classicism is the first literary school that emerged in europe after the great scientific movement in the 16th century a.d. and tried to revive the old literature of greece and latin considering the technical and humanistic themes in that era. literary societies like divan and apolo in the east and the society of writers and andolosian group in the west in opposition to the classicism of barood...

Understanding others' mental states is a crucial skill that enables the complex social relationships that characterize human societies. Yet little research has investigated what fosters this skill, which is known as Theory of Mind (ToM), in adults. We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cogni...

educational methods have always been one of the most important subjects for human societies. among iranian scientific and literary figures there are some, who have been closely involved with the process and the goal of educational ideas. thus, it is necessary that their ideas be taken into account by methodologists for educational and training systems. we will take a look at the opinions of far...

Although most universities in the Muslim world publicly recognize and support the teaching of Western literature, the exploration of some Western literary themes (for example, self-determination, sexual liberation, and gender equality) is viewed negatively by authority figures as well as by some professors and students. To reconcile this concern with Lewis's view that the mutual study of litera...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...