We present two experiments that cast doubt on existing evidence suggesting that it is impossible to suspend belief in a comprehended proposition. In Experiment 1, we found that interrupting the encoding of a statement’s veracity decreased memory for the statement’s falsity when the false version of the statement was uninformative, but not when the false version was informative. This suggests th...

I was wrong. foolish. don't get to play by different rules. The same boundaries that apply everyone me. brought this shame on myself. hurt my wife, kids, mother, wife's family, friends, foundation, and kids all around the world who admired … Parents used point me as a role model for their kids. owe of those families special apology. want say them am truly sorry. (Woods, 2010) Like most celebrit...

Following the recent practice turn in privacy research, informational is increasingly analyzed with regard to “appropriate flow of information” within a given practice, which preserves “contextual integrity” that (Nissenbaum, 2010, p. 149; 2015). Such practice-theoretical take on emphasizes normative structure practices as well its structural injustices and power asymmetries, rather than focusi...

The final totals revealed that, in fact, Stein’s total voters exceeded [the] margin of victory. In other words, if every Stein voter had voted for Clinton instead, she could have won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin the presidency.22 . 2000 Bush/Gore election was, course, even closer: only a...

The Colombian Peace Agreement signed in 2016 was saluted internationally by scholars, policy makers and practitioners for encompassing the concept of territorial peace as a means ensuring local participation strengthening state institutions. Based on engaged research conducted Department Cauca Bogotá between 2017 2020, we critically analyse peace, exploring its ideation, implementation, subsequ...

This essay examines the political uses of photography in protests Tamil families disappeared northern Sri Lanka. Enforced disappearances have long featured as an instrument state terror. Their lingering effects been noted a significant challenge to transitional justice processes aftermath island's civil war. By examining how protesters make their demands and grievances known through photography...

Before they met in 1917, Virginia Woolf envisioned a peculiar setting for her first encounter with Katherine Mansfield, the promising young writer who had ‘dogged [her] steps three years’. Intriguingly, imagined she might glimpse not drawing-room of mutual friend or at literary soirée, but ‘on rock sea’ – there, ‘I shall accost her’.1 pictures Mansfield an attitude reminiscent Frederic Leighton...

THISARTtcLE EXAMINES DISC:OURSES IN THE academic and information science literature that attempt to justify and promote, to criticize and resist, or to explain and interpret transformational social change. These discussions represent one face of a much larger wave of popular and technical discourse that has arisen in response to pressures put on currently dominant institutions by the processes ...

This paper reviews some recent literature on emotions by economists and philosophers, especially Robert Frank and his critics. We endorse the general stance of this literature, according to which emotions evolved as devices for minimize incidence of social dilemmas. However, we reject the prevailing theory of emotions themselves, on grounds that it involves simplistic cognitive science and lead...

It is well known that the Nazis treated human beings with extreme cruelty but it less widely recognized that the Nazis also took some pains to develop and pass extensive animal protection laws. How could the Nazis have professed stich concern for animals while treating humans so badly? It would be easy to dismiss Nazi proclamations on animals as mere hypocrisy but there may be other explanation...