Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Is IQ destiny? Perhaps not nearly as much as humans think. This text argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of abilities that mat...
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Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games
Domestic politics and international relations are often inextricably entangled, but existing theories (particularly “state-centric” theories) do not adequately account for these...
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate c...
Perceived Behavioral Control, Self‐Efficacy, Locus of Control, and the Theory of Planned Behavior<sup>1</sup>
Conceptual and methodological ambiguities surrounding the concept of perceived behavioral control are clarified. It is shown that perceived control over performance of a behavio...
Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I Foundations Chapter 1 Why Do Research? Chapter 2 What Are the Major Type...
Motivational interviewing: preparing people for change.
Part I: Context. Why Do People Change? Ambivalence: The Dilemma of Change. Facilitating Change. Part II: Practice. What is Motivational Interviewing? Change and Resistance: Oppo...
Fast Stable Restricted Maximum Likelihood and Marginal Likelihood Estimation of Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models
Summary Recent work by Reiss and Ogden provides a theoretical basis for sometimes preferring restricted maximum likelihood (REML) to generalized cross-validation (GCV) for smoot...
Making Democracy Work
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam...
Thumbs up?
We consider the problem of classifying documents not by topic, but by overall sentiment, e.g., determining whether a review is positive or negative. Using movie reviews as data,...
Implications of Recent Clinical Trials for the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III Guidelines
The Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) of the National Cholesterol Education Program issued an evidence-based set of guidelines on cholesterol management in 2001. Since the pub...
Applied Missing Data Analysis
Part 1. An Introduction to Missing Data. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Chapter Overview. 1.3 Missing Data Patterns. 1.4 A Conceptual Overview of Missing Data heory. 1.5 A More Formal De...
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protist...