Using the White Christmas task, we examined in a sample of undergraduate students (N=111) individual differences between participants who reported ‘‘hallucinatory experiences’’ and those who did not. For this purpose, we used individual difference measures tapping the following constructs: schizotypy, predisposition to hallucinate, mental imagery, and fantasy proneness. Participants who reporte...

This article starts by reviewing the negative account of utopian thinking in dominant liberal western political theory, through the positing of a link between utopianism and totalitarianism, as present in the writings of liberal writers like Hayek, Popper, Berlin and others. As such, this article constitutes a critique of the liberal theories of utopianism and totalitarianism as well as positin...

The technical-economic performances of static (traditional) and auction-driven dynamic radiospectrum allocation (FSA and DSA), and of an utopian “federated” network (with all spectrum and customers) are compared. Spectrum licensees operate cellular CDMA networks populated by heterogeneous data-downloading terminals, which may experience ultra-wide-band (UWB) interference. A terminal has its own...

Nonclinical studies found that dissociative experiences are intimately linked to a trait known as fantasy proneness. We examined the links among dissociative symptoms, fantasy proneness, and impulsivity in psychiatric outpatients. Our sample consisted of 22 patients with schizophrenia, 20 patients with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and 19 patients with a major depressive disor...

Abstract In his final speech as chair of the assembly that drafted India's Constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar described a contradiction between formal equality Constitution guaranteed and country's socioeconomic inequality. This article follows two interpretive traditions Constitution: first, developed by Supreme Court in challenging land reform legislation, is doctrine “basic structure” which hol...

Habituation of sexual arousal to deviant fantasy in a sample of sex offenders was examined. In addition self-reports of attentional and affective states were monitored to observe if changes in these states parallelled shifts in sexual arousal. Eight male sex offenders were presented with a constant deviant erotic fantasy described on audiotape. The same fantasy (habituation stimulus) was presen...