We examined the effects of incidental anger on perceived and actual polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the context of two national tragedies, Hurricane Katrina (Study 1) and the mass shooting that targeted Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona (Study 2). We hypothesized that because of its relevance to intergroup conflict, incidental anger exacerbates the political polariz...

rawzah al- shuhada, by mulla husayn wa‘iz-i- kashifi (d. 910 a.h), is one of the most influential books on karbala tragedy in recent centuries. nevertheless, it has been criticized by the shi‘a scholars for spreading spurious narratives among later works and public beliefes as well. the present article, discussing uncreditable narratives and falsifications in the work of kashifi, intendes to in...

This paper describes the development, composition, and several uses of the Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks, large collections of Classical texts in which the syntactic, morphological and lexical information for each word is made explicit. To date, over 200 individuals from around the world have collaborated to annotate over 350,000 words, including the entirety of Homer’s Iliad and...