The topic of standing to blame has recently received a lot attention. Until now, however, it focused mainly on the blamer's perspective, investigating what means say blamers that they lose and why is this under specified conditions. present paper focuses perspective blamees tries explain are allowed disregard standingless, more specifically hypocritical, blame. According solution proposed by pa...

The provincial government of Jeju, South Korea, was notified that a 42-year-old man infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus had gone sightseeing in Jeju Island. Although the visiting period might be interpreted as the incubation period of MERS, the province decided to conduct active surveillance to prevent a worst-case scenario. Based on the channel of movement of ...

We explored the emotional and attitudinal consequences of personal attitude-behavior discrepancies using a religious version of the hypocrisy paradigm. We induced cognitive dissonance in participants (n = 206) by making them feel hypocritical for advocating certain religious behaviors that they had not recently engaged in to their own satisfaction. In Experiment 1, this resulted in higher level...

It is commonly thought that agents lack the standing to blame in cases where their would be hypocritical. Jack for instance, seem Gerald being rude local barista if he has himself been baristas past. Recently, it suggested need not even have displayed any such rudeness order his qualify as hypocritical; suffice too barista, were Gerald’s situation. The latter an instance of subjunctive hypocrit...

Self-esteem is one of the key components of the self-concept, so that these two terms are considered as synonymous by many authors. Persons with cerebral palsy are often faced with social isolation and peer rejection. There is a number of barriers related to social environment that hamper participation of persons with CP, which has particularly negative impact on possibilities in the fields of ...

We study the evolution of cooperation in a model of indirect reciprocity where people interact in public and private situations. Public interactions have a high chance to be observed by others and always affect reputation. Private interactions have a lower chance to be observed and only occasionally affect reputation. We explore all second order social norms and study conditions for evolutionar...

RATIONALE As support in leading a meaningful and active life, a person with mental illness is often given the opportunity to attend a day centre. However, few studies have investigated the meaningfulness perceived by the person visiting a day centre. For such a purpose, a self-report instrument was developed. AIMS To explore whether perceived meaningfulness, as expressed in the recently devel...

in this study, we have theoretically investigated the effect of electron stopper layer on internal temperature distribution of high performance vertical cavity surface-emitting laser emitting at 1305 nm.  simulation software pics3d, which self-consistently combines the 3d simulation of carrier transport, self-heating, gain computation and wave-guiding, was used. simulation results show that cha...