Art as Adaptation [published in Polish Sztuka jako adaptacja], a book by Jerzy Luty, provokes one to seek the roots of art not only cultural processes but also biological (evolutionary) processes. The consequences this evolutionistic perspective render question whether other species, apart from human beings, create art, and if so, how it manifests itself valid. In paper, I emphasise that we rec...

Five studies demonstrate that the positive valence of a stimulus increases its perceived familiarity, even in the absence of prior exposure. For example, beautiful faces feel familiar. Two explanations for this effect stand out: (a). Stimulus prototypicality leads both to positivity and familiarity, and (b). positive affect is used to infer familiarity in a heuristic fashion. Studies 1 and 2 sh...

Disney movies are frequently cited as a source of the what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype. Two studies (a) assessed prevalence of the stereotype across animated Disney movies; and (b) examined whether exposure to such films influences children's judgments of peers. In Study 1, human characters in 21 films were rated on attractiveness, goodness, and character outcome. Regression analyses demons...

ion is the key to managing complexity. Good abstractions turn a nearly impossible task into two manageable ones. The first one of these is defining and^aglementing the abstractions. The second one is using these abstractions to sol^He problem at hand. One abstraction that almost every computer user understands is the file. It is a useful piece of information, such as a digital photo, SEC. 1.1 W...

A photo gallery is crucial for organizing your photos, presenting them in beautiful categories, and doing sophisticated memory searches. The portrayed a vocabulary of nonlinear similarities to the prototype face image collection. One difficult research ideas machine learning technologies maintenance using facial recognition. Based on changes faces' appearance, faces are identified. This propose...

The presented article outlines vectors of transformation basic values Good-Truth-Beauty in the network. epistemological, moral-ethical, and aesthetic aspects are offered, which allows revealing forms representation initial Internet culture. In particular, planes intersection axes “good/evil”, “truth/lie”, “beautiful/ugly” social media presented. authors concerned about assertion equivalence blu...

The global issue of women's marginalisation in the accounting profession has received significant attention from researchers but tends to focus on women’s work public firms, rather than their leadership professional associations, and as yet failed explore African context. Additionally, it is often argued that when women are involved positions, they can transform inequality by highlighting rever...