why the trend toward disinflation over the past two decades is so widespread. The paper is, in fact, an interesting diagnostic exercise in the spirit of an Agatha Christie play—say “Murder on the Orient Express” (or, given the number of possibilities, “And Then There Were None”). In the play, many suspects hated the victim; here, who killed “inflation”? How? Most interestingly, how does this pl...

“It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all Sperm Whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick (ch...

My medical regimen during my hospital stays usually didn't consist of much more than doses of drugs—usually Thorazine. When I took the prescribed amount, I was usually out of Bellevue in three or four days. But I hated the effect of the drug. It was like putting my head in a vise; it cut off the free flow of ideas; it stifled imagination; it literally killed inspiration.

Josephus elevates Moses' role and diminishes the miraculous in the Amalek episode. In the Pentateuch Josephus, defensive about the charge that Jews preach genocide, omits the command to eliminate Amalek; rather, Moses predicts it. In 1 Samuel he explains that G-d so hated them as to order it. As to the parallel command to exterminate the seven Canaanite nations, this was necessary, says Josephu...

The problem of attitude to the Russian reality has acquired special significance and become a factor socio-political life in modern Russia. Variants possible relationship are identified on basis domestic political thought. author reveals features appeal theoretical heritage thinkers past: actualization what corresponds "malice day"; "snatching citation"; analysis past without taking into accoun...

In this work, we address an important but unexplored topic, namely the neural correlates of hate. In a block-design fMRI study, we scanned 17 normal human subjects while they viewed the face of a person they hated and also faces of acquaintances for whom they had neutral feelings. A hate score was obtained for the object of hate for each subject and this was used as a covariate in a between-sub...

In ‘A Hypothetical Neurological Association between Dehumanization and Human RightsAbuse’,1 GailMurrowandRichardMurrowposit a biological explanationof how hate speech can spur violence, not only among individuals but, even, on a societal scale. They elaborate historical examples, cite to neuronal studies on patterns of responses in observation of pain and suffering to explain the dehumanization...

Objective: Several studies have used the Forms of Self-Criticism/Reassurance Scale (FSCRS; Gilbert, Clarke, Hempel, Miles & Irons, 2004) when exploring the role of emotion regulation in psychopathology. However, psychometric evaluation of the FSCRS is limited. The present study sought to confirm the factor structure of the FSCRS based on theoretical and empirical grounds in a large sample of th...