Trust with Private and Common Property: Effects of Stronger Property Right Entitlements

Is mutually beneficial cooperation in trust games more prevalent with private property or common property? Does the strength of property right entitlement affect the answer? Cox, Ostrom, Walker, et al. [1] report little difference between cooperation in private and common property trust games. We assign stronger property right entitlements by requiring subjects to meet a performance quota in a real effort task to earn their endowments. We find that cooperation is lower in common property trust games than in private property trust games, which is an idiosyncratic prediction of revealed altruism theory [2].

THE USE OF CENTRAL PLACE THEORY AND GRAVITY-FLOW ANALYSIS TO DELINEATE ECONOMIC AREAS

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Assessment of trauma symptomatology in adults with intellectual disabilities: validation of the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales

Background and Aims There is evidence that people with intellectual disabilities experience a higher rate of traumatic life events. However, attempts to research the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology have been hampered by the absence of a validated and suitable assessment tool. The aim of this study, therefore, was to further examine the psychometric properties of a recently developed measure, the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales (LANTS; Wigham, Hatton & Taylor, 2011b). Method Using a correlational design, 40 individuals (23 female, 17 male) with a mild intellectual disability (Mean FSIQ = 60.68; SD = 6.13) completed the LANTS and measures of anxiety and depression, along with a measure of general intellectual functioning. Two assessment tools developed for this study were also administered: the Impact of Events Scale – Intellectual Disabilities (IES-ID), a version of the Impact of Events Scale Revised (IES-R; Weiss & Marmar, 1997) adapted specifically for people with intellectual disabilities; and the Trauma Information Form (TIF) which is a selfreport assessment of trauma experiences in line with current DSM-IV-TR criteria (2000). Results Both trauma scales had high internal and test-retest reliability, although the IESID subscales were less reliable than the total severity score. Convergent validity was also good with the LANTS and IES-ID both positively correlated with each other, and iii measures of anxiety and depression. However, unlike the IES-ID, the LANTS failed to correlate with the number of traumas. No differences on trauma or demographic factors were found between a high and low PTSD group. Intellectual functioning was not related to the extent of trauma symptomatology. Conclusions The LANTS and IES-ID are promising trauma assessment tools, and therefore both may have clinical utility for the identification of PTSD symptomatology in people with intellectual disabilities. While the findings should be extended to a larger sample, they clearly provide a basis for more research into this under-researched but burgeoning area

In the Fullness of Time: M. M. Bakhtin, In Discourse and in Life

The phrase “the fullness of time” touches upon one of M. M. Bakhtin’s most consistently upheld tenets; for Bakhtin, philosophical and everyday utterances rely on their historical embeddedness for the material and concrete reality from which they draw their meaning and through which they are conditioned, inflected, and re-evaluated. In his very last work Bakhtin stated that all meanings are in continuous evolution. In this thesis the attempt will be made to interpret Bakhtin’s corpus by concentrating particularly on the movement of historical and philosophical becoming, the art of responding to philosophy and the events of everyday life, and the particular mutual inter-relatedness of the disciplines of ethics, aesthetics, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, and linguistics as these discourses are taken up in Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle’s writings

Attaining the church universal : imagination, popular theology, and ecumenism in the ministry of S. Parkes Cadman, 1920-1936.

S. Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), a Christian minister at Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York from 1901 to 1936, was a popular religious figure in interwar America. From 1924 to 1928, Cadman served as president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Through his utilization of mass media, Cadman became a religious celebrity in the 1920s. This study analyzes the oratory and written work Cadman produced between 1920 and 1936 and argues that Cadman believed that religious imagination, if properly reached and guided by a Christian minister, would enable the progression of Christian ecumenism. In a time of Protestant division, Cadman expressed his views on imagination and ecumenism over radio station WEAF, New York from 1923 to 1936 and in several seminal books, including Ambassadors of God (1920), Imagination and Religion (1926), Answers to Everyday Questions (1930), and Imagination (1930)

Advanced software techniques for data management systems. Volume 3: Programming language characteristics and comparison reference

A comparative evaluation was made of eight higher order languages of general interest in the aerospace field: PL/1; HAL; JOVIAL/J3; SPL/J6; CLASP; ALGOL 60; FORTRAN 4; and MAC360. A summary of the functional requirements for a language for general use in manned aerodynamic applications is presented. The evaluation supplies background material to be used in assessing the worth of each language for some particular application

Trust with Private and Common Property: Effects of Stronger Property Right Entitlements

Is mutually beneficial cooperation in trust games more prevalent with private property or common property? Does the strength of property right entitlement affect the answer? Cox, Ostrom, Walker, et al. [1] report little difference between cooperation in private and common property trust games. We assign stronger property right entitlements by requiring subjects to meet a performance quota in a real effort task to earn their endowments. We report experiment treatments with sequential choice and strategy responses. We find that cooperation is lower in common property trust games than in private property trust games, which is an idiosyncratic prediction of revealed altruism theory [2]. Demonstrable differences and similarities between our strategy response and sequential choice data provide insight into the how these protocols can yield different results from hypothesis tests even when they are eliciting the same behavioral patterns across treatments