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August 2005
Interview with Paul E. Spector
Our interviewee is Paul E. Spector, PhD in I/O psychology, University of South Florida (USF), Professor of I/O Psychology and Director of the I/O graduate program. His research interests include the impact of jobs on the behavior and well-being of employees, including counterproductive behavior, job satisfaction, job stress, and withdrawal behavior. Professor Spector published in many journals in the field, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP), and Psychological Bulletin. He has written books on both methodology (research design and SAS programming) and content, including an I/O psychology textbook (Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice). Professor Spector’s most active interests now are counterproductive behavior at work and cross-cultural job stress. (more...)
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August 2005
The War Hotel: Psychological Dynamics in Violent Conflict, by Arlene Audergon, Whurr Publishers- John Wiley, 2005
Gina Clayton (gina@amidatrust.com) is a human rights lawyer who has recently published a textbook Immigration and Asylum Law (Oxford University Press, 2004). She has also trained as a Feldenkrais practitioner. Mike Fitter (mike@amidatrust.com) is a chartered psychologist who works as an organisation development consultant in the public sector. He has a particular interest in conflict facilitation and mediation.
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August 2005
Present Dilemmas in Forensic Psychology
Our World is engulfed in violence. Crime rates seem to increase yearly, and violence, from terrorism to domestic abuse, is present everywhere. In the midst of the wave of terrorism, crime, and hate that we are experiencing internationally, some psychologists cannot help but wonder: how can we make a difference? In the light of this question, I would like to accept the invitation to write an editorial for EJOP (more...)
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Journey into Contemporary Psychology: Madrid, Vienna and Athens
It is considered that every journey makes the traveler become richer; that it represents a gain in itself. This is especially the case when the voyage offers the possibility to meet persons having similar interests, to hear about the latest discoveries in your work field, to discuss problems that concern specialists from several countries. (more...)Posted on August 2005
Religious Faith, Militarism, and Humorlessness - John Morreal
Researchers like Vassilis Saroglou have found a negative correlation between religious belief and sense of humor. I add two things to this line of research. First, I argue that the features that make religious believers humorless also make them militaristic. Secondly, I argue that militarism and humorlessness are concentrated in religions which stress orthodoxy and faith, such as Christianity and Islam; militarism and humorlessness do not dominate nontheistic religions such as Buddhism which do not stress orthodoxy and faith. (more...)Posted on August 2005
UNDOING FORGETFULNESS: Chiasmus of Poetical Mind – a Cultural Paradigm of Archetypal Imagination
This paper tries to investigate the problem of memory through one of its most intriguing patterns – chiasmus – reflected in old poetry, sacred texts, philosophy and theology, visual arts, as well as biology. It aims to search for some provisory explanation of why man was able once to acquire such excellence in memorizing internally thousands of lines of poetry, whereas now memory is expelled outside the human body and mind in a mere digital file. (more...)
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The Interaction In The Dynamic Stock Exchange Field And The Visual Impact Of The Charts In Trading
We behave in multiple ways, in multiple roles in the context of multiple groups regarding multiple value and norms. The dynamic psychological field defines our personality and states. We are integrated in a socio-cultural matrix which is the basic passageway between the dynamic field and our socio-cultural context and environment (R.J.Rummel, 1975). Chapter1 is delimitating the Stock Exchange and Financial fields as parts of socio-cultural field and defining the actors, components and interactions in this new and dynamic fields. Here we meet the brokers as orders executants who transact business with the general public and as people with feelings, emotions, desires and unique personality. Chapter2 is analyzing the most important Candlestick patterns in trading, underlining the necessity of utilizing in Stock Exchange trends prediction because this method tells in what direction the investor is moving prices, as ancient Japanese investors said: "Let the market tell you what the market is going to do." (more...)Posted on August 2005
The Process of Dreaming, Communication and a bit of Psycho-analysis
Is the reality of the dream something (slightly) different from the psychical 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. Thuswise, the dream will take the form of a message whose shape is influenced by the sender and the receiver requiremenets, but also set as a (apparently) autonomous product of the unconsciousness. How much legitimacy would then lie in assigning the regulation of the onirical reality to „another” consciousness? (more...)Posted on August 2005
The „Superposed Profile” of Diplomatic Requirements and Expectations in View of Romania's Adhesion to NATO and the EU
Foreign Affairs – as a practical activity, science or/and a form of arts – ask for solid interdisciplinary knowledge, as well as a series of inter-relationship abilities that are to be displayed inside and outside the country. (more...)Posted on August 2005
European Identity: Objectifying the Ideal
European identity is probably one of the most frequently discussed topics in the social sciences arena nowadays, but also one of the most fluid and insecure concepts that politicians, scientists or the civil society are trying to get a grip on. There is a lot controversy with respect to both its existence and contents: public talks and scientific inquiries take on a very large spectrum of colors, from idealization and reification to utter denial (more...)Posted on August 2005
Determinants of Depression among poor Elderly Women: Findings from refugee and non-refugee Communities in the Outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon
Depression among elderly females is an important public health concern. The present study aims at examining factors associated with female elderly depression in three underprivileged communities in Lebanon, one of which is almost solely inhabited by Palestinian refugees. (more...)Posted on August 2005