The author reviews some of the social and behavioral factors acting on the brain that influence health, illness, and death. Supported with data from several areas of research, his proposal for understanding health and illness provides both the concepts and the mechanisms for studying and explaining mind-body relationships. The brain is the body's first line of defense against illness, and the m...

The authors investigated whether an implemental mind-set fosters stronger attitudes. Participants who made a decision about how to act (vs. those who held off) expressed a more extreme attitude toward an issue unrelated to the decision (Experiment 1). Participants who planned the implementation of a decision (vs. deliberated vs. control) exhibited less ambivalent (Experiment 2) and more accessi...

Recent research on the dynamics of moral behavior has documented two contrasting phenomena-moral consistency and moral balancing. Moral balancing refers to the phenomenon whereby behaving ethically or unethically decreases the likelihood of engaging in the same type of behavior again later. Moral consistency describes the opposite pattern-engaging in ethical or unethical behavior increases the ...

Playwriting guides, creative writing handbooks, and screenwriting manuals are replete with guidance as to how an author should express their themes. One common rule of thumb is that the climax where themes, characters, narrative’s result converge in terminal thematic statement. If theme established elaborated on during a film, then its film’s authors position matter through or lack thereof. As ...

Moralistic and didactic texts make up a large part of Persian literature. Undoubtedly, if "the inculcation of a particular concept into the mind of the reader and the attempt to persuade and conquer his mind" is not the main purpose of these texts, it is definitely one of their most important goals. In this sense, the poet or writer of such texts tries to persuade the reader and sway his mind t...

An unpublished short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It fancifully elaborates the of Acts 4 and 5 Hamlet , starting on board ship taking to England after killing Polonius. The begins before Danish vessel’s encounter with a pirate Hamlet’s capture pirates, imagines circumstances which he returns Denmark in changed state mind we meet him Act 5.

Here we discuss the role of modules and representations into cognitive architectures by comparing the “unified” approach of SOAR and ACT-R with the “decentralized” one of the Society of Mind. We introduce AKIRA, an open-source hybrid architecture and show how to exploit its features, namely distributed representations and parallel, concurrent processing for agent based cognitive modeling.