В современном глобализирующемся мире трансформационные процессы распространяются на все сферы жизни общества, вызывая серьёзные качественные и...

The present study sets out to examine the subject of corruption and publicity. It states that: 1. publicity can help to uncover and prevent corruption, and take sanctions against it, 2. business and political interests might hinder the media’s effective anti-corruption activities; 3. the media...

Статья посвящена проблеме диагностики способности руководителя-лидера к эффективному взаимодействию. Осуществлен теоретический анализ перечня качеств...

The article is devoted to the issue of diagnostics of ability of a manager-leader to interact efficiently. It conducts a theoretical analysis of a list of qualities of an efficient manager and leader. It specifies the qualities that provide the manager's ability to conduct efficient social...

Team effectiveness and group performance are often defined by standards set by domain experts. Professional musicians consistently report that sound output is the most important standard for evaluating the quality of group performance in the domain of music. However, across six studies, visual...

The paper approaches the social perception of the reform in the public health system through statistic modelling and analyses. Based upon the general framework of the European and international activities on improving the public health policies, the structure of the first part of the paper...

Agriculture largely shapes the European ecosystems. Today the environmental social interest and the awareness that some farming practices destroy the natural environment is undeniable. Thus, the European decision maker’s emphasis on integrating social demands within the Common Agricultural...

Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, drug traffic, and ubiquitous insecurity. Politicians, the media, and social scientists in and outside the region often claim that the societies are in complete agreement with their judgment of the...

This article discusses conditions of nongovernmental organizations activity as well as their perception in the Polish society. The demonstrated results show that approach of Poles towards NGOs’ activity is in fact ambivalent: they do know these organizations, they do not want to support them...

Previous research on the relation between oxytocin and trustworthiness evaluations has yielded inconsistent results. The current study reports an experiment using artificial faces which allows manipulating the dimension of trustworthiness without changing factors like emotions or face symmetry....