Acknowledgments
We have many to thank. Cheryl Eavey was our coauthor in the early stages of this project. Before she pursued other interests, she presented us with valuable criticisms and suggestions regarding experimental design, ran some initial experiments, and participated in writing papers on our early results. Wlodzimirz Okrasa, Tadeus Tyszka, and Grzegorz Lissowski replicated our initial experiments in Poland. We greatly appreciate their permission to use their data in this comparative work.
Tom Schwartz first drew our attention to impartial reasoning as the core focus of our research. He also helped us in many other ways. Sam Popkin's encouragements to write the book and his constructive readings of early drafts were essential. Bill Galston gave us moral support and highly productive critiques regarding the conclusions. Michael Cain was most helpful in providing comments, especially regarding Chapter 1. Norman Schofield forced us to consider the role of robustness as an evaluative criterion of scientific theorizing. Gary Miller and Mark Winer helped us refine our debriefing instrument. Generous support by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, by the National Science Foundation of the United States, and by our two universities made this work possible. Nuffield College of Oxford University provided a supportive atmosphere for work on the middle stages of the project, and the Associates of the Faculty of Management of the University of Manitoba supported travel for consultations in the final stages. We owe thanks to them too. A number of other
readers of this manuscript gave us substantial help with their comments. We thank, especially, Dennis Mueller, Rick Uslaner, Karol Soltan, and Ron Terchek.
Research assistants, like diamonds, come in different grades. We were blessed with the best. They helped run experiments, comment on prototypes, scout out relevant materials, and check our analyses. For this help we thank Irvin Boschman, Michael Cain, Kevin Gunn, David Cross, Pam Edwards, Dennis Klimchuk, Valerie Lehr, Karen Loewen, Marilyn Erhardt, Judy Chipperfield, Paul Parker, Craig Conners, and Pat Bond.
Louise Hebert helped in typing and preparing the initial research instruments and has served as a key link in the communication chain between us.
SYSTAT, authored by Leland Wilkinson, gave us an ideal computing tool for our analysis.
Finally, very special thanks are owed to our wives, Roberta Frohlich and Bonnie Oppenheimer. They have been unwavering in their support of this project and have offered many helpful suggestions at all its phases.
Some of the research in this book has been reported elsewhere (see Frohlich, Oppenheimer, and Eavey 1987a and 1987b, and Frohlich and Oppenheimer 1989 and 1990). The results from Poland are reported in Lissowski, Tyszka, and Okrasa (1991).