The current study examined whether the personality traits of self-criticism or dependency moderated the effect of stressful life events on treatment response. Depressed outpatients (N = 113) were randomized to 16 weeks of cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, or antidepressant medication (ADM). Stressful life events were assessed with the Bedford College Life Events and Dif...

Reader-response criticism maintains that the interpretive activities of readers, rather than the author’s intention or the text’s structure, explain a text’s significance and aesthetic value. Biographical accounts of how a writer responds to his or her critics initiated this kind of criticism. That is, since a writer may respond to commentary provided by friends, reviewers, or critics, biograph...

Beginning with an article by Hans Robert Jauss, which detects in Belting some "unease" towards hermeneutics, this paper claims instead that Belting, his studies, manifests deep hermeneutic awareness, among other things indebted many respects to Jauss' reception theory itself. Nonetheless, it is still possible notice "unease," emerges the way considers hermeneutics "methods and games" of history...

Everyday social evaluations are psychologically potent and trigger self-reflective thoughts and feelings. The present study sought to examine the psychophysiological impact of such evaluations using eye tracking, pupillometry, and heart-rate variability. Fifty-nine healthy adult volunteers received rigged social feedback (criticism and praise) based on their photograph. Gaze data were collected...

Resumo Este artigo analisa o poema “Farol da Barra” tendo como base a teoria de experiência estética Jauss (1994). Também trazemos para discussão as propostas teóricas Figurelli (1988), Zilberman (1989), entre outros. A partir um método análise qualitativa, com finalidade legitimar produção literária e pessoas surdas, propomos uma analogia ideias defendidas pela recepção, mormente partindo das ...

the present article begins with an articulation of the significance and relation of ‘query and response’ with both dialogue and its semantic perimeters and discloses the sources of rumi’s thinking about this issue. after this taking a comparative stance, this article briefly explores the background and the significance of query and response, dialogue and dialectic as they relate to both ontolog...

Parental criticism can have positive and negative effects on children's and adolescents' behavior; yet, it is unclear how youth react to, understand and process parental criticism. We proposed that youth would engage three sets of neural processes in response to parental criticism including the following: (i) activating emotional reactions, (ii) regulating those reactions and (iii) social cogni...

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...