The present research examined whether physically attractive Facebook users are assumed to possess more socially desirable characteristics than unattractive Facebook users. Undergraduate psychology and speech pathology students (77 males and 306 females; median age = 18 years) were presented with portrait photographs of two attractive and two unattractive individuals in a counterbalanced order. ...

What an incredible honor to open our annual meeting with a chance think you about where we are, are going, and the moral tools need guide us on this important journey. Last fall, as I started planning for talk, was thinking in terms of metaphorical voyages dream destinations. But it's not anymore. We crazy, previously untraveled, frankly treacherous journey together. know started… “before COVID...

Michael Reed's 2012 book Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo sets out an excellent account uncomfortable relationship between Church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints and core symbol Christianity: cross. Reed persuasively demonstrates that taboo was late development in Saint history locates much taboo's roots anti-Catholicism early to mid-twentieth century.This article presents mo...

Roy Wagner at University of Virginia in 2009. (Photograph by Johannes Neurath) Wagner, a visionary theorist cultural meaning and creativity, died on September 10, 2018, his home Charlottesville, Virginia. He was known for work kinship, ritual, myth Papua New Guinea experiments representing anthropological thought as “reciprocity perspectives” that helped to inspire the “ontological turn” well r...

In middle-class Pakistan, marriage is the prescribed future for all women, but premarital contact between sexes discouraged. To find right partner, then, without visibly flouting social norms, requires a skillful balancing act private interests and aspirations, public representations collective concerns. Young women often navigate these conflicting demands by developing what they call an unders...

of the Manuscript Project: This monograph investigates some of the historical roots of the contemporary and complicated connections between Indian men, Indian women, and the state by examining multilayered links between gender and Indian/state relations from 1850-1925. In particular, the study explains the historical foundations for Indian women’s often-peripheral status in Indian/state relatio...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Research Findings: Western ideas and progressive pedagogies have been introduced to China (including Shenzhen), Hong Kong, and Singapore to replace Chinese traditional pedagogy. But these “imported” ideas are not congruent with traditional Chinese culture thus have encountered resistance from Chinese teachers. The present study observed and analyzed 18 early childhood classrooms in the three lo...

Modeling personality is important both for understanding human traits, and for designing artificial systems. Both aims are challenging. Studies of human personality suggest that personality traits such as extraversion and neuroticism have multiple correlates relating to many qualitatively different aspects of neural and cognitive functioning. The tri-level explanatory framework of cognitive sci...