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The Uncanniness of Form

open access: yesEdda, 2017
This article is concerned with Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Amorina from 1839 and aims to exemplify how its formal organization relates to the Freudian uncanny.
Boris Lazic
doaj   +1 more source

Searching for the Core of Conspiracy Belief Systems: The Relationship Between Specific Beliefs and Generic Mentality

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conspiracism is commonly measured through specific conspiracy beliefs and generalized conspiracy mentality, a broad tendency to suspect conspiracies behind events. Researchers often assume that these measures are psychometrically distinct and that mentality accounts for correlations among beliefs.
Arturo Bertero   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Investigation of the Uncanny [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In his essay The Uncanny (1919), Sigmund Freud connects the uncanny to his own psychoanalytic theories on infantile complexes. Our project group, finding Freud’s conclusion unsatisfactory, will conduct an evaluation of a different aspect: to which extent
Amenuvor, Sunna Ami   +3 more
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Disgust at Tainted Souls: Testing the Character Hypothesis of Disgust Through Descriptions of Dark Personality Traits

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disgust is commonly reported in response to socio‐moral violations, but whether and how it differs from anger in these contexts is often debated. Preliminary evidence that disgust tracks the bad character of actors has left unanswered the question of which observable actions, other than visibly harming other people, lead to such character ...
Daqing Liu, Roger Giner‐Sorolla
wiley   +1 more source

Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Support and destigmatization in early pregnancy loss in Spain

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Early miscarriages are a frequent reproductive event, often silenced and shrouded in stigma. Feminist anthropology has pointed out how such losses challenge the widespread Euro‐American social representations of motherhood and pregnancy, as well as societal unease with death.
Giulia Colavolpe‐Severi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
wiley   +1 more source

Familiarizing the Uncanny : Matt Reeves’s Vampire Movie Let Me In

open access: yes, 2014
Familiarizing the Uncanny: Matt Reeves’s Vampire Movie Let Me InThe vampire is a peculiarly transnational phenomenon as it moves, sometimes with supernatural speed, between different countries, parts of the world, and media. One intriguing recent example
Holmgren Troy, Maria,
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Perceptions and experiences of midwives' regarding the use of the labor care guide at two state hospitals in Khomas region, Namibia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The labor care guide (LCG) is a new tool for monitoring labor, introduced to replace the partograph, which had been used improperly and inconsistently across various contexts. Early research suggests that healthcare practitioners view the LCG as a tool that enhances the quality of care during labor and delivery.
Amalia N. N. Ilonga   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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