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The Use of "Literary Fiction" to Promote Mentalizing Ability. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Empathy is a multidimensional process that incorporates both mentalizing and emotional sharing dimensions. Empathic competencies are important for creating interpersonal relationships with other people and developing adequate social behaviour.
Maria Chiara Pino, Monica Mazza
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Growing intimate privatepublics: Everyday utopia in the naturecultures of a young lesbian and bisexual women’s allotment [PDF]

, 2014
The Young Women’s Group in Manchester is a ‘young women’s peer health project, run by and for young lesbian and bisexual women’, which runs an allotment as one of its activities.
Church, Andrew, Gabb, Jacqui, Holmes, Claire, Lee, Amelia, Moore, Niamh, Ravenscroft, Neil   +5 more
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Anti-heroic figures, Dream Boxes, and the Search for the Nature of Humanity: A Cyborg Narrative in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature
KEYNOTE Yuqin Jiang is Professor of Comparative Literature, at the School of Humanities, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen. Her research interests span cyborg narrative, sci-fi poetics, digital humanities, science fiction, postcolonial literature, and ...
Yuqin Jiang
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IMAGES OF JIHAD AND PROBLEMS OF LEGITIMATION OF RELIGIOUS PROTEST AS A FORM OF CLASS CONFLICT AND SOCIAL LIBERATION

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023
Background. The author analyzes the texts of the Dune cycle in contexts of modern historiography, including its universal methods that allow analyzing “oriental” images in literature through the prism of constructing and deconstructing narratives that ...
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
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Narrative, Truth, and Trial [PDF]

, 2013
This Article critically evaluates the relationship between constructing narratives and achieving factual accuracy at trials. The story model of adjudication— according to which jurors process testimony by organizing it into competing narratives—has ...
Griffin, Lisa Kern
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The conflicts among globalization, modernization and tradition in science fiction: The case of

Cultures of Science
Science fiction takes many forms, including academic work that calls on readers to think about social and cultural problems. This paper takes a piece of science fiction, Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia , as an example and discusses the conflicts among ...
Bing Liu
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Utopian Science Fiction and Ethnic Future Imagination in Chinese Contemporary Science Fiction

Humanities
Utopian science fiction, as a fusion of science fiction literature and utopian literature, integrates the construction of imagined interactions between people, technology, society, and the environment in future narratives.
Yuqin Jiang
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A Pedagogy for Original Synners [PDF]

, 2008
Part of the Volume on Digital Young, Innovation, and the UnexpectedThis essay begins by speculating about the learning environment of the class of 2020.
Anne Balsamo, Steve Anderson
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Kourouma ou les errements du témoin africain dans l’impasse de l’histoire [PDF]

, 2006
Partant de l’analyse de Paul Ricoeur sur les composantes épistémologiques du témoignage en histoire, nous discutons de l’apport de l’oeuvre littéraire de Kourouma à une réflexion théorique quant à la possibilité pour l’Africain de témoigner de son vécu ...
Cressent, Armelle
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Misanthropic Aspects of Science Fiction: The Examples of Battlestar Galactica and Borislav Pekić’s Atlantis

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2022
Anthropological interest in science fiction derives from the fact that works of science fiction, while depicting imaginary worlds, actually speak about existing human communities.
Bojan Žikić
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