The hypothesis that the passive voice is used to put the actor in the background and the acted-upon person in the focus of discourse is tested in the realm of sexual violence. German university students (N = 67) watched a silent video segment depicting a rape whose circumstances, depending on condition, could or could not be easily interpreted in terms of rape myths. Then they wrote down what t...

Critics of hypertext have long expressed skepticism about whether people could or indeed ever would sit down at a screen and read hypertexts. They may cite the more general problems of reading from the computer screen (see, for example, [25]) or they may place the blame partially at the feet of the authors (see, for example, Birkerts’ indictment of hypertext fiction [8][2]). Some have even put ...

The May 24, 2001, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine contained a provocative article by two Danish researchers Asbjorn Hrobjartsson and Peter Gotzsche entitled “Is the Placebo Powerless?” Based on a meta-analysis of 130 clinical trials for a wide range of treatments (including pharmacologic, physical, and psychological protocols) that provided comparisons of placebo with non-treatment...

"It all started with the doubt (perhaps exaggerated) that the Gods do not know how to talk". The author presents the situation and tendencies in contemporary mythological research. The article starts out from the mythos-logos antithesis and from the twofold conception of the myth as both a fabricated and a sacred story. The allopersonages as characters of different names, who function as marker...

0. Abstract Recent work in biology and cognitive science depicts a variety of target phenomena as the products of a tangled web of causal influences. Such influences may include both internal and external factors, as well as complex patterns of reciprocal causal interaction. Such twisted ales are sometimes seen as a threat to explanatory strategies that invoke notions such as "inner programs", ...

Current discourse on the tendencies of migration very often excludes migrants from normal fabric society, not just as aliens, but aliens who represent risk to national security. It frames key question about future political community one a choice for or against migration. sometimes reproduces myth that homogenous western civilization existed in past and can be re-established today through exclu...

Bryan Dowd (2010) should be commended for laying before us the historical roots of the tensions between statisticians and econometricians which, until today, perpetuate the myth that causal inference is somehow confusing, enigmatic, or controversial. While modern analysis has proven this myth baseless, it is often the historical accounts that put things in the proper perspective. I see the tens...

At each stage in transmission of a tale from generation to generation, modifications take place but something remains. Thus there is a potential for material to be retained from a time in the distant past when the narrative was embedded in a total oral worldview or cosmology. This article introduces the analogical discovery method and uses it to build up a structure based on a group of tales fr...