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May 2005
Interview with Cary L. Cooper
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May 2005
Between East and West
Apart from the great pleasure we find in introducing to you this second issue of EJOP, we are also in the position of presenting you with a "new" journal; although the name is still the same, the contents and the... (more...)Posted on May 2005
Occupational Psychology Facing Globalisation
http://www.rydermarsh.co.uk/ When I was first asked to write this editorial on occupational psychology from an international perspective, my first thoughts were why ask me? I thought surely there are better qualified people to write on this topic (and there most definitely are), but as I looked over my laptop and towards the lounge of yet another international airport it dawned on me that whilst I cannot offer a definitive academic account, I can attempt to share some of my observations as a practitioner. It is in this vein I would like to share my thoughts with learned colleagues. (more...)Posted on May 2005
Interview with Yvonne Bates
Our interviewee is Yvonne Bates , a humanistic counsellor/ therapist with The Alexander Group. She co-authored with Richard House and published "Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling innovation and diversity in psychotherapy and counselling", an anthology assembling 30 essays, most of them by prominent international figures in the field, which both challenge a number of psychotherapy and counselling's most inhibiting, taken-for-granted assumptions, and offer cutting-edge visions and examples of the form and substance of an ethically mature, post-professionalized therapy practice.
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Multi-Rater or 360-degree Emotional Intelligence Assessment
In this paper we discuss the potential utility of multi-rater or 360-degree measured EI over self-reported and ability measured EI. We then discuss the development of a workplace 360 measure of emotional intelligence designed specifically for development purposes. Several research studies testing workplace samples are presented which examine the internal consistency reliability of the rater forms of the 360 instrument; compare the means and standard deviations of self- and other-rated EI; and the relationship between how people rate themselves on the instrument and how they rate others. The research findings demonstrate the utility of multi-rater 360-degree EI assessment instruments, which is discussed specifically in terms of leadership development. (more...)Posted on May 2005
How Humor Heals: An Anatomical Perspective
The notion that humor is something that heals is now generally well recognized. Norman Cousins' book, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient spread the news of humor's healing powers to the general public. But well before Cousins came along, many others had been doing research and writing about the healing power of humor. (more...)Posted on May 2005
Book reviews
Book reviews are not subject to the standard editorial process of article reviewing; you are therefore invited to post a book review that you consider fit to the journal’s general purpose and main target groups. However, posting a book review... (more...)Posted on May 2005
A Tri-modal Risk Attitude Indicator for Aviation Personnel: Design and Diagnostic Validity
There are very few human behaviors that do not imply a certain level of risk, meaning by that, on the one hand, a degree of uncertainty regarding target achievement, and, on the other hand, some related potential losses. The specific means of referring to a risk situation is approached through the concept of “attitude toward risk”. This refers to an individual feature endowed with a certain degree of constancy, which tends to actualize in a relatively constant manner in various risk situations. (more...)Posted on May 2005
European Identity: A Threat to the Nation?
As a general rule, identities are only widely discussed when we think there might be something wrong with them, or some kind of identity crisis is apparent. In the last decade or two, there have many conferences organized and books published on the subject of European identity, and so it is safe to assume that there are some perceived problems in this area. In an attempt to illuminate such problems, and even to provide some answers, we shall deal here with definitions: what exactly is collective identity? How does it work? What might a European identity consist of? And how might it compete with national identity? In this way some of the confusion surrounding this issue can be cleared away. (more...)Posted on May 2005
Behavioural Finance and the Emotional Impact of Charts in Trading
To make progress we need to better portray behavior in the usual domains of finance theory and to incorporate new domains upon which finance has been silent. People appear to make probability judgments using similarity or what psychologists call the "representative heuristic", they evaluate the probability of an uncertain event by the degree that it matches a well known stereotype. Chap.1 provides promising new vision in finance and stocks, incorporates the methods used in the behavioral disciplines and decision sciences with the ones from Standard Finance, so that decision makers and their judgments can be studied from individual, group, organizational, and market perspectives. Behavioral and Experimental Finance the latest domains developed in finance field have the mission to foster a better understanding of those elements of human psychology, both cognitive (mental) and affective (emotional) that influence the decision making process. Chap 2 underlines the emotional power of the candlestick chart versus bar-chart and how easy people can visualize the evolution of the daily quotations without knowing advance market technical instruments. Also contain a comparing study using BET-index evolution using bar chart and candlestick chart. (more...)Posted on May 2005
The Process Of Dreaming, Communication And A Bit Of Psycho-Analysis (Part 1)
Is the reality of the dream something (slightly) different from the psychic reality? We will try to answer this question by fitting the problem of dream into a classic communication pattern and looking at the psychic agencies from a communication-related perspective. Thus, the dream will take the form of a message whose shape is influenced by the sender and the receiver requirements, but also set as an (apparently) autonomous product of the unconscious. How much legitimacy would then lie in assigning the regulation of the onirical reality to "another" consciousness? Would it be possible for the reality "state" we experience while dreaming to be due to a sort of onirical awareness that arises from an integration-reflex in the moment when the dreamer encounters a world that lacks any kind of antagonistic sensations and so, seemingly, very real? Such faultless integration into the dreamt world through precise reflexes that are just the same as the ones used for appropriately approaching the outside world, seriously moots the problem of an (appearing) autonomy of reactions of the sleeping man - still perfectly awake in the strange light of a new, paradoxical and less approached "vigilance". (more...)Posted on May 2005