Later‐life families encompass the legal, biological, romantic, and kin‐like relationships of
persons ages 65 and older. Research on older families has flourished over the past decade …

Self-esteem has become a household word. Teachers, parents, therapists, and others have
focused efforts on boosting self-esteem, on the assumption that high self-esteem will cause …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

Previous research on word of mouth (WOM) has presented inconsistent evidence on
whether consumers are more inclined to share positive or negative information about …

Important asymmetries between self-perception and social perception arise from the simple
fact that other people's actions, judgments, and priorities sometimes differ from one's own …

People are typically overly optimistic when evaluating the quality of their performance on
social and intellectual tasks. In particular, poor performers grossly overestimate their …

Ours is an era in which people tendto shy away from this task. As I browse through
bookstores, I am struck by the incursion of" New Age" thinking, even in the business …

Recent research into population standards of life satisfaction has revealed a remarkable
level of uniformity, with the mean values for Western populations clustering at around three …

People typically evaluate their in-groups more favorably than out-groups and themselves
more favorably than others. Research on infrahumanization also suggests a preferential …

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development. In this
comprehensive introduction to the area of 'sport-for-development', leading researcher Fred …