Whereas practitioners in advertising and marketing clearly appreciate the importance of affect and emotion, traditional academic approaches to the analysis of persuasion tend to stress rational ‘‘central route’’ or ‘‘systematic’’ processing. However, the notion of two sorts of cognitive process—one rational, the other affective—has gained increasing support. This paper presents a view of the co...

Nisbett et al. (2001) claim that Easterners are more likely to use holistic thinking to solve problems, whereas Westerners are more likely to use analytic thinking. This distinction in cognitive behaviors has often been explained by using a framework based on the fact that Western culture favors independent self-construal (individualist culture) and Eastern culture favors interdependent self-co...

The French anarchist press positions itself from the beginning as purveyor of honest and objective information, opposed to mainstream bourgeois newspapers, close political power, who tailor their news needs propaganda. This article offers an analysis role a vehicle for fake point view writers journalists, starting with Proudhon’s own newspapers (1848-1850), but focusing most all on polemics aro...

Place attachment has been identified as a key construct that can explain pro-environmental behaviour. However, the precise strength of its effect remains undocumented. The aim this article is to quantify effects place on behaviour by means meta-analysis and examine contextual factors may variations in sizes reported previous research. Our results show that, first, overall positive, moderate. Se...

Abstract The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and one should instead reverse order explanation give primacy to we community. It discusses different versions community first view argues they fail because operate too simplistic a conception what it means be self misunderstand (part of) we. In presenting thi...

Abstract This paper discusses the virtue epistemology literature on epistemic emotions and challenges individualist, unworldly account of emotions. It argues that can be truth-motivating if embedded in co-inquiry cultures, namely virtuous cultures valorise participatory processes inquiry as truth-conducive. Co-inquiry are seen playing a constitutive role shaping, developing, regulating Using ke...

Three studies examined whether the tendency to seek variety in choices depends in part on cultural assumptions of choice and uniqueness. Study 1 showed that people from different cultures where different assumptions of choice and uniqueness dominate show different levels of variety in their choice rule use. Study 2 primed participants with magazine ads highlighting different representations of ...