The archer stands and pulls back the bow, visualizing the path of the arrow to the target. Does this mental exercise enhance performance? Can we all use such techniques to improve performance in our daily lives? "In the Mind's Eye" addresses these and other intriguing questions. This volume considers basic issues of performance, exploring how ...
This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of conflict analysis and resolution. What can this interdisciplinary field contribute to our understanding of, solutions to, or transformations of some of the most pressing problems confronting human societies? The authors, a team of international experts with both academic and ...
Can such techniques as sleep learning and hypnosis improve performance? Do we sometimes confuse familiarity with mastery? Can we learn without making mistakes? These questions apply in the classroom, in the military, and on the assembly line. "Learning, Remembering, Believing" addresses these and other key issues in learning and performance. The ...
How international conflict might be managed or resolved is a major focal point of a very large and growing body of scholarly research. This five volume set provides an intellectual history to the fields of conflict management and resolution as well as some of the best contemporary research on the subject. Incorporating over 80 articles, the ...
"Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis" is the first research methods text devoted to conflict analysis and resolution. It begins with a discussion of the philosophical foundations for doing research, providing guidelines on how to develop research questions and how these questions can be addressed with various methodologies. ...
A book about how people convey information about themselves and receive information from other people through their behaviour, posture, gestures, facial expressions and tone of voice. Druckman reviews what has been learned about four nonverbal communication channels -- para-language, facial expressions, kinesics, and visual communications. In Part ...
'There's an excitement generated in these essays, as the authors seek to push toward the creation of new and alternative processes. Not content only to tie the "artificial" phenomena of the laboratory to the field, a number of the researchers are creating new phenomena in their own experiments and simulations. These social "inventions" portend ...
The team of international experts that have contributed to this fully revised volume, provide a broad range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Covering theory, research and practice, they analyse the different types of conflict and offer a thorough examination of the influences on conflict - structural, situational, strategic and ...
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