Even though egalitarian gender values are increasingly spreading among younger Europeans, division of labour does not always comply with this trend. Traditional theories of familial behaviour struggle to explain the resulting paradoxical simultaneity of egalitarian values and inegalitarian...

Drawing on psychological and political science research on individuals’ sensitivity to threat cues, the present study examines reactions to political posters that depict male immigrants as a sexual danger. We expect anti-immigrant attitudes to be more strongly predicted by feelings of...

This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments on the relevance of reputation for trust and cooperation in social interaction. We have extended a repeated investment game by adding new treatments where reputation is taken more explicitly into account than before. We then compared...

The position of the constructor in communication networks, including those before the commencement of construction, is likely related to the quality of work health and safety (WHS) outcomes realized. In order to examine the extent of this relationship, 23 cases were drawn from 10 participating...

Purpose – To explain how comedy can be effectively used in business. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review covering: need for comedy; advantages of using comedy; applicability to business; tips for implementation; and contemporary examples. Findings – There are two immediate...

Technological advances in the last 40 years are widely used in business communications today. The “communications revolution” has affected the speed of business communications, the distance from which information can be obtained, and the amount of information being used. These effects...