Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy regional democratization waves focusing on immigrants' before migration. In all c...

Supported living for people with developmental disabilities challenges many common service policies, practices, and assumptions. Until recently, professionals assumed that such people who did not reside with their families needed to live in some kind of service facility. Today, a growing number of people with developmental disabilities have challenged this assumption by living, with personalize...

humans are equipped with some universal or language-specific abilities to recognize emotions. however, because of the different emotional contents in diverse languages and the relevant cultural differences, humans with different cultural backgrounds own different metapragmatical abilities to recognize and express emotions. a hypothesis concerning emotional effects about intonation and particle ...

The antiquities of Jammu and Kashmir reveal that women might have enjoyed a high status as elsewhere in India. But ,there was a marked deterioration in the position of women. Female children were not much desired and their sufferings became endless with the beginning of inroads of Turko-Afghan tribes for whom carrying away of women formed the prized item of booty. This situation gave new dimens...