Individuals tend to explain the characteristics of others with reference to an underlying essence, a tendency that has been termed psychological essentialism. Drawing on current conceptualizations of essentialism as a fundamental mode of social thinking, and on prior studies investigating belief in genetic determinism (BGD) as a component of essentialism, we argue that BGD cannot constitute the...

In this report, I present an early iteration of a system intended to detect the ideological bent of an arbitrary block of text along the scale from liberal to conservative. This is attempted via the use of an Adaboostgenerated ensemble of decision stumps which split upon the presence or absence of a given n-gram in the text. The training data consists of floor statements taken from the U.S. Con...

This essay examines the ideological dimension of translation studies in present-day China, which can be viewed as an indicator of any discernible change in ideological fluctuations of translation. Based on an overview of translation studies in present-day China, this essay argues that the most urgent problem is the domestic climate for the social, cultural, political, and institutional sub-syst...