Seductive Atmospheres, Conflicting Symbols: Religious Landmark Buildings in Diverse Societies

Citizenship and Identity in Diverse Societies

This article examines the relationship between the legal status of citizenship and psychological research about blended identity in diverse societies such as Australia. A blended identity could include Australian national identity as well as other identities relevant to a person’s selfdefinition. Analysing the link between citizenship law and the psychological enjoyment of blended identity is i...

The nonconscious influence of religious symbols in motivated performance situations.

Anthropological, sociological, and psychological theories suggest that religious symbols should influence motivational processes during performance of goal-relevant tasks. In two experiments, positive and negative religious (Christian) symbols were presented outside of participants' conscious awareness. These symbols influenced cardiovascular responses consistent with challenge and threat state...

Religious Symbols and Religious Garb in the Courtroom: Personal Values and Public Judgments

Covering Landmark Interactions for Semantically Diverse Plans

Prior approaches to generating diverse plans in domainindependent planning seek out variations on plan structure such as actions or causal links used, or states entered. As a result, these approaches can achieve great plan set diversity by synthesizing unnecessarily long plans. This type of misleading diversity may be useful if, for example, the plans are used as training data for a learner; ho...

symbols of eternality:a study of circular symbols in religious and mythical texts

the conception and creation of eternal samples is one of the most evident efforts made by man from the very beginning of human life when he observed death and mortality and found all the world's manifestations prone to collapse and destruction. one of the most significant images related to the concept of externality and immortality is circular symbols. in fact, man has represented the conc...