Normal sexuality is described as it develops in man and woman, and the attempt made to integrate the biological structure into the social and moral order. The hypocrisy of the contrast between our ideals and our practice is exposed and the differences between the codes for men and women explored. The biological differences which make for woman, sexual experience the centre of her life, while fo...

Mark Silk has proposed in Unsecular Media that journalists operate with a limited series of topoi and that these are borrowed from religion. Silk thus claims when journalists write about religion, they do so in a way that ultimately supports religious values. In this study, I apply topic analysis to recent news coverage of Jesse Jackson’s marital infidelity to determine the extent to which the ...

Compared to nondepressed individuals, depressed individuals generally show more guilt, more indecisiveness, and less ability to trivialize negative events, each of which predicts greater susceptibility to cognitive dissonance manipulations. Thus, depressed individuals may be more prone to dissonance effects. This study tested this depression-dissonance question using a roleplaying hypocrisy-ind...

What happens first between a corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and crisis can result in different levels of perceived cognitive dissonance hypocrisy depending on whether there is information inconsistency the CSR crisis. This paper presents findings from an experimental study online survey conducted administered to investigate contingency influence consumer perceptions respons...