the aim of this study was a sociological analysis of nima’s barf poem, based on shariati’s viewpoints in art by emphasise on sorrow concept. shariati has a critical-utopian approach bout art-society relation. he believes that this approach is available in modern art. his definition of modern art, like to adorno, has an allusion to harbinger art movement in 20 century beginning.  although sharia...

This paper presents some preliminary work from my book project, China’s Sorrow or the Yellow River’s Sorrow? An Environmental History of the Yellow River. This project examines millennia-long contests between the flooding waters of the Yellow River and Chinese states’ intentions, efforts, and often failures to curb the floods. It will be a book about exchanges of power (power from various sourc...

The expression of emotion can play a significant role in strategic decision-making. In this study, we hypothesized that emotion expression alters behavior in morally charged negotiation. We investigated the impact of facial displays of discrete emotions, specifically anger and sadness, in a morally charged multi-issue negotiation task. Our results indicate that if a negotiator associated moral ...

There is considerable controversy, both within and outside the field of psychiatry, regarding the boundaries of normal sadness and clinical depression. Furthermore, while there are frequent calls for a "pluralistic", comprehensive approach to understanding depression, few writers have tried to integrate insights from the spiritual, philosophical, and neurobiological literature. The author propo...

Brosschot et al. in this issue [1] make a cogent and compelling argument for researchers to pay more attention to the role of unconscious processes. They argue that the prolonged physiological activity of the type that that produces wear and tear on the body and eventual stressrelated illness may be more due to unconscious worry and distress than researchers have previously recognized. This unc...