Instinct - Science topic

In the face of extreme survival scenarios-such as natural disasters, warzones, or isolation in harsh environments-individuals may confront moral decisions that pit the instinct for self-preservation against deeply held ethical principles. This article explores how mindfulness-informed ethics-rooted primarily in Buddhist traditions-mediate the psych...

I've always considered myself someone who pays attention to the mood of a room-or a crowd. Whether I'm sitting in a movie theater or watching a protest unfold on the street, there's often a quiet energy you can feel when something shifts. I had a reminder of that recently, in two very different settings. A few days ago, I went to see *Materialists*...

Background Maternal care is an instinctive social behavior indispensable for survival and gene transmission. Postpartum maternal behavior is profoundly affected by mother’s emotional state via incompletely elucidated complex mechanisms including metabolic regulation. Brain glycogen, primarily located in astrocytes, is a potent modulator for brain p...

This article critically examines the ethical tensions between the instinct for survival and the Buddhist moral imperative of non-harming, particularly in relation to the killing of sentient beings for food and personal safety. Anchored in the principles of mindfulness (sati), compassion (karuṇā), and non-violence (ahimsa), Buddhism provides a robus...

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As prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the world, and it is a clear reflection of unjust gender equation in society. Its practice came into existence with the origin of organized society. Prostitution is a byproduct of marriage, and with the introduction of marriage, a man had to remain faithful to a single woman, but in primitive soci...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the psychological dynamics of the character Keke in the novel Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan using the literary psychology approach developed by Sigmund Freud. The main focus of this study lies in the main aspects of personality possessed by humans that have been stated in the psychoanalytic theory approach of Sigmu...

Background The knowledge and understanding of the anatomy of lung segments is of great importance while segmentectomies are increasingly performed. To introduce new technologies and tools in anatomy teaching could help students to improve their skills. Methods Students participants (n = 16) were divided into 3 groups: traditional (n = 5), 3D visua...

In this comprehensive survey, human decision-making in the context of classic game theory dilemmas was thoroughly investigated. The study delved into the cognitive responses to various social dilemmas by employing a field survey with a cross-sectional design to better understand the dynamics of cooperation and defection. A series of carefully craft...

This article investigates the symbolism of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. The aim is, without reducing it to a critique of capitalism or a revival of animism, to hermeneutically reconstruct his concept of life and to compare this position with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Bildungsroman and Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism. In the first part, Miyazak...

This issue contains the following articles: • Basic Math for Grant Applications • Cultivating Stakeholders, Users, and Clientele • Maintaining Editable and Raw Files • A Corner-Cutting Instinct • Endurance • Posing the “Right” Research Questions for Applied Explorations • Inviting Serendipity • Common Data in Grant Applications • Ethics in th...

In this comprehensive survey, human decision-making in the context of classic game theory dilemmas was thoroughly investigated. The study delved into the cognitive responses to various social dilemmas by employing a field survey with a cross-sectional design to better understand the dynamics of cooperation and defection. A series of carefully craft...

Man is a problematic mix of biology, intelligence, and culture. We have very strong biological programs, instincts, and drives that often conflict with our intelligence and cultural training. If we do not understand these conflicts and their origin in our nature, we risk making decisions that have little chance of resulting in lasting improvements...

In this paper, we propose a new optimization algorithm based on the foraging behavior of squirrels, called Squirrel Foraging Optimization (SFO). The algorithm simulates the key behaviors of squirrels in the foraging process, including finding food by smell, observing the environment, storing food, remembering locations, and stealing food from other...

The field of artificial intelligence has reached a critical juncture where the most advanced AI systems are exhibiting behaviors that fundamentally challenge our assumptions about machine intelligence and human control. Recent revelations from leading AI researchers, most notably Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, have documented alarming instances...

This article discusses the ambiguities of the civilised man by employing the conceptual tools of figurational sociology, using Ruben Östlund’s 2017 film The Square as a focal point. Employing Norbert Elias’s theoretical framework, the study explores key sociological themes: the tension between competition and cooperation, the evolving nature of col...

This article examines the neurological basis of the fight, flight, and freeze responses, showing how these survival instincts can hinder clarity in contemporary life. By integrating neuroscience, history, and leadership psychology, it provides practical insights for shifting from reactive states to executive functioning. Through examples featuring...

This article explores the perceptions of Jewish Israeli women from extreme ultra-Orthodox circles regarding strict modesty norms in women’s clothing. Through semi-structured interviews with 30 ultra-Orthodox women from extreme ultra-Orthodox circles, the research identified seven central discourses reflecting the women’s perspectives on modesty nor...

It is assumed that horses have a strong herd instinct that cannot be suppressed by any form of social support from humans. The aim of this study was to assess the behaviour and heart rate parameters of horses that received various forms of human support during short-term social isolation. The research material consisted of 12 clinically healthy rec...

The article highlights one of the central trajectories of the ontogeny of a professional psychologists personality, which in its developmental functioning runs from the action of the protective mechanisms of the psyche at the initial stage of their professional training to the establishment of a number of psychological defences as clearly reflected...

In Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations (2019), Professor Amy Chua offers a sobering diagnosis of modern politics: that identity, not ideology or economics, is the fundamental driver of human behavior and political destiny. The book is both a critique of American liberal universalism and an exposition of how group loyalties—whet...

Introduction: Sexual instinct is one of the basic needs of man and the concept of marital satisfaction is also the most important factor for the stability of marital relationship. The trend of changes in sexual activity during pregnancy can affect sexual function and sexual satisfaction of pregnant women; therefore, providing appropriate strategies...

The growing interest in transdisciplinarity as a mode of research and development, i.e. ‘problem solving science’, co-developed with non-academic stakeholders, is evidenced by the increase in academic literature and funding calls on the topic. Transdisciplinary research, particularly in the environmental, health and education sectors has the potent...

We explore social justice advocacy and education from the vantage point of elite theory as articulated in the works of Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto. Elite theory is applied here to re-appraise the explicit and implicit educational means and ends inspired by contemporary social justice along three interrelated dimensions: the place of ideology,...

Professional accountant services are needed as a guarantee that the financial statements can be trusted as a basis for decision making by internal and external parties. Many factors affect audit reports to be quality, among others, audit quality, auditor's performance and emotional intelligence. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine th...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the kinematic differences in minimum toe clearance (MTC), a risk factor for falls, between older and younger adults during habitual walking and treadmill-induced slip perturbations. Materials and methods Data from 28 older adults and 30 younger adults were analyzed for this study. Each subject was f...

Facial expression recognition influences approach-avoidance behaviors, but can these behaviors affect facial expression recognition? We conducted psychophysical experiments using virtual reality to investigate this reverse causal relationship. Participants responded to static 3D face stimuli generated by morphing expressions between happy and angry...

Youth unemployment in Nigeria constitutes a considerable burden to resolve, even though enterprise development has been advocated; what remains critical is the depth of spread of entrepreneurial instinct across the population. This study assessed entrepreneurial instincts among preschool leavers, identified their background characteristics, and asc...

This paper introduces the concept of the Fivefold Convergence, a framework for understanding tornado encounters not merely as meteorological events but as moments of profound structural alignment across five domains: nature, personal calling, artificial intelligence, mortality, and divine order. At its core, the paper suggests that when a person is...

The idea that mathematical ability and language are related in human cognition is an old one. It is commonly assumed in the philosophical tradition, in psychology and in cognitive science, generally implying that knowledge of numbers is indebted to knowledge of language. In this contribution I suggest a more specific model of the relationship betwe...

Animals encounter predators and prey under diverse lighting conditions that signal different risks and opportunities 1–4 , yet how ambient illumination shapes innate approach and avoidance behaviors remains poorly understood. Here we have systematically tested the visually guided behaviors of New-World (North American Peromyscus ) and Old-World (Eu...

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex decision-making tasks. This progress raises a natural question: how do these artificial systems compare to biological agents, which have been shaped by millions of years of evolution? To help answer this question, we undertake a comparative study of...

Emotion understanding is a critical yet challenging task. Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced their capabilities in this area. However, MLLMs often suffer from hallucinations, generating irrelevant or nonsensical content. To the best of our knowledge, despite the importance of this issue, there ha...

When confronted by a predator, most animals make innate decisions with rapid reaction times – a trait shaped by natural selection to maximize survival. However, in complex and dynamic environments, fast reactions are meaningful only when grounded in accurate judgments and correct choices, which often require cognitive control. Here, we investigate...

In today’s high-stakes arenas—from healthcare to defense—algorithms are advancing at an unprecedented pace, yet they still lack a crucial element of human decision-making: an instinctive caution that helps prevent harm. Inspired by both the protective reflexes seen in military robotics and the human amygdala’s role in threat detection, we introduce...

The likelihood of pedestrians encountering autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in smart cities is steadily increasing. While previous studies have explored human-to-human collision avoidance, the behavior of humans avoiding AMRs in direct, head-on scenarios remains underexplored. To address this gap, we conducted a psychophysical experiment to observe...

Background Pregnancy is a significant transitional life experience that can be one of the most stressful experiences in life. Childbirth education is designed to improve health behaviors and offers information on psychological and physical changes that occur in pregnancy, signs that labor has begun, hospital routines and what to expect, how to mana...

The incorporation of gaming elements to an activity that is not a game is called gamification. It has gained attention within modern educational studies because of its potential as an instructional strategy. This concept does not stop at simply adding games anywhere in the course but plays on the strong motivational power of game attributes to heig...

The article deals with the characteristic features of the poetry of R K Singh as gleaned from his published collections. Social awareness in terms of contemporary life and values exposes man‘s essential instincts, pretense and nakedness. The poet understands myths, legends, history, politics, culture and religion, philosophy of humanity and interpr...

This paper extends the Pure Time Theory (PTT) into the domains of memory, instinct, and consciousness, proposing a unified model in which cognitive phenomena are structured interactions with a fundamental scalar temporal field, denoted T relax. In this framework, the brain does not generate meaning-it modulates access. DNA does not contain instinct...

In the “Apology for Raymond Sebond” Michel de Montaigne aims to upend human arrogance about our superiority over other animals by enumerating the many wonders of the nonhuman animal world. We see birds building intricate nests; spiders thickening and slackening their webs with an engineer’s precision; ants and bees organizing themselves into compli...

At some point in recent history, a well-intentioned safety guideline silently evolved into a social dogma. The advice "do not react" — originally meant for specific high-risk situations — was repeated so frequently by institutions, media, family environments, and even religious voices that it became an unquestioned moral rule, applied indiscriminat...

In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge practices and legal activism. We start by tracing the emergence of colonial declensionist views of environments in India as ‘productive’ and ‘normal’, which have powerfully shaped visions of environments and socio–envi...

Unemployment is the most dangerous phenomena impact on the levels of economic performance, which is rampant in varying proportions in all Rural and Developments Area, without exception, and rife more in Communities that possess the most effective economic approach represented in the Qur’an and the Sunnah of His Prophet, and the problem arises u...

Human drivers naturally possess the ability to perceive driving scenarios, predict potential hazards, and react instinctively due to their spatial and causal intelligence, which allows them to perceive, understand, predict, and interact with the 3D world both spatially and temporally. Autonomous vehicles, however, lack these capabilities, leading t...

Self-comforting behaviors, often perceived as individual responses to emotional distress, are deeply rooted in social and cultural contexts. This paper explores the concept of self-comforting not merely as an instinctive or psychological phenomenon but as a socially constructed coping response. Drawing upon interdisciplinary frameworks and the Self...

If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of homo sapiens, they might well break their calendar into two eras: BNW (before nuclear weapons) and NWE, the nuclear weapons era. The latter era of course opened on August 6 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the i...

America's unprecedented and growing dependence on foreign capital to finance its ballooning trade and budget deficits periodically merits a piece in the business pages. Readers shake their heads, and then forget about it. Even academic economists tend to shy away from the issue, at least in print. Most recognize that a severe crisis is brewing, but...

What is the nature of Japanese Culture? Japan Focus published Douglas Lummis's critique of Ruth Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword, arguably the most influential work ever written on Japanese culture. Below find a response from Toru Uno and Lummis's rejoinder. Japan Focus welcomes further contributions to this debate. Ruth Fulton Benedict's int...

Many observers have recently argued that the newly forged Indo-U.S. alliance will work against its “intended aims of Chinese encirclement.” Although India denies its part in any attempt at “Chinese containment” to the publicly acknowledged satisfaction of China, the theory nevertheless persists. China's response to the Indo-U.S. alliance is, howeve...

Since 1986, the proportion of Britons saying they rarely trust the government to place "the needs of the nation above the interests of their party" has gone from 12% to a plurality of 45%. Respect for the judiciary has remained robust, with 74% of people surveyed saying they trust judges and the legal system. Turning to judges to rake over politica...

In the context of globalization, religion, as a complex belief system encompassing social, economic, and political aspects, is undergoing a process of transformation and innovation. This transformation is analyzed from the perspectives of social philosophy and humanistic philosophy to clarify the interaction between religious life and human life. H...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s essays on literary style construct a complex theory of creative practice in which deliberate, calculated authorial choices intermingle with mysterious intuitions and unconscious compulsions. The article argues that this theory resisted efforts in late Victorian culture and education to methodize writing as an instrumental s...

Purpose The contemporary world has seen remarkable progress in the realm of artificial intelligence, with advancements evident across various domains. This study aims to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on investment decision-making and behavioural biases, specifically focusing on anchoring, representative, overconfidence, loss aversio...

Abstract José Saramago’s Blindness examines the disintegration of social order caused by a sudden blindness epidemic. This study analyses, through the lens of this novel, how societies react in times of crisis and how quickly social structures can deteriorate. The novel shows how, following the epidemic, societal norms disappear, individuals revert...

Play is the most natural way for children to learn; board games are the ultimate parenting ally. Play board games, build essential skills! Start cultivating future competitiveness through games! Is your child always restless, unfocused, or struggles to express themselves? Perhaps they just need a more engaging and instinctive way to learn. Board...

Decisions in agriculture had been driven by methodical planning to increase yields to cater to the needs of overwhelming populations while also allowing farmers to prosper. Allocating land to various crops by making use of limited resources is becoming a crucial challenge for achieving higher profits. To make cropping pattern decisions, farmers tra...

The compendium on nature-based solutions (NbS) focuses on showcasing locally led initiatives undertaken by various urban actors, categorised as NbS cases across the cities of Bangladesh. The existing policies, regulatory frameworks, and guidelines are reviewed to gain insight into the enabling environment for NbS implementation. Additionally, a cos...

Self driving cars has been the biggest innovation in the automotive industry, but to achieve human level accuracy or near human level accuracy is the biggest challenge that research scientists are facing today. Unlike humans autonomous vehicles do not work on instincts rather they make a decision based on the training data that has been fed to them...

This article examines the problem of forming basic concepts in robots within the framework of the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The theories of concept formation in infants were reviewed. There is the consensus that in this early period of human cognitive development the basic concepts and reasoning are established that was...

Song and music are important parts of human life and have a constant relationship with each other. This means that people before they understand science, knowledge, reading and writing, they have understood the existence of the arts in general, song and music in particular. Always, the melodies and rhythms of the music move within blood. This fact...

This paper proposes that Neolithic monuments in Britain, such as Stonehenge, Avebury, and Maeshowe, may have functioned as displays driven by sexual selection, akin to a peacock's tail or a bowerbird's bower. Extending a framework developed for Acheulean handaxes, we argue that these monuments signalled cognitive ability, health management, resourc...

This work proposes a legal theoretical line of a psycho-anthropological nature, which allows us to support the hypothesis that the principles of security and equality originate in the instinct of self-preservation and structure the right. A legal theoryis necessary to form the right that articulates these principles and operates them on...

l. Introduction The idea of mathematically modeling the human subconscious has intrigued scientists, philosophers, and psychologists for over a century. At its core, the subconscious refers to mental processes operating beneath conscious awareness-shaping behaviors, memories, instincts, and decision-making without direct introspection. Mathematical...

The aim of the study was to examine the maternal instinct of 422 Limousin cows reared in 4 farms in Bulgaria. It comprised the period from 2020 to 2024. The cows included were from their first to their seventh lactation and had different origin in terms of country of birth - Bulgaria, France, Austria and Luxemburg. The animals were extensively farm...

Simț Ca natură non dialectică a dicţionarului clasic "simț" este, "SIMȚ, simțuri, s. n. 1. Facultate a oamenilor și a animalelor de a percepe impresii din lumea exterioară cu ajutorul unor organe specifice; funcțiune a organismului prin care acesta recepționează și prelucrează o anumită categorie de stimuli externi sau interni; simțire. ◊ Organe de...

Sericulture Industry: Erudition of Women to lead Sustainable Lives Sharyu Ghonmode V Sericulture is labour-demanding agro-based rural industry. Women contribute greatly to decision-making, and this helps in the development of community. Females have been known for performing their duties with utmost care and personal attention. Women's ability to q...

Malek Bennabi was a prolific thinker on Islamic civilization and social progress who analyzed the causes of Muslim backwardness and advancement. According to him, the primary reason for the decline of Muslim civilization is the lack of harmony between culture and moral values. Bennabi divided the decline of civilization into three major stages: spi...

Ethics are concerned with maximising the thriving of individuals and societies. One cannot maximise the thriving of a person unless one has some idea about what sort of creature that person is. Ethics follow ontology. Many answers have been suggested to the question ‘What is a human?’ and the less fundamental question ‘What are the defining attribu...

Humans, inherently social creatures, instinctively employ facial behaviors for interpersonal communication. Interestingly, when individuals find themselves alone, their facial behaviors tend to become more spontaneous than when in the presence of others, unintentionally revealing their affective states. In particular, when individuals are immersed...

This article addresses the significance of voice, speech, body and mind training for the undergraduate trainee-actor with an emphasis on the embodiment of a pedagogy that encompasses all the ever-growing demand of the actor. The trainee while considering thevocal aspects of delivery finds herself engaging with Lessac Kinesensic Training (LKT), a mo...

This human-centered research, synergizing Jungian psychology and artificial intelligence, explores satisfaction with therapeutic environments through the lens of the collective unconscious. Data from 17 participants (aged 8 to 70) revealed that 78% of gender-based variations in archetypal expression stem from three interwoven forces: pressures of t...

Indigenous village chickens (IVCs) are self-reliant, and they have accumulated traits that assure their survival as a species. The reproductive characteristics and behavioral traits are mainly ascribed to maternal instincts. This study reports the maternal instincts of IVCs gathered using face-to-face interviews with small-scale farmers. Indeed, lo...

Algorithmic Instinct: The Evolution of Intuition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence explores the emerging convergence between human intuition and machine intelligence. As artificial intelligence systems grow more sophisticated-particularly large language models (LLMs) and deep learning networks-they begin to emulate decision-making patterns once...

ARTICLE INFO This study explores the cognitive stylistic features of Maroon 5's song "Animal" through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory and schema theory. Employing a qualitative descriptive design, the research examines the interplay between metaphorical language and cognitive processes to uncover how figurative expressions evoke imagery, emo...

The motif of saintly encounters with animals (wild beasts) occupies a special place in medieval hagiography. Its origins can be traced back to the 4th and 5th centuries, closely linked to the heroic, ascetic endeavours of the saint-hermits in the Egyptian desert, who maintained constant contact with wild beasts and often accompanied by them. Exampl...

Purpose Parents describe knowing instinctively when there is something wrong with their child, but they experience challenges convincing healthcare professionals of these concerns, which could prohibit timely escalation of care. Our purpose was to develop a phenomenological description of parental intuition from parents’ lived experience. Methods...

In today’s hyper-connected world, technology has subtly ensnared us in evolutionary traps, exploiting innate survival instincts to capture and fragment our attention. Although digital devices offer unprecedented convenience, they simultaneously may harm our mental, physical, and emotional well-being through prolonged screen exposure, digital distra...

This study investigates key physiological, genetic, and environmental factors influencing maternal success in sheep to enhance lamb survival and maternal quality. Using data from native and crossbred prolific ewes in a high-altitude, cold-climate region, we applied machine learning models to predict mothering scores based on dam characteristics, bi...

Modifications in business plans, entry to fresh markets and international cooperation are some fields that organizations have to develop in order to diminish the impact of the United States tariffs and deal with the newly ascended market conditions: China Central’s Economic Work Conference. The US has been striking tolls on growing nations such as...

The age-old reliance on human intuition and experience in decision-making is undergoing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence language models (LLMs) usher in a new paradigm of data-driven strategy. This paper explores how LLMs are transforming decision-making processes across industries by synthesizing vast datasets, uncovering hidden patterns...

The Summer Pre-sessional (SPS) can be a difficult place to operate. Intensive working environments; tight turnarounds; unpaid overtime - these realities are revealed in the casual language of recovery that the EAP community instinctively reaches for when describing our signature summer programmes and which provided the initial inspiration for a tal...

This article reproduces a text in which Galileo describes preinertia, although without using this word but expressions such as "natural instinct," or "primary instinct," or even a "marvelous effect in Nature." Preinertia is a universal property of all physical objects by virtue of which they inherit the motion of the proper reference frame from whi...

Abstract This study examines the ambivalence of the eponymous character in Biyi Bandele's Elesin Oba (2022), a film adaptation of Wole Soyinka's text of the same title. Existing studies on the film, as well as the precursory text, have limited the interpretations of the text(s) to the politics of cultures, suicide, self/human sacrifice, and power p...

The challenges facing the BNP are significant, but they are not insurmountable. To regain its position as a leading political force, the party must take decisive action on several fronts. First and foremost, Tarique Rahman must return to Bangladesh and assume a more active role in leading the party. His presence would not only galvanize the BNP’s s...

Early palliative (PC) among patients with non-oncological chronic conditions is not such extended as among patients diagnosed with cancer. This is partially due to the lack of clear and consistent indicators and triggers to define an ‘early’ or ‘timely’ initiation of PC services as the identification of palliative needs can be complex and uncertain...

The desire to childbearing serves as the primary impetus for deciding to embark on the journey of parenthood or fertility. However, there remains a dearth of understanding regarding how couples navigate the complexities of childbearing. The aim of this study endeavors to elucidate the process through which Iranian couples confront the challenges of...

This paper critiques moral frameworks rooted in identity and phenomenal perception, arguing that they divorce moralism from truth by imposing rigid enclosures on reality. It contrasts schooling-a system of epistemic reproduction that reinforces these confines through standardized conditioning-with education, envisioned as technē and vidyābhyāsam, t...

Almost all women breastfeed because it is physiological or natural. They don't necessarily do this out of instinct; it's more convents and requires no preparation or expense. Breastfeeding has a laxative effect and poses no energy risk. It offers psychological advantages by fostering a positive mother-child bond, aiding in the uterus's involution,...

Crime in the modern era is no longer solely a product of socio-economic disparities; it is increasingly a manifestation of deeper psychological and primal instincts that have resurfaced in response to evolving societal conditions. Rooted in Jungian psychology, this study explores the concept of the shadow self—the unconscious, instinct-driven side...

This article explores the intersections of Victorian medicine and literature by examining medical treatises on hereditary psychosis and criminal instincts and Wilkie Collins’ The Legacy of Cain (1888). It first considers the ideas of Prosper Lucas, Bénédict A. Morel, and Henry Maudsley, focusing on the supposed role of women in perpetuating the phe...

As one of the most influential philosophers of the 18th century, Rousseau's goal, expressed in many of his works, was to find a way to build a moral social community, a just order that would gradually eliminate selfishness and division among the present human beings. "Rousseau maintained the belief that human beings in society were selfish and hope...

ith a focus on two recent queer-themed short stories from Kenya and South Africa, this article considers how the use of a child focaliser in fictional representations of early experiences of same-sex desire can disrupt and subvert ideals of childhood ‘innocence’ and the problematic conflation of paedophilia with same-sex sexuality. The two stories...

In the wake of the incursion by Hamas militants into Israel in the early hours of 7 October, a deluge of disinformation in the form of videos and photographs purporting to depict the conflict has inundated various social media platforms, thereby creating a significant challenge for global observers attempting to differentiate between actual occurre...

RESUMO: Este estudo buscou compreender as representações sociais da maternidade entre mães de pessoas LGBTQIAPNb+, focando na experiência do coming out segundo a perspectiva dessas mães. Fundamentado na Psicologia Social Sociológica e na Teoria das Representações Sociais, com destaque para a Teoria do Núcleo Central, realizou-se uma pesquisa qualit...

Once again, Brower and Garzón- Orduña criticize the majority of their fellow students of the butterfly genus Heliconius, especially the current authors. Once again, they fail to provide any new data or even reanalyses of the copious data we have painstakingly collected. Instead, they rely on their instinct that our conclusions are wrong. We wonder...

This research analyzes the divided psyche of Dr. Faustus. He was a brilliant German scholar and the protagonist of the Elizabethan tragedy Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Dr. Faustus’ psyche was conflicted between id and superego, a theory by Sigmund Freud. Throughout the story, we see that Dr. Faustus is mostly ill-motivated by his instinct...

Gestures are instinctive and common in daily life, conveying information about culture, emotions, thoughts, and intentions. They serve as a non-verbal form of communication, using movements of the hands, face, and body to express feelings and ideas, often complementing spoken language. While speech and gestures can function independently, they typi...