Sunday, May 3, 2020

Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex; these preliminary neurophysiological data support the connection of morality & the more primitive experience of oral distaste

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Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence. Carmelo M Vicario, Robert D Rafal, Giuseppe d...

Was Keats the Saint a misogynist? Excerpts from his 1818 letters...

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Was Keats the Saint a misogynist? Excerpts from his 1818 letters. Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Jul 2818 (he was 23 years old). . . .I am c...

Because of their irregular, nomadic qualities, erotic performers are a powerful vehicle to disseminate feminist consciousness, defying readings of objectification, commodification or passivity

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Feminist Stripper, A Call to Arms: Convention and Counter-Practice in Erotic Performance. Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust. Master Thesis, Sydney Un...

Despite partisan diļ¬€erences in concern and behavioural responses to the pandemic, political polarization is dampened down when it comes to actual daily routines in response to the pandemic

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Pickup, Mark, Dominik Stecula, and Clifton van der Linden. 2020. “Novel Coronavirus, Old Partisanship: COVID-19 Attitudes and Behaviors in t...

The scientific worldview suggested that the world was simply a giant machine, with individual humans produced and eventually destroyed by natural processes, devoid of meaning

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Meaning and Evolution: Why Nature Selected Human Minds to Use Meaning. Roy F. Baumeister and William von Hippel. Evolutionary Studies in Im...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Does Commodification Corrupt? Lessons from Paintings and Male Prostitutes

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Does Commodification Corrupt? Lessons from Paintings and Prostitutes. Stephen Clowney. Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 50, 1005. https://scholar...

Politicians change the topics they address as they are informed of polls; also, exposure to public opinion research alters politicians' substantive positions in the direction of majority opinion

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Does Public Opinion Affect Political Speech? Anselm Hager, Hanno Hilbig. American Journal of Political Science, May 1 2020. https://doi.org/...