the main tasks of ‘environmental graphics’ have been designated as: provision of instructions and essential information, environmental embellishment, ease of interconnection and visual identity establishment all of which can affect the culture and identity of the audience through an unconscious process. if we consider, on the one hand, the crisis of identity and cultural problems of the present...

The results of previous studies on visual perception suggest that conjunction errors partly derive from imperfect binding of correctly perceived features. However, the paradigms used in these studies do not generally allow one to discriminate between errors of feature binding and errors of target-nontarget confusion. In Experiments 1-4, an altered paradigm was used enabling discrimination betwe...

The mathematical relationship between the expectedconfusion metric and the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is derived. Given a limited database of subjects and an identification technique that generates a feature vector per subject, expected confusion is used to predict how well the feature vector will filter identity in a larger population. Related is the area under ...

Over the past years, a growing number of countries have legislated open-identity donation, in which donor-conceived offspring are given access to the donor's identity once the child has reached maturity. It is held that donor anonymity creates identity problems for such children similar to the "genealogical bewilderment" described within the adoption context. The study of the social and psychol...

Nietzsche’s notion of “active forgetting” is employed to better understand the disruptive and destructive influence of collective trauma on cultural identity. Throughout the article genocide is taken as a cause of extreme trauma and used to illustrate this impact. Active forgetting in this context should not be confused with memories fading away; it is rather a positive and active force, a capa...

A t first glance, the notion that human rights violations, violence, and suffering would lead to a humanitarian response and to promotion of human rights and dignity would seem obvious. Yet history shows that the ultimate benefit of humanitarian action seldom accrues to the "victims." As a result of this conundrum, the humanitarian movement, exemplified by the French Doctors, has entered an unp...

Introduction: Adolescence is the most critical life period for development of eating disorder (ED) symptomatology. Although problems in identity functioning and emotion dysregulation have been proven important risk maintaining factors ED symptomatology, they never integrated a longitudinal study. Methods: The present study part Longitudinal Identity research (LIA)-study aimed to uncover tempora...

Background: Adolescence is a phase that must be passed through physical, mental, emotional and social changes. In this phase, adolescents begin to have developmental task, namely self-identity. Adolescents with good self-identity will achieve tasks well, while low may experience identity confusion which results in deviant behaviors. Self-identity influenced by several factors, one of the celebr...