This article scrutinizes the employment of temporality in nativist discourse. Looking at nostalgia context contemporary nativism reveals that operative is not limited to just past. The perception “threat,” central nativism, does only inform historical claims made by nostalgic nativists, but also refers present and future which this threat be overcome. After defining focuses on invocations natio...

A viable evolutionary cognitive psychology requires that specific cognitive capacities be (a) heritable and (b) ‘quasi-independent’ from other heritable traits. They must be heritable because there can be no selection for traits that are not. They must be quasi-independent from other heritable traits, since adaptive variations in a specific cognitive capacity could have no distinctive consequen...

Contrary to frequent characterisations, exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location. Exotics are best characterised ecologically as species that are foreign to an ecological assemblage in the sense that they have not significantly adapted with the biota constituting that assemblage or to ...

The argument from the poverty of the stimulus as Pullum and Scholz deÞne it (their APS) is undeniably true, given that all language learners acquire the ability to generate more sentences of the target language than they have heard. Uniformity across learners with respect to the additional sentences they project suggests that grammar induction is guided by general principles, which must be inna...

Abstract Existing research explains variation in trade attitudes by pitting explanations rooted the foreign part of economic policy, like nativism, against beliefs a commitment to free market principles. But what happens when these factors create significant cross-pressures—how do market-oriented nativists think about trade? We argue that nativism is higher-order belief constrains relationship ...

Given its significance for society’s character, future and identity, migration has dominated media discourse. At present, the ascendance of digital platforms which broaden opportunities to produce, share access content online ignited debates about migration’s discursive construction. Often approached as promoting tolerance inclusivity, social are also believed unleash xenophobia intergroup anta...