This paper proposes an analytical framework for the study of post-conflict anxieties. The literature has so far been elaborate, both in terms analysis structural frame underpinning a society (political, socioeconomic, spatial, and historical factors) experiential that determines ethnic distance such (broader setting underpins interpersonal intergroup relations). However, frames have studied wit...

Personality and anxiety disorders across species are affected by genetic and environmental factors. Shyness-boldness personality continuum exists across species, including the domestic dog, with a large within- and across-breed variation. Domestic dogs are also diagnosed for several anxiety-related behavioral conditions, such as generalized anxiety disorders, phobias, and separation anxiety. Ge...

Even the least critical consumers of media images must admit that there is something different to how Abercrombie & Fitch does business. While many companies over the last century have used sex and innuendo to enhance the desirability of their products and increase sales, Abercrombie & Fitch at times appears to be selling the sexualization of youth itself, with its clothing lines as the simple ...

This paper presented psychoanalytic evaluations of the psychic processes chronic eczema patients. Issues related to skin-ego construction, body-related anxieties, and barrier-penetration variables were evaluated by testing three hypotheses. Semi-structured interviews Rorschach Thematic Apperception Tests applied. The skin is a meaningful interface between body psyche. In various diseases, menta...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated interventions to decrease a woman's anxiety after she receives an abnormal mammogram (i.e., one with a recommendation for follow-up). We performed a controlled trial to compare the effects of both an immediate reading of mammograms (i.e., a radiology intervention) and of an educational intervention that taught skills to cope with anxiety on the psychologica...

1. Perceptions of risk from buying live chickens were moderate, but sickness anxieties did not predict buying or touching habits. 2. Buying was strongly predicted by the erroneous belief that cooking is the best means of protection from avian influenza. Health education groups seeking to increase preventive practices to control possible avian influenza outbreaks need to learn from this.