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From: "Academia.edu Weekly Digest" To: [email protected] Subject: Influence of the Cortical Midline Structures on Moral Emotion and Motivation in... - Academia.edu Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:40:29 +0000 ala R,Hy emin ;"'Academia.edu TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Hyemln Han Stanford University, Graduate School of Education, Graduate Student Influence of the Cortical Midline Structures on Moral Emotion and Motivation in Moral Decision-Making The present study aims to examine the relationship between the cortical midline structures (CMS), which have been regarded to be associated with selfhood, and moral decision making processes at the neural level. Traditional moral psychological studies have suggested the role of moral self as the moderator of moral cognition, so activity of moral self would present at the neural level. The present study examined the interaction between the CMS and other moral-related regions by conducting psycho-physiological interaction analysis of functional images acquired while 16 subjects were solving... VIEW PAPER Hatem Bazian tern University of California, Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies, Faculty Member The Levy Commission Report on the Legal Status of Building in Judea and Samaria VIEW PAPER Rpa vice Pavica Sheldon University of Alabama in Huntsville, Communication Arts, Faculty Member Instagram: Motives for its use and relationship to narcissism and contextual age This study investigates motives for its use, and its relationship to contextual age and narcissism. A survey of 239 college students revealed that the main reasons for Instagram use are "Surveillance/Knowledge about others," "Documentation," "Coolness," and "Creativity." The next significant finding was a positive relationship between those who scored high in interpersonal interaction and using Instagram for coolness, creative purposes, and surveillance. Another EFTA01185516 interesting finding shows that there is a positive relationship between high levels of social activity (traveling, going to... VIEW PAPER IIw MixatiA Tacp/PliS Publication bias in meta-analysis: Confidence intervals for Rosenthal's fail-safe number VIEW PAPER RSc Scott D Churchill Ott D iversity of Dallas, Psychology. Faculty Member Resolution to Amend and Clarify the Roles of Psychologists Related to Interrogation and Detainee Welfare in National Security Settings, to Further Implement the 2008 Petition Resolution, and to Safeguard Against Acts of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in All Settings This is the final (amended) Agenda item that was approved by APA Council on August 7th, 2015 in a historic 157-1 roll call vote when the item, a substitute motion for the original motion submitted in February 2014, went before Council and was presented by Council Rep Scott Churchill (Div 32) primary mover of New Business Item 23B. (Co-authors: Dan Aalbers, Steven Reisner, and Ellen Garrison - Senior Policy Writer for APA). VIEW PAPER Ah met Ahmet S Yayla Harran University, Sociology. Faculty Member Eyewitness Accounts from Recent Defectors from Islamic State: Why They Joined, What They Saw, Why They Quit Abstract This Research Note reports on preliminary results of the Islamic State Interviews Project, based here on a sample of thirteen Syrian IS defectors who spoke on life inside the Islamic State"(IS). A fuller and more systematic account will be published in early 2016 in book form. According to what we learned, all IS cadres undergo Shariah training in which they are imbued with a Takfiri ideology that allows them to deem all others, including Muslims, who disagree with IS' extreme ideology, as apostates who should be killed. Despite this indoctrination, all of our informants (all... EFTA01185517 VIEW PAPER ;`,1Lor enzo . . Lorenzo Cini European University Institute, Political and Social Sciences, Graduate Student Review of "della Porta D. 2015, Social Movements in Times of Austerity, Polity: Maiden" Over the last few years, there has been a certain degree of agreement among social movement scholars on the fact that the dominant analytical frameworks of social movement theory have been not fully able to explain the recent wave of protests, triggered by the economic crisis. Following this concern, some authors have started a debate about how to modify and refine these frameworks in order to better account for the current dynamics of mobilization. This type of reflection is precisely at the centre of the analysis of a book recently published by Polity Press (2015: pp. 249), titled Social... VIEW PAPER h Seth Spain Binghamton University, School of Management, Faculty Member Separating the Why from the What: Reply to Jonas and Markon (2015) In this response to the commentary offered by Jonas and Markon (this issue) on our earlier work (Wood, Hensler, & Harms, 2015), we address points of agreement and disagreement on the nature and utility of functionalist and descriptivist accounts of personality. Specifically, we argue that explanatory and conceptual parsimony is more appropriate than statistical parsimony for evaluating the proposed models, discuss ways in which functionalist and descriptivist approaches can complement one another, and provide some cautions about interpreting latent traits. VIEW PAPER g,,Pa olo Paolo Gerbaudo King's College London, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries Research, Faculty Member Rousing the Facebook Crowd: Digital Enthusiasm and Emotional Contagion in the 2011 Protests in Egypt and Spain The activist use of Facebook p ages in the 2011 movements of the Egyptian revolution and the Spanish Indignados saw phases of exponential growth in user engagement in proximity to key protest events, signaled by spikes in likes and comments. This article analyzes these episodes as momen is of digital enthusiasm facilitated by emotional communication on political Facebook pages. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative analysis of Facebook data, I argue that two elements concurred to build moments of digital enthusiasm: (a) ... EFTA01185518 VIEW PAPER ;;Se Sean Redmond an Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty Member Celebrity Embodiment - Introduction (from A Companion to Celebrity) Celebrities come to us in and through their enchanted bodies. These bodies emit magical signs and they give off powerful feelings and mobilize affects that are height- ened and intense. Celebrities often stand as perfected or flawed creatures, embody identity politics, and give meaning to the imagined body of the nation-state. In this respect, golfer Tiger Woods becomes, first, the embodied truth that the United States has entered a postrace state of greater social equality (Berlant 1997), and, second, the reconstituted radicalized myth that black men are, after all, essentially sexual... VIEW PAPER EFTA01185519