We analyzed posts written by Facebook profiles who advocate violent jihad without supporting any terrorist group. They share extremist content in the middle of regular posts, thanks to which they are likely reach a large audience. identified what extent their ingroup-outgroup opposition is constructed crisis, identity, and solution frames how use these sometimes breach Facebook’s community stan...

Modern American biomedical ethics is centered on a standard paradigm. Well-informed patients should make autonomous choices about their own health care. The legal and ethical foundations are solidly established, and the language of “rights” dominates much of public discourse. Emphasis on rights has led to strong protections for individual decisionmaking. Patients who are unable to make good dec...

1. introduction the shahnameh opens with a preface which probably did not exist prior to ferdowsi. even if such a thing existed, it must have been different from the present introduction. putting this aside, the rest of the shahnameh has a clear beginning and ending. this has helped critics to determine the structure of the work as a whole by its content. however, we believe the shahnameh inclu...

The Curriculum Guidelines of the Undergraduate Nursing are references to the strengthening of the changes in training of professionals critics and committed to health. Seeking to identify these changes, this study aimed to analyze the progress and challenges of a decade of these Guidelines. This is a documentary research, in which it was analyzed the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Educ...

A popular canard among critics of psychiatry is that psychiatric disorders are never listed in pathology textbooks. This erroneous claim is sometimes used to argue that some diseases such as schizophrenia are not "real" diseases, but merely metaphorical inventions of psychiatrists. In reality, many pathology and pathophysiology texts now recognize schizophrenia as bona fide disease, and physici...

This paper discusses the key political, anthropological and socio-cultural functions of political myths in the appearance and functioning of totalitarian regimes. A special emphasis is put on structural elements of the myth (mythemes) and the mythic content (narratives) in the processes of artificial construction of a new society (community) based on the myth-inspired ideological postulates. Th...

The perceived inability of behaviorism to deal with complex human behavior has been a recurrent theme among its critics. Although ingenious and subtle, even Skinner's Verbal Behavior (1957) is widely faulted on these grounds, in particular, for failing to explain linguistic generativity (Chomsky, 1959). In Relational Frame Theory: A PostSkinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition, Hayes,...

The author replies to the critics of symposium.