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The Material Presence of the Divine: Iconography at the Mt. Angel Abbey Institute
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Empathic Failure & Mutiple Resurrections: Liberating Job From Redemptive Suffering
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Learning, Talking, Teaching and Reading: Exploring the Classroom as an Ethical Space
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Minors’ Self-development, Expression, and Learning in the Public School Context: current tensions and the implications of theory
No full textRegarding debates around laws like Iowa's SF 496 re age-appropriate materials in school, parental rights, mandated pronoun disclosure, and "instruction" or "promotion" of issues related to sex or gender-identity in k-6: could autonomy rights of minors with regard to their learning be theorized within the liberal tradition in such a way as to at least partially accommodate the rival positions of conservatives and progressives, as well as the sometimes opposed positions of parental rights advocates and upholders of a state/public interest in a more expansive pedagogy
Ageism as a Barrier: understanding healthcare-seeking among rural older adults in China
Get PDFHealthcare is closely linked to well-being in later life. Considering the context of population aging in China, and the disadvantaged position of rural older adults in accessing healthcare, it is important to examine the factors influencing their healthcare-seeking behavior. However, existing research pays insufficient attention to cultural factors, particularly the role of ageism. The study aims to explore in what ways do social constraints and cultural factors affect the healthcare-seeking of Chinese older adults living in rural areas from the perspective of ageism. The study draws on semi-structured interviews with 11 older adults living in rural China. The study shows that older adults exhibit both positive and negative attitudes towards seeking healthcare. These attitudes are shaped by the association of aging with physical decline and concerns about becoming a burden on their families. Very few participants reported experiencing external age discrimination, nor did they express unmet needs for healthcare services. In addition, the study reveals that rural older adults heavily rely on their children when making healthcare-related decisions. This marginalization in healthcare decision-making may be related to their limited social network and restricted access to informational resources
Secular Ethics: Examining and Combating Moral Misconceptions About Atheists, Agnostics, and the Religiously Unaffiliated
No full textAmericans maintain more unfavorable attitudes toward atheists than any other religious group. Simultaneously, the United States is becoming more secular. In 2024, approximately 28% of U.S. adults identified as atheists, agnostics, or otherwise religiously unaffiliated. There is widespread suspicion that atheists and agnostics are less moral than theists. This bias impacts everything from their relationships, electability, and job prospects to their safety and legal outcomes. Given the pervasiveness of moral mistrust of secular people and the growth of secularization in recent decades, there is a real need to combat secular bias. Studies about how the masses feel about the secular minority have been conducted for decades. However, secular voices have been lacking in most existing research, which is why I conducted qualitative research via in-depth interviews asking atheists, agnostics, and religiously unaffiliated people about their experience with biased assumptions about being immoral, what their moral beliefs are, and how these moral beliefs impact their actions. The primary purpose of this research is to help readers combat biased assumptions that the secular minority is amoral
Inhibitory Control and Reactive Aggression Under Heat Stress
No full textEnvironmental stressors such as heat are increasingly relevant for understanding behavioral regulation. This study investigated how thermal stress affects inhibitory control and reactive aggression, and whether these effects are moderated by individual differences such as trait impulsivity. Sixteen participants completed three lab sessions in a temperature-controlled sauna chamber (23°C, 36°C, 45°C), performing a Stop Signal Task (SST) and a reactive aggression task (RC-RAGE) in each session. We hypothesized that higher temperatures would impair inhibitory control and increase costly, reactive aggression, particularly among individuals high in trait impulsivity. Results showed that motor impulsivity predicted longer stop-signal reaction times (SSRTs), especially under moderate heat. In the RC-RAGE task, participants with higher motor impulsivity were more likely to retaliate even when retaliation caused a monetary cost. However, neither SST nor aggression outcomes showed consistent main effects of temperature, and trait-by-condition interactions were limited, possibly due to floor effects and reduced behavioral variability under high heat. Exploratory analyses revealed no significant differences in anger endorsement across temperature conditions. These findings suggest that trait impulsivity, particularly motor impulsivity, plays a central role in both cognitive and affective regulation, and that moderate heat stress may amplify these trait effects. The study underscores the importance of examining trait-by-environment interactions and highlights challenges in behavioral measurement under thermal extremes
Political Survival and Military Action: Evidence Against Traditional Diversionary War Theory
No full textDo leaders resort to external conflicts when facing domestic troubles? Known as the “diversionary theory of war”, there have been numerous studies arguing that leaders pursue conflict abroad to divert the public’s attention from the domestic problems that can undermine their political survival. However, despite being a topic of extensive research for decades, diversionary war has yielded mixed conclusions when it comes to its empirical and quantitative analysis. Some scholars find a significant correlation between the country’s economic conditions and the initiation of military threats, while others consider domestic factors such as presidential approval ratings and the misery index to be less decisive factors compared to other international factors. I address the contrasting findings by pointing out the methodological flaws of previous research, which are the failure to address the selection bias and the absence of a comprehensive operationalization of the chances of the leader’s political survival. Based on understanding the political survival of the leader as a product of combined factors such as economic conditions, approval ratings, and public opinion polls, I examine the relationship between presidential election prospects and conflict engagement of the United States from 1952 to 2014 through both ordinary regression and two-stage least squares regression analysis. The empirical findings do not find any statistical significance between the electoral prospects of the leader and the US engagement in military conflicts, posing a challenge to the diversionary war theory and calling for a nuanced approach when examining the relationship between the leader’s political survival and the state’s conflict engagement
