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Trends. Quantitative Versus Qualitative Analysis, Nuclear Reactors, And Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the possibility of meaningful analysis pertaining to the possibility of terrorist threats against nuclear installations.

Trends. Thinking On Transportation Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the necessity of gathering intelligence successfully to combat terrorism as it pertains to commerce.

Announcements, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

IBPP announcements pertaining to reader requests, editor nominations, and relevant conferences, as well as online and print publications.

North Korea And The United States: A Nuclear Family Of Conditionings, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article posits several cognitive heuristics that may at least metaphorically constitute the North Korean and United States Governments’ operational codes of international security decision-making.

Obedience To Authority As Obedience To Authority: Current Perspectives On The Milgram Paradigm, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article considers political implications of the Milgram obedience studies and of how these studies have fared in professional and lay discourse. A point of departure for the article is a volume edited by Thomas Blass on the studies.

Trends. The 9/11 Commission: Personnel Selection And The Problem Of Caesar’S Wife, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discussed the controversial appointment of Henry Kissinger to the Commission to investigation and make recommendations concerning the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his subsequent resignation from it. Of particular emphasis: the idea of being above reproach.

Executive Cabinet Goals By Office, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Goals for each executive office for the 2003-2004 school year.

Financial Guidelines Handbook, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Handbook for the creation and care of SGA financial records.

Giving Meaning To Economic, Social And Cultural Rights: A Continuing Struggle, Kitty Arambulo

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights edited by Isfahan Merali and Valerie Oosterveld. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), 2001. 280pp.

Personality In Political Psychology, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This chapter outlines the history of personality inquiry in political psychology, examines the current state of personality assessment in politics, and charts a course for the study of personality in politics in the post-cognitive revolution era, informed by contextually adjacent scientific fields such as behavioral neuroscience and evolutionary ecology.

The chapter offers a comprehensive, generative, theoretically coherent framework for studying personality in politics, consonant with established principles in the adjacent sciences and integrative with respect to accommodating a diversity of politically relevant personal characteristics. The proposed framework attempts to bridge conceptual and methodological gaps between current formulations in the source …

Protest And Reform In Asylum Policy: Citizen Initiatives Versus Asylum Seekers In German Municipalities, 1989-1994, Roger Karapin

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Trends. The Paradise Hotel Bombing: Trouble In Judicial Paradise, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discussed the bombing of the Kenyan Hotel Paradise in November 2002, and the detention of suspects.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss banquet, schedule of events and World AIDS Day vigil.

Context And Demonizing The I.R.A., Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article questions a consensus that the I.R.A. is largely responsible for the recent suspension of Northern Ireland’s home-rule government by the United Kingdom.

Trends. Terrorist Brains, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the construct of biological reductionism in the context of the case of Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof. For the author, overly emphasizing the biological aspects of Ms. Meinhof’s case might obscure legitimate grievances, and ultimately, lead to more cases of violence associated with terrorism.

Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting As Antiterrorism Weapons: Philosophical Dilemmas, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes problematic assumptions in differentiating public diplomacy from international broadcasting as weapons against terrorism with global reach.

Trends. Disclosure Of Post-9-11 Arrestees And Maslow’S Hierarchy Of Needs, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the Maslowian hierarchy of needs in the context of 9-11 terrorist attacks and the relationship between executive and judicial branches of American government.

Bill #02-16-F - Suggestion Boxes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to place suggestion boxes in four dormitories.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding Disabilities Awareness Club, budget, Topper Transit, enrollment management, organization aid, banquet and retreat.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss creation of ad hoc committee on internal affairs, parking, campus safety forum, oganization aid and upcoming events.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 12, 2002 meeting.

Resolution 02-07-F - Hilltopper Athletic Foundation Parking Policy, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to change Hilltopper Athletic Foundation parking policies.

Trends. Getting Emotional On Nonlethal Weapons, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a significant biopsychosocial impediment to developing nonlethal weapons affecting emotional functioning.

Trends. Implications Of War And Peace For The Morality, Ethics, And Legality Of Killing And Incarceration, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a perspective for the controversy surrounding the appropriateness of killing and incarceration during a war on terrorism with global reach.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding campus safety forum, leader's dinner, WKU marketing forum and organizational aid.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss parking, marketing plan, campus safety forum, organizational aid and legislation.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 5, 2002 meeting.

Bill 02-13-F Installation Of Duc Benches, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to pay Armor Coat Company for installation of benches at Downing University Center.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding organizational aid, student forum on campus safety and fall retreat.

Trends. Sniping As Terrorism And Terrorism As Sniping, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the possible terrorist context of sniper attacks perpetrated in the greater Washington, D.C. area in 2002, and the potential impact on global social cohesion.