I focus in this article on Florentine texts from the sixteenth century in which the authors describe intense affective responses to the Last Judgment (and Michelangelo the artist), and the relationship these responses bear to...
Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson College., Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s Spectator markets itself to readers as a diurnal regimen of moral and spiritual self-formation: by consuming the paper each...
Fung, Helene H., Yuan Wan Ho, Rui Zhang, Xin Zhang, Kimberly A. Noels, Kim-Pong Tam. Age Differences in Personal Values: Universal or Cultural Specific? Psychology and Aging 31, no. 3 (2016): 272-286., For more information on...
Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and...
Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However,...
Agricultural lands are vital to food security, which is imperative to the “no global hunger” objective of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Global food security is at risk from climatic change related increased...
This paper tested competing arguments that foreign aid can substantially aggravate the patterns of underdevelopment in previous British colonies. I followed the Center for Global Development in taking into account Amartya Sen’s...
If you're a fan of the British TV show Sherlock, you might be interested to hear that the lead actor in that show, Benedict Cumberbatch, will be starring as the legendary English scientist Alan Turing in a movie to be...