That's what she said: women students' experiences of 'lad culture' in higher education

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Accessible Attitudes Improve Dieters' Food Choices

Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Work; Law: 2nd Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)Previous research on attitude accessibility has found that accessible attitudes influence both visual and cognitive attention. Smith, Fazio, and Cejka (1996), for instance, found that categories towards which we have accessible attitudes are more likely to be brought to mind when assessing a related object. Research in our lab (Young & Fazio, in prep) has found evidence that not only are categories towards which we have accessible attitudes more likely to be brought to mind, but they are more likely to influence our evaluations of related objects. The current experiment seeks to apply this attitude accessibility phenomenon to a practical domain – that of eating. Can we modify the way people evaluate and decide to eat various foods by making their attitudes toward either food healthiness or food tastiness more accessible? Our experiment found that if participant attitudes toward healthiness are made more accessible, participants do, in fact, make more health-relevant food choices.A three-year embargo was granted for this item

Conjugal Homicide and Legal Violence: A Comparative Analysis

This article examines the defences in English and Canadian criminal law available to battered women who kill their abusers. The article sets out in detail the formation and evolution of the doctrinal interpretation, in English law, of the defences of provocation, diminished responsibility, and self-defence. Current case law is examined, including the recent cases of Thornton and Ahluwalia. The objective of the essay is to provide a critical context, namely the legal construction of the phenomenon of conjugal violence, in which we can see the current elaboration of these defences. The Canadian position is investigated, by means of a thorough reading of Laval/e, in order to provide a comparative critique of the inadequacies of the English criminal defences. In conclusion, the article proposes several possible sources of reform, through which the defences in English law might be brought closer to the Canadian position

The Prorogation Case: Re-inventing the Constitution or Re-imagining Constitutional Scholarship

In 2017, the UK Supreme Court decided what was, prematurely, referred to as the ‘Constitutional Case of the Century’: R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Miller). However, within three years, the Supreme Court decided R (Miller) v Prime Minister; Cherry v Advocate General for Scotland (Miller; Cherry), which arguably has even greater constitutional importance. Given the number of similarities between the cases, this is hardly surprising. They provide the only examples, to date, of the Supreme Court sitting with its maximum number of eleven Justices. Both concerned Brexit; involved key constitutional questions as to the relative powers of the legislature, the executive, and the courts and received a huge amount of media attention. Unsurprisingly, they both generated a great deal of commentary prior to, during, and after the cases were heard

When Leaders Use Self-Uncertainty Strategically: Consequences for Intergroup Leadership and Identity Confirmation Dynamics

Framed by the social identity theory of leadership, one question that is beginning to receive attention is how intergroup leaders can lead across distinct subgroups and improve inter-subgroup relations without provoking social identity-related concerns (e.g., subgroup identity distinctiveness threat). Past studies have found that leaders can use their rhetoric and boundary spanning behavior to meet their members’ identity needs and garner support. In addition, the self-uncertainty literature has suggested that leaders can strategically elevate and resolve members’ self-uncertainty through their rhetoric. The current research proposed that members who felt uncertain about their subgroup’s identity would have more favorable evaluations of the intergroup leader and perceptions of the out-subgroup if the leader confirmed their subgroup identity and/or was a blended boundary spanner. Members’ identity-uncertainty and subgroup identity validation have yet to be jointly examined in the context of intergroup leadership. Study 1 ( N = 214) showed that those with high identity centrality had more positive leader evaluations and out-subgroup perceptions. Study 2 ( N = 248) showed that those with greater subgroup identity-uncertainty who received a message from their leader that confirmed their subgroup identity had more positive out-subgroup perceptions; however, a person’s level of subgroup identity-uncertainty led to differential perceptions depending on the leader’s boundary spanning behavior. Implications and future directions are discussed

Joint Custody as Norm: Solomon Revisited

Most jurisdictions in Canada and the United States have, to a greater or lesser extent, endorsed the notion of joint custody in recent years. The author suggests that-the move toward joint custody has resulted from a combination of two major factors: the notion of parental equality and the application of the best interests of the child test. The growing prominence of equal parental rights has created a strong temptation to approach custody as a Solomonic exercise in dividing the children equally between those with equal rights over them. The indeterminacy of the best interests test may readily encourage custody determinations on this basis as well. Joint custody has been received less enthusiastically in Canada than in the United States. The author suggests that the tendency of the Supreme Court of Canada to reject the sameness of treatment approach to equality may well explain this

Disk Growth in Bulge-Dominated Galaxies: Molecular Gas and Morphological Evolution

Substantial numbers of morphologically regular early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies contain molecular gas, and the quantities of gas are probably sufficient to explain recent estimates of the current level of star formation activity. This gas can also be used as a tracer of the processes that drive the evolution of early-type galaxies. For example, in most cases the gas is forming dynamically cold stellar disks with sizes in the range of hundreds of pc to more than one kpc, although there is typically only 1% of the total stellar mass currently available to form young stars. The numbers are still small, but the molecular kinematics indicate that some of the gas probably originated from internal stellar mass loss while some was acquired from outside. Future studies will help to quantify the role of molecular gas (dissipational processes) in the formation of early-type galaxies and their evolution along the red sequence.Comment: 4 pages. To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 245, "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges," M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula, and B. Barbuy, ed