Assessing and measuring the impact of self-accountability activation on prosocial choice : can efforts to encourage ethical purchases be counter-productive?

In this report, I discuss one method of prosocial marketing; evaluate it from a theoretical perspective; identify significant questions about its measurement and application; present a study and explain how the design and measurements included in that study could elucidate answers to the identified questions, pending some analysis; and discuss my current data collection plans. The method, ethical self-accountability activation, was proposed and evaluated by John Peloza, Katherine White, and Jingzhi Shang in their article titled "Good and Guilt-Free: The Role of Self-Accountability in Influencing Preferences for Products with Ethical attributes," which was published in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Marketing.Statistic

Human Rights in the United States Human Rights in the United States: A Special Issue Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School: Foreword

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Columbia Law School. Appropriately, it also marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundational instrument of the modern international human rights regime. When HRI was founded in 1998, it was established as a crossroads for human rights at Columbia, which would bridge theory and practice, human rights and constitutional rights, and law and other disciplines. From its inception, HRI has been a partner with the university-wide Center for the Study of Human Rights, which was established twenty years earlier as an interdisciplinary program to bring human rights scholarship into many academic fields. The Law School-based Institute was the brainchild of Professor Louis Henkin, who, as a founder of the university-wide program, recognized the need to train a new generation of human rights advocates, scholars, and teachers through scholarship regarding the law of human rights. This special volume celebrates one of HRI\u27s signature programs: Human Rights in the United States. While the United States played a leading role in the creation and development of modern international organizations and human rights law regimes, and there has been a bi-partisan commitment to advancing human rights in U.S. foreign policy for many decades, it has been less consistent in promoting international standards guaranteeing human rights as part of U.S. domestic law and policy. The Human Rights Institute was a path-breaker in recognizing that human rights do not involve merely scholarship and activism regarding what happens out there, but that human rights are implicated in domestic U.S. policies as well. This goal of affirming human rights at home was part of Henkin\u27s holistic vision of human rights as protected through a fluid regime of national, sub-national, and international instruments. To Henkin, constitutions have been every bit as important as treaties. Human rights around the globe are typically protected through domestic law, and the U.S. Constitution and U.S. domestic statutes are no different. Indeed, the U.S. Constitution has a particularly intimate relationship to the international human rights movement, since U.S. constitutionalism featured centrally in the creation of the modern conception of human rights

A time lag study of the vertical motion simulator computer system

A study was performed to evaluate an experimental method to determine time lags in real-time computer systems as the one associated with the Vertical Motion Simulator at Ames Research Center. The approach was to use an ordinary frequency analyzer to measure the phase difference between inputs and outputs of the computer system. The various elements of the program and computational architecture were modeled. Various factors, such as computer frame time and input frequency, were varied so that they were representative of the operational use of the simulator facilities. Experimentally determined results were compared with predictions derived from the simulation models. The results indicate that the frequency analyzer can be readily used to evaluate time lags in systems of this type. Differences between predicted and measured phase values indicate that the hardware and software imparts a time lag of about 5 msec to this facility