Although, there exists no consensus about the impact of television commercials on the social and moral behavior of viewers, the accusations that we come across in past research are grave. This study is an attempt to examine the same in India. An empirical analysis of the views of 520 respondents revealed that television commercials undermine social, moral and religious values and negatively inf...

Happiness is an increasingly prominent topic of interest across numerous academic fields. However, the literature can sometimes imply it predominantly a modern concern. Relatedly, critics have argued that contemporary scholarship on happiness Western-centric, yet in so doing appear to suggest mainly Western preoccupation. taking expansive view – defining broadly as desirable mental experience o...

Abstract Contact tracing applications have been deployed at a fast pace around the world to stop spread of COVID-19 and may be key containing future pandemics. This study aims explain public opinion toward cell phone contact using survey experiment. We build upon theory in evolutionary psychology—disease avoidance—to predict how media coverage pandemic affects support for containment measures. ...

Most studies of solitude have focused on the modern individualized sense of solitude, located or originating in urbanized Western cultures where solitude is seen as a companion to urban modernity. In this perspective the larger historical and cultural context goes almost unnoticed together with the fact that the preoccupation with solitude, in various forms and functions, has been around for a ...

BACKGROUND Hypochondriasis (HC) involves preoccupation with fears of having a serious illness. The preoccupation is persistent and based on misinterpretation of benign bodily sensations. In response, patients often resort to frequent checks with doctors, of their own body, and of medical references, to reassure themselves of their health status. Some authors have likened HC to obsessive-compuls...

Assessing and reforming classroom literacy has become a preoccupation of nations worldwide, not the least in Pacific where countries are often working toward English within multilingual contexts. In Solomon Islands, 2013, poor results regional local testing precipitated review how language was taught primary schools across this nation. subsequent reform materials associated training for teacher...

This essay explores how the Enlightenment preoccupation with nature and reason, and the concomitant desire to restructure civil and political society according to these principles, served simultaneously to write certain speculations within mental philosophy into the heart of the republican project and to orient the emerging human sciences toward embracing those social formations most consonant ...