Understanding the factors that promote, disrupt, or shape the nature of cooperation is one of the main tasks of evolutionary biology. Here, we focus on attitudes and beliefs supportive of in-group favoritism and strict adherence to moral consensus, collectively known as ideological rigidity, that have been linked with both ends of the political spectrum. The presence among the political right a...

Media outlets sometimes incorporate ideological content into their programming. Such content may simply be a form of product variety, but it may also be due to media outlet owners who are willing to sacrifice some profit in order to engage in ideological persuasion. In this paper, we assume the existence of such owners, and we compare the amount and type of persuasion that will occur under two ...

The theoretical virtue of parsimony values the minimizing of theoretical commitments, but theoretical commitments come in two kinds: ontological and ideological. While the ontological commitments of a theory are the entities it posits, a theory’s ideological commitments are the primitive concepts it employs. Here, I show how we can extend the distinction between quantitative and qualitative par...

The story "Inscape" discussed in this article is associated both with the writer's works of fiction and his epistolary publicist speeches. programmatic “Questions to myself”, written same year as “Inscape”, raises a sensitive for Shukshin issue influence urban, virtually philistine culture on rural one. To mind problem that city drains various kinds “cultural surrogate” into village. “Inscape” ...

According to the Religious Openness Hypothesis, the religious and psychological openness of American Christians is obscured by a defensive ghettoization of thought associated with a Religious Fundamentalist Ideological Surround and can be discovered instead within a Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surround. A test of this claim examined Religious Fundamentalism, Biblical Foundationalism, Q...

The development and continuous improvement of campus networks brings new changes to the campus and college life, more and more students are turning to micro-blog to express their views and opinions, and through the micro blogging to achieve fast and efficient sharing and exchange of information and resources. In the micro blog era, the power of micro blogging can not only impact college student...