The Economist s mission statement, printed on the contents page in every issue, proudly proclaims that it has been leading the debate about progress since 1843, yet the January 12, 2013 issue struck an uncharacteristically pessimistic note on this core topic. The cover carried an illustration of Rodin s The Thinker perched on a new base—namely a toilet with a cistern. A thought bubble over The ...

The topic of the relationship between obsessive and delusional thinking can be developed from a descriptive point of view, focusing the differential aspects, and from a standpoint more sensible towards the continuity linking the two phenomena, looking for those elements contributing to c1arify the dynamic relationship between them. As Binswanger [1957] wrote: «In the “linnean” system of psychop...

good papers are usually recognized quickly by the scientific community, often achieving citation rates higher than those of high-impact journals. Furthermore, the strict page limits of high-impact journals can force authors to omit valuable information [1], sometimes reducing the reach and citation rate of a paper. A rejection also forces a scientist to spend time revising and resubmitting, ins...

One of life’s inevitable disappointments—one felt often by scientists and artists, but not only by them—comes from expecting others to share the particularities of one’s own sense of awe and wonder. This truth came home to me recently when I picked up Michael Guillen’s fine book Five Equations That Changed the World (4) and discovered that my equation—the one that shaped my scientific career—wa...

With the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, concerns related to panic and increasing anxiety have been multiplying by each passing day. Consequently, schools, colleges, educational institutions, workplaces shut since mid March, 2020 in India. This study attempted find psychological repercussions on academic performance university students while focusing upon finding obsession level COVID-19. The exhi...

The last few decades of the twentieth century witnessed the body moving from no one’s particular concern to virtually everyone’s preoccupation – including historians. Roy Porter writing on the history of the body in the revised second edition of Peter Burke’s New Perspectives on Historical Writing declared that “body history” had become the “historiographical dish of the day” (Porter, 2001, 236...

R research has shown that managers in publicly traded companies facing earnings pressure—the pressure to meet or beat securities analysts’ earnings forecasts—may make business decisions to improve short-term earnings. Analysts’ forward-looking performance forecasts can serve as powerful motivation for managers, but may also encourage them to undertake short-term actions detrimental to future co...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced a global mental health crisis and many individuals have obsessive thoughts worry about COVID-19 which may, both directly indirectly, relate to more general anxiety. This study explored anxiety sensitivity mindful awareness as mediators in the relationship between obsession College student participants (N = 172) completed Obsession with scale, Anx...

The aim of this study to know the effect Neuroticism phubbing behavior on student Makassar State University. This used quantitative method as an approached and accidental sampling a technique. respondent that involved in are 150 college students (n=150, 40 men 110 women). two instruments, they neuroticism scale arrange Likert scale. developed by researcher based aspect McCrae dan Costa, anxiety...