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No full textReview of Conrad Gietman, Yme Kuiper, Elyze Storms-Smeets, Leon Wessels (red.), De jacht: Een cultuurgeschiedenis van jager, dier en landschap (Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2021, 384 p., ill.)
Fools are Everywhere
No full textThe fool or jester was, for many centuries, a frequent, trusted and intimate member of royal or noble courts around the world, and a welcome counterpoint to formal power. Despite appearing in diverse cultures, their role, status, and treatment was fairly consistent. Companions and confidants to some of the most powerful people in history, they were widely recognised for their licence to tell the truth, often under the guise of humour or folly. In this article, Otoo looks at a few key aspects of these lively, fearless, resilient, and often informally influential people.The fool or jester was, for many centuries, a frequent, trusted and intimate member of royal or noble courts around the world, and a welcome counterpoint to formal power. Despite appearing in diverse cultures, their role, status, and treatment was fairly consistent. Companions and confidants to some of the most powerful people in history, they were widely recognised for their licence to tell the truth, often under the guise of humour or folly. In this article, Otoo looks at a few key aspects of these lively, fearless, resilient, and often informally influential people
Examining the effect of impossible problem solving on state anger: Comparing in-person and MTurk participants
No full textThis research comprises of two studies examining the effect of impossible problem solving on state anger. For the first study, using 155 participants on Amazon’s MTurk, a significant difference was observed on state anger from baseline to post-intervention (p = .04). Due to the well documented concerns about using MTurk participants, a second study involving 111 participants from a small liberal arts college was conducted. Using the same design, no significant effect of time on state anger was observed (p > .05). Post-hoc analyses indicated a significant difference between MTurk and in-person participants on trait anger (p < .05), pre-test state anger (p < .05), and post-test state anger (p < .05). Implications are discussed
Swahili personality-trait vocabulary: A psycho-lexical study using dictionary and day-to-day conversations by indigenous speakers
No full textHuman social behavior is a function of peoples’ personalities and individual differences. As humans engage in social behaviors, peoples’ traits and other unique attributes come out and get noticed, and community members may feel tempted to talk about these attributes and either encourage them or discourage them: words are created and they become part of the community’s lexicon. In this study we employed the psycho-lexical approach to hunt for those words that describe people’s traits and unique attributes and that have thus become encoded in the lexicon, in particular of the Swahili language, an eastern Africa Bantu language. We used two resources for this purpose, (1) a Swahili dictionary, as the tangible repository of the lexicon, and (2) free descriptions. As a final result we concluded that the trait vocabulary of the Swahili language contains a useful set of 1,338 trait terms, of which 4% are adjectives, 55% are nouns, and 41% are verbs. Thus, nouns form the largest number of trait terms, followed by verbs, while adjectives occupy an insignificant third position in the Swahili trait vocabulary
Pauline Donizea. 2025. La scène égyptienne en révolution (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes)
No full textYana Meerzon, S.E. Wilmer eds. 2023. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan)
No full textIdiographic assessment of attachment relationships: Construction and validation of scales for use in narrative psychotherapy
No full textIn this study the focus was on the development and validation of scales that can be used in an attachment-based narrative form of psychotherapy/counseling. One hundred and six participants completed an online survey, in which they were asked to select one significant troublesome relationship (past or present), to describe the nature of this relationship in a couple of sentences and to characterize the relationship by means of the list of 49 attachment items. By employing exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (N = 106), a six-factor model emerged covering four classical attachment prototypes: (I) security; (II) anxiety (preoccupation with relationships, fear of rejection); (III) dismissive avoidance (i.e., defensive separation/denial of attachment need; and (IV) fearful avoidance (avoidance/alienation, threat). In two validation studies, the interpersonal and affective meaning of these scales were examined by using instruments that accentuate agentic and communal interpersonal orientations in human contact. In a subsequent qualitative study, we used a cluster-based classification into attachment groups for the exhaustive screening of the content of (a selection of) 40 texts of 40 persons. This hermeneutic approach disclosed characteristic themes for each of the secure, preoccupied, dismissive-avoidant and fearful-avoidant prototypes which are discussed in detail. In narrative psychotherapy a thematic overview according to the attachment typology may be helpful in fine-tuning the therapeutic process, in that it may increase a client’s awareness of attachment issues and associated (dysfunctional) emotional reactions.
