Talking to Yourself

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Kross ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gunshot Wound ◽  
Terrorist Group ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Initial Moment ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
Negative Thoughts ◽  
Common Response ◽  
The Face ◽  
Clear Solutions

In 2012, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl received one of the most frightening messages imaginable: a terrorist group was plotting to kill her. Her name was Malala Yousafzai, and two years later, after recovering from a gunshot wound to the face, she would become the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. But in that initial moment, when she had just heard about the threat against her life, she found herself focusing inward trying to make sense of her situation.  When we're stressed, turning inward is a common response—but it often backfires. Instead of making us feel better, it leads us to experience chatter. Chatter is the cycle of negative thoughts and feelings that turn our capacity for introspection into a vulnerability rather than a strength—we worry, ruminate, and catastrophize rather than come up with clear solutions for how to improve our circumstances. And chatter is even more common now, given the turbulence of a once-in-a-century pandemic, a racial reckoning, and extreme political polarization.

scholarly journals Partially Thrombosed Internal Maxillary Pseudoaneurysm after Gunshot Wound

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menachem Gold
Keyword(s):  
Gold Standard ◽  
Gunshot Wound ◽  
Bone Fractures ◽  
Maxillary Artery ◽  
Digital Subtraction ◽  
Fat Pad ◽  
Facial Bone ◽  
Artery Pseudoaneurysm ◽  
Ct Angiogram ◽  
The Face

A 29-year-old man arrived in our emergency department after being shot on the face. Computed tomography (CT) revealed multiple facial bone fractures along the bullet trajectory. On day 10 of admission, CT angiogram of the neck revealed a partially thrombosed pseudoaneurysm in the parapharyngeal fat pad. The pseudoaneurysm was successfully treated with coil embolization. This report discusses diagnosis and treatment of a partially thrombosed internal maxillary artery pseudoaneurysm. Although digital subtraction angiography is the gold standard for pseudoaneurysm diagnosis, CT angiography may provide complimentary information, as seen in this case.

scholarly journals Preference Falsification Revisited: How Psychological Science Can Offer Insight into Motivated Belief Misrepresentation and Collective Misunderstanding

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Elder ◽  
Yrian Derreumaux;Derreumaux ◽  
Brent Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Face ◽  
Insight Into

Throughout life, people sometimes lie to curry favor or mitigate disharmony with others, a tendency that may be exacerbated under moments of elevated tension. This phenomenon is captured by the economic theoretical framework of Preference Falsification, which describes why people misrepresent their beliefs in the face of social pressures, and how misrepresentation accumulates to broader misunderstandings that can fuel political polarization. We describe why the current political climate may foster motivations to misrepresent beliefs, as individuals are increasingly siloed into like-minded communities with strong pressures to conform to group norms. Next, we adopt a psychological lens to understand and integrate three motivations that underlie individual misrepresentation – relating to an individual’s intrinsic preference, their reputational concern, and their desire for expression – and describe how individual acts of misrepresentation can propagate across social connections to establish misrepresented beliefs as public consensus. Finally, we outline inroads for examining Preference Falsification using psychological methods that may be uniquely suited to elucidate the different social dynamics and issues that elicit this behavior, with the goal of spurring future research. Ultimately, we argue that fostering a more ideologically pluralistic and socially interconnected society may offer one route to reducing misrepresentation and collective misunderstanding, and thereby attenuate polarization and intergroup antipathy.

scholarly journals Rzut oka na współczesną włoską filozofię polityki, poczynając od La pensabilità del mondo Sebastiana Maffettonego

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Cinzia Sciuto ◽  
Anna Fligel
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Terrorist Group ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Single State ◽  
Balance Of Forces ◽  
Italian Philosophy ◽  
Global Reach

The author presents a panorama of the contemporary Italian philosophy of politics, focusing, in particular, on a reflection on a global society. This ‘globalisation’ of philosophical and political reflection has been subjected to a sudden acceleration, beginning with 11 September 2001, a day which was a tragic demonstration of the global nature of the contemporary balance of forces. Never before had a single state waged war against a vaguely identified terrorist group of global reach, where only the name and the face of its elusive leader is known. The author familiarises the reader with the views of Sebastian Maffetone, who, with his Renaissance faith in the speculative mind, wants to make this world, which is itself chaotic, a reasoned, which is to say, a rational one. He places himself in the tradition of thought which leads from Kant, via Hegel, to John Rawls.

Outrage and Satire as Responses and Antidotes

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Media Technologies

This chapter illustrates how conservative outrage programming and liberal satire were articulated as reactions to perceived problematic aspects of the political information environment in the 1990s. Both genres were fueled by the political polarization and media distrust that had exploded in the last third of the twentieth century. And both genres were made possible by new media technologies of the late 1990s. In the face of political polarization and a reduction of trust in journalism, conservative talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh and Fox News’s Roger Ailes created programming to deconstruct the ideological bias they perceived in mainstream news. Meanwhile, comedians worked to deconstruct the bias that they saw in the profit-driven news of that era; not an ideological bias but a bias in favor of strategy, spin, and partisan jargon.

A tale of 2 tissues: the overlapping role of scleraxis in tendons and the heart

2014 ◽  
Vol 92 (9) ◽  
pp. 707-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Czubryt
Keyword(s):  
Extracellular Matrix ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Response Mechanism ◽  
Growth And Remodeling ◽  
Tissue Integrity ◽  
Common Response ◽  
The Face ◽  
Physical Forces ◽  
Inherent Nature

Tissue integrity in the face of external physical forces requires the production of a strong extracellular matrix (ECM) composed primarily of the protein collagen. Tendons and the heart both withstand large and changing physical forces, and emerging evidence suggests that the transcription factor scleraxis plays a central role in responding to these forces by directly regulating the production of ECM components and (or) by determining the fate of matrix-producing cell types. Thus, despite the highly disparate inherent nature of these tissues, a common response mechanism may exist to govern the development, growth, and remodeling of the ECM in response to external force.

Afera Grimma-Hoffmanna. Szwajcarski przypadek samowolnej misji parlamentarzysty w polityce zagranicznej

2021 ◽  
Vol 2(163) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Piotr Bednarz
Keyword(s):  
Political Polarization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Swiss Society ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Secret Agent

The years of the First World War were also a difficult period for Swiss society. Its political polarization came out particularly sharply in the face of the political crises that occurred at the time. One of the most serious was the so-called Grimm-Hoffmann affair of June 1917. The leader of the Swiss socialist milieu, one of the better-known parliamentarians, Robert Grimm, who went to Stockholm to attend the socialist congress and then to Petrograd, turned out to be a secret agent of the head of the Political Department of the Swiss government, Arthur Hoffmann. Robert Grimm’s mission was to probe the new Russian government about the possibility of a separate peace between Russia and Germany. This exposed unlawful action, undertaken without the agreement of the government, led to an international scandal, as the actions of R. Grimm and A. Hoffmann were contrary to Switzerland’s policy of neutrality. At the same time, there was an intensified press campaign in the country against A. Hoffmann, ending with his resignation. The arguments used by the public in their attacks on A. Hoffmann, clearly show that the Swiss society did not tolerate the actions of parliamentarians that went against the customs of a democratic state.

Atypical Brown-Sequard syndrome following gunshot wound to the face

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 299-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Saxon ◽  
Herbert A. Snyder ◽  
James A. Washington
Keyword(s):  
Gunshot Wound ◽  
The Face ◽  
Brown Sequard Syndrome
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