Effectance motivation -- a will for certainty and a feeling of being able to know and predict -- was proposed in the 1960s as the mechanism underlying the well-known attitude similarity effects on att...
by Ramadhar Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper investigates the effect of the differential pecuniary costs of sons and daughters on fertility decisions. The focus is on dowries in India, which increase the economic returns to sons and d...
by Marco Alfano | On 11 Feb 2016 Contrary to fairness expected in modern world, people seem to treat in-group members (us)
better than out-group members (them). Do people then defend the in-group members as
politicians but prosecut...
by | On 27 Jul 2015 In the two-dimensional model of interpersonal attraction, cognitively evaluated respect for capacity of
and trust in willingness to facilitate goals/needs of each other have been postulated to be nec...
by Ramadhar Singh | On 25 Jun 2015 Recognizing the critical role of agricultural sector in the overall growth as well as development performance, this study estimates total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian agriculture at state-level...
by Shilpa Chaudhary | On 13 Sep 2012 |