Beware the Threatened, Power-Hungry Boss
From the Blog iabhopal (The Bosses – 2nd installment) Maner and Case led undergraduate students in one study to believe that they would be leading a group in performing a verbal task. The better the group scored, the more prizes it would win. Participants were told that one of their group members in particular was very highly skilled at the task. Participants were then assigned to one of three experimental conditions. In the first, they were told that as the leader, they would be responsible for supervising the task and dividing the prizes among the group. In the second, they were told that they would supervise the task and allot prizes, but also that the hierarchy was malleable and someone else could become leader. The third condition was an egalitarian control group where there was no leader and alpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Jinnah's Pakistan: Response to Hussain Nadim in Express Tribune
From the Blog pakteahouse By Yasser Latif Hamdani Every few months Express Tribune publishes an article with someone or the other complaining about the idea of "Jinnah's Pakistan". It is a bit of a tradition it seems. Hussain Nadim's article "Get over Jinnah's Pakistan" on 1 April 2017 was no exception. It repeated the same old myths and misnomers. I am not taking a position on whether or not Pakistan should hark back to Jinnah. That is not the issue. What I find amazing is the utter ignorance that Pakistanis like Mr. Nadim display about their founding father. His claim that both sides of the Jinnah debate – the secularists and Islamists- have equally compelling evidence is pure nonsense. That Jinnah stood for an inclusive democratic liberal Muslim majority state is pretty much unassailable. The questpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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