Winner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award Can we predict how well -- or how poorly -- two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from his 30-year career, Ickes explains how initial interactions are shaped by gender, race, birth order, physical attractiveness, androgyny, the Big Five dimensions, shyness, and self-monitoring. Ickes's work offers unprecedented insights on the links between personality and social behavior that have not previously been compiled in a single source: how sibling relationships during childhood affect our interactions with opposite-sex strangers years later; why Latinos have a social advantage in initial interactions; how men react to the physical attractiveness of a female stranger in a relatively direct and obvious way while women react to the attractiveness of a male stranger in a more indirect and subtle way; and how personality similarity is related to satisfaction in married couples.
Based on 15 years of original research, psychologist Ickes examines "empathic accuracy"--the mind's potential to intuit what other people are thinking and feeling.
Lynn Roberts, alias Sandy, wants to quit a college coed call girl ring. The leaders of the ring send an enforcer around to Lynn's motel room to kill her. Her death is intended to be an object lessons for other coed call girls who might also want to quit. She is attacked in her room by a big, burley man who almost succeeds in beating her to death, but she is saved by Randy Bradshaw, a handsome young man who pulls the big man off of Lynn and sends him packing..
Dr. Erik Swenson, Professor of Psychology at State University, uses his professional skills in sorting out the mystery surrounding three genetically identical young men, one of whom is a psychopathic killer. The killer cleverly conceals his own identity while pointing the clues to his crimes in the direction of his two identical brothers who do not know of the existence of their psychotic sibling. The killer telephones Dr. Swenson's wife, Jennifer, and forces her to go with him to a seedy motel where he plans to trick Dr. Swenson into meeting them there. He intends to kill Dr. Swenson, then rape his wife. However, Dr. Swenson anticipates the trap and turns the tables on the psychopathic killer.
This is an awe-inspiring, faith-promoting, testimony building story about Swedish immigrants who forsake their homeland and religion to join the Mormon Church in the nineteenth century. To gain some relief from the inordinate amount of work required of pioneer woman, Christena, John's first wife, allows her husband to take a second wife, Johanna. Christena soon finds that her physical stress is replaced with emotional upheaval. Just as John's two families learn to live together in harmony, they are forced to separate by a non-Mormon "crusade" designed to stamp out polygamy. Johanna and her children are forced to live in a log cabin to keep John from being arrested because of newly formulated anti-polygamy legislation.
Dr. Erik Swenson, Professor of Psychology at a mid-western university, is called upon to use his skills in solving a theft and a murder. In the course of Erik's investigation he finds himself falling in love with Jennifer Flemming, owner and CEO of a textile plant that resides on the outskirts of Royceburg. A chemist at Jennifer's plant has discovered a secret textile formula that is worth millions of dollars. An attempted break in, ostensibly to steal the formula, brings Sergeant Angelo, a detective with the Royceburg Police Department, out to Jennifer's plant. Upon learning that Jennifer told Erik about the formula and its value, the sergeant first believes it is Erik who has made the attempt to steal the formula. Later, however, after a second attempt is made to steal the formula, and the would-be thief, a former boy friend of Jennifer, is killed, Sergeant Angelo now believes it is Jennifer who murdered the thief and stole the formula for herself. Angelo will not believe Jennifer when she tells him that the dead man was trying to rape her and was out to steal the formula. As suspicion goes from Erik to Jennifer, it strongly taxes their developing love for each other. However, all is made right when Erik Swenson solves the mystery and finds the real killer. Erik proposes marriage to Jennifer and they are wed.
Science reaches beyond the realm of imagination when a time sphere is invented in a secret research facility. The reader is made privy to the progress and the development of the time machine, called the Chronobird, through the interaction of the PR Director, Brad Iverson, and the Chief Researcher, Andy Richards. Unfortunately, a former member of the housekeeping staff, as a tourist in Germany, leaks enough information about the project to pique the interest of the neo-Nazis. The neo-Nazis send a small team to steal the secret of time travel. The team consists of a money-hungry scientist, Rudolph Oberhelman, who is the team captain, and two neo-Nazi soldiers, Lieutenant Eric Braun and Sergeant Karl Hoffman. At this point in the story, the love interest is the developing relationship between Brad Iverson and Angie Costello, one of the mathematicians. After becoming cognizant of a successful test of the time machine, the neo-Nazis start to implement their plan to steal Andy Richard's research notes. In the course of the theft Eric Braun and Brad Iverson find their destiny entwined when they both enter the time machine and are accidentally sent back in time to mid-nineteenth century America. Eric Braun seizes on this as an opportunity to fulfill an ambition to remain in America, desert the Nazi party, and to become a farmer. He strikes off on his own to find, what would be then, a very primitive and rural Omaha. Brad desperately wants to return to his own time in history. However, through a turn of events, including a snake bite, Brad finds himself on a wagon train of Mormon pioneers on their way to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. A beautiful young widow, Rachel Brown, nurses Brad back to health. It is not difficult for Brad to recognize how closely Rachel's physical appearance resembles that of Angie's. Brad falls in love with the widow and they eventually marry. Rachel has one son from her first marriage, Tommy, about twelve years old. A thread that weaves itself through the story is the life and literary works of James Freeman, an author of science fiction. Freeman ostensibly lived and worked in Salt Lake City during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Brad, a science fiction buff, is eager to meet Freeman and checks out all incoming wagon trains to greet Freeman when he arrives in Salt Lake City. He never does arrive. Perplexed, Brad makes a handwritten copy of Freeman's first novel, the text of which he remembers vividly from having read the novel dozens of times as a child. Brad sends the manuscript and a letter to Freeman's publisher in New York City. The letter inquires where Freeman lives. The manuscript arrives, but the letter is lost. A few weeks later Brad receives a check with information that the manuscript will shortly be published under his penname, James Freeman. Brad then realizes that he, Brad Iverson, is also James Freeman, and that he, Brad Iverson, has written all the books attributed to Freeman. Rachel, Brad's beloved wife, dies of pneumonia just ten years after their marriage. Brad is devastated. It is at this point when Brad's path again crosses that of Eric Braun. Eric's stay in Omaha was brief. He fell in love with a young Mormon girl who converts him to her church. They marry, join a wagon train, and immigrate to Salt Lake City.With the death of Rachel there is now no reason for Brad to remain in the nineteenth century. A fluke in the time machine brings Brad back to his own time. Eric remains in the mid-nineteenth century, as is his wish. Since Eric remains in the nineteenth century, the secret of time travel is never delivered to the neo-Nazis. Karl Hoffman, who has fallen in love, decides he wants to stay in America. He changes his identity by having phony ID's printed up, and he deserts the neo-Nazi party. Oberhelman is forced to return alone to face the wrath of the neo-Nazi commanders. Now back in his own time, Brad picks up the love interest with Angie that was interrupted
This is a collection of short stories presented in two sections. The first section represents stories that are pure fiction, with Payday being the only exception. The second section, Centerville, represents autobiographical sketches that are, for the most part, true stories but stories that are well seasoned with fiction when necessary for the sake of creating and maintaining dramatic interest. The titles of the stories, with a brief synopsis, appear as follows: THE NAHJA (fantasy) The nahja described in this story supposedly has magical properties-- or does it?THE VIAL (fantasy) A ne'er-do-well car salesman finds that a magic potion does not bring him happiness.PAYDAY (inspirational) An audiologist finds that his best pay comes from job satisfaction.THE DUMMY (inspirational) A severely hard-of-hearing man with a pronounced speech disorder, and lonely for female companionship, finds love from serving as a mimeTHE SOW'S EAR (unexpected) A bogus bearer bond is used to make several expensive purchases before being returned to its point of origin.THE BARGAIN (fantasy) A child's love convinces Danny that his bargain with the devil is a bad one.RACE WITH DEATH (adventure) Diptheria antitoxin is needed to save the life of Luke's little daughter. He has less than forty-eight hours to make a dog-sled run to get the antitoxin.CENTERVILLE (memoirs) Through a series of short stories, or sketches, the author recounts growing up in a pre-World War II Mormon community.
Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' thesis-- that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets-- has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia and provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Throughout most of American history, natural resource policies reflected the dominant philosophy of cornucopianism. As conservationism and environmentalism arose to struggle with cornucopianism for mass public acceptance, so too did the policies that flowed from those respective philosophies. The result has increasingly been a range of federal policies which reflect aspects of all three conflicting philosophies. The War for America's Natural Resources analyzes the dynamic among natural resource politics, policies and philosophies. Each chapter explores in-depth the development of policies toward America's soil, wildlife, water, energy, grasslands, minerals, forests and air.
A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (1894–1983) was a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR’s presidency through the early days of the Cold War. Although he kept a low public profile, Cohen’s influence extended across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy initiatives. In this biography, William Lasser offers the first account of Ben Cohen’s life and career, and an assessment of his contribution to the origin and development of modern American liberalism. Cohen’s life provides an extraordinary lens through which to view the development of the evolving political philosophy of the Roosevelt and Truman presidencies. A brilliant lawyer noted for his good judgment and experience, Cohen was a leading member of FDR’s “Brain Trust,” developing ideas, drafting legislation, lobbying within the administration and in Congress, and defending the New Deal in court. The book traces his contributions to domestic financial policy, his activities during the war years in London and Washington, his service as counselor to the State Department and member of the American delegation to the United Nations after the war, and his role in the American Zionist movement. From Cohen’s life and work, Lasser draws important insights into the development of the New Deal and the evolution of postwar liberalism.
With intellectual rigor and careful attention to recently released papers, Wm. Roger Louis's study asks: Why did Britain's colonial empire begin to collapse in 1945 and how did the post-war Labour government attempt to sustain a vision of the old Empire through imperialism in the Middle East?
The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman’s narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string of military setbacks in the Pacific; by the autumn of 1942, government officials were openly acknowledging the possibility that the United States might lose the war. Appeals for unity and declarations of support for the war effort in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor made it appear as though the class hostilities and partisan animosities that had beset the United States for decades — and grown sharper during the Depression — suddenly disappeared. They did not, and a deeply divided American society splintered further during 1942 as numerous interest groups sought to turn the wartime emergency to their own advantage. Blunders and repeated displays of incompetence by the Roosevelt administration added to the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that hung over the nation. The Darkest Year focuses on Americans’ state of mind not only through what they said, but in the day-to-day details of their behavior. Klingaman blends these psychological effects with the changes the war wrought in American society and culture, including shifts in family roles, race relations, economic pursuits, popular entertainment, education, and the arts.
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed 10 justices to the U.S. Supreme Court - more than any president except Washington - and during his presidency from 1933 to 1945, the Court gained more visibility, underwent greater change, and made more landmark decisions than it had in its previous 150 years of existence. This collection examines FDR's influence on the Supreme Court and the Court's growing influence on American life.
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