A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occa...

the imagination among iranian and western sages and philosophers, is the most basic and most complex issues of the universe. the research question is whether the imagination is considered the main essence of the aesthetic style of farshchian? and if so, what was the kind of imagination or the artist’s approach to this element? in this paper, for the first time, it is attempted to critically exa...

the present paper is an attempt to study a contemporary author, critic and artist from kuwait in the hope that it may lead to more thorough researches in the analysis of comparative studies of iran and countries around persian gulf-whose cultural as well as economic interactions has a long historical background- eventually culminating in praiseworthy works.this paper is a literary review of som...

The numerous early drawings made by the enigmatic Abstract Expressionist, Clyfford Still, have remained largely undiscovered due to the strict requirements of the artist’s will. Still demonstrated a fast-paced development of a unique aesthetic leading to abstraction as a young man; however, the earliest known drawings, circa 1920, are stylistically consist with a group of drawings performed ove...

Regarding the literary historical debates, one of the main concerns of modern historiography is the way of representing the concept of reality within the framework of a coherent narrative, a reality that is only achievable through the process of narrative that is supposed to be constructive and ordering. Therefore, in order to examine this ordering process of narrative in James Joyce's novel, A...

Aesthetic plastic surgery is a branch of medicine using surgical techniques to alter the appearance of patients. In this paper it is considered whether aesthetic plastic surgery should be viewed as an art form. The question is answered by trying to see how aesthetic plastic surgery fits a number of classical concepts in philosophical aesthetics, concepts such as “artist” and “work of art”. Furt...

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The subject of creativity may be one of the most misunderstood topics in management. We tend to equate creativity with pure artists, with those who are seemingly endowed with a mystical ability to make aesthetic sense out of color, shape and form. In the manager’s world, creativity is typically viewed as limited to picking out the art for the walls of a new office or selecting a designer to dev...