The hypothesis that exposure to televised violence serves to increase children's toleration of real-life aggression was investigated. Fifth-grade boys and girls were exposed to either a violent television excerpt or a nonviolent, exciting control program. Immediately thereafter, each child was lead to believe that he had been given responsibility for monitoring the behavior of two younger child...

While both Mendelssohn and Rousseau were deeply spiritual thinkers whose writings continually reflect a profound belief in benevolent God, they still used religious skepticism order to undermine the logic of intolerance. In doing so, these critical assumption share with far less religiously inclined David Hume, namely, that is tool for promotion tolerance. This paper analyses skeptical tolerant...

-An artificial network is described that can learn, recognize, and generate higher-order temporalspatial sequences. It consists of three parts: (1) comparator units, (2) a parallel array of artificial neural networks that are derived from the visual-vestibular networks of the snail Hermissenda. as well as hippocampal neuroanatomy, and (3) delayed feedback lines from the output of the system to ...

This paper examines the morality of schemes of payment to live donors/sellers of organs for transplantation. Following empirical and historical evidence, it is argued that consent to sell organs is substantially different from consent to ordinary business transactions and that legalization of exchanges of organs with financial benefits deviates significantly from the scope of liberal toleration...

This study compares workplace dispute resolution strategies (exit, voice, and toleration) in matched pairs of conventional and worker-owned cooperative organizations operating in three industries – coal mining, taxicab driving, and organic food distribution. Building on Hirschman’s classic exit, voice, and loyalty thesis, this research demonstrates how the degree of loyalty that workers hold af...