James J F Forest
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J F Forest |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J F |
| FAMILY NAME | Forest |
| SIGNATURE | FOREST J J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1765-1817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Conversation with Professor Max Taylor
A Conversation with Professor Martha Crenshaw
TPV:Welcome. Good morning. And thank you for joining me today, Martha Crenshaw, Professor Emerita at Stanford University.1 It’s a real pleasure to see you again. I’d like to talk with you for maybe
Courts at War: Executive Power, Judicial Intervention, and Enemy Combatant Policies since 9/11
Crime-Terror Interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Interactions between criminal and terrorist networks in sub-Saharan Africa (and elsewhere) are frequently based on a complex mix of intentions, capabilities, opportunities and precipitant conditions found in their operating environment. Understanding these interactions, and responding accordingly, thus requires a complex, multi-dimensional analysis that draws from several academic disciplines. This article begins by reviewing several contemporary…
Essentials of Counterterrorism
A comprehensive overview of counterterrorism that examines key aspects of the fight against terrorism, including intelligence, law enforcement, the military, financial and criminal activity, ethics, and social media. Recent terrorist actions in the United States and abroad make it clear that the subject of counterterrorism is as vital and as timely as ever. Edited by a leading authority on terrorism and security studies, this compendium offers a …
Why do ethnopolitical organisations turn to crime
This paper empirically analyses the involvement of ethnopolitical organisations in criminal behaviour across time in two regions of the world – the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the data from the Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior data set, it contributes important insights to a literature on organisational crime that is dominated by case studies and small-N analysis, as well as reinvigorating the study of ethnopolitical orga…
Framework for Analyzing the Future Threat of WMD Terrorism
This article examines theories of practical and strategic constraints that collectively explain why so few terrorist groups in history have crossed (or attempted to cross) the WMD threshold. From this analysis, it becomes clear that a terrorist group's deliberations about WMD can be influenced (positively or negatively) by a variety of factors. Our projections of the future WMD terrorism threat must therefore account for changes in the kinds of p…
Global trends in kidnapping by terrorist groups
This study examines 40 years of kidnapping incidents by terrorist groups and finds several interesting trends, including terrorist groups are engaged in more kidnapping than in years past, but the proportion of kidnapping among all terrorist events annually has remained fairly constant; the geographic concentration of kidnapping incidents has shifted from Latin America (1970s–1990s) to South Asia (2000s–present); left-wing Marxist revolutionary g…
Political Violence and the Illicit Economies of West Africa
This comparative analysis draws on field research in several West African countries to illustrate the dynamic relationships between political violence and organized crime in this sub-region. These relationships are often transactional, and almost always on a temporary basis. While some alliances of convenience may be forged, in other cases an adversarial relationship exists between organized crime and terrorist networks. In some cases, key actors…
Criminals and Terrorists: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in a War of Ideas
This important work, edited by an expert on terrorism, focuses on the 21st-century struggle for strategic influence and ways in which states can neutralize the role of new media in spreading terrorist propaganda. In an era where anyone can have access to the Internet or other media forms that make widespread communication easy, terrorists and insurgents can spread their messages with complete freedom, creating challenges for national security. In…
Africom: Troubled Infancy, Promising Future
Officially activated on 1 October 2008, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) is first and foremost an internal consolidation and reorganization of Defense Department personnel. Its primary mission is to help Africans address their security challenges. AFRICOMdiffers from other Defense Department organizations by focusing primarily on activities that contribute not to warfighting, but war prevention. Even so, it has struggled with controversy since its inc…
International Handbook of Higher Education
Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives,, Lessons from the Fight against Terrorism
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Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives,, Combating the Sources and Facilitators
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Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century [Three Volumes]: International Perspectives
Oil and Terrorism in the New Gulf: Framing U.S. Energy and Security Policies for the Gulf of Guinea
Oil and Terrorism in the New Gulf examines the national security implications of U.S. energy security policies in the Middle East, and the emerging U.S. involvement in oil exploration and extraction in West Africa. Similar political, social, and economic challenges_poverty, corruption, lack of infrastructure, and weak governments_are seen in the oil-producing states of both the Middle East and Africa. Drawing comparisons between these two regions…
International handbook of higher education
The Democratic Disadvantage in the Strategic Communications Battlespace
This article explores the struggle for influence taking place online between liberal democracies and extremists. It begins by describing the various online forms of strategic communication used by terrorist organizations to achieve their objectives. Particular attention is focused on how members of the global salafi jihadist network use the Internet to provide motivational/ideological and operational information to potential recruits and supporte…
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Contributions of Research Universities
The Making of a Terrorist: [3 Volumes]
Global terrorism has become a frightening reality. From New York City and Washington, D.C., to Bali, Moscow, and Madrid, ordinary citizens throughout the civilized world live with increasing fear of a deadly attack from unknown individuals, for reasons many of us cannot fathom. National and international security forces are on constant alert, desperate to prevent the next catastrophe, and yet many observers agree that our military and intelligenc…
Concordance among Readers of Self-Help Books about Important Ideas
Amount of agreement among readers about the relevant information in a self-help psychology book was measured to assess whether readers' choices are unique or overlapping. 15 men and 14 women attended two 1-hr. sessions in which they read and marked relevant information in the first 60 pages of a self-help psychology book. Comparison of the amount and pattern of marking across pages and lines on five specific pages showed that there was a statisti…
Agreement Among Readers on WHT Is Relevant in Self-Help Psychology Books
Agreement among Readers on What is Relevant in Self-Help Psychology Books
It was hypothesized that text marking in self-help psychology books would indicate that readers agree on which pages and lines contain relevant information. Previously owned copies of two self-help book titles (n=48, n=38), all with marked text, were collected from second-hand book stores and scored for line and page marking. Chi-squares for goodness-of-fit yielded significant differences between observed and chance agreement in marking behavior.…
Globalisation, Universities and Professors
Globalisation has an increasingly profound impact on a broad range of human activities in political, economic and cultural areas. From the perspective of higher education, globalisation raises a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in preparing students--our future leaders of commerce and politics--to adequately address the demands of an ever-increasing global interdependence. Colleges and universities worldwide are responding to this …
Global trends in kidnapping by terrorist groups
This study examines 40 years of kidnapping incidents by terrorist groups and finds several interesting trends, including terrorist groups are engaged in more kidnapping than in years past, but the proportion of kidnapping among all terrorist events annually has remained fairly constant; the geographic concentration of kidnapping incidents has shifted from Latin America (1970s–1990s) to South Asia (2000s–present); left-wing Marxist revolutionary g…
Political Violence and the Illicit Economies of West Africa
This comparative analysis draws on field research in several West African countries to illustrate the dynamic relationships between political violence and organized crime in this sub-region. These relationships are often transactional, and almost always on a temporary basis. While some alliances of convenience may be forged, in other cases an adversarial relationship exists between organized crime and terrorist networks. In some cases, key actors…
Framework for Analyzing the Future Threat of WMD Terrorism
This article examines theories of practical and strategic constraints that collectively explain why so few terrorist groups in history have crossed (or attempted to cross) the WMD threshold. From this analysis, it becomes clear that a terrorist group's deliberations about WMD can be influenced (positively or negatively) by a variety of factors. Our projections of the future WMD terrorism threat must therefore account for changes in the kinds of p…
Crime-Terror Interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Interactions between criminal and terrorist networks in sub-Saharan Africa (and elsewhere) are frequently based on a complex mix of intentions, capabilities, opportunities and precipitant conditions found in their operating environment. Understanding these interactions, and responding accordingly, thus requires a complex, multi-dimensional analysis that draws from several academic disciplines. This article begins by reviewing several contemporary…
Why do ethnopolitical organisations turn to crime
This paper empirically analyses the involvement of ethnopolitical organisations in criminal behaviour across time in two regions of the world – the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the data from the Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior data set, it contributes important insights to a literature on organisational crime that is dominated by case studies and small-N analysis, as well as reinvigorating the study of ethnopolitical orga…
Criminals and Terrorists: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Note on Interference in Short- and Long-Term Memory
Causal relations and the surrogate mother
Causal relations and the surrogate mother
Effects of Response Modes on Concept Identification
40 subjects solved three concept-identification problems under one of four treatment conditions. Purpose of the experiment was to determine how the response format used by subjects affected their performance. Subjects used one of four possible response modes: verbalize a single hypothesis when they thought they had the correct answer, verbalize a new hypothesis each time they decided to switch answers, classify each stimulus as positive or negati…
Norms for the Personal Orientation Inventory Profile Sheet
Three review articles on the Personal Orientation Inventory suggest that the Profile Sheet for this test is based on the scores of entering college freshmen. Shostrom stated however that the Profile Sheet was based on the performance of a normal adult sample. An examination of the manual indicates that the reviewers are wrong; however, the group which appears to have served initially as the basis for the construction of the Profile Sheet is itsel…
Pseudo-Self-Actualization
Although the concept of pseudo-self-actualization is potentially quite important, it has not developed, theoretically or empirically, beyond the level initially presented by Shostrom. Consequently, it is difficult to define exact standards for judging pseudo-self-actualizing, to determine its frequency, or even to test Shostrom's explanation for such behavior. If the concept were to be validated, however, it would appear to call into question som…
Personality Variables and Interest in Self-Help Books
122 subjects served in a study which examined whether neuroticism, introversion, and sex predicted interest in reading psychological self-help paperbacks. Subjects completed (a) a pretest questionnaire asking about types of self-help books, (b) the Eysenck Personality Inventory, (c) a chapter from a bestselling self-help book, and (d) an 11-item questionnaire about their interests in self-help books, therapy, and psychological problems. A princip…
Effects on Self-Actualization of Paperbacks about Psychological Self-Help
Self-help psychology books contain claims that they can help individuals solve personal and social problems. However, there is little research on the efficacy of these books although theory and data from traditional, and behavioristic, bibliotherapy suggests that they might be valuable. This study examined the effects of self-help paperbacks on self-actualization scores in a 2 X 3 design that varied presence or absence of a pretest on the Persona…
Self-help books
Self-help books
Exploring More on the Effects of Psychological Self-Help Paperbacks
Three studies examined the influence of paperbacks about psychological self-help on responses to personality questionnaires. Each study consisted of a 2 × 3 design that varied presence or absence of a pretest on a personality questionnaire and an intervening treatment condition which involved reading either one of two self-help books or reading no book. The dependent measures were posttest scale scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, th…
Memory for Information in Self-Help Psychology Books
Research on psychological self-help books has not demonstrated conclusively that improvements in mental health occur after people read the books. This study examined a more sensitive measure of change: how much information is retained when people read a self-help book. 107 men completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire in Session 1, read a self-help book during a 2-wk. interval, and completed an immediate or delayed 50-item true-false memory…
Perspectives on Human Behavior in Self-Help Paperbacks and Introductory Psychology Textbooks
The philosophical differences between psychological self-help paperbacks and introductory psychology textbooks were investigated. 360 introductory students read randomly selected sections from one of 20 self-help paperbacks or scientific psychology textbooks and rated the authors' writings on 8 dimensions. Self-help paperbacks were rated as emphasizing (a) people as masters of their own fate, (b) people as good, (c) holistic approaches to psychol…
Perspectives on Human Behavior in Self-Help Paperbacks and Introductory Psychology Textbooks
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Effects of Attitudes and Interests on Personality Change Induced by Psychological Self-Help Books
The failure of self-help psychology books to influence measures of personality in previous research may have been due to subjects having low interest in the book they read or having negative attitudes towards self-help books. In Study 1, 151 women served in a 2 × 3 Solomon pre-post design that varied the presence or absence of a pretest on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire in Session 1 and the interest value (high or low interest book, or no …
Relationship of Role-Playing Games to Self-Reported Criminal Behaviour
Fantasy role-playing games have been portrayed by the media and various social organizations as being linked to, and causing, socially maladaptive behaviour including criminality. Based on this social perception it was hypothesized that role-playing experience should be positively correlated with self-reported criminality. 20 experienced role-playing gamers and 25 nonplayers completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, a demographic questionn…
Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Prejudice
Prior research has not yielded a clear relationship between religious orientation and prejudice in spite of theoretical predictions. It was hypothesized that authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism would be positively associated with ethnic and racial prejudice, hostility towards homosexuals, and punitiveness in prison sentencing. Questionnaires measuring these variables and 12 demographic variables were mailed to 285 Manitoba voters, of wh…
Effects of Type of Instruction on Solution of Psychological Self-Help Problems
Information in self-help books is typically presented in one of three formats: didactic information, examples, or practice problems. The present study examined the effects of information format on the solution of personal problems. Four test problems were given to 200 subjects recruited from introductory psychology classes. Each of ten groups received a different type of information immediately prior to solving each test problem. Three of the gro…
Rated Relevance of Words in Self-Help Psychology Books
Men and women rated high frequency words from four self-help psychology books for the relevance of the words to self-help behavior. As predicted, the ratings for relevance of words from the two bestselling books were higher than the ratings for the words from the two nonbestselling books
Effects of Fictional, Autobiographical and Self-Help Literature on Personality Measures
This study evaluated three types of books under different reading conditions and using two measures of personality. Data from 163 women were analyzed in a 3 × 2 × 2 multivariate design, with control groups, which varied type of book (fiction, autobiography, self-help), reading condition (supervised and unsupervised), and order of testing (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Personal Orientation Inventory). None of the groups who received books …
Amount of Information on Case Illustrations in Self-Help Psychology Books
Amount of Information on Case Illustrations in Self-Help Psychology Books
40 books on self-help psychology were examined in a 2 × 2 multivariate analysis of covariance design for the number of case illustrations, number of lines of text about case illustrations, and average number of lines per case illustration. The covariate was pages per book and the independent variables were status of the book (bestseller or nonbestseller) and decade of publication (1970–1979 or 1980–1989). It was hypothesized that bestsellers woul…
A Replication of Rated Relevance of Self-Help Words from Psychology Books
44 men and 47 women rated 128 high frequency words from self-help psychology books similarly for relevance to self-help behaviour. Words that appeared in more self-help books were rated higher in relevance, and words from best-selling books generally were rated higher
A Replication of Rated Relevance of Self-Help Words From Psychology Books
Can Politicians “Fix” Education
A discussion of the key differences between the Republican and the Democrat parties’ views on education at the time of Bush and Gore’s battle for the presidency. The paper bemoans the insidious effects politics can have on the focus and meaning of education in the US
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