occurring more often, around three to five times a week, sometimes twice in an evening. When he feels this, he clutches at his chest and runs to me, fearfully. It is not necessary precipitated by activity, as it can come when he is sitting watching TV. The pain is very transient, attacks lasting not more than a minute. I tell him to take deep breaths, but I am scared and so is he when this happens.
My opinion is that it looks like a muscular spasm, but I would like to follow through with this to rule out any congenital anomalies. What kind of diagnostics should we look at?
I can certainly imagine how these spells are frightening. Fortunately, it would be unlikely for this to be serious or related to his diabetes, especially given the nature of the spells that you describe. Most causes of chest pain in children (regardless of whether or not there is diabetes) are not related to heart disease. Chest pain is usually muscular in nature or sometimes actually reflects a variation of asthma. This type of pain can occur in a congenital heart condition called mitral valve prolapse which is usually not associated with serious events.
I think that it would not be unreasonable to request a referral to a pediatric cardiologist to consider an echocardiogram. Keep an open dialogue with your pediatrician.
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Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban has designed the interiors for an apartment block redevelopment underway in New York.
The Cast Iron House project will create 11 flats and two penthouse apartments inside a cast-iron clad building dating from 1882, in one of Manhattan's most popular residential areas.
Ban has been commissioned to "reimagine" the interior of the building, which the developer Knightsbridge Properties describes as a "neoclassical landmark in Tribeca".
"We liken the architectural concept for Cast Iron House to a ship in a bottle," said Ban. "The original cast iron facade is the bottle, while the newly built-out modern interior, which has been completely reimagined, is the ship."
Over 4,000 of the ornamental iron panels cladding the exterior of the building have already been removed, taken to a foundry in Alabama for restoration and recast where necessary to restore the original details, before being re-installed on the facade.
The penthouses will be housed in a new two-storey structure that is integrated into the existing building. This addition is designed to appear to hover when viewed from street level, with a cantilevered steel truss and extensive glass walls.


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Series: Six of Crows #2
Published by Henry Holt and Co. on September 27th 2016
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Pages: 536
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When you can't beat the odds, change the game.
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets―a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.
I don't even know where to start. How do I begin to express my love for this book? This book made me grin and giggle, gasp and cry. It really brought all the feels, so many feels.
This book really is all about the characters. If I thought I had loved Kaz, Inej, Nina, Matthias, Jesper and Wylan in Six of Crows, well they became even more freak'n captivating in this one. What am I suppose to do? This group of misfits just makes you want to wrap them up in a warm blanket, give them a big hug, and never let them go.
Jesper tapped his fingers restlessly on his thighs. "Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
"So?" said Kaz.
"Well, usually it's just half the city."
Kaz is still that bit of anti-hero and is even more grumpy. It's fabulous.
"I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins."
Inej got even more badass. Nina and Matthias are soooooo adorable my heart can't take it. Jesper got even more funny!? And I love loved that Wylan's character really developed to something amazing. Each and every one is wonderful, and they're even more delightful together. BFFs forever.
But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.
The story is very Ocean's 11-esque as we jump right back into the story after the darn cliffhanger in Six of Crows. I loved the heist-esque manipulative elaborate scheming revenge story. The bad guy is bad and the good guys are questionable at best. The story just sucks you in as each side battles it out, never sure who's going to take it all in the end.
"Isn't that how things are done around here?" asked Wylan. "We all tell Kaz we're fine and then do something stupid?"
"Are we that predictable?" said Inej.
Wylan and Matthias said in unison. "Yes."
Bardugo not only wrote an engaging story with characters that steal you heart, but as I've mentioned in her other books, she is queen of the witty dialogue and hilarious banters. It's sheer perfection. Don't even get me started on the romance. Slow burning, adorable teasing, utter cuteness! Every couple brings something different to the table and I loved it all. Again, the romance is subtle in this one, just simmering underneath the bigger story, yet it really makes a big impact.
Overall, this book made me so very happy.
"I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting."
QUOTESSSS; so many. Sorry.
"I don't like this," said Matthias.
Jesper had smiled his reckless gunslinger's grin. "To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much."
"Do you know what Van Eck's problem is?
"No honor?" said Matthias.
"Rotten parenting skills?" said Nina.
"Receding hairline?" offered Jesper.
"I don't like speculation," said Matthias.
"Of course you don't. You like things you can see. Like piles of snow and benevolent tree gods."
"Oh, there it is!" said Inej, resting her head on Nina's shoulder and beaming at Matthias. "I missed his glower."
"Let's go, you big goon — and I'm supposed to be your sister, stop looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
"Like I'm made of ice cream."
"I don't care for ice cream."
"Matthias," Nina said, "I'm not sure we can continue to spend time together."
They headed off at a run. "I love a little righteous comeuppance," said Jesper. "Jogs the liver!"
How many times have you told me you're a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when they close their eyes at night.
"Kaz?" Jesper said tentatively.
But Kaz was staring into the middle distance. Wylan thought he knew that look
"Is that -?" asked Wylan.
"Scheming face?" said Jesper.
Matthias nodded. "Definitely."
She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar."
A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips. "Let's not say things we don't mean, my love."
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Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner as usual, when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door. "Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've somethin' to tell ya."
"Of course you can come in. You're always welcome, Tim. But where's my husband?"
"That's what I'm here to be tellin' ya, Brenda. There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery."
"Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me..."
"I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus is dead and gone. I'm sorry."
Finally, she looked up at Tim. "How did it happen, Tim?"
"It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat of Guinness Stout and drowned."
"Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me true, Tim. Did he at least go quickly?"
"Well, no Brenda, no."
"Fact is, he got out three times to pee."
A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom & gloom pessimist.
Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.
That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.
"Why are you crying?" the father asked.
"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken." answered the pessimist twin.
Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.
To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"
According to the Alaskan Department of Fish and game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid December. Female reindeer retain their antlers 'till after they give birth in the spring. Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, every single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen had to be a girl. We should`ve known! Only women would be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night, and NOT GET LOST.-0+
Late last week, I was rushing around trying to get some last
minute shopping done. I was stressed out and not thinking very
fondly of the Christmas season right then.
It was dark, cold, and
wet in the parking lot as I was loading my car up with gifts that
I felt obligated to buy. Then I noticed that I was missing a
receipt that I might need later. So mumbling under my breath, I
retraced my steps to the mall entrance.
As I was searching the wet pavement for the lost receipt, I heard
a quiet sobbing. The crying was coming from a poorly dressed
boy of about 12 years old.
He was short and thin. He had no coat. He was just wearing a
ragged flannel shirt to protect him from the cold night's chill.
Oddly enough, he was holding a hundred dollar bill in his hand!
Thinking that he had gotten lost from his parents, I asked him
what was wrong.
He told me his sad story.
He said that he came from a large family. He had three brothers
and four sisters. His father had died when he was nine years old.
His mother was poorly educated and worked two full time jobs.
She made very little to support her large family. Nevertheless,
she had managed to skimp and save two hundred dollars to buy her
children Christmas presents. The young boy had been dropped off
by his mother, on the way to her second job. He was to use the
money to buy presents for all his siblings and save just enough to
take the bus home. He had not even entered the mall, when an
older boy grabbed one of the hundred dollar bills and disappeared
into the night.
"Why didn't you scream for help?" I asked.
The boy said, "I did."
"And nobody came to help you?" I wondered.
The boy stared at the sidewalk and sadly shook his head.
"How loudly did you scream?" I inquired.
The soft-spoken boy looked up and meekly whispered, "Help me!"
I realized that absolutely no one could have heard that poor boy
cry for help. So I grabbed his other hundred and ran to my car.
Little Known Christmas Fact
Not long ago and far away, Santa was getting ready for his annual trip... but there were problems everywhere.
Four of his elves were sick, and the trainee elves did not produce the toys as fast as the regular ones so Santa was beginning to feel the pressure of being behind schedule.
Then Mrs. Claus told Santa that her mom was coming to visit. This stressed Santa even more. When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two had jumped the fence and were out, heaven knows where. More Stress. Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the boards cracked and the toy bag fell to the ground and scattered the toys. So, frustrated, Santa went into the house for a cup of coffee and a shot of whiskey. When he went to the cupboard, he found the elves had hidden the liquor and there was nothing to drink. In his frustration, he dropped the coffee pot and it broke into hundreds of little pieces all over the he kitchen floor.
He went to get the broom and found that mice had eaten the straw it was made from.
Just then the doorbell rang and Santa cussed on his way to the door. He opened the door and there was a little angel with a great big Christmas tree. The angel said: "Where would you like to put this tree Santa?"
And that my friends, is how the little angel came to be on top of the Christmas tree.


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StarCraft Universe MMO Starts A Kickstarter Campaign
A Blizzard sanctioned StarCraft 2 mod, StarCraft Universe, which changes the well-known strategy title into a massively multiplayer online game, is looking to Kickstarter to help with development funding. The mod has been in development for two years and will be released through Battle.net. The setting of the mod is 11 years after the end of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty which has had grim consequences for Kerrigan. $80,000 is needed by developer Upheavel Arts to finish the game's first act and then move it into a public beta.
Upheavel Arts has acknowledged that while Blizzard is not affiliated with StarCraft Universe, it has given its full backing to the mod project as mentioned on the Kickstarter page for the title:
"While Blizzard is not directly affiliated with this project's production, we do communicate with them to submit bug reports and make technical request. They have given their blessing/permission for us to launch this Kickstarter, and they are supporting our efforts by featuring SCU as an Arcade Highlight."
Players will need a copy of StarCraft 2 in order to play StarCraft Universe which, as previously mentioned, will release via Battle.net and follows on from the prologue which dropped back in February.
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BioMy career in education began after graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Biophysics in 2012. I joined Teach for America and began teaching 5th grade Math at Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy in San Jose, California. When I began teaching, I cycled through different models of instruction and I found that, in order to give each student what he or she needs to excel, I needed to integrate more individualized learning opportunities into my Math classroom. I began leveraging technology and online tools to implement blended learning practices. In my current model, students rotate to a Learning Lab where they receive conceptual reinforcement through personalized online programs. Additionally, students engage in station rotations in my class, getting targeted support to reach their individual goals. Within each rotation, students are assigned practice based on their current needs, working on online practice, teacher-selected practice worksheets, or hands-on learning - all designed to give students the practice they need to achieve growth. Through taking an individualized learning approach, I push my students to own their learning and feel proud of their personal academic achievements. In addition to my work as a blended classroom teacher, I also contribute to developing my school network's STEM curriculum as a teacher leader.


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Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume 2
Publication Year: 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446249222
Subject: Social Psychology (general)
The Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology is an essential resource for researchers and students of social psychology and related disciplines.
- Chapters
- Front Matter
- Back Matter
- Subject Index
- Chapter 26: Self-Control Theory
- Chapter 27: Self-Verification Theory
- Chapter 28: Implicit Theories
- Chapter 29: Uncertainty-Identity Theory
- Chapter 30: Optimal Distinctiveness Theory: Its History and Development
- Chapter 31: A Cognitive-Neoassociation Theory of Aggression
Part IV: Interpersonal Level of Analysis
- Chapter 32: Need-to-Belong Theory
- Chapter 33: Sociometer Theory
- Chapter 34: Attachment Theory
- Chapter 35: Shared-Reality Theory
- Chapter 36: Equity Theory in Close Relationships
- Chapter 37: The Investment Model of Commitment Processes
- Chapter 38: A Theory of Communal (and Exchange) Relationships
- Chapter 39: Interdependence Theory
Part V: Group and Cultural Level of Analysis
- Chapter 40: A Theory of Cooperation – Competition and beyond
- Chapter 41: The Focus Theory of Normative Conduct
- Chapter 42: System Justification Theory
- Chapter 43: Justice Theory
- Chapter 44: Minority Influence Theory
- Chapter 45: Social Identity Theory
- Chapter 46: Self-Categorization Theory
- Chapter 47: Social Dominance Theory
- Chapter 48: The Common Ingroup Identity Model
- Chapter 49: Social Role Theory
- Chapter 50: Social Representation Theory
- Chapter 51: A Theory of Individualism and Collectivism
Copyright[Page iv]
Preface and Editorial arrangement © Paul A.M. Van Lange, Arie W. Kruglanski, and E. Tory Higgins 2012
Chapter 26 © Walter Mischel 2012
Chapter 27 © William B. Swann, Jr. 2012
Chapter 28 © Carol S. Dweck 2012
Chapter 29 © Michael A. Hogg 2012
Chapter 30 © Marilynn B. Brewer 2012
Chapter 31 © Leonard Berkowitz 2012
Chapter 32 © Roy F. Baumeister 2012
Chapter 33 © Mark R. Leary 2012
Chapter 34 © Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer 2012
Chapter 35 © Gerald Echterhoff 2012
Chapter 36 © Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson 2012
Chapter 37 © Caryl E. Rusbult, Christopher R. Agnew and Ximena R. Arriaga 2012
Chapter 38 © Margaret S. Clark and Judson R. Mills 2012
Chapter 39 © Paul A.M. Van Lange and Caryl E. Rusbult 2012
Chapter 40 © Morton Deutsch 2012
Chapter 41 © Robert B. Cialdini 2012
Chapter 42 © John T. Jost and Jojanneke van der Toorn 2012
Chapter 43 © Tom R. Tyler 2012
Chapter 44 © Charlan Jeanne Nemeth 2012
Chapter 45 © Naomi Ellemers and S. Alexander Haslam 2012
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Chapter 50 © Patrick Rateau, Pascal Moliner, Christian Guimelli, and Jean-Claude Abric 2012
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Jean-Claude Abric is emeritus professor of social psychology at Aix-Marseille University (France) where he directed the Social Psychology Laboratory for 16 years. He initiated one of the major social representation theory frameworks: the "central core theory." Author of many books on social representations, his research interests include group creativity and social communication. His most recent and famous volumes are Pratiques sociales et représentations [Social Practices and Representations] (PUF, 1994), Méthodes d'étude des représentations sociales [Methods for the Study of Social Representations] (ERES, 2003), and Psychologie de la communication, théories et méthodes [The Psychology of Communication, Theories and Methods] (Armand Colin, 1996).
Christopher R. Agnew is professor and head of the department of psychological sciences at Purdue University. He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on close, interpersonal relationships. He has published widely, authoring more than 60 articles and chapters. His research has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Agnew serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Personal Relationships. He was the recipient of the Early Career Award from the Relationships Researchers Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. He is currently President-Elect of the International Association for Relationship Research.
Ximena B. Arriaga is associate professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University. Her doctoral degree is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in social psychology. Her primary areas of research are relationship commitment, uncertainty, and partner aggression. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and contributes to the relationships and intimate partner violence literatures. She has served as an associate editor for Personal Relationships and for Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, as well as consulting editor for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In addition, Dr. Arriaga has received several teaching awards.
Roy F. Baumeister is Eppes Eminent Scholar and professor of psychology at the Florida State University. He is the author of over 450 scientific publications, including 27 books, and his works are cited over 1,000 times each year in scientific journals. He seeks to understand the basic, encompassing truths of the human condition, and towards that end his research has covered such topics as self and identity, belongingness and rejection, self-control, evil and [Page x]violence, sexuality, gender relations, human nature, decision making, how people find meaning in life, consciousness, and free will.
Leonard Berkowitz is currently Vilas Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1951. He originated the Cognitive Neoassociation Model of aggressive behavior, which was created to help explain instances of aggression that the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis could not account for. His research includes American Psychologist (1990), Psychological Bulletin (1989), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1987), Psychological Bulletin (1984). He has also been awarded as APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology, SESP Distinguished Scientist Award, and APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award.
Marilynn B. Brewer is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the Ohio State University and a visiting professor of psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her primary areas of research are the study of social identity, collective decision making, and intergroup relations and she is the author of numerous research articles and books in this area. Dr. Brewer is past-president of the American Psychological Society and recipient of the 2003 Distinguished Scientist award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. In 2004 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 she received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution award from the American Psychological Association.
Margaret S. Clark is professor at Yale University and, prior to that, was a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University for many years. She is a social psychologist whose research focuses on relationship processes (with a particular interest in providing and seeking responsiveness, non-contingently, within relationships) and on emotion (with a particular interest in the social functions of emotion). She has edited books on relationships, emotion, pro-social behavior, and methodology in personality and social psychology, served as the President of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology as well as an associate editor of Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Emotion.
Robert B. Cialdini is Regents' Professor Emeritus of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University. His primary research interests involve social influence and persuasion. His book Influence: Science and Practice (5th ed., Pearson, 2008) has been published in five editions and 26 languages. His newest coauthored book (with Noah Goldstein and Steve Martin) is Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive (Free Press, 2008).
Morton Deutsch is E.L. Thorndike Professor and Director Emeritus of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University. He studied with Kurt Lewin at MIT's Research Center for Group Dynamics, where he obtained his PhD in 1948. He has been much honored for his pioneering studies in intergroup relations, cooperation-competition, conflict resolution, social conformity, and the social psychology of justice. His books include Interracial Housing, Research Methods in Social Relations, Preventing World War II: Some Proposals, Theories in Social Psychology, The Resolution of Conflict, Applying Social Psychology, Distributive Justice, and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution.[Page xi]
John F. Dovidio is currently professor of psychology at Yale University. He previously taught at Colgate University and at the University of Connecticut. His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and altruism and helping. He has been president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Dr. Dovidio has been the recipient of several awards, including the Kurt Lewin Award, the Raymond A. Fowler Mentor Award, and the Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science. He recently coedited the Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination (Sage, 2010) and he is coeditor of the journal, Social Issues and Policy Review.
Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research examines the "theories" people use to guide their personal and interpersonal behavior. She is the author of Self-Theories (Psychology Press, 1999) and Mindset (Random House, 2006) and the coeditor of Motivation and Self-Regulation Across the Lifespan (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and the Handbook of Competence and Motivation (Guilford Press, 2005). She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science; and she has recently received the Donald Campbell Award in Social Psychology; the Ann Brown Award in Developmental Psychology; and the Klingenstein Award and the E.L. Thorndike Award in Education. She is using her research to create programs that foster school achievement, self-regulation, and conflict resolution.
Alice H. Eagly is professor of psychology and of management and organizations, James Padilla Chair of arts and sciences, and faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research, all at Northwestern University. She is the author, with Shelly Chaiken, of the Psychology of Attitudes (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993) and, with Linda Carli, of Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) as well as the coeditor of several volumes. She is the author of numerous articles in Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and other journals. She has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association, the Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation, and other awards. Her current research concerns gender and leadership, the evolution of sex differences and similarities, and the influence of feminism on the science of psychology.
Gerald Echterhoff is professor of social psychology at University of Münster, Germany. Previously he worked as postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, assistant professor at Bielefeld University, visiting professor at the University of Cologne, and professor of psychology at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. He received his PhD from New School for Social Research, New York in 2000. His research interests include interpersonal communication, shared reality, social influence on memory, social cognition, and cultural contexts of remembering. In a signature field of investigation, he and his lab group study how communication shapes speakers' own memory and thinking. His research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Social Cognition.[Page xii]
Naomi Ellemers is professor of social and organizational psychology at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Her research includes experimental studies as well as applied work in organizations, and addresses a range of topics in group processes and intergroup relations. She has published extensively on a range of topics such as individual mobility and social change, organizational and team commitment, diversity and innovation, work–family issues, stigmatization and career development. She has coedited books on stereotyping, on social identity theory, and on social identity processes in organizations. She has been active as an associate editor (British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, and Social Psychology) and on the board of national and international scientific organizations, and has received several prestigious grants and awards for her work.
Samuel L. Gaertner is professor of psychology at the University of Delaware. His research interests focus on understanding and reducing prejudice, discrimination, and racism. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Professor Gaertner's research, together with John F. Dovidio, has been supported by grants from the Office of Naval Research, the National Institutes of Mental Health and currently, the National Science Foundation. Together with John Dovidio, he shared the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize in 1985 and 1998, as well as the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association.
Michele J. Gelfand is professor of psychology and distinguished university scholar teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her PhD in social/organizational psychology from the University of Illinois. Gelfand's work explores cultural influences on conflict, negotiation, justice, and revenge; workplace diversity and discrimination; and theory and methods in cross-cultural psychology. Her work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and the Annual Review of Psychology. She is the coeditor of The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2004) and The Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizations (Psychology Press, 2008) and is the founding coeditor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology and Frontiers of Culture and Psychology series.
Christian Guimelli is professor of social psychology at Aix-Marseille University (France) where he manages the "Social Representations" research team of the Social Psychology Laboratory. His areas of research include social representation analysis and methods and the structure and dynamics of social representations. He has published over 70 books, chapters, and journal articles in the field of social representations and is the author of five books including Structures et transformations des représentations sociales [Structure and Transformation of Social Representations] (Delachaux & Niestlé, 1994), and La pensée sociale [Social Thought] (PUF, 1999).
S. Alexander Haslam is professor of social and organizational psychology at the University of Exeter. He is former chief editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology, and currently on the editorial board of eight international journals. His work with colleagues at Exeter and around the world focuses on the study of social identity in social and organizational contexts. This is represented in his most recent books: The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, [Page xiii]Influence and Power (with Reicher and Platow; Psychology Press, 2011) and Psychology in Organizations: The Social Identity Approach (2nd ed., Sage, 2004). He a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, and a former recipient of EASP's Lewin Medal.
Elaine Hatfield is a professor of psychology at the University of Hawai'i and past-president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. In recent years, she has received Distinguished Scientist Awards (for a lifetime of scientific achievement) from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and the University of Hawai'i, and the Alfred Kinsey Award from the Western Region of SSSS. Two of her books have won the American Psychological Association's National Media Award.
E. Tory Higgins is the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Professor of Business, and Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia (where he also received his PhD in 1973). He has received a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Thomas M. Ostrom Award in Social Cognition, the Donald T. Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology (Society of Personality and Social Psychology), and the Lifetime Contribution Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. He has also received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the William James Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science (from the American Psychological Society), and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a recipient of Columbia's Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.
Michael A. Hogg is professor of social psychology at Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from Bristol. He is a Fellow of numerous associations, including the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and is the 2010 recipient of the Carol and Ed Diener Award in Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Foundation editor, with Dominic Abrams, of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations and a former associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, he has published widely on social identity theory, group processes and intergroup relations, and is the author of the Social Identity Theory of Leadership and of Uncertainty-identity Theory.
John T. Jost is professor of social psychology at New York University. His research, which addresses stereotyping, prejudice, political ideology, and system justification theory, has appeared in leading scientific journals and received national and international media attention. He has published over 90 articles and book chapters and four coedited volumes, including Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (Oxford University Press, 2009). Jost has received numerous accolades, including the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize (three times), Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Research Achievement in Political Psychology, International Society for Self and Identity Early Career Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society of Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory Award, and the Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly and Practical Contributions to Social Justice.
Arie W. Kruglanski is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist [Page xiv]Award, the Senior Humboldt Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Oustanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, The University of Maryland Regents Award for Scholarship and Creativity, and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and is recipient of the Regesz Chair at the University of Amsterdam. He was Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist. His interests have been in the domains of human judgment and decision making, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals. His work has been disseminated in over 200 articles, chapters and books and has been continuously supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, Deutsche Forschungs Gemeineschaft, the Ford Foundation, and the Israeli Academy of Science. He has recently served as member of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security. Kruglanski is now a co-director of START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland.
Paul A.M. Van Lange is professor of social psychology and chair of the department of social and organizational psychology at the VU University at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Most of his research on human cooperation and trust is grounded in interdependence theory, through which he seeks to understand the functions of forgiveness, generosity, empathy, competition, and general beliefs of human nature in various situations. Van Lange has coauthored the Atlas of Interpersonal Situations (Cambridge University Press, 2003), edited Bridging Social Psychology (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006), and served as an associate editor for various journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has been a Director of the Kurt Lewin Institute and currently serves as Member and President of the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Mark R. Leary is professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Florida and has held positions at Denison University, the University of Texas at Austin, Wake Forest University, and Duke University. His research focuses on social motivation and emotion, particularly the processes by which people think about and evaluate themselves, the effects of self-reflection on emotion and psychological well-being, and how behavior and emotion are influenced by people's concerns with how they are perceived and evaluated by others. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and is the 2010 recipient of the Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. He was the founding editor of the journal, Self and Identity, and is currently editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Mario Mikulincer is professor of psychology and dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. He has published three books and over 250 journal articles and book chapters and serves as a member of the editorial boards of several personality and social psychology journals. Dr. Mikulincer's main research interests are attachment theory, terror management theory, personality processes in interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and trauma, grief-related processes and prosocial motives and behavior. [Page xv]He is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Association for Psychological Sciences. He received the EMET Prize in Social Science for his contribution to psychology and the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.
Judson R. Mills taught at Syracuse University, University of Missouri, the London School of Economics, and the University of Texas but spent most time as a professor at the University of Maryland. His research interests included attitude formation and change, emotion, mood and affect, communal relationships, and research methodology. He was a student of Leon Festinger at Stanford University and conducted some of the seminal work on cognitive dissonance theory in the late 1950's. He maintained his interest in and research on that theory for several decades and, together with Eddie Harmon-Jones, edited a book on cognitive dissonance in 1999. He was a devoted mentor to social psychologists including Margaret Clark.
Walter Mischel is the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University where he has been since 1983, after 21 years as a professor at Stanford University. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Ohio State in 1956. His monograph Personality and Assessment (1968) challenged the traditional trait paradigm in psychology and generated research into the nature and implications of person–situation interactions. His cognitive–affective processing system (Psychological Review, 1995), with Yuichi Shoda, provided a model for the analysis of individual differences in interaction with psychological situations, building on empirical findings demonstrating the contextualized expressions of behavioral dispositions. His longitudinal–developmental and experimental studies of the ability to delay gratification identified basic cognitive and attention control mechanisms enabling self-control. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991, and is past editor of Psychological Review.
Pascal Moliner is professor of social psychology at the University of Montpellier III (France) where he was the director of the Social Psychology Laboratory for many years. His main research areas concern social representations, relationships between social cognition and representations and between images and representations. He is the author or coauthor of many works on these topics: Images et représentations [Images and Social Representations] (PUG, 1996), La dynamique des représentations sociales [Social Representations Dynamics] (PUG, 2001), Les représentations sociales: pratique des études de terrain [Social Representations: Practical Studies] (PUR, 2002), L'identité en psychologie sociale [Social Identity in Social Psychology] (Armand Colin, 2008), Représentations sociales et processus sociocognitifs (Social Representations and Socio-cognitive Processes] (PUR, 2009).
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth is a professor in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley. Her background includes a BA in mathematics from Washington University in St Louis and a PhD in psychology from Cornell University. Her faculty appointments include the University of Chicago, University of Virginia, and University of British Columbia with visiting appointments in Bristol (England), Paris (France), Trento (Italy), and Mannheim (Germany). Her speciality is influence processes, creativity, and small group decision making and her particular emphasis has been on the role of the outsider and of the value of dissenting viewpoints. Her work has been broadly applied, most notably during jury decision making and the managing of innovation in organisational settings. She was the first [Page xvi]woman and first social scientist to speak at the Oregon Bar Association, her topic being jury decision making and has given invited addresses at Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Northwestern and Yale Business Schools on entrepreneurs, creativity, and mechanisms for increasing innovation. She was a visiting professor at London Business School from 2005–2009 and is the holder of the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship.
Felicia Pratto is professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and has served as a visiting professor in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University. She has served on the executive board of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, on editorial boards of several journals, and is currently a vice president of the International Society for Political Psychology. She has authored over 100 articles and chapters concerning power, intergroup relations, discrimination and prejudice, stereotyping, and the social–cognitive processes that contribute to these. Her research has employed a variety of methods, ranging from reaction times to games to surveys to archival analysis and her current research examines the dynamics of power, social change, and intergroup violence.
Richard L. Rapson is professor of history at the University of Hawaii. He received his BA from Amherst and PhD from Columbia. He has written more than a dozen books individually and also has coauthored a number of books with his wife, Dr Elaine Hatfield. A scholarly trilogy, published during the 1990s, included Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History (HarperCollins), Emotional Contagion (Cambridge University Press), and Love and Sex: Cross-cultural Perspectives (Allyn & Bacon).
Patrick Rateau is professor of social psychology at the University of Nîmes (France) and permanent member of the Social Psychology Laboratory at Aix-Marseille University (France). His research interests include social representations theory and methods, social comparison, social memory and environmental social psychology. He authored or coauthored several books, chapters, and journal articles on social representations and social thought. Recently, he has coauthored one book: Les représentations sociales: pratique des études de terrain [Social Representations: Practical Studies] (PUR, 2002) with Pascal Moliner and Valérie Cohen-Scali, and coedited one volume: Représentations sociales et processus sociocognitifs, [Social Representations and Socio-cognitive Processes] (PUR, 2009) with Pascal Moliner.
Caryl E. Rusbult (1952–2010) has been a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina, where she held the J. Ross MacDonald Chair (1997–2003) after which she became professor and chair of the department of social psychology at the VU University at Amsterdam. She adopted an interdependence theoretical approach to the study of close relationships, and developed the investment model of commitment processes to understand relationship maintenance mechanisms, such as accommodation, derogation of alternatives, and personal growth. She coauthored the Atlas of Interpersonal Situations (Cambridge University Press, 2003), served as associate editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and received several scientific awards, including the Distinguished Career Award (2008) from the International Association for Relationships Research. Caryl Rusbult passed away in 2010.
Katherine J. Reynolds is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. She has published many papers on the prejudiced personality and prejudice and social conflict more generally. More recently, her [Page xvii]research is focused on how and when group memberships (and changes to such groups) come to impact on the individual person (e.g., personality, well-being, self-beliefs). This program of research with its focus on social norms and social influence has expanded into policy areas seeking to affect social and behavioural change (e.g., learning and pro-social behaviour in schools). She is currently an associate editor at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and on the editorial board of four other international journals.
Phillip R. Shaver is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. He has published over 250 scholarly articles and book chapters and coauthored or coedited numerous books including Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes (Academic Press 1991); Attachment in Adulthood; Handbook of Attachment (2nd ed., Guilford Press, 2008); Prosocial Motives, Emotions, and Behavior (APA, 2009); and Human Aggression and Violence (APA, 2010). His research focuses on attachment theory, close relationships, emotion, and personality development. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He served as executive officer of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and president of the International Association for Relationship Research, from which he received a Distinguished Career Award in 2002 and a Mentoring Award in 2010.
Jim Sidanius is a professor in the departments of psychology and African and African American Studies at the Harvard University. He received his PhD at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and has taught at several universities in the US and Europe, including the Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin, the New York University, the Princeton University, the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and the University of California, Los Angeles. His primary research interests include the interface between political ideology and cognitive functioning, the political psychology of gender, group conflict, institutional discrimination, and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice. He has authored and published more than 120 scientific papers, and his most important theoretical contribution to date is the development of social dominance theory, a general model of the development and maintenance of group-based social hierarchy and social oppression. Professor Sidanius' latest books are entitled: Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion (University of Chicago press, 2000), Key Readings in Political Psychology (Psychology Press, 2004), and The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008). Prof. Sidanius was also the recipient of the 2006 Harold Lasswell Award for "Distinguished Scientific Contribution in the Field of Political Psychology" awarded by the International Society of Political Psychology, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
William B. Swann, Jr. is currently a professor of social-personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin with appointments in the Psychology Department and School of Business. A doctorate of the University of Minnesota, he studies identity and the self, identity negotiation and, most recently, identity fusion. He has also been elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Once a Fellow at Princeton University as well as the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, he has received multiple research scientist development awards from the National Institutes of Mental Health. His research has been funded by awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health, and the National Institute for Drug and Alcohol Abuse.[Page xviii]
Jojanneke van der Toorn is currently a postdoctoral associate in the department of psychology at Yale University. She holds MA degrees in organizational psychology and cultural anthropology from the VU University, Amsterdam and a PhD from New York University. Her research focuses on processes of legitimation and the social psychological mechanisms implicated in social change and resistance to it. Her work has appeared in American Sociological Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Social Justice Research.
Harry C. Triandis is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Illinois. He was born in 1926. His 1958 PhD is from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1987. He is the author of Attitudes and Attitude Change (Wiley, 1971), Analysis of Subjective Culture (Wiley, 1972) Interpersonal Behavior (Brooks/Cole, 1977), Variations in Black and White Perceptions of the Social Environment (University of Illinois Press, 1976), Culture and Social Behavior (McGraw-Hill, 1994) and Individualism and Collectivism (Sage, 1995). His most recent (2009) book is Fooling Ourselves: Self-Deception in Politics, Religion, and Terrorism (Praeger, 2008) (This book received the William James Award of Div. 1 of the American Psychological Association). He was the general editor of the six-volume Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (Allyn & Bacon, 1997), and coeditor (with Dunnette and Hough) of Volume 4 of the Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Consulting Psychologists Press, 1994).
John C. Turner is an Emeritus Professor in the department of psychology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research interests are in social psychology and have covered a number of topics over the years: intergroup relations, prejudice, stereotyping, the nature of the psychological group and group processes, social influence, leadership, power and the self-concept. He has had a longstanding interest in social identity and self-categorization processes since he developed social identity theory with the late Henri Tajfel in the 1970s and originated self-categorization theory in the early 1980s. He was awarded the Henri Tajfel Memorial Medal by the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology in 1999.
Tom R. Tyler is a university professor at New York University. He teaches in the psychology department and the law school. His research explores the dynamics of authority in groups, organizations, and societies. In particular, he examines the role of judgments about the justice or injustice of group procedures in shaping legitimacy, compliance and cooperation. He is the author of several books, including The social psychology of procedural justice (1988); Social justice in a diverse society (1997); Cooperation in groups (2000); Trust in the law (2002); and Why people obey the law (2006).
Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of psychology and business at the University of Southern California. Her research addresses the evolutionary origins of gender differences in social behavior, along with the ways that gender differences and similarities are constructed in social interactions. She also investigates how habits and attitudes guide behavior, so as to understand how people can best regulate and change aspects of their lifestyles. Her work on these topics appears in Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She served as associate editor of Psychological Review, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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Ideas make the world go around – especially good ideas and especially in science. Indeed, science is all about ideas and their implementation in empirical research. This is true for the science of social psychology as well. Indisputably, the quintessential carriers of scientific ideas are theories. It is theories that get to the underlying essences of phenomena and trace their implications for myriads of concrete situations. It is theories that pull the strands of seemingly disparate occurrences and tie them into coherent systems guided by common principles. Good theories are not just practical, as Lewin noted; they are essential to the scientific enterprise. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that from its early beginnings social psychological research has been guided by theories of various kinds. Numerous theoretical frameworks have been added by creative thinkers in the course of time. By now, the field of social psychology is rich in theoretical contributions in its many domains of endeavor. Some social psychological theories have been around for a long time, others for little more than a decade. Some have been tested, revised, and extended, while others have remained in their original form and continued to inspire research on the force of their timeless insights. Some theories have intriguingly morphed into other theories, others remained pristinely faithful to their initial version. Some theories have been wonderfully elaborated and articulated. Others have been adumbrated in vague outline, representing work in progress or diamonds in the rough. In this volume, we are interested in all such theories not only because they provide a comprehensive overview of the theories in social psychology, but also because we felt it is important that authors share with the readers the process of theory construction, development, and nurturance that serves such an important function for science. Here is why.
The process of theorizing, and the skills of theory construction, have been shrouded in a cloak of mystery in our field. They are rarely taught in graduate programs in social psychology, nor do they constitute a recognized and trusted tool in the kit of young researchers. A major purpose of the present project was to demystify the process of theorizing and expose its hidden underbelly and intricate entrails. Indeed, chapters by our contributors reveal how serendipity born of personal circumstances often determines the course that one's theory construction would take; how theory development often requires tenacity, persistence, patience, and "blood, sweat and tears." Another purpose of the book was to illustrate how the work of theory construction is indispensable to scientific development, and how important and gratifying it can be to those who manage to stay on the course of constructing and testing their theory.
Our own conviction, stemming from our earlier work, and presented in the introductory chapter, has been that theories should be guided by the regulatory ideas of truth, abstraction, progress, and applicability. This notion served as the basis of a research grant, "Social Psychology: Bridging Theory and Application in Society," (NWO. grant, nr. 400-07-710), awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, which gave the first editor extra time to devote to this Handbook. Because of the immensity of the project and common [Page xx]interest in theory, he invited the second and third editors to join in, and they enthusiastically agreed. After initial discussion, we concurred that this volume should carry a unique mission: illuminating theory construction from the inside out. Accordingly, the instructions we gave to our contributors were explicit and precise. We asked authors not only to give an overview of their theory or model, but also touch on three essential aspects: (1) a personalized history of the theory's beginnings and development over time as recounted by the theoretician; (2) the theory's place in the intellectual space in a given domain (i.e., the contribution it makes to the history of ideas on its topic); and (3) the theory's relevance to real-world concerns (i.e., its potential contribution to solving real-world problems). Inevitably, the various chapters in this volume differed in their primary focus, and in the emphasis accorded to each of these aspects. But overall, these three foci are amply represented across the chapters. Of greatest importance, they tell a fascinating tale documenting the challenges, adversities, and joys that theory construction brings its practitioners, and the rich conceptual endowment that it brings our discipline.
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American Airlines' Howard Kass is hopeful that the airline will be flying regularly scheduled service between the United States and Cuba within the first half of this year and says Miami will play a big role in resumption of commercial flights to the island.
U.S. and Cuban officials reached a preliminary agreement Dec. 16 to resume scheduled flights between the two countries for the first time in more than five decades as well as to continue the charter flights that have long served as the only bridge between the United States and Cuba.
Now the documents are being translated and the translations verified — a process that's expected to take a few more weeks. When the agreement is released, the U.S. Department of Transportation will issue a notice instructing U.S. air carriers how to submit applications for Cuban routes.
The government is expected to approve up to 20 flights a day to Havana and 10 daily for nine other Cuban cities with international airports.
For competitive reasons, the airlines aren't being too forthcoming about the routes they want to serve. But Kass, American's vice president of regulatory affairs, said, "I would suspect that Havana would be oversubscribed."
If that's the case, there may be a few rounds of back and forth with DOT as airlines make their case why they should be granted specific routes and flight frequencies. DOT will ultimately make the decision, and it's possible that if there's not much competition among U.S. carriers for secondary Cuban markets, approval for those destinations might come sooner than for Havana.
Josefina Vidal, who heads the Cuban Foreign Relations Ministry's U.S. division, told the Cuban News Agency, or ACN, that once a final agreement is signed, then U.S. airlines must sign contracts with Cubana de Aviacion, Cuba's national carrier, and the Civil Aeronautics Institute. "It's a complex task, very technical, and the United States must complete various steps, bidding (on routes), because there are many airlines and all have equal rights in terms of market share," she said.
"We still believe we'll be flying scheduled service to Cuba within the first half of 2016," said Kass. "We're optimistic that DOT will move swiftly to permit U.S. carriers to offer scheduled service."
American isn't the only airline interested in Cuba service. JetBlue, United Airlines, Southwest and Delta have all indicated they want to throw their hats into the ring.
"The interest is still standing. We're just waiting for the government," said Sarah Lora, Delta's spokeswoman for Latin America and the Caribbean.
She declined to say which routes Delta is interested in but said she expects the airline's Atlanta hub to be in its plans.
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Waste Management
With a Difference
Our Approach
"It was obvious that there was a gap for a company that would corporately and professionally sit between the actual waste supplier and client contacts on site and their senior executives"
- We are a Professional, Ethical and Legally Compliant Waste Resource Management Company.
- We provide the expertise for our customers to make informed decisions on their Environmental Strategies and maximise potential commercial advantages such as rebates from segregated and recycled materials.
- We not only coordinate daily waste services with waste streams reporting but also provide closed loop opportunities, identifying materials that can be innovatively reprocessed, remanufactured or recycled back into the supply chain.
- We have a stable, nationwide supply chain that is audited annually ensuring Duty Of Care, KPI's and accreditations are in place.
- We are the one point of contact for our clients even when deploying services to multiple sites simultaneously; quality management information and reporting with full access to project waste information is available whenever needed.
- Our team is experienced within the BREEAM, SKA and BRE: SMARTWaste arenas and are actively working with our clients to ensure maximum waste credits are obtained for a much improved Environmental building.
The Encore
5 Stage Process
Encore Environment Ltd follows a simple 5 stage process:
- Procurement
- Duty of Care
- Project Live
- Reporting
- Completion
Our process for all new jobs is we request pricing from a minimum of 3, maximum of 5 suppliers.
Currently Encore has a supply chain Nationally that exceeds 150 suppliers from major names to family run SME's.
Duty of Care
Compliance is key so Encore ensures Legal Requirements for all our suppliers are recorded and in date including Licenses, Insurances and Audits.
We categorize our supply chain based on a given criteria and visit the sites to ensure compliance. Our suppliers are measured not only on Duty of Care but service, quality and cost.
Project Live
Once we are live on site this process records all services, who ordered them and what supplier has been assigned. This is then sent to site monthly for one sign off. This one document with consolidated services and costs is easy for review by individual sites.
Encore paying the suppliers reduces internal costs substantially and our client sites are never placed on stop due to invoices not being paid.
Provided monthly by Site, as well monthly for the Stakeholder, with cumulative details and breakdowns of all key statistics including cumulative monthly tonnage, waste by category and costs per site.
Our waste data accompanies sustainability policies and meets BREEAM and SKA measures if required.
Complete Pack including improvements and lessons learnt.
Encore provide Site waste Management Plans if required but regardless as best practice we provide a starter and completion pack for all site detail.
Our Services
Encore are a Professional Innovative Waste Management Resource business providing Corporate businesses the service and delivery they require along with important strategic information to support Sustainability Policies. Encore focus work with major construction businesses and Retailers in providing key services that reduce waste to landfill, save costs as well as carbon. Not being a traditional waste business Encore apply several approaches to specific clients to ensure alignment with client objectives are met.
- Pre site-start visits
- Coordinate and manage all waste disposal
- National coverage
- Hazardous waste
- WEEE disposal
- Rigorous & independent procurement process
- Full Duty of Care compliance
- Detailed reporting
- Pre – construction environmental audits
- Strip-outs/ material audit
- Fixtures, fittings and furniture removal
- Site deconstruction reports
- Dilapidation
- Asbestos removal
- Pre – demolition audits to BREEAM and SKA standards
- Ethical disposal
- Full site waste management Plans – site waste, carbon, water and energy for BREEAM or Considerate Contractor schemes
- Transfer waste into an income stream
- Legislation
- SMARTWaste
- Demolition
- BREEAM reporting
- Circular Economy initiatives
- Pre Site Start visits where requested
- Coordinate and manage the disposal of any waste stream; Encore can react quickly to manage any waste streams. Hazardous, WEEE, Plasterboard, General
- Rigorous Procurement to provide best value for our clients across regions
- Audited site and recycling rates for Duty of Care and Waste transfer note compliance
- Pre – Construction Environmental Audits
- Strip-outs/ Material audit
- Pre – demolition audits to ICE Demolition protocol and BREEAM and SKA standards
- Ethical Disposal and Chain of Custody
- Detailed Reporting and Analysis
- Full Site Waste Management Plans – site waste, carbon, water and energy for BREEAM or Considerate Contractor schemes
- Provide expertise on increasingly complex legislation
- Work with construction and deconstruction companies and Project Management the Process
- Tailored service that aims to turn waste into an income stream rather than a liability
Our Clients
- We are members of Sustainable School & Construction Line and are currently working towards ISO14001.
- Please click the link to download our Waste Carriers License and our Environmental Policy which explains our commitment to promoting and carrying out an environmentally friendly work practice.
Rachel Rowley
A commercially minded strategically focused individual who has enjoyed a professional career supplying large corporate clients with major fit out solutions incorporating sustainable design through to manufacture of the branded environment. Rachel has proven business judgement; strong strategic capability, leadership and general management experience, with specific focus over the last 10 years on environmental aspects of the day to day running of a business to reduce impacts for Encore and the Client.
A track record of creating niche business propositions and the infrastructure that surrounds that in an effort to provide a unique point of difference to the end user client. It was clear that based on industry facts regarding the amount of waste being sent to landfill, the lack of transparency of materials being disposed of and new innovation around the subject in it's entirety there was an opportunity for a business like Encore to be created. Not as a consultant but as a carrier and coordinator of waste services at the coal face.
Gavin Pilcher
An experienced and senior Real Estate Professional Gavin joins the waste industry late but brings a strong blend of construction industry knowledge, connections and communication skills backed up by a broad technical knowledge; Gavin leads Encore in a personal hands on way has a proven track record of successfully developing individuals to become high performing teams leading and managing them to deliver expertise in challenging environments.
Gavin's past is largely made up of blue chip, multi-national companies in prominent senior positions; Encore has enabled this experience to develop in an altogether more hands on way testing all of these skills to the extreme. Interest in environmental responsibility aligned to Encore's own ambitions has enabled Gavin and Rachel to create and build a successful business model which has become a genuine point of difference from typical waste companies.
The Encore Difference
It would be simple to apply the waste industry label of broker to what we do, however we couldn't be further away from a brokerage. Encore do not just work in the margins of service delivery as other traditional brokers do, we offer value, innovation and strategic support to our clients. Intelligent in our approach, unitising our corporate experience, as astute individuals, we think and act with integrity and transparency to satisfy our customers needs. Where we can't achieve them, we say so. When we can, we work hard to exceed them. Being niche allows us to be nimble and maintaining a selective number of professional clients enables us to act quickly and align our strategy and delivery of our offer to our clients
- One Encore Waste Coordinator to contact for all sites, for all waste streams. Many of our clients sites have multiple suppliers during a project to ensure continuity of service at a time when the Construction industry is busy and that services are not disrupted. Encore ensure all suppliers are monitored and Duty of Care is completed
- One list of services per month, by site, including all waste transfer information (tickets, deliveries, exchanges, etc) sent to site for sign off for invoicing
- Encore pay all the waste companies eliminating administration cost and 'noise' generated. No 'On Stop' & Consolidated Invoicing
- Reporting generated each month by site covering waste type, volume, recycle rates, carbon reduction through diversion from landfill
- Monthly Stakeholder report covering all sites and the cumulative data on the above and how this data can be designed to support client CSR objectives and goals
- The need for exemplary service is a given, however our supply chain audits give piece of mind to our Corporate clients with regards to legislation, service and delivery
- Our clients have one waste management resource company providing a consistent approach across all sites – use of all the above in their tender returns as added value to their potential clients
- Provide our clients with reports and data to use in tender and rfi submissions to demonstrate our clients value add to their client
- Encore Site Waste Management Plan by site provided – Covering a forecast of materials, the ongoing administration documented for the project regardless of length, reporting and then completion including improvements and recommendations
Pre-Refurbishment Audits
There is currently disconnect for our clients when it comes to waste from the outset of any project and the phases it includes. Early intervention to report on the waste stream element of any project enables value to be realised, forecasts to be accurate and improved waste management principles and reporting to be available for our clients to make informed decisions. Encore conduct a physical assessment of waste streams, their quality, quantity, specification and value prior to removal connecting waste producers with end point destinations for direct disposal, lower carbon, reduced environmental impact and cost.
- Encore exploits the potential to exceed expectations through collaboration with academic research and large industry establishments on and around the subject of waste, both current and the future.
- Encore are currently collaborating with the leading businesses and the University of Derby, on an innovative challenging approach to identify value in construction waste.
- Our experience as a waste management company goes beyond the day to service of providing skips, bins, hazardous waste and WEEE solutions etc. This approach will improve the quantity, quality and associated value of the materials arising as waste from commercial construction activities for end user applications.
- The majority of these wastes are currently sent to waste transfer stations/material recovery facilities where they are sorted and processed for end markets. This results in diminished quality, quantity and the value of the materials to the end users.
- This approach will develop alternative processes to maximise the value of these materials by either minimising or bypassing the waste companies and provide a direct link between waste producers and end-users for specific waste streams.
- This will result in an innovative reconfiguration of the value waste streams and realize cost savings for end users and waste producers (this will actually reduce their revenue) and reduced CO2 emissions.
- One of the outputs of this is Encore conduct Pre Construction Environmental Audits that Encore use when auditing a clients site. This provides transparent information as soon as a site is ready to be stripped out and then the site be 'deconstructed' to ensure waste is thought through is the key, of course without hindering the time restraints of site programme. Encore would then complete the strip out and ensure audit compliance and then a smooth transition regarding data collection and reporting from strip out to construction services regarding waste services.
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Plantain is a green to yellow boat shaped fruit (shade of color depends on stage of ripening) of a large shrub called Musa paradisiacal
It is a close relative of banana, looks like banana, but bigger, longer, has thicker skin and often needs to be cooked before eaten.
It is sometimes called plantain banana and contains a low GI starch, excellent for weight control, slow energy release and good for diabetics, with surpassing nutritional value. It is eaten all over Africa and Southern and Central America. Plantain can be eaten boiled, roasted, grilled, or fried.
This fruit should not be confused with a small medicinal leafy herb known by the same name, but belonging to the Plantago family.
Unlike its banana cousin, plantain has more dietary fibers, less water and less sugar. It is rich in complex starch when unripe.
This plant is found all over the tropics, from Florida to Brazil; Egypt, Nigeria, Japan, to the Caribbean.
When not yet ripe, it is hard, and contains loads of starch. Its skin remains green, and has a neutral taste.
If kept at room temperature for about a week, it gradually goes through different phase of ripeness.
When the skin is light yellow, it is half ripe, and assumes a sweet taste if eaten at this stage. If left for a couple more days, it would become very ripe, with the skin becoming black, and the fruit soft. The starch here would have changed into sucrose.
This nutritious fruit can be eaten boiled whether green, yellow or black. It can be fried. When still green and fried, it is called plantain chips. If yellow or black and gets fried, it is referred to as banana chips or in Nigeria, as Dodo.
It can be mashed and used to thicken soup, or even eaten like mash potatoes.
When allowed to ferment, it is a source of alcoholic drink.
The fruit is extremely low in fat, high in dietary fiber and starch. It is very low in cholesterol and salt too.
It is a good source of vitamins A, B6, and C which helps maintain vision, good skin, and build immunity against diseases. It is also rich in potassium, magnesium and phosphate.
When cooked green, is very good for diabetics, as it contains complex carbohydrate that is very slowly released.
A diet of green plantain is filling, and can be a good inclusion in a weight loss diet plan.
Include this banana-like fruit in your menu list today and try out any of its recipes below.
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Paintings by troubled singer Chris Brown have sold for more than $60,000 at auction.
The Kiss Kiss star created a number of works with street artist KAI during a recent art event in Miami, Florida, and the pieces were submitted for sale as part of Fine Art Auctions Miami's Urban Art Week.
It has now emerged that two of Brown's canvases sold for $25,000 each, and another made almost $12,000 , according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
The publication reports that 50 per cent of the profits will be donated to charity.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Two rounds of rain moved through parts of Eastern Iowa. Official totals from storms early in the morning showed up to two inches fell on parts of Linn and Johnson counties. Lightning struck Alliant Energy's Sixth Street substation in Cedar Rapids, knocking out power to about 7,000 customers. Service was restored by Saturday afternoon.
The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Cedar and Johnson counties for a second round of rain around 5:45 p.m. The Johnson County Sheriff's Office reported two funnel clouds: one the west side of Tiffin and another that started near the National Guard Armory in Iowa City and roughly followed Highway 6 through West Liberty.
After a brief downpour in Cedar Rapids, Alliant Energy reported nearly 4,000 customers without power in Linn County, with a few hundred others in Muscatine and Wapello counties immediately after the storm passed. Service was restored in Linn County as of 9:30 p.m.
At 7:45, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southern Dubuque County and northern Jones County.
The NWS also issued flash flood warnings for parts of Mahaska, Iowa, Cedar and Johnson counties due to the recent rainfall. A tornado watch was also issued for much of the southern half of the TV9 viewing area, including Jackson, Linn, Jones and Benton counties. Check the KCRG-TV9 severe weather page for the latest watches and warnings.