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Henry Hazlitt: Economics In One Lesson Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Henry Hazlitt: Economics In One Lesson Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Acton Institute: The Birth Of Freedom Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Acton Institute: The Birth Of Freedom Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Glenn R. Martin: Prevailing Worldviews Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Glenn R. Martin: Prevailing Worldviews Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Walter Russell Mead: Power, Terror, Peace, And War For No. 149, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Walter Russell Mead: Power, Terror, Peace, And War For No. 149, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Walter Russell Mead places this volume (which builds on Special Providence) into the context of the ideological and theological debates that have shaped American history. Like Michael Oakeshott and various conservatives, Mead depicts the contemporary world as the outworking of a “modern temper” or an “Enlightenment project,” two phases of which he focuses on: Fordism (resembling Lewis Mumford’s modern megamachine) and millennial capitalism. Mead’s identification of several competing schools of thought or dispositions in chapter six is somewhat comparable to earlier “models of historical interpretation,” such as Daniel Elazar’s three American “political cultures” and David Hackett Fischer’s four “British folkways” …


Dore Gold: Tower Of Babble Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Dore Gold: Tower Of Babble Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

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Christopher Catherwood: A Brief History Of The Middle East Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Christopher Catherwood: A Brief History Of The Middle East Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

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Roger Scruton: Rousseau And The Origins Of Liberalism: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Roger Scruton: Rousseau And The Origins Of Liberalism: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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James V. Schall: Another Sort Of Learning Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

James V. Schall: Another Sort Of Learning Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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John H. Hallowell: The Criteria Of Integral Liberalism: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

John H. Hallowell: The Criteria Of Integral Liberalism: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

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No abstract provided.


Brian C. Anderson: Democratic Capitalism And Its Discontents: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2008

Brian C. Anderson: Democratic Capitalism And Its Discontents: Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity, William A. Cunningham, Jay J. Van Bavel, Ingrid Johnsen Haas Jan 2008

Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity, William A. Cunningham, Jay J. Van Bavel, Ingrid Johnsen Haas

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

Although early research implicated the amygdala in automatic processing of negative information, more recent research suggests that it plays a more general role in processing the motivational relevance of various stimuli, suggesting that the relation between valence and amygdala activation may depend on contextual goals. This study provides experimental evidence that the relation between valence and amygdala activity is dynamically modulated by evaluative goals. During functional magnetic resonance imaging, participants evaluated the positive, negative, or overall (positive plus negative) aspects of famous people. When participants were providing overall evaluations, both positive and negative names were associated with amygdala activation. When …


Does Marriage And Relationship Education Work? A Meta-Analytic Study, Alan J. Hawkins, Victoria L. Blanchard, Scott A. Baldwin, Elizabeth B. Fawcett Jan 2008

Does Marriage And Relationship Education Work? A Meta-Analytic Study, Alan J. Hawkins, Victoria L. Blanchard, Scott A. Baldwin, Elizabeth B. Fawcett

Faculty Publications

In this meta-analytic study, the authors examined the efficacy of marriage and relationship education (MRE) on 2 common outcomes: relationship quality and communication skills. A thorough search produced 86 codable reports that yielded 117 studies and more than 500 effect sizes. The effect sizes for relationship quality for experimental studies ranged from d = .30 to .36, while the communication skills effect sizes ranged from d = .43 to .45. Quasi-experimental studies generated smaller effect sizes, but these appeared to be due to pretest group differences. Moderate-dosage programs produced larger effect sizes than did lows-dosage programs. For communication skills, published …


Book Review – Situated Fathering: A Focus On Physical And Social Spaces, Erin K. Holmes Jan 2008

Book Review – Situated Fathering: A Focus On Physical And Social Spaces, Erin K. Holmes

Faculty Publications

When it comes to scholarship on fatherhood (especially my own), I have too often found myself asking the question, "Could this argument really hold up in a variety of fathering circumstances?" However, by the time I finished Situated Fathering: A Focus on Physical and Social Spaces, I no longer needed to ask that question. Instead, I felt confident that the volume's editors and authors offered a more sound theoretical and empirical foundation for the exploration of fathering settings and circumstances than most other work I have read.


Toward A New Social Contract: A Tripartite Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Social Sustainability At Three Land-Grant Universities, Lyndsay Josephine Agans Jan 2008

Toward A New Social Contract: A Tripartite Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Social Sustainability At Three Land-Grant Universities, Lyndsay Josephine Agans

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increasingly, colleges and universities in the United States are adapting toward a model of behavior that incorporates issues of sustainability. This adaptation in universities and in society has implications on the organizational and nation-state level, the very core of which may serve to reshape the social contract between the two. In addition to supplying a strong counter-hegemonic argument that alters the competitive economic agenda-setting paradigm, this study serves as a tripartite comparative case study analysis of university adaptation toward social sustainability. By employing a social capital lens to understanding social sustainability in higher education, this study seeks to examine the …