scholarly journals A Different Road Towards a Better Personality Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate C. McLean ◽  
Moin Syed

This is a commentary on Leising et al. (in press). We argue that a better personality science is one that is inclusive of diverse theories, methods, researchers, and participants. The road towards that science will involve serious reflective work on our history, biases, and the systemic inequities that we have built as personality scientists, which sustain the status quo. The suggestions proposed by Leising et al. systematically bias particular methods and tools, such as qualitative work, which we propose are necessary to better our science.

Author(s):  
Xianli Zhu ◽  

This paper is mainly about the status quo and long-lasting problems of off-campus education in China. There is no doubt that education should be student-oriented. However, most of Chinese after-school training institutions are carrying out the exam-oriented courses crazily, which ignores the differences of individuals, the rules of their mental and physical development, not to mention the study interests tend to withered away. Various factors are no strangers to this phenomenon, from the educational system, educational needs of every family to the atmosphere created by the training institutions. As a result, a large quantity of people are accustomed to judging the achievements of adolescents down the road simply by predicting their test scores, linking the needs of education with the good jobs and high incomes rather than self-realization. The Education Evaluation System has gradually simplified in a disapproving way, and young people are equal to nothing but an index on their transcripts. People who find themselves embroiled in this ever-spiraling situation feel progressively anxious about score and time, which corrodes the very foundation of Chinese education.


2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Francis X Hezel

Hezel, Father Francis X. (2015). Why the Pacific status quo is no longer an option. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 195-196. Review of Idyllic No More: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, by Giff Johnson. Majuro, Marshall Islands: CreateSpace. 2015. 153 pp. ISBN 978-1-512235-58-6Giff Johnson’s latest work, Idyllic No More: Pacific Islands Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, is a call to serious planning and more. The Marshall Islands Journal editor summons leaders to recognise that life has changed in the country and the status quo is the road to disaster. There was a time when this might not have been true—when people who wanted to kick back and live a simple island life could quietly opt out of school and retire to the family land to provide for themselves as their ancestors had done for generations in an island society that offered the resources, physical and social, to support its population.


Daedalus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Greenstone ◽  
Adam Looney

Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America's energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible costs that appear on utility bills and at gas pumps. This system masks the “external” costs arising from those energy choices, including shorter lives, higher health care expenses, a changing climate, and weakened national security. As a result, we pay unnecessarily high costs for energy. New “rules of the road” could level the energy playing field. Drawing from our work for The Hamilton Project, this paper offers four principles for reforming U.S. energy policies in order to increase Americans' well-being.


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wadim Strielkowski

Sci-hub has become the new phenomenon on the academic publishing market. While its popularity is growing worldwide, large academic publishers are losing millions of dollars on paid article downloads. Perhaps the time has come to re-think the rules of the game of the publishing market and to look for novel solutions for monetizing scientific output. Subscription-based access to publishing databases, similar to the model used in online music streaming, might be one of these solutions that could secure the status quo and stabilize the market.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Giang Nguyen Hoang Le

Abstract In this article context, I recall my memories as a Vietnamese English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) programme teacher and a student who grappled with many inequities in the nationwide process of internationalization of higher education. The equity-related issues include the teacher's unpreparedness with the adoption of foreign curriculum, the teacher's lack of recognition of the local cultures, and the unfair treatment of the Vietnamese ETP interns in the workplace. I write this article in the role of a narrator, sharing my personal and professional experiences to give the status quo of ETP education in Vietnam and the various nuances that help unpack the realities of this situation. This reflective article intends to picture the inequities in Vietnamese higher education internationalization that both Vietnamese students and teachers encounter and to pave the road for further discussions to construct future scholarship and research.


2018 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON X. EGUIA ◽  
FRANCESCO GIOVANNONI

We provide an instrumental theory of extreme campaign platforms. By adopting an extreme platform, a previously mainstream party with a relatively small probability of winning further reduces its chances. On the other hand, the party builds credibility as the one most capable of delivering an alternative to mainstream policies. The party gambles that if down the road voters become dissatisfied with the status quo and seek something different, the party will be there ready with a credible alternative. In essence, the party sacrifices the most immediate election to invest in greater future success. We call this phenomenon tactical extremism. We show under which conditions we expect tactical extremism to arise and we discuss its welfare implications.


2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-762

Lutz Kilian of University of Michigan reviews “Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold” by Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and considers how America’s and the world’s dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Discusses the challenges of resource curses and globalization; the new Middle East--childhood, 1973-84, and adolescence, 1985-95; the road to the status quo, 1996-2008; globalization of Middle East dynamics; dollars and debt--the end of the dollar era; motivations to attack or abandon the dollar; resource curses, global volatility, and crises; and ameliorating the cycle. El-Gamal is Chair of the Department of Economics, Professor of Economics and Statistics, and Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance, and Management at Rice University. Jaffe is Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Associate Director of the Rice University Energy Program. Bibliography; index.”


2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-176
Author(s):  
Radosław Stupak

Mark Fisher wrote „the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.” This paper attempts to develop this thought and show how the repoliticization of issues defined as mental illnesses that could have an emancipatory potential and undermine capitalist realism could look like and how it could be related to the contemporary phenomenon of „psychedelic renaissance”. This repoliticization could constitute the first step towards acid communism – a step that would enable a comprehensive formulation of the project, the imagining of both acid communism itself as well as the road towards it. Even though psychedelics could provide an impulse for the change of the dominant psychiatric paradigm and the reorganization of mental health services, the process of the interception of these substances by the alienating and commodificating orders of psychiatry and capitalism can already be observed, so that both of the intertwined and mutually supporting orders can in fact be strengthened. From this perspective the institution of psychiatry becomes a key element preserving the status quo, which makes the imagining of the end of capitalism impossible. Politicization of mental health, that could question capitalist realism, needs to be connected with the deconstruction of the ideology of psychiatry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Engelke ◽  
Valerie Hase ◽  
Florian Wintterlin
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  

2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 1543-1546
Author(s):  
Chen Min Liu ◽  
Mu Wei Du

As road construction machinery, Synchronous chip seal truck achieves the synchronization of asphalt and aggregate spilling to improve and enhance the quality of the road surface sealing layer, and wide application in road construction and maintenance. Synchronous chip seal technology, construction technology and synchronous chip seal truck were discussion introduced. Technology status quo of domestic synchronous chip seal truck was analyzed and the development tendency was discussed.


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