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    Assessing the CSR and Community Development Programmes of Lafarge Africa Plc in Cross River State
    with Eric Ugor Ogri
    GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 2 (2). 2019.
    There is a growing consciousness among the global business community that corporations or business organisations can no longer act independently of the individuals or key stakeholders in their business operations, especially members of the host communities. Part of the realisation stems from the fact that creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationship with host communities is highly dependent on the extent to which firms contribute to the sustainable development of the community and i…Read more
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    Cultural Statistics, the Media and the Planning and Development of Calabar
    GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 2 (2). 2019.
    This paper, “Cultural Statistics, the Media and the Planning and Development of Calabar, Nigeria” stresses the need for the use of Cultural Statistics and effective media communication in the planning and development of Calabar, the Cross River State Capital. This position is anchored on the fact that in virtually every sphere of life, there can be no development without planning, and there can be no proper planning without accurate data or information. Cultural Statistics, and effective use of …Read more
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    Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time
    with Andrea Putica, Nicholas T. Van Dam, Kim Felmingham, Alexander McFarlane, and Meaghan O’Donnell
    Cognition and Emotion 38 (2): 232-244. 2024.
    Alexithymia, psychological distress, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly related constructs. The ongoing debate about the nature and relationship between these constructs is perpetuated by an overreliance on cross-sectional research. We examined the longitudinal interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress, and PTSD. We hypothesised that there is an interactive relationship between the three constructs. Military personnel (N = 1871) completed the Toronto A…Read more
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    A long time coming: delays in collective apologies and their effects on sincerity and forgiveness
    with Michael Wenzel, Tyler G. Okimoto, and Matthew J. Hornsey
    Political Psychology 39 (3): 649-666. 2017.
    Political apologies by one group to another often occur a significant period of time after the original transgression. What effect does such a delay have on perceptions of sincerity and forgiveness? A delayed apology could reflect the offender group's reluctance to apologize, or, alternatively, it could represent time and consideration spent on developing an appropriate response. In the latter case, the delayed apology would represent a sincere acknowledgment of the harm done, whereas in the for…Read more
  • Celebrating a Conservation Classic
    Wildlife in North Carolina 63 (9): 14-19
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    On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library
    Journal of Documentation. forthcoming.
    Purpose: Contemporary adult readers' advisory aims to adhere to (what I term) a pure preference satisfaction model in which librarians provide nonjudgmental book recommendations that satisfy their patrons' aesthetic tastes rather than improve upon them. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether readers' advisors really ought to treat all such tastes as essentially benign, even when doing so may conflict with core commitments to diversity and social responsibility. Design/methodology/appr…Read more
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    Librarians often object to Internet filters on the grounds that filters are prone to overblocking and underblocking. This argument implies that a significant problem with contemporary filters is that they are insufficiently fine-grained. In this article, we posit that present-day filters will always be conceptually capable of failure, regardless of how granular their content analysis becomes. This is because, we argue, objections to content are best understood as objections to problematic intera…Read more