Top-Down Modulation of Motor Priming by Belief About Animacy: A Registered Replication Report

Research has shown that people automatically imitate others and that this tendency is stronger when the other person is a human compared with a non-human agent. However, a controversial question is whether automatic imitation is also modulated by whether people believe the other person is a human. Although early research supported this hypothesis, not all studies reached the same conclusion and a recent meta-analysis found that there is currently neither evidence in favor nor against an influence of animacy beliefs on automatic imitation. One of the most prominent studies supporting such an influence is the study by Liepelt & Brass (2010), who found that automatic imitation was stronger when participants believed an ambiguous, gloved hand to be human, as opposed to wooden. In this registered report, including both original authors, we provide a high-powered replication of this study. By doing so, the current report contributes to answering the longstanding question of whether automatic imitation can be modulated by high-level social beliefs.

Politics Turns Moral Foundations Into Consequences of Intergroup Attitudes

Applying a longitudinal design, we tested the directions of the relationships between moral foundations and attitudes toward Muslim immigrants. The study was conducted during the official campaign period of the Hungarian parliamentary elections in 2018. It was found that moral foundations are consequences of intergroup attitudes. Latent change modeling showed that while individualizing foundations were independent of anti-Muslim attitudes, longitudinal change in binding foundations was predicted by prior anti-Muslim attitudes, but not the other way around. Furthermore, this relationship was moderated by exposure to the anti-Muslim and anti-immigration campaigns led by the government. These results suggest that people are motivated to harmonize their moral concerns with their prior social beliefs, and they actively utilize available political messages in this process.

Discursive Strategy of the Relationship Between Islam and Democracy on Room for Debate Rubric of nytimes.com

Different perspectives on the compatibility between Islam and Democracy are still problematic and have been widely discussed on the international media, especially after the Arab Spring. This study aimed to reveal the changes in social beliefs about the relationship between Islam and democracy within the discourse on Room for Debate rubric, nytimes.com. The data were the written text (verbal) comprising the introductory segment from the editor, the opinion segment comprising 6 articles, and the public comment segment. The method used in this study was the qualitative method. This study employed Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (2013) to reveal the discursive strategy of the writers in negotiating the democratic and Islamic values, to investigate the production, distribution, and consumption of the text, and to identify the social context which causes the discourse of the relationship between Islam and Democracy to appear. The finding showed that there were some democratic values negotiated within the discourse that showed changes in social beliefs about the relationship between Islam and democracy in the modern view. The value negotiation showed the alignment of the writers towards the progressive Muslim actors who supported the modern democratic government system.

ألواح فخارية غيرمنشورة من المتحف العراقي

الملخص:-تعد دراسة الالواح الفخارية في بلاد الرافدين من المواضيع الفنية المهمة التي اعطتنا معلومات قيمه سواء كانت من الناحية الفنية ام من الناحية الحضارية لاسيما عن طبيعة المجتمع العراقي القديم ومعرفة معتقداته الدينية والسياسية والاجتماعية، فضلاً عن كونها وثيقة اساسية مهمة يعتمد عليها في مجال تحديد التاريخ المطلق للمده الزمنية التي كان يعيشها سكان بلاد الرافدين،وهي ايضا تعد اثارا فنية مهمة و مصدرا لدراسة الفن وتطوره عبر العصور المختلفة، لان الفن ارتبط ارتباطا وثيقا بالمجتمع العراقي القديم.الملخص باللغة الانكليزيةAbstractThe study of Terracotta in Mesopotamia is one of the important technical topics that gave us valuable information، whether from a technical or cultural point of view، about the nature of the ancient Iraqi society and knowledge of its religious، political and social beliefs، as well as being an important basic document on which to determine the absolute history of the period of time Which was experienced by the people of Mesopotamia، and it is also an important artifact that is a source for the study of art and its development through different ages، because art was closely linked to the ancient Iraqi society.

The Poetics of A. P. Chehov’s Literary Criticism

The article deals with the features of the poetics presented in the literary P. Chehov’s literary criticism. The aspects of the author’s literary criticism such as genre originality, the composition and the structure of texts, the correlation of the logical and the artistic components, the specificity of the literary of the critical strategy of the interpretation of the literary text, the traits of individual author’s style are considered. The analytical observations are accompanied by the rich illustrative material. The author of the article concludes that study of the traits of poetics of A. P. Chehov’s literary criticism allows to enrich our understanding of the writer’s worldview, his literary and social beliefs, individual author’s understanding of the world.

Memory, Culture and Identity: A cultural reading of The Legends of Pensam

Located at the intersections of memory, culture and identity, this paper attempts a literary and cultural reading of Mamang Dai’s novel The Legends of Pensam (2006), an extraordinary piece of tribal narrative from the North‑Eastern part of India, imbued with the colours of its traditions and the flavours of its geography. This paper argues that literature, in particular tribal literature, has the potential to uncover the profound wealth and resources of an underrepresented culture and tradition camouflaged behind the curtains of mainstream cultures. This paper focuses on the robustness of literature in preserving a marginalized culture informed by the multiplicity of its rich cultural traditions, social beliefs, religious views, oral tradition, and colourful lifestyle. The study focuses on how a literary work can preserve and document the history, culture and identity of the Adi tribes, imbued with lore and myths from the memory of people defining their unique identities.

Michael Jackson as a mythical hero an anthropological perspective

The aim of this book is to investigate how traits of a mythical hero are manifested in modern culture and, to be more precise, in social beliefs about Michael Jackson. These beliefs are traces leading to complex levels of understanding the phenomenon of pop culture and its taboo. Pop culture makes up its own mythologies and creates its own heroes, but it does so with a reference to the more complex cultural wholeness. This book is an attempt to follow these references and reflect on them.