Unfamiliar Familiars: On Non-human Alienation

A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation

Nutritional state influences shoaling preference for familiars.

Preferences for grouping with familiar individuals are shown in many animal species, including the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Shoaling with familiars is advantageous because of more precise anti-predator behaviours or more stable dominance hierarchies. Additionally, associations with familiar individuals facilitate the evolution of altruistic behaviour. Thus, in situatio...

Assessing “non-alienation” in John Christman’s conception of personal autonomy

Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Given the inherent problems with even the ‘reformulated’ concept of PA, and also the fact that (1) courts and evaluators are unlikely to abandon the concept anytime soon, and (2) alienating behavior is indeed a factual reality, most often inflicted by abusive fathers, this paper offers [a] brief 7 outline of an approach ...

The pronunciation of unfamiliar native and non-native town names

transliteration of Greek [x] as rather than . For aural presentation, taped prompts were then made of the names. This was carried out by a single speaker, to reduce variation in pronunciation due to speaker characteristics rather than the characteristics of the names. Additionally, using different speakers would have made the language of origin of each name too obvious. As the subjects...