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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"social conflict"”.
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Affect and Cognition in Social Conflict
… in a variety of settings, but their abundance in conflict settings suggests that they may play a special role in the resolution of disputes. Yet, given the substantial cognitive components of various affective states, disputants' affect may be evaluated in the context of their other cognitions …
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Social Conflict Avoidance: Is It a Unique Construct
To test the uniqueness of Social Conflict Avoidance (SCA), it was compared with nonassertiveness, shyness, low masculinity, and Self-defeating Personality Disorder. These four variables correlated highly with SCA in Brock (1994). Participants were 222 undergraduate students (110 male, 112 female) …
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Social conflict : towards a methodological and theoretical position
… position relevant to the phenomenon of social conflict.
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Preschool children's information processing and emotional behavior in social conflict situations
This study investigated various aspects of the Social Information Processing Model, in particular, young children’s emotional behavior regulation and negative emotionality, in Hong Kong. The sample was N=628 from 12 schools. Using Rasch measurement, linear unidimensional scales were constructed for …
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BARRIERS TO CONSTRUCTIVE CONFLICT: TESTING PROSPECT THEORY & THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE FRAMING IN SOCIAL CONFLICT
… decision-making under uncertainty. Relatedly, social conflict is resolved by making choices (Diederich, 2003) and often involves a negotiation process that is affected by how negotiators perceive their situation (Schweitzer, et al., 2005). Yet prospect theory is widely underutilized in the …
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The American Party in Utah Politics: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict 1904-1912
<p>This essay traces the second Liberal movement in the political history of Utah. The first Liberal party was launched in 1869, and wes disbanded in 1894 with the advent of the two major national parties and the agitation for statehood. This first Gentile movement was a collective organization to …
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The Gentile Opposition in the Wasatch Region: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)
… of Utah, of necessity a story of religious and social conflict, has aroused many apologists (Mormon in the main) but has yet to find one adequate historian. Before a balanced picture of the Mormon state can be presented, there is need of many special studies. During the past two decades, a …
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Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
… to understand the Latin American roots of US social policy, the origins of neoliberalism, and the rise of economists as public intellectuals. By following veterans of the New Deal and Marshall Plan through Colombian reform projects of the 1950s and 1960s and back to the United States in the …
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An Experimental Test of the Effects of Social Conflict on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Alcohol Craving
… variables that may maintain this comorbidity. Social conflict is common among people suffering from posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), hazardous alcohol use, and the combination of these two conditions, and is thought to maintain both PTSS and hazardous alcohol use. Fortunately, social …
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EXTREME LEVELS OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY MAY LEAD TO EQUALLY HIGH LEVELS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AND CRIME
… continuously looms, creating a constant state of social discomfort in the region. Latin America has established an unparalleled zone of democracy. The region has also become an economic force.</p> <p>The prevailing notion regarding the relationship between poverty and inequality with crime and …
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RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT DURING AND AFTER THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF MALAYA AND SINGAPORE IN THE NOVELS OF CHIN KEE ONN, NOEL BARBER AND LIM THEAN SOO
… dissertation examines the issue of inter-ethnic social conflict among the Malays, Chinese, Indians and others as well as the united fight for independence against the imperialist rule of the Japanese and the British from the period of the Japanese Occupation (1941 -1945) and into the post-war …
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The Academic Library in Society’s Knowledge System : a Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology
… protest action represents a unique type of social conflict. This unique type of social conflict is not fully understood and this study investigated Tshwane University of Technology’s libraries using the idea of a knowledge system as a theoretical framework. The main argument of the study is …
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Situational Contingencies of Anxiety: What Anxieties are Associated with Each of the Big Five?
… drawn from the literature on goals and were: social conflict with friends, social conflict with a romantic partner, social conflict with family, potential embarrassment or rejection, academic impact and financial impact. I hypothesized that each of the Big Five would have a distinct pattern of …
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The role of fiscal policy in inertially inflated Argentina
… provides a game-theoretic model of the social conflict theory of inflation and creates cyclical indices of fiscal stance for developing countries suffering from inertial inflation.
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The Soldier and the Citizen: Examining the U.S. Military’s Non-partisan Norms
… analyzes the extent and consequences of partisan social conflict among servicemembers. This dissertation finds that military servicemembers are both soldiers and citizens. On the one hand, servicemembers are similar to the American public. They identify as partisans, have partisan biases, and …
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Disease, Development, and Disorder: Examining the Effect of Health on Subnational Development and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
… tendency for disease, underdevelopment, and conflict to occur concomitantly suggests potential causal mechanisms linking them. This study attempts to address two pieces of the puzzle: the causal effect of disease on underdevelopment and the impact of development on conflict risk. Focusing on …
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Guiding public protest: assessing the propaganda model of China’s hybrid newspaper industry
… understand the role of mainstream media in social conflict resolution, a hitherto under-studied area, and to identify gradations within the ostensibly monolithic mainland Chinese media on issues of political sensitivity. China’s modern media formation displays certain characteristics of …
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