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It's all in the eyes: subcortical and cortical activation during grotesqueness perception in autism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Atypical face processing plays a key role in social interaction difficulties encountered by individuals with autism. In the current fMRI study, the Thatcher illusion was used to investigate several aspects of face processing in 20 young adults with high ...
Donnelly, Nick   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Filtering Trust: Disclosing the Role of Artificial Intelligence Decreases Trust in Technology, but Does Not Prevent Harm to Body Image After Viewing AI‐Generated Content

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Despite the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI), virtually no research exists examining the psychological impacts of viewing or interacting with AI‐generated images of people. Additionally, it remains relatively unknown whether informing viewers when images are AI‐generated is an effective way to lessen harm or ...
Brooke L. Bennett   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Repugnance as Performance Error: The Role of Disgust in Bioethical Intuitions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
An influential argument in bioethics involves appeal to disgust, calling on us to take it seriously as a moral guide (e.g. Kass, Miller, Kahan). Some argue, for example, that genetic enhancement, especially via human reproductive cloning, is repellant or
May, Joshua
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

"Even as myself, my very own incontrovertible, unexceptional self, I feel I am disguised" : mimicry, masquerade, and the quest for hybridity in the fiction of Salman Rushdie : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Salman Rushdie's fiction delineates the author's struggle toward an ideal of hybridity that encompasses both individual and nation. The emblematic figure of the migrant plays a large role in Rushdie's oeuvre, demonstrating the process of translation from
Mahoney, Blair
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The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
wiley   +1 more source

The Fantastic-Grotesque in Beh’Āzin’s “The Snake Stone” [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی
The present study offers a reading of “The Snake Stone,” penned by Mahmũd Etemādzāde aka. Beh’Āzin (1915-2006), as a tale of fantastic-grotesque. With a preliminary discussion on the grotesque and fantastic in relation to non-western literature, the ...
Nahid Shahbazi Moghaddam
doaj   +1 more source

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

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