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Religious Faith, Militarism, and Humorlessness
No full textResearchers like Vassilis Saroglou have found a negative correlation between religious belief and sense of humor. I add two things to this line of research. First, I argue that the features that make religious believers humorless also make them militaristic. Secondly, I argue that militarism and humorlessness are concentrated in religions which stress orthodoxy and faith, such as Christianity and Islam; militarism and humorlessness do not dominate nontheistic religions such as Buddhism which do not stress orthodoxy and faith
UNDOING FORGETFULNESS: Chiasmus of Poetical Mind – a Cultural Paradigm of Archetypal Imagination
No full textThis paper tries to investigate the problem of memory through one of its most intriguing patterns – chiasmus – reflected in old poetry, sacred texts, philosophy and theology, visual arts, as well as biology. It aims to search for some provisory explanation of why man was able once to acquire such excellence in memorizing internally thousands of lines of poetry, whereas now memory is expelled outside the human body and mind in a mere digital file. Contrasting the so-called “wish-dream for immortality” of the contemporary post-human body, this paper takes another path and looks into some old cosmologies and visions in which chiasmus constantly emerged as an enduring cultural paradigm with ontological relevance. Spanning from Plato to Christian theology, up to the contemporary Neo-Platonism of archetypal psychology, this paper hopes to put forth, if not a theory, at least a vision about man and cosmos, cosmos and man, a chiastic epiphany in which the body and the material world partake both of the sacred
Does Dominance within the Couple Influence the Choice of a Dominant Leadership?
No full textPeople have often spoken about the importance and the role of the family, as “the foundation cell of the society”. To every man, the family represents an unmistakable universe, to which the birth, the growth, the creation and the development are closely linked personality. It also represents the environment within the human being learns how to articulate sounds, how to codify the first symbols of life. It is almost obvious that the way in which the individual will relate in the couple will attract satisfactions or dissatisfactions at the work place
Investigating new Ways to Study Adolescent Moral Competence
No full textTo explore adolescent moral development and moral competence it is important to develop an instrument, which would make a moral dilemma content explicit for subjects and assist adolescents to make a proper decision. We suppose that a specially designed movie could be used as a tool for representing a moral dilemma core to develop essential motivation and inclusion of viewers in the presented task, to present a realistic content of the problem situation and to present the context of this situation as a whole, and finally to make explicit the emotional peculiarities of the situation. The new method to assess adolescent moral competence has been tested in few secondary schools of Moscow, Russia in 2002-2004 (participants’ age 13 – 16 y.o., N=250). It has been found that this new method allowed to objectify the content of a moral dilemma much more effectively than a traditional, written manner did and consequently revealed more adequately the level of adolescents’ moral competence
The War Hotel: Psychological Dynamics in Violent Conflict
No full textArlene Audergon’s new book, ‘The War Hotel’, is for anyone with an interest in conflict and the human psyche. The War Hotel is addressed not only to people who are directly affected by or working with conflict, but also to those of us who are armchair watchers of the TV news, concerned, but unsure of our relationship to the scenes we see. The author’s thesis is that those who make war – politicians and military leaders – understand how human psychology can be used to support war. And those who turn away and close their hearts and minds to war as it erupts and continues are as much participants in the unfolding drama as are those who become swept up in it. The consequent purpose of the book is an examination of this psychology to generate awareness of our part in the creation of war, so that we may be able to use our selves and our psyches differently
Interview with Vasile Dem Zamfirescu
No full textOur interviewee is one of the most prominent personalities of Romanian academic and cultural life. Starting as one of Constantin Noica’s disciples, he begun his carrier as a philosopher, but in time he grew more and more acquainted with psychoanalysis, so that he finally came to embrace it as a full-time profession, not only as a professor, but also as analyst and director of the main psychoanalytical publishing house in Romania . His research activity spreads out on more than 30 years, during which he worked in the research institutes of the Romanian Academy (The Philosophy Institute, The Anthropology Institute) and in several faculties of psychology, philosophy and educational sciences within the University of Bucharest and “Titu Maiorescu” University. As philosopher, psychoanalyst, professor and researcher, Vasile Dem Zamfirescu is a vivid example of professional and academic excellence and also an active model for younger generations, in a cultural area profoundly marked by the inevitable side-effects of about half a century of communism
Multi-Rater or 360-degree Emotional Intelligence Assessment
No full textIn this paper we discuss the potential utility of multi-rater or 360-degree measured EI over self-reported and ability measured EI. We then discuss the development of a workplace 360 measure of emotional intelligence designed specifically for development purposes. Several research studies testing workplace samples are presented which examine the internal consistency reliability of the rater forms of the 360 instrument; compare the means and standard deviations of self- and other-rated EI; and the relationship between how people rate themselves on the instrument and how they rate others. The research findings demonstrate the utility of multi-rater 360-degree EI assessment instruments, which is discussed specifically in terms of leadership development