What type of language makes the most positive impression within a professional setting? Is competent/agentic language or warm/communal language more effective at eliciting social approval? We examined this basic social cognitive question in a real world context using a "big data" approach-the recent record-low levels of public approval of the U.S. Congress. Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Cou...

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 ongoing synodal process (16th Ordinary General Assembly: For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission), which began in October 2021 will culminate the same month of 2024, is encouraging broad participation faithful synods, starting from particular Churches. In terms its concrete objective, it reflection on synodalit...

Plato’s Symposium stages a playful subversion of paiderastia by philosophia through successive interconnected speeches. Phaedrus and Agathon praise Erōs as god presiding over homoerotic relationships, be it at war or peace. Pausanias Eryximachus distinguish between two Erōtes, being eager to supervise these paiderastic communities even the cosmic harmony. But Aristophanes subverts their perspec...