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Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
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Unrealistic Optimism about Exogenous Events: An Experimental Test [PDF]
An experiment is designed to test if individuals show (unrealistic) optimism when determining their subjective probabilities about exogenous circumstances.
Muren, Astri
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Optimizing Teaching English as Efl in Novice Level Through Students' Optimism [PDF]
, 2016 Mengoptimalkan pengajaran bahasa inggris dengan menanamkan rasa optimisme pada siswa mempunyai pengaruh sangat penting dalam belajar bahasa inggris terutama dalam tingkat dasar.
Helandri, J. (Joni)
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Overconfidence and excess entry: a comparison between students and managers [PDF]
Overconfidence can lead to excessive business entry. Here we replicate the pioneer experiment finding this nexus (Camerer and Lovallo 1999) and extend it in two major directions: (1) to consider managers as well as student subjects and (2) to explicitly ...
A. Felipe Rodrigues +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Shrinking cities are increasingly drawing global attention, but urban shrinkage is seldom considered as an enduring structural condition necessitating a move beyond growth‐centric strategies. The focus often remains on mitigating symptoms rather than embracing the broader implications of long‐term decline. Understanding of what drives decision‐
Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius
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Exploring Body Comparison Tendencies: Women Are Self-Critical Whereas Men Are Self-Hopeful [PDF]
, 2012 Our study examined similarities and differences in women’s and men’s comparison tendencies and perfection beliefs when evaluating their face, body shape, and physical abilities, as well as how these tendencies and beliefs relate to their body esteem ...
Aebly, Megan +5 more
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An Explanation of Path Analysis and Recommendations for Best Practice
Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Path analysis has become increasingly popular, but many studies do not show a deep understanding of how path analysis works or the assumptions on which it relies. In this paper, we explain that path analysis is statistically equivalent to either OLS when the researcher assumes uncorrelated errors, or instrumental variable (IV) estimation when ...
Clive Lennox, Carmen Payne‐Mann
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Optimistic versus Pessimistic--Optimal Judgemental Bias with Reference Point [PDF]
, 2012 This paper develops a model of reference-dependent assessment of subjective beliefs in which loss-averse people optimally choose the expectation as the reference point to balance the current felicity from the optimistic anticipation and the future ...
Chen, Si
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Avoiding Corporate Greenwashing? Sustainability Silence Narratives in the Agri‐Food Industry
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to shed more light on the reasons underlying companies' under‐communication or lack of communication to stakeholders about sustainability achievements in the agri‐food sector. A qualitative study based on 34 semi‐structured interviews with respondents from this sector shows the predominance of a rationale of ...
Olivier Boiral +3 more
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