Conjunctive Anomalies: A Reflection on Werewolves
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2017 Why did I choose this topic for our discussion? There are several answers; let’s begin with the most obvious. In the increasingly globalized world we inhabit, a comparative approach to either history or anthropology is unavoidable. Stories about werewolves spread from Europe to other continents: any approach to this topic will necessarily involve a ...
Carlo Ginzburg
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Are children like werewolves? Full moon and its association with sleep and activity behaviors in an international sample of children [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2016 In order to verify if the full moon is associated with sleep and activity behaviors, we used a 12-country study providing 33710 24-hour accelerometer recordings of sleep and activity.
Jean-Philippe eChaput +23 more
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Clinical Lycanthropy, Neurobiology, Culture: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background: Culture can affect psychiatric disorders. Clinical Lycanthropy is a rare syndrome, described since Antiquity, within which the patient has the delusional belief of turning into a wolf. Little is known on its clinical or therapeutic correlates.
Sélim Benjamin Guessoum +11 more
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Huggable Communication Medium Maintains Level of Trust during Conversation Game. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 There have been several attempts in recent years to develop a remote communication device using sensory modalities other than speech that would induce a user’s positive experience with his/her conversation partner.
Takahashi H +5 more
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It’s Not Weird… Like Werewolves.
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2019 This paper is both a theoretical and creative exploration using fan ficion. Monsters have drawn my interest because they are often metaphors for marginalized folks. Through histories of marginalized experiences represented as monsters and villains, I claim the monster as my own.
Bridget Liang
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Werewolves, cheats, and cultural sensitivity [PDF]
, 2014 This paper discusses the design and evaluation of the system MIXER (Moderating Interactions for Cross-Cultural Empathic Relationships), which applies a novel approach to the education of children in cultural sensitivity. MIXER incorporates intelligent affective and interactive characters, including a model of a Theory of Mind mechanism, in a simulated ...
Aylett, Ruth +10 more
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Commentary: Are Children Like Werewolves? Full Moon and Its Association with Sleep and Activity Behaviors in an International Sample of Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2016 James S. Welsh, James S. Welsh
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Transforming, Transgressing and Terrorizing
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : The article discusses some werewolf motifs in Swedish ballads, which tell of shapeshifters of ambiguous character that change between a human and a non-human body, dwell in spaces on the fringe of the human world, and have potential to intrude into the
Catharina Raudvere
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Virtue as Adventure and Excess: Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Desire in the Twilight Series
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2013 The vampire is still primarily a literary figure. The vampires we have seen on TV and cinema in recent years are all based on literary models. The vampire is at the same time a popular cultural icon and a figure that, especially women writers, use to ...
Claudia Lindén
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Livonian Werewolves: Assessing Their Historical Significance Through the Case of Old Thiess
Review of European Studies, 2022 This paper seeks to investigate the phenomenon of Livonian werewolves from the early modern era (1500-1700s). Noting their uniqueness in comparison to contemporaneous werewolves hailing from other geographic areas, the paper suggests that the Livonian ...
Liu Jiaxin
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