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"While overt prejudice is now much less prevalent than in decades past, subtle prejudice - prejudice that is inconspicuous, indirect, and often unconscious - continues to pervade. Laws do not protect against subtle prejudice and, because of its covert nature, it is difficult to observe and frequently goes undetected by both perpetrator and victim. Benign Bigotry uses a fresh, original format to examine subtle prejudice by addressing six commonly held cultural myths based on assumptions that appear harmless but actually foster discrimination: 'those people all look alike'; 'they must be guilty of something'; 'feminists are man-haters'; 'gays flaunt their sexuality'; 'I'm not a racist, I'm color-blind' and 'affirmative action is reverse racism'. Kristin J. Anderson skillfully relates each of these myths to real world events, emphasizes how errors in individual thinking can affect society at large, and suggests strategies for reducing prejudice in daily life"--Provided by publisher

We propose that interpersonal behaviors can activate feelings of power, and we examine this idea in the context of advice giving. Specifically, we show a) that advice giving is an interpersonal behavior that enhances individuals' sense of power and b) that those who seek power are motivated to engage in advice giving. Four studies, including two experiments (n=290, n=188), an organization-based field study (n=94), and a negotiation simulation (n=124) demonstrate that giving advice enhances the advisor's sense of power because it gives the advisor perceived influence over others' actions. Two of our studies further demonstrate that people with a high tendency to seek power are more likely to give advice than those with a low tendency. This research establishes advice giving as a subtle route to a sense of power, shows that the desire to feel powerful motivates advice giving, and highlights the dynamic interplay between power and advice.

As architects attempt to situate their practice in relation to ecology, there are questions to be asked about what kinds of ecologies they are approaching, how and why. That these questions are being taken seriously – as witnessed by the appearance of a journal with a title like
Design Ecologies (DES) – is to be commended, but we are still very much in the business of suggestive opening moves, precisely because what, broadly speaking, we can call an ecological sensibility' raises so many questions about so many aspects of architectural practice. As Felix
Robbins suggested in his contribution to the previous issue of DES, this extends even to the very idea of what engaging in an 'architectural project' involves. And like Robbins, I offer here a perspective on how what we might think of as 'architecture' could be invigorated
through its contact with ecological thinking, but – and implicitly demonstrating the huge scope of the disciplinary reappraisal we are embarking on – take a very different route. This article suggests that an 'ecological' approach to architecture might reactivate some
very old (and long-ignored) links between 'design' as craft and 'design' as implied in being crafty, and offers some thoughts about cunning as the way ecology and design meet.