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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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Sea Monsters. Theoretical Perspectives [PDF]
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, 2022 Fictional works that are centered on elements pertaining to the maritime imaginary are established around individual figures as those of the sea monsters. They express terror and instinctive repulsion.
BOBARU NICOLAE
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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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eLife, 2021 When compulsions and obsessive thoughts took over her world, a graduate student found strength in her identity as a scientist.
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Images Re-Vues, 2019 Les Monstres des hommes is an almost unknown text from the central Middle Ages. But far from being a poor translation of Thomas de Cantimpré, this text constitutes a political and poetic charge of a rare violence against the society of its century.
Pierre-Olivier Dittmar
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Lea, 2018 Luca Baratta’s book consists of a catalogue of forty-eight full-length documents – street literature, such as broadside ballads, pamphlets and leaflets, as well as medical writings drawn from Philosophical Transactions – that all deal with the phenomenon
Maria Teresa Chialant
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