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Episodic memory
Nicola S. Clayton, Lucie H. Salwiczek, Anthony Dickinson
Current Biology·2007·41 citations
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View paper →Unnameable Desires in Le Fanu's Carmilla
Amy Leal
Names·2007·1 citations
<jats:p>AbstractIn his 1872 vampire novella Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu encodes forbidden passions through the use of names. Written at a time when samesex relations were punishable by imprisonment, Carmilla's naming and wordplay suggest the Sapphic seductions between a female vampire and her unwitting descendant without being dangerously explicit. In every incarnation over the centuries, Carmilla must adopt an anagrammatical variation of her original name, each of which carries its own host of interpretations hinting at the forbidden same-sex desires in the text. Ultimately, however, Le Fanu had to conform to the conventions of his time and has a posse of men solve the riddle of Carmilla's name and her demonic desires. By the novella's end, Carmilla's derivations are decipherable, her history traceable, and her fate reduced to a patriarchal paronomasia.
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View paper →Modularity and the social mind: are psychologists too self-ish?
Robert Kurzban, C Athena Aktipis
Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc·2007
A modular view of the mind implies that there is no unitary "self" and that the mind consists of a set of informationally encapsulated systems, many of which have functions associated with navigating an inherently ambiguous and competitive social world. It is proposed that there are a set of cognitive mechanisms--a social cognitive interface (SCI)--designed for strategic manipulation of others' representations of one's traits, abilities, and prospects. Although constrained by plausibility, these mechanisms are not necessarily designed to maximize accuracy or to maintain consistency with other encapsulated representational systems. The modular view provides a useful framework for talking about multiple phenomena previously discussed under the rubric of the self.
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View paper →G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder, Albert-Georg Lang, Axel Buchner
Behavior Research Methods·2007·50545 citations
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View paper →R v Verdins; R v Buckley; R v Vo [2007] VSCA 102 (23 May 2007)
[2007] VSCA 102
austlii.edu.au·2007
CRIMINAL LAW – Sentencing – Restatement of Tsiaras principles – Whether Tsiaras principles limited to "serious psychiatric illness not amounting to mental insanity" – Whether and to what extent general deterrence excluded or modified as sentencing consideration – Whether and to what extent impaired mental functioning may reduce moral culpability of offending conduct – Whether relevant to sentencing that imprisonment would carry serious risk of significant adverse effect on offender’s mental health – R v Tsiaras [1996] VicRp 26; [1996] 1 VR 398 considered.
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