This study proposes an alternative to the conditioning circuit as discussed in Gross-berg and Levine (1987). This new version builds on recent work on selective attention (LaBerge, 1995), fear conditioning (Weinberger, 1995) and adaptive timing (Grossberg & Merrill, 1992), and addresses some of the shortcomings in Grossberg and Levine (1987), such as: self-priming, weight transport and the habi...

Throughout human history the theme of positive changes following adversity is found in literature, religions, and philosophies. Most notable is Nietzsche’s famous dictum, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” It was an idea also common to the existential and humanistic traditions of psychology of the mid-twentieth century. Viktor Frankl wrote about the will to meaning following his experien...

Throughout human history the theme of positive changes following adversity is found in literature, religions, and philosophies. Most notable is Nietzsche’s famous dictum, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” It was an idea also common to the existential and humanistic traditions of psychology of the mid-twentieth century. Viktor Frankl wrote about the will to meaning following his experien...

Abstract: In line with Dixon, Levine, Reicher & Durrheim's argument, I suggest that prejudice should be understood in broadly political rather than narrowly psychological terms. First, what counts as prejudice is a political judgement. Second, studies of collective action demonstrate that it is in 'political' struggles, where subordinate groups together oppose dominant groups, that prejudice ca...

Levine and Zervos (1998) presented cross-country econometric evidence showing that, in a sample of 47 countries, stock market liquidity contributed a significant positive influence on GDP growth between 1976-93. We show that the Levine-Zervos results are not robust to alternative specifications because of the incomplete manner in which they control for outliers in their data. We show that when ...

where Mag(x;y) = 1/| det[Jacη](x)| is the magnification of the lensed image x of y. Suppose that the light source at y moves along a path y(t). Then the shifted center-of-light curve relative to the source’s trajectory is defined by Xcl(t) = xcl(y(t)) − y(t). It is an important fact that locally stable k-plane lensing maps η are generic and each is differentiably equivalent about every critical...