To observe the how people would behave in crisis, a group of researchers asked university students to complete surveys by themselves or in groups of three, then released smoke into the room while the participants were finishing their paperwork. ... Conclusion and Future Study Any researcher conducting an experiment in which deception is used is already dangerously close to crossing an ethical line. ...

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"The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant" - Bernard Wolfe, 1963 Since the conception of man, philosophers and historians the world over have struggled to define what it means to be human. With the advent o...

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Introduction Background Large numbers of people have been doing work for a long time pyramids and many other huge monuments and structures were built; armies and governments were organized; civilization spread over vast territories. All these took organization and management. There are writings fro...

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Johnson locates a more ecologically minded Thoreau only when the naturalist can move beyond Emersonian metaphor in his later work, and therefore initiate (along with Susan Fennimore Cooper) an empirical "counteraesthetics" to the dominant paradigm in American environmental aesthetics codified in Emerson's line from his 1836 Nature: "The world is emblematic. ...

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GNB also provides links to investment information; business data; and UISES, an on-line stock market simulation. ... Just so YOU do, the site also includes a For Teachers section, featuring suggestions for using Moneyopolis as an educational resource, ideas for off-line educational activities, sample lesson plans, and explanations of the correlation of Moneyopolis math problems to NCTM standards. ...

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