OBJECTIVES To test whether the results of the accumulated studies on media violence and aggressive behavior are consistent with the theories that have evolved to explain the effects. We tested for the existence of both short-term and long-term effects for aggressive behavior. We also tested the theory-driven hypothesis that short-term effects should be greater for adults and long-term effects s...

viktor frankl, a neurologist and the founder of logo-therapy (1969) stated that “will to meaning” is the basic essence of the universe (1). logo-therapy means therapy through meaning, which is based on the premise that man has a will-to-meaning; the meaning thus lies in suffering(2). one of the most important human functions is discovering meaning in life, which is also considered as a sign of ...

BACKGROUND Those who stutter have a proclivity to social anxiety. Yet, to date, there is no comprehensive measure of thoughts and beliefs about stuttering that represent the cognitions associated with that anxiety. AIMS The present paper describes the development of a measure to assess unhelpful thoughts and beliefs about stuttering. METHODS & PROCEDURES The Unhelpful Thoughts and Beliefs a...

the present research aimed to examine the arguments and persuasion in the poems attributed to imam hussein's:therefore his word started to speak of the literal and idiomatic meaning of persuasion and has become increasingly important to discussion and study of  reasoning and persuasion in poems and its performance. it also to been studied main issues , in which attempts to accompany the au...

â  â  â  â â â  abstract â  hafiz ibrahim is one of the famous egyptian poets who were influenced by sami al-baroodi and ismail saberi in his poetry and in his religious poems by sheikh mohamad abdu's thoughts. these effects are displayed in the fields of veil, charity, consultation, religious reform, jihad, religious leniency and petition . according to hafiz, the problem of society is pe...

minoo ’s ahriman is a term for discovering ahriman in the world of minoo: a world where it’s creatures are invisible, undesirable, and without a body . in this article, minoo’s ahriman in the avesta and the pahlavi texts are surveyed. in gahan, ahriman exists as the evil nature as opposed to the good nature that leads to his creation in the haftha. in new avesta the minavi existence continues w...