Purpose: The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a Persian version self- reassurance/ self-criticism Inventory in the male and female teachers. Materials & Methods:  This study was of a validation type. The participants were 444 teachers selected through a multistage-cluster random sampling among the teachers in high school second period in the city of Bojnord of the ...

On 18 April 2021, 12 European football clubs collectively issued a letter of intent to form new Super League. This attempted coup was strongly opposed across English football. Afterwards, the responsible owner-oligarchs were singled out for special criticism from pundits and supporter organizations alike. What emerged focus upon personal greed social indifference those individuals, but what les...

In case anyone saw an inteTesting-sounding title to my talk in the printed program, I should announce a change. The new title is "Caveat Venditor," let the seller beware. Having found a title, let me try to set a tone. My text is taken from an editorial in the Winter, 1944, Public Opinion Quarterly, the opening line of which reads: "For the first time, public opinion polls are the subject of se...

Television series carry the structural traces of society in which they are produced. The social, cultural and ideological values revealed to audience through characters portrayed on screen. TV discussed study examined as an indicator social life. sitcom named "Jet Sosyete", written by Gülse Birsel, is important production based utilitarian characters. This sitcom, reflects attitude relations ch...

From the middle of 20th century, rise anthropocentric beliefs partly inherited from Abrahamic religions led to a change in mentality about ecosystems. The measurable signs environmental exploitation and destruction their consequences for human health, shift post-materialist values, growth ethical philosophies (Land ethics, Gaia Hypothesis, Deep Ecology) were predictors global ecological awarene...

This study explored the effects of oxytocin on Compassion Focused Imagery (CFI), that is, imagining another "mind" being deeply compassionate to oneself, and the interaction of these effects with self-criticism and feeling socially safe with others. Forty-four healthy participants (29 men and 15 women) completed self-report measures of self-criticism, attachment style, and social safeness befor...

Partner-specific perfectionistic concerns (PC) include concern over mistakes, self-criticism, and socially prescribed perfectionism as it pertains to one's partner. The social disconnection model proposes that PC influences well-being indirectly through interpersonal problems. Thus, we hypothesized that social negativity (expressed anger, hostility, and rejection) would mediate the relationship...

Halvorson (2012) argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour (2013) shows how to inoculate the semantic view against Halvorson’s criticisms, namely by making it into a syntactic view of theories. I argue that this modified semantic-syntactic view cannot do the philosophical work that the original “languagefree” semantic view was supposed to do. According to Clark Gly...