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Holland Boat Builders, Geoffrey D. Reynolds Jun 2006

Holland Boat Builders, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

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Holland Boat Builders is an article concerning the history of ship and boat building in the Holland, Michigan area from 1836-2006.


Before The Thoroughbreds: Roy Brady And The Century Boat Company, Geoffrey D. Reynolds May 2006

Before The Thoroughbreds: Roy Brady And The Century Boat Company, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

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Before the Thoroughbreds: Roy Brady and the Century Boat Company is an article about the boat builder Melvin Roy Brady, his family, and his time building boats for Brady Boats of Charlevoix, Michigan, Century Boat Company in Manistee, Michigan and Robinson Boat Company of St. Joeseph, Michigan. It also concentrates on his time as a hydroplane boat racer in the late 1920s and early 1930s.


Misperceptions In Intergroup Conflict: Disagreeing About What We Disagree About, John R. Chambers, Robert S. Baron, Mary L. Inman Jan 2006

Misperceptions In Intergroup Conflict: Disagreeing About What We Disagree About, John R. Chambers, Robert S. Baron, Mary L. Inman

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Two studies examined misperceptions of disagreement in partisan social conflicts, namely, in the debates over abortion (Study 1) and politics (Study 2). We observed that partisans tend to exaggerate differences of opinion with their adversaries. Further, we found that perceptions of disagreement were more pronounced for values that were central to the perceiver's own ideology than for values that were central to the ideology of the perceiver's adversaries. To the extent that partisans assumed disagreement concerning personally important values, they were also inaccurate in perceiving their adversaries' actual opinions. Discussion focuses on the cognitive mechanisms underlying misperceptions of disagreement and …