While the study of nationalism has received much attention throughout the social sciences and humanities, the experimental investigation of it lags behind. In this paper we review recent advances in the examination of implicit nationalism. In the first set of experiments we survey, the Palestinian, Israeli, Italian, and Russian flags were primed (or not, in the control conditions) and their eff...

I will divide my paper into four parts. First I’ll talk about the fundamental relationship between psychoanalysis and social science and its fate from 1920 to 1960. After that I will deal with new developments and approaches that are more or less influenced or based upon former theoretical efforts. Then I will remark on the current relationship between psychoanalysis and social sciences. Finall...

Social information networks, such as Twitter and Facebook provide powerful tools for individuals to share thoughts, opinions, and emotions as well as to create and maintain social ties. Considerable research in the recent past has focused on the understanding of large-scale social processes enabled by the availability of data derived from content and activity on social networks, spanning multip...

Folklore and literature are linked concepts, but so far no one theory has satisfactorily explained the nature of their relationship. Attempts have been made to establish the connection between them in terms of history, evolution, communication, and social systems. According to the historical approach, folklore consists of elementary forms which increase in formal and semantic complexity until t...

1. Your left brain has a bigger ego than your right brain 2. Obsessive driving fanatics are prone to drive aggressively 3. Repression debunked 4. Social flow – how doing it together beats doing it alone 5. Intrusive images and intrusive verbal thoughts are different phenomena 6. How framing affects our thought processes

Human social life has changed dramatically in the past 100 years, as first advances in transport and later the Internet allowed us to interact with a much greater and more diverse group of people. As a result, even the term “social networks” has a profound new meaning in the 21st century. The human species is now more connected than ever, and we live in a world in which, for better or worse, we...