“There is nothing as practical as a good theory” was Kurt Lewin’s (1943) way of asserting the value of theory in guiding research that addresses broad social problems. But psychological theory also ...

Cognitive Appraisal Theory, developed by psychologists Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman, posits that our emotional responses ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent developments in sample survey theory include the following topics: foundational aspects of inference, resampling methods for variance ...

Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 6 (Aug., 2007), pp. 729-751 (23 pages) Through the application of cognitive appraisal theory, this study unifies the emergent themes of studying ...

Mortgage loans are only as sound as the practices used to underwrite and originate them. Transparent and objective measures of mortgage and home-price risk needed to evaluate and manage housing risk.