This paper looks at Thomas Szanto?s theory of hatred that suggests has an indeterminate affective focus and it derives its intensity from the commitment to attitude itself. Contrary theses, this claims hated properties are not necessarily fuzzy. On contrary, in many cases we can clearly reconstruct quasi-rational genesis hatred, by relying on deep structures behind social dynamics (as demonstra...

Thus proclaimed the bold black letters painted on the door of Pierce Brodkorb's old office in Flint Hall at the University of Florida, simultaneously reflecting a great dislike and a great passion. Brodkorb hated Josselyn Van Tyne, his former supervisor at the University of Michigan, whose door had borne a card saying "Please knock and come in," whereas his great passion was his osteological co...

Less than two years later, on March 18, 2005, Terri's feeding tube was removed for the last time. 4 Thirteen days later on March 31, 2005, she died.5 Ironically, what began as personal decision evolved into a test of not only the Florida Constitution, but also a check on our structure of governmental powers. In the end, the fate of Terri Schiavo, a shy person who hated the spotlight, polarized ...

We completely characterize deterministic strategy-proof and group strategy-proof mechanisms on singlesinked public policy domain. The single-sinked domain can be used to model any allocation problem where a single output must be chosen in an interval with the assumption that agents’ preferences have a single most loathful point (the sink) in the interval, and the preferences are increasing as o...

“When I read a new word-that is one I knew before the strokeI knew what it meant intuitively. But although the new word was not lost it was not available to me. Concepts... would fade away like moonshine the moment I tried to pin them down with speech. It was a sensation so fleeting that I hardly knew it was there. The lack of speech ate right into my dealings with the outside world. It made me...

In dispersed, multinational enterprises, complex integrations of information systems are a commonly hated threat as they render difficult fundamental changes of IT structures and standards embedded therein. This paper explores how integrations can turn into a burden and how thereby a company’s technology platform can lock-in to a local optimum. We conceptualize information system architectures ...

Abstract One of the most disturbing phenomena during episodes mass violence concerns individuals who hated a specific group and harmed some its members while making exceptions for people they had relationship with. A preexisting social tie, not moral consciousness, produces this aversion to harming party relationship, even if rescuing vulnerable contradicts personal beliefs, orders, or loyalty....