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Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts
Religious people live longer than non-religious people according to a staple of social science research. Yet, are those longevity benefits an inherent feature of religiosity? To find out, we coded gravestone inscriptions and...
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Cognitive flexibility and religious disbelief.
Cognitive flexibility is operationalized in the neuropsychological literature as the ability to shift between modes of thinking and adapt to novel or changing environments. Religious belief systems consist of strict rules and...
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Scholarship Announced to Honor History Professor and Lincoln Scholar Jason Silverman
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The Dr. Jason Silverman Scholarship was announced March 11 at the Palmer Lecture, an event held for Silverman to showcase his latest Lincoln research that he conducted alongside students. Already $20,000 has been raised toward...
Published by: Winthrop University
Cognitive Inflexibility Predicts Extremist Attitudes.
Research into the roots of ideological extremism has traditionally focused on the social, economic, and demographic factors that make people vulnerable to adopting hostile attitudes toward outgroups. However, there is...
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Interview with Gwen P. Howell
Gwen P. Howell
Jan 01, 0001
Interview with Gwen P. Howell, member of the South Carolina Mothers Association.
Published by: Winthrop University
IPR Policy Brief - Protecting Palestinian children from political violence
Jason Hart
Mar 01, 2013
Violence has shaped the setting in which successive generations of children living in the occupied territories of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, have grown up. Although numerous UN and international non-governmental...
Published by: University of Bath
IPR Policy Brief - Protecting Palestinian children from political violence
Jason Hart
Mar 01, 2013
Violence has shaped the setting in which successive generations of children living in the occupied territories of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, have grown up. Although numerous UN and international non-governmental...
Published by: University of Bath
PSK Method for Solving Mixed and Type-4 Intuitionistic Fuzzy Solid Transportation Problems
P. Kumar
Apr 01, 2019
In this article, the author categorises the solid transportation problem (STP) under uncertain environments. He formulates the mixed and fully intuitionistic fuzzy solid transportation problems (FIFSTPs) and utilizes the...
A Tale of Peaks and Valleys
Mountains—mythic and majestic—have fueled widespread speculation about their effects on character. Emerging empirical evidence has begun to show that physical topography is indeed associated with personality traits...
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Age differences in Machiavellianism across the life span
OBJECTIVE: Lifespan perspectives on personality development have gained much momentum in recent years, mostly focusing on benevolent and neutral traits such as the Big Five. Despite their strong associations with critical...
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Empirical Investigation to Assess the Impact of ICT Deployment in SCM Using SEM
The adoption of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and it is prominent in Supply Chain too. The objective of this paper is to perform an empirical investigation to assess the impact...
Intrinsically p-biharmonic maps
Peter Hornung, Roger Moser
Nov 01, 2014
For a compact Riemannian manifold $N$, a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^m$ and for $p \in (1,\infty)$, we introduce an intrinsic version $E_p$ of the $p$-biharmonic energy functional for maps $u : \Omega \to N$. This requires...
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The Synthetic Chemistry of Carboxyalkyl-P, P-Diphenyl Phosphines
Larry S. Andrews
Jan 01, 0001
This 55 page thesis examines the preparation of carboxyalkyl-P and P-diphenyl phosphines to determine their acidity characteristics as a function of structure and to characterize their ability to function as chelating agents.
Published by: Ursinus College
Cognitive underpinnings of nationalistic ideology in the context of Brexit.
Nationalistic identities often play an influential role in citizens' voting behavior and political engagement. Nationalistic ideologies tend to have firm categories and rules for what belongs to and represents the national...
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Personality Correlates of Risky Health Outcomes
Numerous studies have documented the effects of personality on health outcomes. However, which traits are most relevant to health, and the precise magnitude of their effects, is inconsistent across studies. The present study...
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