Th. doct.--Théologie--Rome--Université pontificale grégorienne, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 335-361. Index.

Texte remanié de: Doct. diss.--Utrecht, 1993. / Bibliogr. p. 356-376. Index.

Texte remanié de: Ph. D. diss.--Aberdeen. / Bibliogr. p. 153-169. Index.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 300-329.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-241).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-111).

Thesis (M.S.)--Middle East Technical University, 2003. / Keywords: Justification, Kinds of Justification, Truth, Truth Connection, Reality, Kinds of Reality, Knowledge, Conditions of Knowledge.

The present research demonstrates a novel institutional-level contributor--that is, gendered wording used in job recruitment materials--that serves to perpetuate the status quo, keeping women underrepresented in traditionally male-dominated occupations. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literature on barriers to women’s inclusion in traditionally male-dominated fields. Chapter 2 demonstrates the existence of subtle but systematic wording differences within a randomly sampled set of job advertisements. Results indicated that job advertisements for male-dominated areas employed greater "masculine" (e.g., challenge, analyze, lead) than “feminine” wording (e.g., support, understand, interpersonal; Studies 1 and 2). In Chapter 3, I tested the consequences of these wording differences across four experimental studies. When job ads were constructed to include more masculine than feminine wording, people perceived fewer women within these occupations (Study 3) and, importantly, women found these jobs less appealing (Studies 4-6). Men showed the opposite pattern, preferring jobs with masculinely-worded ads to the femininely-worded jobs (Study 4-5). Results confirmed that perceptions of belongingness (but not perceived skills) mediated the effect of gendered wording on job appeal (Studies 4 and 6). The system-justifying function of gendered wording and implications for gender parity and theoretical models of inequality are discussed in Chapter 4.

Managers’ increased interest in exploiting consumers’ labor in cook-your-own-food restaurants and harvest-your-own-vegetable fields is theoretically rooted in a stream of research called effort justification. For many years, research centered on effort justification has focused on the relationship between the effort one puts into a task and the resultant valuation of the task’s outcome arguing that effort increases the favorable valuation (e.g. Aronson and Mills 1959; Alessandri, Darcheville, and Zentall 2008; Lydall, Gilmour, and Dwyer 2010; and Norton, Mochon, Ariely 2012). However, little research has focused on the inverse phenomenon where the effort does not result in a heightened favorable valuation of the outcome. Extending the previous findings, it is asserted that effort does not always increase the favorable valuation of the outcome and it happens only when the effort is not a threatening factor to one’s resources. Results from three studies, one pretest and two main studies, show that threatening labor, the one that is coupled with expectation disconfirmation, reduces the favorable variation of the outcome, while non-threatening labor increases the favorable valuation.

This dissertation demonstrates that Richard Hooker’s doctrine of justification, as reflected in his <i>A learned Discourse of Justification, Workes, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown, </i> continues the Protestant tradition of Lutheran and Reformed theology, in spite of various claims which associate Hooker with Catholicism and <i>via media </i>Anglicanism.  Though it stays in the line established by W. J. Torrance Kirby and Nigel Atkinson, who limited their arguments in favour of Hooker’s Reformed theology to Martin Luther and John Calvin, this thesis makes reference also to Philip Melanchthon, Ulrich Zwingli, Martin Bucer and Theodore Beza.  As a result of the fact that the vast majority of studies in Richard Hooker’s theology have concentrated on his later theology of the <i>Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, </i>this dissertation is limited to his early theology and more specifically, to his <i>A Learned Discourse of Justification.  </i> The first chapter is an updated study in Richard Hooker scholarship, with comments on the most important works in the field.  The next three chapters present fundamental aspects of the doctrine of justification in Lutheran, Early Reformed, and Classical Reformed theology with special reference to the ideas which were taken over by Richard Hooker himself.  A chapter on the doctrine of justification in the time of Richard Hooker follows and introduces the debates which shaped his soteriology.  The last four chapters provide a detailed analysis and some concluding remarks on Richard Hooker’s understanding of justification and especially on his concept of righteousness as the essence of justification.  The righteousness of justification as objective faith centres on Hooker’s concern with the salvation of Catholics, which provides the starting point of his minute analysis of justification.  The practical implications of this doctrine are revealed in Hooker’s treatment of the righteousness of sanctification as subjective faith, which discloses his fundamental belief in the importance of Scripture for the salvation of humanity.