In this investigation, we test whether temporal discounting is domain-specific (i.e., compared to other people, can an individual have a relatively high discount rate for one type of reward but a relatively low discount rate for another?), and we examine whether individual differences in the types of rewards one finds tempting explain domain-specificity in discount rates. Adults discounted dela...

College students ranked the interest value of 12 different gossip scenarios; likelihood of spreading the gossip; and the people to whom they would be most likely to tell the gossip, depending on whether the gossip was about male or female professors, relatives, friends, acquaintances, strangers, or a same-sex rival or a romantic partner. Damaging, negative news about rivals and positive news ab...

This article argues that computers, at least in their common or prevalent uses, constitute an important undermining influence on people’s ability to tell, enjoy listening to, view, and read good stories. We discuss the centrality of narrative in defining our humanity and in educating our children, and justify the emphasis on “good” stories, invoking Ricoeur’s views on the hermeneutic level of i...

Previous examinations of the scope moral concern have focused on aggregate attributions worth. However, because trade-offs exist in valuing different kinds entities, tabulating total amounts expansiveness may conceal significant individual differences relative proportions valuation ascribed to various entities. We hypothesized that some individuals (“tree-huggers”) would ascribe greater worth a...

This research examines ethnography of communication in Jakarta Dog Lovers can be divided into three main problems: first is a form activities undertaken the community, second components that make up activities, and third competencies community members while performing activity.
 study was studied by looking at theory method from Dell Hymes. The one some qualitative researchstudies (interpr...