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Myopia is an Adaptive Characteristic of Vision: Not a Disease or Defect
No full textThis paper proposes that myopia (nearsightedness) is an adaptive characteristic of human vision. Most theories of the evolution of vision assume myopia is a disease or defect that would have resulted in decreased reproductive fitness in the absence of modern corrective lenses. In contrast, the present paper argues that myopic individuals may have played important roles in hunter-gatherer groups such as making tools and weapons, and identifying medicinal plants, contributing to individual and group survival. This idea is called the “adaptive myopia hypothesis.” Evidence favoring this hypothesis is reviewed in the context of the metatheory of evolutionary psychology
Rising Inequality: Among the Other 99%
No full textThe speaker for the 2016 Clemens Lecture is David H. Autor, Ford Professor of Economics and Associate Head at MIT Department of Economics.
His fields of specialization include the following: Human capital, skill supply and demand, and earnings inequality; Labor market impacts of technological change and globalization; Disability insurance and labor force participation; Contingent and intermediated work arrangements. Education
Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 1999.
Thesis: Essays on the Changing Labor Market: Computerization, Inequality, and the Development of the Contingent Work Force.
M.A., Public Policy, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 1994.
Thesis: Charting the Impacts of the Computer Revolution: New Evidence from the Current Population Survey.
B.A., Psychology (concentration in Computer Science), Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1989. (Summa Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa.
Doctors on the Front Lines
No full textDr. Dan Hoody, Chief Medical Quality Officer at Hennepin County Medical Center, will discuss racial disparities in health and wellness he sees both inside and outside the health care system. Dr. Hoody will be joined by CSB/SJU graduates currently in medical school/residency who will serve as rapporteurs. Dr. Hoody graduated from University of Minnesota Medical School. He has completed his MSc in Health Economics, Policy, & Management through the London School of Economics and Political Science
Concurrent Session: Higher Education Media and the Liberal Arts
No full textThis panel discussion includes leaders in media covering higher education and will focus on the perspectives on and media coverage of the liberal arts. Key issues to be discussed include: How are the liberal arts understood in various publics? How are messages about the liberal arts conveyed publicly? What are the central issues facing liberal arts institutions in various publics
The Political Personality of 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton
Get PDFThis paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic nominee in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The present report combines data from five studies conducted between 1998 and 2016 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Psychodiagnostically relevant data about Clinton was collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM–IV.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed in accordance with interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Clinton’s predominant personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/self-serving (a measure of narcissism) and Dominant/controlling, infused with secondary features of the Conscientious/dutiful and Retiring/reserved patterns and some indication of Distrusting/suspicious features.
In summary, Clinton’s personality composite can be labeled elitist narcissism, or, in political terms, as the profile of a deliberative high-dominance introvert — deliberative by virtue of her substantial conscientiousness.
Ambitious individuals are bold, competitive, and self-assured; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their special qualities, and often act as though entitled. Dominant individuals enjoy the power to direct others and to evoke obedience and respect; they are tough and unsentimental and often make effective leaders. Conscientious leaders are dutiful and diligent, with a strong work ethic and careful attention to detail, and often excel in crafting public policy. On the downside, conscientious leaders often lack the retail political skills required to consummate their policy objectives. In short, they are more technocratic than visionary. Retiring (introverted) individuals tend not to develop strong ties to others, are somewhat deficient in the ability to recognize the needs or feelings of others, and may lack spontaneity and vitality. In American politics, introverted leaders face serious challenges in attaining high-level public office because of their difficulty in connecting emotionally with voters and the media.
Clinton’s major personality strengths in a political role are her confident assertiveness and commanding demeanor. Her major personality-based shortcomings are uncompromising assertiveness, a lack of empathy and congeniality, and cognitive inflexibility.
The major implication of the study is that it offers an empirically based personological framework for identifying Clinton’s major personal strengths and limitations as a candidate and anticipating her likely leadership style as president
The AIDS House: Orphan care and the changing household in Lesotho
Get PDFHIV/AIDS has brought the connections between care and relatedness into sharp relief. In the midst of social change driven largely by the AIDS epidemic, the house has emerged as the most stable element connecting kin in Lesotho. Houses provide spaces that frame human actions, transform relationships, and reflect the social order. The house is a key crossroads for human movement. It is also the site where physical connections, emotional bonds, and feelings of love and affection are nurtured. Most significantly, it is the site where physical acts of caring take place. Based on extensive ethnographic research, I demonstrate that the house is one of the places where the pressures of AIDS-driven change are most felt because of its role in structuring care. AIDS has intensified the importance of the house as caregiving has become a primary means for shaping relatedness
