Interpreting human rights as the social psychological phenomenon of rights claiming.

In the last 5 years, the intersection between psychology and human rights has become more evident, with influential international, national and local human rights institutions, including the American Psychological Association, issuing reports and resolutions on the topic. Within jurisprudence, human rights are less of a legalistic regulatory enactment and more of what social psychologists refer to as injunctive norms. We argue that conceptualising human rights as the social-psychological process of both creating and aligning injunctive and descriptive norms clarifies human rights and makes them more accessible to groups and individuals in society engaged in rights claiming.

Exploring rural medical education: a study of Canadian key informants.

Introduction: Recruiting and retaining primary healthcare professionals is a global healthcare problem. Some countries have been using medical education as a strategy to aid in the recruitment and retention of these healthcare professionals. The purpose of this study is to engage with key informants and explore the learning processes that support medical students to prepare for a rural career.

Aboriginal health learning in the forest and cultivated gardens: building a nutritious and sustainable food system.

Sustainable food systems are those in which diverse foods are produced in close proximity to a market. A dynamic, adaptive knowledge base that is grounded in local culture and geography and connected to outside knowledge resources is essential for such food systems to thrive. Sustainable food systems are particularly important to remote and Aboriginal communities, where extensive transportation makes food expensive and of poorer nutritional value.

Bicultural identity conflict in second-generation Asian Canadians.

Researchers have shown that bicultural individuals, including 2nd-generation immigrants, face a potential conflict between 2 cultural identities. The present authors extended this primarily qualitative research on the bicultural experience by adopting the social identity perspective (H. Tajfel & J.

The conflicting standards dilemma and gender: a mediating model of its affective implications and coping styles.

Women face both traditional and nontraditional standards for gender-appropriate behavior, and society values neither set of standards wholly. In the present study, the author defined this paradox as the Conflicting Standards Dilemma (CSD). Female participants (N = 255) provided descriptions of the levels of femininity and masculinity expected of them by 3 specific others (mother, father, partner) and 3 generalized others (men, women, society), completed a mood questionnaire, and completed a scale assessing 4 proposed coping styles.