Summer Lovin'

Eye'm lovin' it! The role of gazing awareness in mimetic desires

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Mimetic desire Awareness Joint attention Evaluative learning Attitude formation dual models Effect of attention on affect Recent studies showed that people evaluate objects more favorably when these objects are gazed-at by others, an effect coined as " mimetic desire ". In two studies, we tested whether mimetic desire stems from an automatic form of learning by e...

Summer Buzz

t is late Sunday afternoon in August. A child stands alone in the garden listening to the metallic sounds of insects, " reads Charles Burchfield's own description of The Insect Chorus. " They are all his world, so, to his mind, all things become saturated with their presence–crickets lurk in the depths of the grass, the shadows of the trees conceal fantastic creatures, and the boy looks with fe...

Summer Paper

Summer Camps

thousand. Four years later there were about two hundred camps in existence, and five thousand boys were in the field. The number has increased steadily and rapidly in the last five years. Five years ago about ten thousand boys received the benefit of outdoor life during the summer months. During the past season, 1907, there were between four and five hundred summer camps, and about twenty-five ...

Summer dreams

Have come and gone Quintessential Remnants of summer Rambutans and durians Discarded peels Bustles with activity Lives of other kinds Wriggling and swimming Summer dreams Of warm humid nights Fanning away the creatures of nature That annoying bustle of wings Of lives that emerged from the discards Creatures of nature That fly in search of meals Meals of red Within the meal Enveloped In a protec...