Innocent Threats

We blame innocent victims more than I do: self-construal level moderates responses to just-world threats.

This study investigated the impact of self-construal levels on people's tendency to blame innocent victims for the victims' fates. The authors hypothesized that when the belief in a just world is threatened, social self-construal is associated with more victim blaming than individual self-construal is. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were primed with either the individual self (with the wo...

Tumours Innocent and Malignant

Tumours, Innocent and Malignant

It is always a pleasant task to review a book written by Mr. Bland Sutton, because the originality of his work distinguishes it at once from the mere compilations of so many authors. This book on tumours is no exception to the rule. From the author of Dermoids and Ovarian Tumours we expect much when he writes on tumours in general; and as we examine this book our expectations are abundantly rea...

Innocent game semantics

Game semantics, in its “modern” form, arose in the early 90s in the wake of sequential algorithms, process calculus and the geometry of interaction. The historical context of game semantics revolved around the long-standing problem of “full abstraction for PCF”, PCF being an idealized functional language. After Plotkin’s domain model (which he showed to be not fully abstract for PCF due to the ...

Non-innocent ligands.

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