The paper analyzes pride, its nature, expression and functions, as a social emotion connected to the areas of image and self-image and to power relations. Three types of pride, dignity, superiority and arrogance, are distinguished, their mental ingredients are singled out, and two experimental studies are presented showing that they are conveyed by different combinations of smile, eyebrow and e...

This article investigates the extent to which the emerging trend of do-it-yourself anti-ageing skin-whitening products represents a re-articulation of Western colonial concerns with environmental pollution and racial degeneracy into concern with gendered vulnerability. This emerging market is a multibillion dollar industry anchored in the USA, but expanding globally. Do-it-yourself anti-ageing ...

This study aims to analyze the effect of fraud pentagon theory element on fraudulent financial statements in sector companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Elements deception cannot be analyzed directly, but through proxies. Pressure is proxied by targets and external pressures. Opportunity ineffective oversight. Rationalization auditor turnover. Competence change director. Arrogance r...

Large amounts of funding are being allocated to the control of neglected tropical diseases. Strategies primarily rely on the mass distribution of drugs to adults and children living in endemic areas. The approach is presented as morally appropriate, technically effective, and context-free. Drawing on research undertaken in East Africa, we discuss ways in which normative ideas about global healt...

Balancing the competing demands of security and liberty is commonly said to be the central task of anti-terrorism policy. This Essay begins by distinguishing between the two ways in which the notion of balance is presented—the trade-off thesis and the image of a set of scales—and argues that each is flawed as an analytical aid. The Essay then proceeds to show further limitations of the balancin...

In his arrogance toward nature, man is gambling that his superior technology will provide the essentials of food, clean water and pure air. What are the risks of such a gamble? Are these the only necessities? Drs. Iltis and Loucks are professors of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Andrews is an affiliated student in archeology and anthropology, St. John’s College, Cambridge, ...

The recent backlash against homosexuality in Uganda, culminating in the introduction of the 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill, has focused tremendous attention on the role religious activists have played in shaping Ugandan attitudes about sexuality. Drawing on long-term fieldwork among the Ugandan born-again Christians at the center of this controversy, I argue that anti-homosexual rhetoric is anima...

Waldorf s comments indicate a misunderstanding of both the intent and content of our paper. Three confusions are serious enough to demand clarification. First, we did not “downgrade” the scientific status of sociobiology nor did we admit creationism into the domain of science. Most researchers of the evolutionary biology of social behavior accept the social, methodological, and philosophical ru...