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Sensory translation between audition and vision

—“as linked in a near-synaesthetic fashion” (Houston & Toube, 2000, p. 261) . In Western philosophy, early conceptualizations of the senses stressed the distinction between different modalities while

Repetition could increase the perceived truth of conspiracy theories

Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France which challenged this assumption. For instance, the truth effect has been observed with true COVID-19 statements (Unkelbach & Speckmann, 2021) , political opinions (Arkes ... -phrase "a lot of people are saying."), which is amplified by social media. Although this phenomenon when tackled in the political science domain assigns repetition a major role, this role has yet to be

The Future in Fragments: Three Critical Dystopian Works by Fernando Contreras Castro

collection of microfiction, which weaves together strands of prose, poetry, drama, philosophy, and pop culture references, the present is estranged by future reflections on a seemingly unfamiliar past. The ... private city of Lempira Siglo XXII emerges is one marked by violence, economic insecurity, and political instability. La Puente frames the founding of the city within the context of a series of

From Karl Menger to Charles Menger? How Austrian economics (hardly) spread in France

discussed as pure economics replaces political economy in the Interwar period, with the 1938 Paris Congress of “liberal thinkers,” as the Vienna Circle became known, also comparing issues in philosophy. The ... reason for such a situation? Criticisms of classical political economy have to be understood in their French context. In comparison to other countries, this paper details the case of France, besides

From Karl Menger to Charles Menger? How Austrian economics (hardly) spread in France

discussed as pure economics replaces political economy in the Interwar period, with the 1938 Paris Congress of “liberal thinkers,” as the Vienna Circle became known, also comparing issues in philosophy. The ... reason for such a situation? Criticisms of classical political economy have to be understood in their French context. In comparison to other countries, this paper details the case of France, besides

Close to the same: Similarity influences remembered distance between stimuli

drawn close together are seen as more similar in political views than stick figures drawn far apart (Winter & Matlock, 2013) . Importantly, the influence of the SIMILARITY = PROXIMITY metaphor on ... the descriptions emphasized dissimilarity. Similarly, two cities that were described as similar in their policies and political direction were placed closer together on a map that cities described as

An unresolved problem: freedom across lifetimes

Freedom is one of the central values in political and moral philosophy. A number of theorists hold that freedom (or, relatedly, opportunity) should either be the only or at least one of the central ... comments on earlier drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank audiences at the Pavia Political Theory Conference, at the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference in Belfast and at

Political Wishful Thinking versus the Shape of Things to Come: Manuel de Pedrolo’s "Mecanoscrit

días” (2013, US tit. “The Last Days”), it is not difficult to find several socio-political areas of intersection which converge on a biological issue at the end of both works: the pregnancy of one of the ... or unitarianism. Those were times of extreme political and social unrest not only in Spain, but in the rest of Europe as well, as it was becoming obvious most nations were preparing for what seemed an

Contested science: Individuals with higher metacognitive insight into interpretation of evidence are less likely to polarize

Societal polarization over contested science has increased in recent years. To explain this development, political, sociological, and psychological research has identified societal macro-phenomena as ... evidence selectively such that it conforms to prior beliefs (Meyer et al., 2013) . Unjustified confidence in own positions and judgments also tends to be enhanced in individuals holding radical political

A reproducible systematic map of research on the illusory truth effect

diversity of materials as stimuli (e.g., political or health contents), more participants from non-Western countries, studies examining effects of multiple repetitions and longer intersession intervals, and ... (e.g., trivia, political, marketing) presented visually or aurally 3. Comparator: within-subjects (repeated vs. non-repeated statements) or between-subjects (non-repetition control vs. repetition group

Sex differences in eyewitness memory: A scoping review

inconclusive outcomes of the earlier research. However, interest has revived in recent years, corresponding with the current salience of social issues related to gendered crime. For instance, socio-political ... evidence was provided for why differences may occur. Given the ongoing scientific, social, and political relevance of this topic, future research should seek to clarify if and how attentional focus may

“This behavior strikes us as ideal”: assessment and anticipations of Huisman (2022)

evidence is echoed in the philosophy of science literature (see also, van Dongen et al., 2022) . In fact, the Bayes factor was initially developed with the express purpose of being a valid measure of

In the absence of private property rights: Political control and state corporatism during Putin's first tenure

for appropriate market infrastructure. This also implied that if Russia's political and economic system had more than one competing hierarchy, the objective of the elites would not have entailed long ... state involvement in Russia?s economy during the last century summarized in Table 1. In period 1 the otherwise revo2003). Recently emerged political party competition, which thrived under Putin?s

Response planning during question-answering: does deciding what to say involve deciding how to say it?

of interest. Ethics approval This study was approved by the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences ethics committee. Consent to participate and for publication All participants gave

Postcolonial Pandemics and Undead Revolutions: Contagion as Resistance in Con Z de Zombie and Juan de los muertos

country is being invaded by “dissidents” paid by the U.S. government, though there is no political or military U.S. presence in the film beyond the symbolic presence of the country’s flag. In Valencia’s ... antiimigrante por el culo!” (I.2, unpaginated) Both texts propose the idea of contagion as a double-edged sword that can be an instrument of resistance or oppression; as such, they underline the political and

El último sueño, a novel of Anthropocenic Posthumanistic sensibility

along with genres of fantasy. Contrarily, its goals to be achieved are closer to a naturalistic approach representing reality, in the sense that in SF the political and sociological hypotheses are key ... fighting for a better future8 (embodiments of the “Do-it-yourself” philosophy) and his descriptions of dystopias that have so much in common with our factual everyday lives (according to him, a capitalistic

Central Asia — twenty-five years after the breakup of the USSR

Central Asia consists of five culturally and ethnically diverse countries that have followed different paths to political and economic transformation in the past 25 years since achieving independence ... adoption of a broad spectrum of economic, institutional and political reforms. The major obstacles to political reform and structural diversification in the five Central Asian economies are internal and

Human talkers change their voices to elicit specific trait percepts

(e.g., dating vs. political campaigning; Todorov & Porter, 2014) , therefore deliberate changes in the voice should show similar functionality in situations where social outcomes can be influenced by ... state, and be functional to a social goal, insofar as perception along the social trait space dimensions can bias subsequent social behaviour. This has been shown, for instance, for political votes

Undermining Authoritarianism: Retrofitting the Zombie in "Seminário dos ratos

Telles. In this modern allegory of a world plagued by rats, Fagundes Telles surreptitiously decries the political corruption, censorship of the press, foreign intervention, class warfare, and abuses of ... women’s reality on all levels, the macabre, the fantastic, the ephemeral, the intimate and the political” (57). Many critics consider As meninas (1973) her best novel. Written during the height of Brazil’s

The Austrian school of economics in Russia: From criticism and rejection to absorption and adoption

Dissemination and adoption of Western economic ideas in Russia have never been a simple process, always bearing marks of the socio-political and ideological circumstances of the country and inner ... economists writing on the New Austrian school were interested either in the philosophy of Hayek (N. Makasheva (1989) ) or Mises-style political pamphlets and advice (B. Pinsker, L. Piyasheva), or both (R