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In 2006 immigrants and their supporters participated in a series of marches in cities throughout the United States. The enormous size and scale of the demonstrations were surprising to some observers, who saw the marches as a spontaneous outburst of frustra-tion. This article argues the unprecedented turnout at the demonstrations should be seen not as a spontaneous outburst but in large part the result of long-standing cooperative efforts and networks of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations. Immigrant-serving organizations were at the forefront of organizing public education campaigns, advocacy activities, and community mobilization efforts leading up to the demonstra-tions. Using Chicago and New York City as case studies, the article analyzes data from a survey of 498 nonprofit organizations conducted in 2005, just prior to the demonstra-tions. The authors show how a history of collaborations, organizational network ties, and the existing relations between organizations in key coalitions became the foundation for the mobilizations.

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How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of addictive behaviors using the key transtheoretical constructs of stages

or in the presence of food when hungry or drink when thirsty. These are fundamental phenomena that haveemotion. But what does this really mean? If we don’t have an agreed-upon definition of emotion that allows us to say what always interested animal behavior scientists, and would be of interest even if the terms

under the strategy. However, this is compatible with making decisions concerning (2) that in no way draw upon values. While, in my opinion, this account applies to all the sciences, it has special salience in the behavioral and cognitive sciences. The behavioral scientist, qua scientist, makes value

This article consists of some personal reflections on aspects of János Aczél’s role in the development of mathematical behavioral and social sciences; it is not a new contribution to the literature on functional equations, but rather a recounting of some history.

of the in-creasing interest of behavioral scientists in summarizing bodies of research literature sys-Preparation of this article was supported in part by the National Science Foundation. I would like to thank Judith A. Hall and Donald B. Rubin for their valuable improvements of an earlier version

Barack Obama’s election night address was rhetorically effective. He strategically departed from the norms of the victory speak genre insofar as he moved it outside the usual hotel ballroom and thereby significantly enlarged (and broadened) the audience. He did not, however, take it to just any place; he took it to Chicago’s Grant Park, a place with negative political associations because of the events that occurred there in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Obama thereby redeemed the place and restored the idealism and hope that had been dashed there 40 years before. Obama also echoed Lincoln; Kennedy; Clinton; and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, creating a polyphony that evoked both struggles and a hope that all could be overcome.