Abstract Using the case of women’s unveiling during 2011 Egyptian uprising, I investigate how momentous political events have transformative impacts beyond overtly “political” sphere policies and institutions. trace choice to unveil among some women protesters their involvement in collective action show different mechanisms that led decision. Specifically, identify three pathways unveiling: shi...

Abstract This investigation aimed to validate a Japanese version of the Modest Behavior Scale (MBS-J) measure behavioral aspects modesty as self-presentation tactic. Two preliminary surveys and three studies were conducted. Study 1 examined factorial validity, construct internal consistency MBS, adding emic items generated from sample in surveys. The results confirmed three-factor structure Sel...

?Sexual Inversion. Pp. xvii., 204. London: The University Press. 1897. Vol.11.?The Evolution of Modesty. The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity. Ante-Erotism. Pp. vii., 313. Leipzig: The University Press, Limited. Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Company. 1900. Some interest out of the ordinary attaches to this work, because of an unwise prosecution of a bookseller in London by the Commissioners of P...

The sciences occasionally generate discoveries that undermine their own assumptions. Two such discoveries are characterized here: the discovery of apophenia by cognitive psychology and the discovery that physical systems cannot be locally bounded within quantum theory. It is shown that such discoveries have a common structure and that this common structure is an instance of Priest’s well-known ...

This article evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of arguments based on appeals to expertise. The intersection of two areas is explored: (i) the traditional argumentum ad verecundiam (literally, "appeal to modesty;" but characteristically the appeal to the authority of expert judgment) in informal logic, and (ii) the uses of expert systems in artificial intelligence. The article identifies a ...

In this little book, which chiefly deals with the diagnosis and treatment of haemorrhoids, the author stresses the fact that a very thorough examination of the anus, rectum, and sigmoid is necessary before the diagnosis and especially the treatment of haemorrhoids is undertaken. Too many medical men, he says, from a sense of false modesty either in themselves or their patients, do not examine t...