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Bereavement research using control groups: Ethical obligations and questions

Death Studies, 1995
Abstract Scholars should both contribute to knowledge and project research participants from harm. When research methods provoke bereaved individuals to feel their distress, are scholars obliged to do more than place some people in control groups? An ethical dilemma that emerged in a study with bereaved college students is discussed.
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The interest group theory and unfunded obligations

1990
The economic approach to political behaviour assumes that actual political choices are determined by the efforts of individuals and groups to further their own interests. The median voter approach described in chapter 5 emphasises the relevance of voters’ preferences as represented by the preferences of the median voter.
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Leaders' Ambivalence about Reciprocity Obligations in Self-Help Groups

Small Group Research, 1997
This study explored the extent to which self-help group leaders endorsed beliefs that group members should primarily take care of themselves (a need-based norm) and that group members have an obligation to help others (an equity-based nonn). Leadersfrom 63 different groups were asked to respond to a fictional vignette describing "Betty," who had been ...
Louis J. Medvene, Cayla R. Teal
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Reciprocal Obligations in the Social Capital Resource Exchanges of Diverse Groups

Humanity & Society, 2008
This paper theorizes how reciprocal obligations that are inherent in social capital resource exchanges work for groups defined by gender, class and race. When one receives favors, there is generally an expectation that the favor will be returned either to the group as a whole or to the individual who extended the favor.
Rochelle Parks-Yancy, Nancy DiTomaso, Corinne Post   +2 more
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Marking the Turn: Obligation, Engagement, and Alienation in Group Discussions

Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010
In group conversations, not speaking is the state of affairs experienced by most people most of the time; I refer to this as ‘‘conversational latency.’’ Hypothesizing that conversational latency affects one’s discursive options, I analyze the association between latency (operationalized as the number of turns that elapsed since the current speaker last
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Control of Territory and Human Rights Obligations of Armed Groups

2017
Chapter 9 considers the relevance of control of territory to the acquisition of legal obligations by armed groups. Employing the principle of ‘effectiveness’ as its starting point, the chapter conducts a detailed analysis of the rules on State responsibility, focusing in particular on Article 9.
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Ethnicity and Group Rights, Individual Liberties and Immoral Obligations

1998
Recent developments in biology have made it possible to acquire more and more precise information concerning our genetic makeup. There are four groups of people who may want to know about our genes. First, we ourselves can have an interest in being aware of own health status. Second, there are people who are genetically linked with us, and who can have
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Renegotiating Spheres of Obligation: The Role of Hierarchy in Synchronizing Group Learning

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
This study demonstrates how organizational learning unfolds when it requires coordinated improvements in many local groups and changes in the interdependencies between these groups.
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On the Supposed Incoherence of Obligations to Oneself

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021
Jänis David Schaab
exaly  

The Legal Consequences of Obligations Erga Omnes in International Law

Netherlands International Law Review, 2021
Yoshifumi Tanaka
exaly