The purpose of this study was to compare attitudes toward sexting using vignettes. Participants were 49 university students (ages 19-26) who participated in five online focus group discussions and responded written vignettes describing sexting. about composed types experiences: 1) under intimate partner pressure, 2) revenge sexting, 3) consensual with partner, 4) peer 5) flirt others. Students ...

There are both externalist and internalist theories of the phenomenal content of conscious experiences. Externalists like Dretske and Tye treat the phenomenal content of conscious states as representations of external properties (and events). Internalists think that phenomenal conscious states are reducible to electrochemical states of the brain in the style of the type-type identity theory. In...

Davidson advocates a radical and powerful form of anti-conventionalism, on which the scope of a semantic theory is restricted to the most local of contexts: a particular utterance by a particular speaker. I argue that this hyper-localism undercuts the explanatory grounds for his assumption that semantic meaning is systematic, which is central, among other things, to his holism. More importantly...

Introduction I FEEL highly honoured to give this James Mackenzie lecture at the conclusion of the Royal College of General Practitioners' 40th anniversary year and, like my predecessors, have found that one of the pleasures of its preparation has been rereading the biographies of Sir James Mackenziel and a few of his many publications. This man of humble Scottish origins, after many years of ge...

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Terrence D. Hill, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the social distribution of health and health-relevant behaviors. Michael E. McCullough, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. His research is currently concentrated in three areas: forgiveness and revenge, gratitude, and religion and spirituality. Religio...

In Revenge Capitalism Max Haiven draws on a rich set of historical scholarship and theoretical traditions to formulate the concept revenge economy outline its characteristics. also examines modes social, political, economic organisation that run counter explores avenging imaginaries underlie them. After highlighting some inform Haiven’s thesis, I focus his engagement with different theories arr...

Culturally constructed ideals and stereotypes are part of collective sense-making processes. One such stereotype is Nils Christie's ideal victim. The present study discusses how the victim shares key features with another cultural stereotype: damsel in distress. Moreover, addresses attempts at subverting stereotypes, which can be found women avengers rape-revenge narratives. Studies narratives ...

Random gunfire problems are distinguishable from other types of shooting incidents such as urban sniper attacks, gang shootouts, domestic homicides, and revenge shootings because (1) random gunfire is strictly an outdoor activity; (2) it is not usually part of other criminal activity such as drug dealing, assaults, or robberies; and (3) random gunfire shooters do not fire their weapons to inten...