This study examined whether, in a community sample of Israeli adults (N = 335), benign (i.e., affiliative and self-enhancing) and injurious (i.e., aggressive and self-defeating) humor styles mediated or moderated the relationship between self-criticism and neediness, two traits that confer vulnerability to depression, on the one hand, and levels of depressive symptoms, on the other. There was n...

Challenging an attitude toward fallibility in medical practice which they see as outdated and detrimental to patient care, the authors suggest a new approach to self-evaluation and peer review by physicians. Arguing that knowledge grows from recognition of error, they submit ten proposals aimed at the development of a new professional ethics that would encourage physicians to admit and analyze...

modern aesthetic is separated its account from classic aesthetic in the categories as meaning and beauty, and is shaped new aesthetic experiences. in the modern time isn’t a trace from static and stable attitude to world in the science and even art. when a work describes with terms like modern and post modern, we must be expect that encounter difficulty in its understanding. the works have very...

The aim of this paper is not to analyze the thematization diseases (whether specific or general) contagion expressed in literary form, but explore ways which discourse contemporary criticism applied imagery associated with disease descriptions shifting norms conjunction changing cultural and social paradigms time.

Literature, in addition to its aesthetic and artistic aspects, has always been a reflection of social and cultural realities and characteristics of its respective era and society. Sociological criticism is a relatively modern method in literary criticism. The method studies the structure and content of literary works and their relation to the structures and evolutions of the societies where the...

OBJECTIVES Cultural variability (CV) is introduced as an overlooked dimension of cultural identity development pertaining to emphasizing and de-emphasizing the influence of a single cultural identity (i.e., cultural influence [CI]) on daily interactions and behaviors. The Cultural IDentity Influence Measure (CIDIM) is introduced as a novel measure of CI and CV, and hypothesis-driven validation ...

In recent years, far from arguing that evolutionary approaches to our own species permit us to describe the fundamental character of human nature, a prominent group of cultural evolutionary theorists has instead argued that the very idea of 'human nature' is one we should reject. It makes no sense, they argue, to speak of human nature in opposition to human culture. The very same sceptical argu...

The feminist bell hooks is a staunch critic of sexist, racist, and classist media representations. Despite this, has been called out for being unscholarly disorganized in her cultural criticism. Through close reading hooks’ works, this paper attempts to make sense organize criticism frameworks toward possible system critical discourse analysis. Hooks’ works are taken apart examine how the parts...