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Pavlovian to instrumental transfer of control over fight or flight decisions [PDF]
npj Science of LearningThis study investigated outcome-selective Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) in fight-or-flight decision making. Participants learned to attack or retreat from monsters (instrumental phase) and to associate environments with specific monsters ...
Andreas B. Eder, Vanessa Mitschke
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Humanities, 2022 The presence of hunting imagery in Beowulf has often been noted, but the significance of the figures of the stag and the wolf to the thematic design of the poem has yet to be fully explored.
Francis Leneghan
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Arctic cinema: from horror through dramas and thrillers To Action movies and fiction (Part I)
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2023 The article considers a number of genres of Arctic films in the world cinema. Among them, some of the most common are horror films (horror), thrillers (part I), dramas, science fiction and action films (part II).
I. S. Zonn
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Works for children are filled with a myriad of creatures that are often used by writers to convey certain messages to the young readers/audiences. From tamed to wild, real and imaginary beings, such creatures emerge either as benevolent or evil forces ...
Heidi Mohamed Bayoumy
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The Vampire, a Mythical Monster for Eternity
Corpus Mundi, 2023 The purpose of this paper is a new approach from an interdisciplinary standpoint to the long lasting phenomena of the vampires. Consequently, I have drawn on from multiple sources in history, folklore, literary studies and anthropology. As monsters, they
Victoria Hurtado
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Monstrøsitet som kulturel og religiøs diskurs
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2003 The present contribution attempts to understand and interpret the significance of monstrosity, a well-attested phenomenon in the history of religions.
Laura Feldt
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The Fate of Monsters in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime [PDF]
, 2013 Black hole entropy remains a deep puzzle: where does such enormous amount of entropy come from? Curiously, there exist gravitational configurations that possess even larger entropy than a black hole of the same mass, in fact, arbitrarily high entropy ...
Chen, Pisin, Ong, Yen Chin
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Monsters in Hardy and Bergman spaces [PDF]
, 2002 A monster in the sense of Luh is a holomorphic function on a simply connected domain in the complex plane such that it and all its derivatives and antiderivatives exhibit an extremely wild behaviour near the boundary.
Bernal González, Luis +1 more
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: a prospective paradigm to test Rachman's indirect pathways in children [PDF]
, 2001 Rachman's theory [The conditioning theory of fear insition: a critical examination. Behav. Res. Ther. 15 (1977) 375–387] of fear acquisition suggests that fears and phobias can be acquired through three pathways: direct conditioning, vicarious learning ...
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The Feminine Other: Monsters and Magic in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
J-Lalite, 2021 Monsters are perceived as humanity’s enemy that should be eradicated. However, based on Jeffrey Cohen’s Monster Theory (1997), monsters play an important role in understanding humanity’s fears and anxieties.
Hana Ghani
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