The German populist radical right party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) was founded amid various economic and political crises. This article argues that the electoral success of this challenger, however, is rooted in more than upsurge resentments born out these Integrating theories about activation attitudes with arguments effects exposure to local contexts, I contend AfD reflects mobilization ...

Following the removal of various monuments commemorating colonial figures, this paper introduces Empty Plinth as epitomizing postcolonial Europe’s identity crisis. As Europe negotiates new discursive foundations for an increasingly multicultural society, argues a re-membering through materialization Black narratives in European memoryscape their potential to: 1) tackle white ignorance and exclu...

John Higham the historiographer would have approved of the forum in this issue on Higham the historian of ethnicity and nativism. As Alan Kraut recounts, Higham persistently applied his own critical and historiographic skills to himself. While he would have disagreed with this or that point in the four essays and the forum comment, he would have been pleased by the forum’s dual agenda. The essa...

In their discussion of young children's deontic reasoning performance, Astington and Dack (2013) made the following claims: (1) Children need more cues to elicit cogent social norm reasoning than adults require, namely, explicit reference to authority; (2) Deontic reasoning improves with age, and this is evidence against a nativist view; (3) All evolutionary explanations of deontic reasoning ad...

How do children acquire humankind's remarkable cognitive skills? Why are the abilities children acquire readily, such as native-language fluency, harder for adults? Although attitudes to these questions span the continuum from nativism to learning theory, answers remain elusive. We relate a recent model of language acquisition in childhood to advances in the neuroscience of adult cognitive cont...

About the author: Anna Sher is assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Denver and director of research, herbaria, and records at the Denver Botanic Gardens. 47 We’ve all heard how bad invasive plants are, how they crowd out wildflowers, waste our precious water, and poison our livestock. Scientists in Colorado and Montana made news in science not long ago for presenting ...