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Galileo once said that one cannot understand the universe without comprehending its language: mathematics. Unfortunately, most individuals will approach physical sciences with dread, due in part to the difficulty with speaking the... more
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      PhysicsJungian and post-Jungian psychologyImagination
Arts-based Education in Outdoor Learning is a compendium of artistic endeavour created for the purposes of learning. The contents stem mainly from teaching BA undergraduate Outdoor students at the University of Central Lancashire in... more
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      Creative WritingEducationSelf and IdentityCreativity
Arts-based Education in Outdoor Learning is a compendium of artistic endeavour created for the purposes of learning. The contents stem mainly from teaching BA undergraduate Outdoor students at the University of Central Lancashire in... more
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      PhilosophyAestheticsCreativityLiterature
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      NeurosciencePsychologyAbnormal PsychologyApplied Psychology
The opposition between the naked and the clothed body is one of the most productive elements of cultural history and is often associated with the dichotomy between nature and culture. According to tradition, nudity stimulates the... more
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      PsychoanalysisGerman LiteratureAnthropology of the BodyCultural Theory
We live in a globalized world in which a person in Burkina Faso can identify with Star Wars heroes, and in which a New York trader drinks the same Starbucks coffee as his Taiwanese counterpart. How are individuals socialized in Rome,... more
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      Cultural StudiesGlobalizationHybridityCosmopolitanism
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      CommunicationEducationAutismPsychometrics
The mystical technique of imagery, i.e. visualizing an imaginary picture, found already in the earliest stages of Kabbalah, reached its peak in the teachings of R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of Piazecna (1889-1943). Academic... more
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      ReligionNew HistoricismSpiritualityJewish Mysticism
Art and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and... more
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      PsychologyAestheticsArtDomestic Violence
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      Critical TheoryPsychologyCognitive PsychologySocial Psychology
Volume 4 of Correspondences
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      Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Lévi)ImaginationWestern Esotericism (History)Occultism
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      Information SystemsPsychologyCognitive ScienceCommunication
This article traces the radical devaluation of the phantasm throughout Western civilization. With the help of Nietzsche's critical perspective, I develop a notion of hystery as the series of collective traumas repeated in each... more
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      PhilosophyAristotleHobbesMagic
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      Higher EducationImaginationEducational PhilosophyGoal Orientation
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      PsychologyIntelligenceCognitionChild Development
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      ManagementSocial SciencesOrganization StudiesDetective Fiction
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      Mental RepresentationAgingImaginationHumans
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      Sign LanguageSemanticsBritish Sign LanguageSign Languages
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceVisual perceptionImagination
Although clinical theories suggest that people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) experience a confused sense of self, little empirical research has directly examined the self in BPD (Heard & Linehan, 1993; Westen & Cohen, 1993).... more
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyCognitive SciencePsychometrics
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      PainImaginationAdolescentHypnosis
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      ImaginationCanadianHumansChild
This paper unites current philosophical thinking on imagination with a burgeoning debate in the philosophy of memory over whether episodic remembering is simply a kind of imagining. So far, this debate has been hampered by a lack of... more
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      Memory (Cognitive Psychology)FunctionalismMemory StudiesImagination
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      PsychometricsSpatial cognitionCognitionSex
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceCommunicationCognition
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyPsychiatryPoetry
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      Cultural StudiesTourism StudiesAnthropology of TourismTourism Marketing
This paper aims to study the imagination of Tehran through 1340s and 1350s Iranian cinema and the main question is that what kind of representation on city was fueled by cinema. This study was conducted based on analysis of four... more
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      RepresentationsIranian CinemaImaginationCity Imaging
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      PsychologyBlindnessBody ImageImagination
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      ImaginationImmanuel KantHistory Of Modern Philosophy
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceVisual perceptionImagination
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      AssessmentCognitive developmentCognitionChild Development
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      Cognitive ScienceMental RepresentationNumerical CognitionImagination
According to David Hume the imagination is a mental faculty that forms, unites and separates ideas. This creative character puts it in a position to play a major role not only in fiction — once it’s due to the imagination that we conceive... more
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      MetaphysicsEpistemologyImaginationDavid Hume
Social justice connects to trends in organizational communication scholarship in important ways. Some organizational communication traditions engage, explicitly and implicitly, social justice concepts, such as fairness, equity, freedom,... more
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      CommunicationOrganizational CommunicationAction ResearchImagination
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      Visual perceptionMagnetic Resonance ImagingImaginationAction observation
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceImaginationFace recognition (Psychology)
Parmi les sept péchés capitaux au Moyen Âge, l’acédie est considérée traditionnellement comme l’ancêtre de la paresse, de la mélancolie ou de la dépression. Elle se signale par un manque de ferveur qui plonge le religieux dans un état... more
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      Medieval LiteratureMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesMonastic Studies
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      Cognitive ScienceMental RepresentationCognitionImagination
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      Fuzzy LogicMagnetic Resonance ImagingFunctional MRIImagination
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceMusicPerception
Much controversy remains regarding the ability of children with autism to engage in spontaneous play. In this study children with autism, Down syndrome and typical development with verbal mental ages of approximately 2 years were assessed... more
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      EducationCreativityAutismChild Development
“This is an extremely bold attempt to investigate the cultural history of imagination in a European context and to analyse the cultural enactment of imagination in dramatic texts as potential performance. As a concept imagination is more... more
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      Theatre StudiesTheatre HistoryDramaturgyEugene Ionesco absurd theatre
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      Coding TheoryDecision MakingSemanticsPsycholinguistics
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceVisual perceptionAttention
In this paper I argue that an important task of career-long teacher education is the encouragement of imagination and creativity in experienced teachers. The task implies a reversal of the managerialism that currently afflicts so many... more
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      Teacher EducationCreativityImaginationSelf cultivation
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      Evolutionary BiologyNeurosciencePsychologyBehavioural Science
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      Learning and TeachingImaginationPhilosophy of Experiential EducationImaginative education