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Why do health-risk awareness and materialism drive consumers' acceptance intentions for smart green buildings?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
As the threat of global warming to human beings has gradually received attention, this article introduces the terror management theory to explain whether health risk awareness will affect their willingness to accept smart green buildings and that ...
Lydia Chu
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Age on Death Disgust: Challenges to Terror Management Perspectives

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2005
Proponents of Terror Management Theory (TMT) argue that many facets of disgust serve to defend against existential anxiety accompanying cognizance of one's mortality.
Daniel M.T. Fessler, C. David Navarrete
doaj   +1 more source

Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

How does threat affect different types of people? Investigating a relationship between Big-Five personality and self-concept, and how threat may affect a self-concept network [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this exploratory project, we aim to draw connections between Big-5 personality, threat, and self-concept. In the experiment, participants first completed the Big-5 inventory of personality measuring openness, conscientiousness, extraversion ...
Connor, Kenneth
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Sustainability Orientation and Sustainable Innovation: Can Organisational Resilience Clarify the Missing Link?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although firms that integrate a sustainability orientation (SO) may experience a significant improvement in their resource efficiency, many, particularly small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), still struggle with the complexities of incorporating sustainability into their business models.
Michael Adu Kwarteng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

GWOT Reconsidered [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article was published in Culture and Conflict Review (Summer 2009), v.3 no.2"Around the same time, Pentagon staff received a memo from DoD's [Department of Defense] Office of Security Review explaining the White House 'prefers to avoid using the ...
Zellen, Barry
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Rethinking Climate Change on the Role of Human Power Generation, Alternative Perspectives, Potential Solutions, and a Plea for Action

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
All energy matters Let us broaden the discussion on solutions to climate change. Greenhouse gases have upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth's energy balance. Consequently, all sources of heat affect the temperature of the Earth. Although the amount of additional heat generated by humans is a fraction of that produced by the sun, it is generated ...
Martin Bertau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of death priming on climate change denial: a preliminary investigation [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research
Background Climate change denial (CCD) has been found to be more pronounced among individuals with a conservative political orientation. Terror Management Theory posits that an individual’s worldview serves as a primary defense mechanism in coping with ...
David Anaki, Zach Gerber
doaj   +1 more source

Not quite the 'Great Britain of the Far East': Japan's security, the US-Japan alliance and the 'war on terror' in East Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Japan, in responding to US expectations for support in the 'war on terror', has displayed a degree of strategic convergence on global security objectives, thus prompting policy-makers and observers to dub it the 'Great Britain of the Far East'.
Christopher W Hughes   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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