Learning to Stalk? The Relation Between Media Exposure and Beliefs About Stalking.

An extensive body of research has examined the effect media have on beliefs about gendered violence, but none of this research has considered how media affect beliefs about stalking. Two studies were conducted to address this gap. In Study 1, 189 high school students (60 male) completed a survey about their media use habits and beliefs about stalking. Results showed that greater amounts of total television exposure, a greater tendency to perceive television as realistic, and a greater tendency to view television to learn about relationships all predicted greater approval of stalking, controlling for demographics. In Study 2, 426 female college students were randomly assigned to watch a film that portrayed stalking as scary, a film that portrayed stalking as romantic, or a control film. Exposure to scary stalking led participants to see stalking as less acceptable. Although exposure to romantic stalking did not lead to greater approval of stalking for all participants, it did have this effect among those higher in perceived realism or transportation. Findings are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications.PHDCommunicationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99925/1/julip_1.pd

Learning to adapt: organisational adaptation to climate change impacts

Analysis of human adaptation to climate change should be based on realistic models of adaptive behaviour at the level of organisations and individuals. The paper sets out a framework for analysing adaptation to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change in business organisations with new evidence presented from empirical research into adaptation in nine case-study companies. It argues that adaptation to climate change has many similarities with processes of organisational learning. The paper suggests that business organisations face a number of obstacles in learning how to adapt to climate change impacts, especially in relation to the weakness and ambiguity of signals about climate change and the uncertainty about benefits flowing from adaptation measures. Organisations rarely adapt `autonomously', since their adaptive behaviour is influenced by policy and market conditions, and draws on resources external to the organisation. The paper identifies four adaptation strategies that pattern organisational adaptive behaviou

Maastricht Delphi consensus on event definitions for classification of recurrence in breast cancer research

Background In breast cancer studies, many different endpoints are used. Definitions are often not provided or vary between studies. For instance, "local recurrence" may include different components in similar studies. This limits transparency and comparability of results. This project aimed to reach consensus on the definitions of local event, second primary breast cancer, regional and distant event for breast cancer studies