this article aims to study the causes, strategies and consequences of tobacco consumption among women and young girls. this research using qualitative methods, data-driven approach to theorizing (grounded theory) and a semi-structured interview technique was interactive. the population of the study included women and young girls, living in the city of shiraz. using purposeful and theoretical sa...

Abstract This article explores the nature and genealogy of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s concept conscience/ antarātmā (inner soul/spirit), cardinal principle his religious politics. Much previous scholarship, solely relying upon English materials, has explained conscience in relation to Western Christian Protestant traditions. By chronologically examining lifelong discourse on expressed Gujarati Hindi ...

THE SUPEREGO first came to my attention when I did not know what to call it. The occasion was a relatively harmless instance: an Army officer and his wife, who were by virtue of their military status dispensed from Friday abstinence, told me how it had taken them almost a year to be able to eat meat on Friday without feeling somewhat guilty about this —in spite of their dispensation. But anothe...

BACKGROUND In spite of a national strategy for reducing coercion in the mental health services, Norway still has a high rate of involuntary treatment compared to other European countries. It is therefore crucial to study various parties involved in involuntary treatment in order to reduce coercion. RESEARCH QUESTION How do patients and staff in a Norwegian locked psychiatric ward experience c...

The implicit conception of conscience from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notes 1929 is brought into comparison with the theory as a paradoxical identity guilt and innocence by Philip Konrad Marheineke (which served pattern for Kierkegaardian concept “despair”) (grammatical temporal) redoubling Vladimir Jankélévitch. Wittgensteinian views on feeling tend to Marheineke-Kierkegaard’s model (the hides in v...

Guilt is an important social and moral emotion. In addition to feeling unpleasant, guilt is metaphorically described as a "weight on one's conscience." Evidence from the field of embodied cognition suggests that abstract metaphors may be grounded in bodily experiences, but no prior research has examined the embodiment of guilt. Across four studies we examine whether i) unethical acts increase s...