Relative ingroup prototypicality (RIP) is an important concept in the ingroup projection model of social discrimination and tolerance. This paper reviews measures of RIP currently in use and critically examines how the notion of relative ingroup prototypicality is captured by statistical tests treating RIP as a single variable. It is concluded that composite measures of RIP imply multiple stati...

This paper investigates the arguments used in public documents to mobilize Bulgarians against the deportation of Jews in World War II. We focus on the key documents relating to the first wave of mobilisation in 1940-1 as provided by Todorov (2001). We demonstrate that these documents are based on three types of argument. The first, category inclusion, treats the Jews as part of a common ingroup...

In an increasingly mediated culture, social institutions such as science, public health, and civic engagement exist within the same modes of discourse popular media. As a human endeavor, science is also cultural phenomenon, there are webs multidirectional layered communication that occur between formal communication, pop and, indeed, For participants, with entertainment may be one in same. This...

From the works of mathematical properties of songs, we construct the phylomemetic trees of Indonesian ethnic and traditional songs. The memeplexes are then reflected by the used notes and respective durations as they exhibit the Zipf-Mandelbrot law, the gyration coefficient, “spiraling effects”, and the dynamic entropy shown in the structure of the songs. The cladistic techniques yielding phylo...

Litokoala is revised on the basis of new material from the early to middle Miocene deposits of Riversleigh. A new species of Litokoala is described from the System B Outasite Local Fauna. Litokoala garyjohnstoni sp. nov. possesses a unique combination of both plesiomorphic and apomorphic dental features, making its phylogenetic position within Litokoala difficult to interpret. In some aspects o...