In the 1980s and 1990s a series of studies investigated musicians’ personalities using Cattell’s 16 personality factors, Eysenck’s PEN super factors, and Costa and McCrae’s Big Five. The findings hinted at some traits most musicians seemed to share, and highlighted differences between the personality traits of brass and string players. However, results were inconclusive and sometimes contradict...

The running theme, for this year is " Staying Connected " ! My vision is for BLSA, alumni, and the community to stay engaged with one another in all activities and events whether it is a speaking engagement such as Retired Justice Reuben Anderson on campus; a community service event such as our reading and literacy program with Lafayette Elementary; or even a social event such as enjoying the G...

This special issue deals with the advances in the investigation of bacterial virulence in developing countries. Developing countries, underdeveloped countries, Third World countries, and Southern countries are all definitions used in the academic world to design less industrialized countries with lower income. Even though these terms are ambiguous, wemostly have a clear idea of what we are talk...

Nationalism demands that rulers and ruled hail from the same ethnic background. The gradual adoption of this principle of legitimate statehood has transformed the shape of the political world over the past 2oo years and has provided the ideological motivation for an increasing number of wars fought in the modern era. Before the age of nationalism set in at the end of the eighteenth century, ind...

1 In his book, Men From Earth , Buzz Aldrin provides a broad overview of space history leading up to his moon landing on Apollo 11. The book begins with the launch of the first V-2 rocket by Werhner von Braun’s German rocket team at Peenemunde and progresses systematically through both the American and Soviet space missions. In contrast to many of the astronaut autobiographies, Aldrin’s book is...

The legal profession has relatively high rates of depression and career dissatisfaction. It has been suggested that positive psychology, which correlates the greater use of individual character strengths with increased life satisfaction and success, may have the answers. In this study, 17 women lawyers named to a top lawyers list compiled by the Super Lawyers rating service, took the online Bri...

In the aftermath of a disaster, news and research attention is focused almost entirely on catastrophic narratives various drivers that may have led to disaster. Learning from failure essential preventing future disasters. However, hyperfixation catastrophe obscures potential successes at local scale, which could serve as important examples learning resources in effective risk mitigation. To hig...

Introduction: Character strengths and virtues are greatly revered in military leadership. However, there is no empirical work assessing the relationship of resilience expressive flexibility, two essential psychological constructs crucial nurturing mentally healthy individuals, also for successful officer development Methods: Employing a cross-sectional design, this study recruited 107 participa...

this study tries to show how gender as a discourse construction has been formed since decades before the islamic revolution in imam khomeini’s words differently from then language system capacity, power and residence relations embodied in the traditional discourses, pre-revolution modernization period, in a context of political and social events and how it has stabilized or transformed the cust...