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Policing Hate Crime: Exploring the Issue with a Cohort of Sworn Police Officers
Globally, there has been a trend in rising levels of hate crime that scholars have argued is reflective of significant social problems within...
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An Interdisciplinary Definition of Pornography: Results from a Global Delphi Panel
In interdisciplinary investigations into the relationships between pornography and its audiences, the issue of how to define the object of study is...
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Operational Vigilance in Border Security: the Singapore Experience
In Singapore, officers of the border security agency are required to maintain 24 h, 7 days a week operation across various immigration checkpoints....
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Validation of an integrative multidimensional model of successful aging in community-dwelling older adults: what is successful aging all about?
The concept of successful aging has raised much debate and intrigued researchers for over four decades. However, a consensus regarding its definition...
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More than Psychometric Properties of the Fear of Covid-19 Scale. The Struggle of the Portuguese Police Officers
The Covid-19 pandemic conveyed consequences for people’s physical and mental health. During the worst pandemic scenarios, police officers were one of...
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Creativity and the Creative Industries: History and Context
This detailed account of the literature covers, in the first instance, the development of the singular term culture industry to the pluralized...
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A Case for Observability
Observability is a tricky concept that has been used by philosophers and scientists in an inconsistent and vague way. In this article a reformulation...
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Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Biology
This chapter describes the basic concepts used in evolutionary biology. Firstly, the definition of evolution is provided; afterwards, I describe what...
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Progressing the construct of enjoyment: conceptualizing enjoyment as a proactive process
Enjoyment is an important psychological construct in many life domains. Despite the importance of the construct, conceptual clarity in what enjoyment...
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Insurance companies’ risk-taking behavior in the face of economic policy uncertainty: a mediated analysis
The commercial operations of insurance firms are based on assumptions for the future. Expectations are greatly impacted by uncertainty, which is...
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Second Step: Definition, from Objects to Concepts
The cognition process does not end at the first step examined in Chap. 2 , namely, the construction of technical descriptions (perception of...
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Deriving Expert Knowledge of Situational Awareness in Policing: a Mixed-Methods Study
Situational awareness (SA) is the most important skill required by police to effectively assess and respond to encounters, including critical...
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Predicting Dropout from Children’s Mental Health Services: Using a Need-Based Definition of Dropout
Dropout from children’s mental health services has negative impacts on children, families and service providers. To target interventions aimed to...
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Facing the Traumatic Field in the Clinical and Social Work with Forced Migrants Through a Psychodynamic Perspective: from “Refugee Trauma” to the Clinic of Social Links
This article aims to rethink the clinical and social work with forced migrants through the concept of “field” as it is described in the context of...
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Spatial attention in mental arithmetic: A literature review and meta-analysis
We review the evidence for the conceptual association between arithmetic and space and quantify the effect size in meta-analyses. We focus on three...
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Operant Behavior and Measurement
Defining and measuring behavior are two of the most foundational skills a behavior analyst must develop. From the onset of their supervision, your...
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Does Perceived Emotional Invalidation Moderate the Relation Between Occupational Stress and Mental Health Outcomes in Law Enforcement Officers?
Police officers are exposed to operational stressors while on duty, including child abuse, domestic violence, car crashes, and homicides (Jetelina et...
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A systematic review of mobile brain/body imaging studies using the P300 event-related potentials to investigate cognition beyond the laboratory
The P300 ERP component, related to the onset of task-relevant or infrequent stimuli, has been widely used in the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI)...
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Employee Engagement as Human Motivation: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice
The central theoretical construct in human resource management today is employee engagement. Despite its centrality, clear theoretical and...
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Learning from failure, resource orchestration and social enterprise growth performance: the moderating role of failure normalization
Restricted by unfavorable external environments and weak operational capabilities, social enterprises often fail. However, the issue of whether and...
