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Encountering Mormon Country: John Wesley Powell, John Muir, And The Nature Of Utah, Donald Worster
Encountering Mormon Country: John Wesley Powell, John Muir, And The Nature Of Utah, Donald Worster
Arrington Annual Lecture
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Termination’S Legacy: The Discarded Indians Of Utah, H. Bert Jenson
Termination’S Legacy: The Discarded Indians Of Utah, H. Bert Jenson
English Faculty Publications
STARTING IN 1954 the Federal Government terminated onehundred plus Indian tribe across the Unit d States. All have subsequently been reinstated, that is, with one exception: the so called mixed-blood Utes in the Uintah Basin of Northeastern Utah. It is this still disenfranchised group of people that form the stimulus driving R. Warren Metcalf's book Termination's Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. It is about these people that he writes; it is their cause he champion.
Empathy And Generalized Reciprocity In Compliance With Requests For Help, Kenneth Allsop, Kathryn Fifield, John S. Seiter
Empathy And Generalized Reciprocity In Compliance With Requests For Help, Kenneth Allsop, Kathryn Fifield, John S. Seiter
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
This study examined empathy and reciprocity as explanations for why people comply with requests for help. Participants (35 male and 62 female) imagined being asked for money by a person who had locked keys in a car and then reported how likely they would he to comply with such a request, whether they had previously locked their keys in their car (empathy), and, if so, whether they had been helped (reciprocity). In support of the explanation based on empathy, people who reported previously locking their keys in their cars indicated being more likely to comply.
The Acceptability Of Deception As A Function Of Perceivers' Culture, Deceiver's Intention, And Deceiver-Deceived Relationship, John S. Seiter, Jon Bruschke, Chunsheng Bai
The Acceptability Of Deception As A Function Of Perceivers' Culture, Deceiver's Intention, And Deceiver-Deceived Relationship, John S. Seiter, Jon Bruschke, Chunsheng Bai
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
This study explored the degree to which deception is perceived to be a socially acceptable form of communication. It was suspected that a liar's motivation for deceiving, a perceiver's cultural background, and the type of relationship between a liar and the target of a lie (e.g., spouse, friend, stranger, etc.) would affect the perceived acceptability of deceptive messages. Students from China and the United States rated the degree to which they perceived deceptive acts depicted in written scenarios as acceptable or unacceptable. Results indicated that 1) lies told for malicious or self‐benefiting purposes were perceived as less acceptable than mutually‐benefiting …
Reading The Ordinary Diary, Jennifer Sinor
Reading The Ordinary Diary, Jennifer Sinor
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.