Results 11 to 20 of about 94,155 (199)
Pathography in Japan: Exploring the relationship between creativity and the psyche. [PDF]
PCN Rep, 2023 The author introduces the history, methodology, and development of pathography in Japan. In particular, the author focused on (1) five theses on the relationship between creativity and psychiatric disorders, (2) a new field of salutography that explores the relationship between creativity and mental health, and (3) suggestions for ethical ...
Tanaka S.
europepmc +2 more sources
Evolutionary Theories of Emotion in Italian Psychophysiology: Reception, Critique, and Influence, 1880-1920. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT This article examines how Italian psychophysiologists engaged with Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory of the emotions (ETE) between 1880 and 1920. Darwin's work on the natural history of emotions converged with a vibrant tradition of experimental psychophysiology that embodied Italian Positivism's scientific ambitions.
Ceccarelli D, Canali S.
europepmc +2 more sources
The aporetic dialogues of Modena on gender differences: Is it all about testosterone? EPISODE I: CRIME. [PDF]
AndrologyAbstract This is the first episode of a series of four discussions on the differences between males and females, in apparently non‐andrological fields. You will read the transcript of discussions that actually took place at the Endocrinology Unit in Modena, Italy, in the form of the aporetic dialogues of ancient Greece.
Brigante G +7 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Spekulative Forensik. Verdacht und erzählerische Imagination in Edmond Locards Die Kriminaluntersuchung und ihre wissenschaftlichen Methoden. [PDF]
Ber WissEdmond Locard's L'enquête criminelle et les méthodes scientifiques marks a pivotal moment in criminology's transformation from a largely unmethodical practice to a scientific discipline. While Locard is best known for advancing laboratory methods of forensic analysis, this article argues that at the heart of his conception of forensics lies the ...
Sander A.
europepmc +2 more sources
PEASANTS, BRIGANDS, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF THE NEW LEVIATHAN IN THE MEZZOGIORNO
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 24-44, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The image of a backward, archaic South whose barbarian population had remained at a low tier of civilization was a child of Italian unification. Not unlike the Orientalist East, the South that meridionalist discourse brought forth was a “chronotopos”—that is, a time‐space that had supposedly remained in the past.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO
wiley +1 more source
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 193-216, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract How did a new science initially promoted by only a few individuals eventually become a widespread cultural phenomenon practiced and known by thousands of people? Following a transnational approach, this article traces the introduction of psychical research into China during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira
wiley +1 more source
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 341-364, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article discusses aspects of the dialectics of genius cults in the nineteenth century, using examples of Mozart's reception: the unveiling of the Salzburg memorial statue in 1842, Franz Grillparzer's texts on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his son Franz Xaver, as well as the artist's novella Der arme Spielmann.
Werner Michler
wiley +1 more source
DAS GENIE IM SCHAFFEN NIETZSCHES
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 394-409, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article aims to show the central importance of Friedrich Nietzsche to notions of genius in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On the one hand, it considers the influence of idealised representations of Nietzsche (for example, in Thomas Mann and Gottfried Benn) as a genius marked by loneliness, illness, and finally madness.
Sebastian Kaufmann
wiley +1 more source
Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 123-145, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Fernando Ortiz's proposal to replace the word acculturation with transculturation in Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar (1940) has become an iconic statement affirming the distinctiveness of Latin American anthropology. This narrative includes a deeper thread that involves Bronisław Malinowski, who praised the neologism for its ...
Miguel Arnedo‐Gómez
wiley +1 more source
Sociology Compass, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic systems have been criticized for perpetuating bias, unjust discrimination, and contributing to inequality. Artificial intelligence researchers have remained largely oblivious to existing scholarship on social inequality, but a growing number of sociologists are now addressing the social ...
Mike Zajko
wiley +1 more source