Romantic Bliss—or, Romanticism Is Not an Optimism

What is unrealistic optimism?

Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related positive illusions. We are interested in whether cognitive states that are unrealistically optimistic are belief states, whether they are false, and whether they are epistemically irrational. We also ask to what extent unrealistically optimistic cognitive states are fixed. Based on the classic and recent empirical literature ...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

Evangelical Christianity and Romanticism

Dr. Bebbington is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. This article is the second in a series of three entitled 'Evangelical Christianity and Western Culture Since the Eighteenth Century' and was presented by the author in the Staley Lectures at Regent College in April1989. (The first lecture in the series was published in the December 1989 issue of Crux.) The lec...

پیوند عرفان و رمانتیسم در شعر سپهری

The introversion and call to tranquility can be regarded as the foremost characteristics of sepehri’s poetry. This approach is inspired from two important features of his thought: Mysticism and Romanticism. In other words, a combination of mysticism and romanticism is evident in his poetry. But Sepehri’s mysticism framework does not totally conform to well-known pattern of Iranian and Islam...

A Study of English Romanticism