By interviewing Swedish feminist activists who sell commodities to serve purposes, this study focuses on how they articulate their engagement and make it intelligible. To untangle articulations about businesses may stabilise, reshape challenge values engagement, we use theories of popular feminism alongside discourse theory capture its contingencies. The analysis shows that, rather than enhanci...

the renowned proverb “shāhnāma axarash xoš ast” has implicit question which its answer may change our understanding of the nature and function of shāhnāma. the end of shāhnāma contains numerous tragic events in sassanid age. also it does not seem to be normal if the iranians have deemed the bitter adventure of the shahs and pahlavāns as a happy ending like what firdausi narrates at the end of h...

La crítica especializada ha relacionado las leyendas de cartas Desde mi celda Bécquer con la insistencia por parte del autor en búsqueda y recuperación folclore tradiciones populares. No obstante, el acercamiento a mismas exige una doble lectura. riqueza polifónica muestra que, al folclorista, habría añadírsele su faceta lector afamado, imprescindible configuración como narrador historias. El e...

Twenty heterosexual rapists, 10 non-sex-offender patients from the same maximum security psychiatric institution, and 10 men with low socioeconomic status recruited from the local community were presented with audiotaped narrations while their penile tumescence was measured. The story categories were as follows: female victim/partner (neutral situation, consenting sex, rape, nonsexual violence,...

Protocol narrations are an informal means to describe, in an idealistic manner, the functioning of cryptographic protocols as a single intended sequence of cryptographic message exchanges among the protocol’s participants. Protocol narrations have also been informally “turned into” a number of formal protocol descriptions, e.g., using the spi-calculus. In this paper, we propose a direct formal ...

How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

The current study investigated the inclusion of goal-based story events in the online story narrations of children with ADHD, as compared with their peers, and explored the effect of stimulant medication on the narrations in children with ADHD. Children completed a narration task on two separate occasions. Children with ADHD (n = 17) completed one narration on medication and the other one on pl...

Consumers of news care both about the novelty of the news they read, as well as how popular that news topic is with others. Editors choose what to report on based on consumer preferences and the coverage of their competitors. We build a continuous time model that predicts whether news providers invest in covering novel news stories or instead report on popular. We construct a dataset of cover s...