... improve patient care without wasting money and creating an environment in which gaming to attain higher payment might occur. The chapter reviews economic evidence on pay for performance and summarizes relevant research findings from the fields of social psychology and sociology. It also looks...

... to that person’s distress. Scholars from various disciplines, including sociology, biology, neuroscience, social psychology, and life-span psychology, argue that primitive emotional contagion—a basic building block of human interaction that allows people to understand and to share the feelings of others—can shed...

...Empathic accuracy has the potential to link the major areas of psychology that focus on the study of empathy—clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and physiological psychology. Clinical psychology researchers have investigated how empathic accuracy...

... for punishment Space Race Free will Social explanations and the free will problem Compatibilism Incompatibilism Morse Stephen Belief convergence Quantum mechanics Determination Necessitation Compatibilists Free will Moral responsibility Social psychology Social groups Philosophy Academics...

...Consideration of scientific method as a cultural innovation requires examining the philosophy and sociology of science, anthropology, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology as well as the histories of science and technology. Anarchistic philosophical proposals about science set the stage...

.... This chapter then reviews classical social psychological studies that illustrate the power of the social context in shaping social cognition and resulting behaviour. It describes different types of social contexts, and explores the role of consistency motives in guiding human behaviour. Finally, it makes...