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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"rationalizations"”.
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Examining the Link Between Moral Minimization and False Confessions
… investigators provide face-saving excuses or rationalizations to justify a suspect's actions. The current study hypothesized that moral minimization increases the risk of false confessions due to pragmatically implying that a lenient sentence is forthcoming. Using a sample of 88 university …
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Pathways to Offending: Domestic Sex Trafficking
… do it), and their motivations and justifications/rationalizations for those behaviors (why they do it). The resulting conceptual framework can serve as a roadmap to guide the development of tailored assessment instruments and evidence-based treatments as well as improve community prevention and …
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The contributions of Edward A. Pollard's The Lost Cause to the Myth of the Lost Cause
… of the Civil War, the military history, and the rationalizations for how a supposedly superior society could suffer a disastrous defeat. It will also establish the wide popularity and influence of Pollard’s work.</p>
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Industrial development of car disassembly - ergonomics and system performance
… disassembly industry may undergo comprehensive rationalizations and expand into a modern mass-type production. Rationalized car disassembly systems may be an alternative to shredding processes. The general aim of this thesis is to study the connections between expected rationalizations and …
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Multi-Generational Cycles of Poverty and Prosperity
… generations. It also controls for routine rationalizations for these economic disparities--education and income levels--to dispel them as explanations. A more definite determinant of economic disparities in America is that of inherited wealth. When separating inherited wealth from …
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Searching for their Path: Understanding Parents of Children with Emotional Disturbance
… was the evolution of mothers’ concerns, rationalizations, escalations, decision and eventual confirmation that their child was “different.” “Actions and adaptations” depicted the actions used to manage their child with ED, along with actions for self-care and siblings’ care. “Altered …
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Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble
… a marketing strategy. By examining the specific rationalizations of and objections to eighth blackbird’s practices, I theorize the existence of a “postmodern avant-garde,” a subculture of musicians and arts workers who attempt to remake avant-garde music into a more accessible and profitable …
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Bricks Without Straw: The Mirage of Competition in The Desert of Phoenix Daily Journalism Since 1947
Contrary to the rationalizations of apologists for free enterprise, it has become almost impossible to establish a new metropolitan daily newspaper in a city with an existing morning and evening monopoly of the market. This holds true even in Sunbelt areas enjoying phenomenal growth, and the …
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Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector
… is democratization and the manner in which the rationalizations and embedded cultural assumptions characterizing particular places operate to support or resist more egalitarian forms of participation. Methodologically, Feenberg’s critical framework is supported both by theory-driven thematic …
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Bypassing Democracy: Why Domestic Human Rights NGOs in Stable Democracies Appeal to Multilateral Forums
… justifications or solely on norm-driven rationalizations. Each type of group can articulate comparative advantages of using the UPR, whether those advantages have borne fruit or not. Groups process the decision to use international forums under conditions of uncertainty and frequently …
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The effect of social exchange relationships on peer reporting fraudulent financial misconduct: a case study of an UK-non-profit organization
… of responsibility is the most common rationalizations that employees use to disassociate themselves from engaging in unethical behaviour which in this case, is non-reporting of accounting-related misconduct. The proposed model is a theoretical contribution to literature and the …
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Moral regulation in business : an investigation into corporate codes of ethics
… referred to in order to uncover any illegitimate rationalizations which might be used to support unethical business practices. A dialogical framework for implementing a code will be examined in order to address the political and ideological problems which may permeate moral thinking within an …
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(Un)veiling nature : a comparative study of Spenser's poetics in Mutabilitie canto seven
… fictions of self-representation and as such are rationalizations of the poetic enterprise as a worthwhile social activity. The thesis consists of two principle divisions: in Chapters II through VI, I investigate the poetic which Spenser, through the persona, links with MC VII; in Chapter VII, I …
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Structure and Reactivity in Nanostructured Ionic Solvents
… alkanoic acids, on the reaction. The rationalizations were drawn based on solvent-solute interactions, solvophobic effects, and general polarity effects. It provided the basis for further in-depth investigations into the impact of domain structures and specific solute-solvent …