Every year, billions of dollars are spent gambling on the outcomes of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The current work examines how individuals make predictions for one of the most popular forms of betting, tournament pools, in which individuals must correctly predict as many games in the tournament as possible. We demonstrate that individuals predict more upsets (i.e., wins by a higher-s...

The cause of mental disorder remains uncertain, but evidence indicates that genetic vulnerability, early life experiences and recent stresses are important factors, in at least some cases. At a cellular level, pathological changes in the amount of chemical messengers which pass from one nerve cell to the next have been proposed, along with or as well as other abnormalities. The symptoms of ment...

This study aims to analyse the 19th-century American author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem “The Lunatic Girl” within framework of loss, mourning, melancholia and madness. The paper argues that female character experiences loss her boyfriend mourning grows into a form as she becomes unable process work remains at stage denial, first grief. That is why waits for return lover seashore...

Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of Mad Studies as an investigative tradition that proposes critical theories and alternative methodologies in production knowledge from people who have been labeled with psychiatric diagnoses. For Studies, meanings around Madness express relationship forces forms oppression constitute field mental health, therefore, they emphasize political nature re...