Cartoons on television are a platform for gender representation because of their varied content. It is observed evidence that cartoons hold more dominant role over the centuries. The stereotyped in animated programs affects viewers, particularly young children, variety ways. purpose this study to analyze how anthropomorphic characters promote masculinity Indian cartoons. character comparison wa...

If we laugh at a ]oke we are likely to think it funny, and funnier situations are expected to cause more laughter and more positive judgments (Calvert, 1949, Zigler, Levme, & Could, 1966) Common sense and psychological theories (Rosenberg, 1^0) suggest that a person's attitudes (evaluations) and emotional reactions are hkely to be consistent But does this consistency between laughter and evalua...

Political (editorial) cartoons often capture the Zeitgeist of society and convey a message. Increasingly, historians study them to understand commentaries of past events or personalities. Visual culture as an academic subject could be greatly enhanced if this information can be digitally archived. We employ crowdsourcing to obtain valuable metadata by guiding volunteers’ feedback using an onlin...

Violent reactions to provocative films and cartoons about Islam have left many people around the world more appalled by the reactions than by the provocations. In 2004, Dutch director Theodoor van Gogh was assassinated because of his film about the treatment of women in Islam. Since 2005, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has been the target of several murder attempts because of his depictions...

This article is intended to engage others in a dialogue about the role and meaning of jokes about suicide. Types of jokes involving suicide are examined to distinguish the different types of humor involved. A sample of 118 recent political cartoons in an online website was downloaded, of which 73 concerned suicide bombers. Examples of suicide cartons and jokes involving disparagement, incongrui...

however, explains such secondary effects associated with subjective contours as changes in brightness or in apparent depth. In contradistinction to the physiological explanations are a number of hypotheses that are primarily cognitive in nature. Kanizsa (1976) maintains that illusory contours are merely an unusually strong example of the Gestalt principle of closure. Other theorists suggest, ra...

How do we determine who owns what? This article reports evidence indicating that we typically assume that the first person who possesses an object is its owner. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants read cartoons in which two children each take a turn playing with a toy. Participants selected the character who first possessed the toy when judging who owned it, but not when judging which characte...

Unconventional discourse in schizophrenia has been speculated to be attributable to the mixing up of symbols and signs. We illustrate how a series of scientific images, cartoons, and prose are used by a patient to weave disparate-and objectively unrelated-concepts. The resulting prose is incoherent science.

Relying upon a content analysis of one specific type of medium to which young people are exposed beginning at an early age, on a regular basis, and for many years (i.e., animated cartoons), the present study examines what types of messages are provided about being physically unattractive, physically attractive, and ordinary-looking. This research concerns itself with identifying the characteris...