Acknowledgment I thank Selex ES and SESM for supporting my PhD's scholarship. Also, I express my gratitude to Dr. Alfonso Farina for his technical support during my research activities, the continuous assistance, encouragement and kindness demonstrated during these three years.

Although Islamophobia is an ancient phenomenon, it has come to the fore, especially after 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Islam been put forward as new enemy of West. The fear Islam, whose existence generally scrutinized in Western society, not created by societies alone. Political doctrine placed religion based on political ambitions advanced line with understanding radical fuelled phenomenon amon...

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship of self-compassion and internet addiction. Participants were 261 university students who completed a questionnaire package that included the Selfcompassion Scale and the Online Cognition Scale. The hypothesis model was tested through structural equation modeling. In correlation analysis, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness ...

The neoliberal university can be a restrictive, repressive, and/or oppressive space. However, the contributions in this edited publication “Reimagining Academy: ShiFting towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care” by Alison L Black Rachael Dwyer published Palgrave Macmillan represent hope, kindness, love, compassion. words works contained book gift to any reader many enriching, impactf...

my shortcomings, in the kindness, courtesy, and help I have invariably received from the Council and from the Society at large?a support without which it would have been impossible for me to have attempted to maintain the dignity of the Chair which I am about to demit. This kindness on your part, moreover, has made my term of office one of the pleasantest of my life, and one which has not been ...

We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; Maintenance already exists maintained. In four lab online experiments (n=2,105), we document a robust asymmetry preferences perceptions incentive-equivalent these problems. find fewer conditional cooperators more free riders than Provision, difference that i...

In this paper I argue for the claim that self-love is a precondition for self-knowledge. This claim is relevant to the contemporary philosophical debate on self-knowledge, but mainly because it draws attention to the role of claims of self-knowledge in the larger context of our ordinary practice of rationalizing and appropriating our actions. In this practice it is crucial for persons to open-m...