We report three randomised and pre-registered experiments examining the effects of narrative fiction (vs. non-fiction vs. expository non-fiction) on concern for animal welfare. In Experiment 1a (N = 363) there was no significant increase in welfare or willingness to donate an charity among participants who read a text about monkey's plight texts monkey). 1b =121) greater after reading compared ...

This paper discusses the incentive to bundle when consumer valuations are nonadditive and/or when products are supplied by separate sellers. Whether integrated or separate, firms have an incentive to introduce a bundle discount when demand for the bundle is elastic relative to demand for stand-alone products. A simple formula is derived for when an integrated firm supplying substitute products ...

Until the year 2000, there was no specific statute enacted in Jordan that regulates unfair competition. In the year 2000, the Jordanian Unfair Competition Law No. 15 of 2000 was enacted. The Law deals with the issue of unfair competition in a very generic way. In addition to the Jordanian Unfair Competition Law, the principal statutory source of protection is implemented through the general rul...

Abstract The chapter presents narrative-theoretical methods for the analysis of narrativization welfare state as shared experience. focus is on early twenty-first-century narrative environments, particularly written forms social media, journalism, institutional communication and fiction. are derived from theories complexity, cognitive narratology, master counter-narratives, agency viral media s...

Nona Fernández's work has been catalogued within what is known as the "generation of children" to refer those narrations by authors who were children during Chilean dictatorship. The writer Fernández will be analyzed understand how writing process, its relationship with event and processes subjectivation characters, from a narrative perspective towards autobiographical autofictional genres, hav...

Coined in 2007 by film critic Nathan Rabin, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a quirky, ethereal figure who exists merely as tool for self-actualisation and has no narrative purpose beyond that of enriching life an apathetic, White, male, cisgender, heterosexual, middle-class protagonist. Despite her pervasiveness across television, popular culture, literature – particularly contemporary YA ...

This paper examines Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (2020), a speculative narrative, which depicts world of extreme surveillance and dystopia, technology-controlled, the deep differences between privileged underprivileged. The Indian version novel is considered for this paper. Through work dystopian fiction, understands how pandemic could accelerate into living fiction speculates futures awaiting u...