OBJECTIVES Drug addicts are more and more stigmatized in our society. Recent data show a connection between substance abuse and other behaviors considered normal, such as passionate love. Adolescence is characterized by a biopsychosocial, cognitive and neurodevelopmental immaturity. This article aims to understand if these subjects are more likely to develop addictions to certain products or ad...

This article analyses the verbal display and role of emotions in European Parliament (EP). Contributing both to Studies Parliamentary studies, this shows how are expressed they reflect power status dynamics. Emotions indeed used differently depending on position Members EP (MEPs). also reveals that may play a crisis situations by constraining choices policy solutions under consideration. qualit...

A packet of soft brown sugar informs us that ‘Since 1878 our passionate team have been making and packing high quality on the banks River Thames.’ There is an inadvertent touch grotesque comedy to this: Tate Lyle's employees seem be Dickensian monomaniacs, kept alive by their inexhaustible enthusiasm for sentimental attachment Thames. How does this bizarre sentence come distributed around super...

We develop the concept of emotional competence, which refers to the ability to experience and display emotions that are deemed appropriate for an actor role in an institutional order. Emotional competence reveals a more expansive view of emotions in institutional theory, where emotions are central to the constitution of people as competent actors and lend reality and passionate identification t...

Images of Black Americans are becoming remarkably diverse, enabling Barack Obama to defy simple-minded stereotypes and succeed. Understood through the Stereotype Content Model’s demonstrably fundamental trait dimensions of perceived warmth and competence, images of Black Americans show three relevant patterns. Stereotyping by omission allows non-Blacks to accentuate the positive, excluding any ...