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Memorial Day takes place on every last Monday of each May. It becomes United States federal holiday to remember those people who died during military service and fought for the Civil War and the World War I.

This two-day conference, supported by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism (Birkbeck, University of London), Birkbeck College, University of London and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies of the University of Essex, will bring together historians, social theorists and psychoanalysts to explore the impact of the Second World War and totalitarianism on psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the war and totalitarian systems

"The main problem with the drug war is the concept that there are good drugs and bad drugs," when what's actually good or bad "is the relationship between the person and the drug, and the context in which the drug is taken."

A dystopian film. " THE MASTER" For some time I was occupied by a search for a title for this review of 'The Master'; Paul Thomas Anderson's 70 mm film homage to post war alienation and deceit. Anderson is a student of film history while his being an auteur is essential to understanding his intent. He stands on the shoulders of earlier filmmakers, influenced by them and seeking to relate his version of the "American Dream".

"Psychologen um Cameron Anderson von der University of California stellten nun die Hypothese auf, dass ein hoher soziometrischer Status, den jemand durch Anerkennung von Seiten seiner Mitmenschen erreicht, mehr zum subjektiven Wohlbefinden beiträgt, als ein durch materiellen Reichtum bedingter hoher sozioökonomischer Status. ... „Ich war überrascht zu sehen, wie stark veränderlich die Effekte waren, die wir beobachteten", sagt Anderson. „Wenn jemand auf der sozialen Leiter auf- oder abstieg, spiegelte sich dies sogar über neun Monate hinweg in dessen subjektivem Wohlbefinden." "

"20.12.2011 Facebook-Studie Gegensätze stoßen sich ab Facebook-Kontakte weltweit: Meinungen sind kaum ansteckend Freunde teilen meist viele Ansichten - doch warum das so ist, stellt Forscher vor Rätsel... Psychologen fasziniert schon lange, wie homogen es in Freundesgruppen zugeht. In der Schule, am Arbeitsplatz, im Sportverein, im Internet - stets tun sich Menschen zusammen, die viele Haltungen und Geschmäcker miteinander teilen. Warum das so ist, war bislang nicht schlüssig geklärt. Eine Theorie lautet, dass Menschen sich bevorzugt mit solchen Zeitgenossen anfreunden, mit denen sie viele Dinge gemeinsam haben. Eine alternative Erklärung für die Ähnlichkeit unter Freunden ist ein Phänomen, das Netzwerktheoretiker als Ansteckung bezeichnen. Ansichten und Geschmäcker breiten sich demnach unter Freunden ähnlich aus wie Krankheitserreger. Ein amerikanisches Forscherteam hat dieses Henne-Ei-Problem der Freundschaftstheorie nun in einer aufwendigen Studie auf der Plattform Facebook untersucht. Das Team um Kevin Lewis von der Harvard University in Cambridge verfolgte die Entwicklung von 1640 Studenten verschiedener US-Colleges über einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren."

One must absolutely direct oneself from the author towards his work, that is to say: it is because a creator possesses a given personality that he produces a given work. But never, amongst the characteris to say: it is because a creator possesses a given personality that he produces a given work. But never, amongst the characteristic specificities of a text to outline the psychological profile of an author and to draw a series of conclusions, in a dichotomy of various preaching. It would be vain to interpret the verses of Paul Celan "The black milk of dawn is drunk at sunset" as the gruesome representation of Auschwitz, the concentration camp where they were written; as also to call Ezra Pound a fascist as a consequence of a few interviews given during the war on Radio Rome where aesthetics and politics were cleverly blended.

The psychology of vengeance explains much about the state of the world and suggests the war on terror can never succeed, says Metin Basoglu

He knew his name. That much he could remember. He knew that his father's family came from Thibodaux, La., and his mother was from Ireland, and he knew about the 1929 stock market crash and World War II and life in the 1940s. But he could remember almost nothing after that.

"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."- John F. KennedyThere's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual.The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the narrative that, for the first time ever, Americans will likely end this year with either a woman or a black man headed for the White House. Bloggers are telling stories from the front lines of primaries and caucuses that look like something from the early 60s - people lining up before dawn to vote in Manoa, Hawaii yesterday; a thousand black college students in Prairie View, Texas marching 10 miles to cast their early votes in the face of a county that tried to disenfranchise them. In recent months, we've also been gobstopped by the sheer passion of the insurgent campaigns of both Barack Obama and Ron Paul, both of whom brought millions of new voters into the conversation - and with them, a sharp critique of the status quo and a new energy that's agitating toward deep structural change.There's something implacable, earnest, and righteously angry in the air. And it raises all kinds of questions for burned-out Boomers and jaded Gen Xers who've been ground down to the stump by the mostly losing battles of the past 30 years. Can it be - at long last - that Americans have, simply, had enough? Are we, finally, stepping out to take back our government - and with it, control of our own future? Is this simply a shifting political season - the kind we get every 20 to 30 years - or is there something deeper going on here? Do we dare to raise our hopes that this time, we're going to finally win a few? Just how ready is this country for big, serious, forward-looking change?Recently, I came across a pocket of sociological research that suggested a tantalizing answer to these questions - and also that America may be far more ready for far more change than anyone really believes is possible at this moment. In fac

In what may feel like a flashback to the porn wars of the '60s, a new study investigates the link between a country's relative gender equality and the degree of female "empowerment" in the X-rated entertainment it consumes. Researchers at the University of Hawaii focused on three countries in particular: Norway, the United States and Japan, which are respectively ranked 1st, 15th and (yikes) 54th on the United Nations' Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). To simplify their analysis, their library of smut was limited to explicit photographs of women "from mainstream pornographic magazines and Internet websites, as well as from the portfolios of the most popular porn stars from each nation." Then they set out to evaluate each image on both a disempowerment and an empowerment scale, using respective measures like whether the woman is "bound and dominated" by "leashes, collars, gags, or handcuffs" or "whether she has a natural looking body." Their hypothesis was that societies with greater gender equity will consume pornography that has more representations of "empowered women" and less of "disempowered women." It turned out the former was true, but, contradictory as it may sound, the latter was not. "While Norwegian pornography offers a wider variety of body types -- conforming less to a societal ideal that is disempowering to the average woman -- there are still many images that do not promote a healthy respect for women," the researchers explain. In other words, Norwegian porn showed more signs of female empowerment, but X-rated images in all three countries equally depicted women in demeaning positions and scenarios. This, the researchers surmise, "suggests that empowerment and disempowerment within pornography are potentially different constructs." So, gender equality is accompanied by sexual interest in a broader range of beauty types but not a decrease in porn's infantilization of females, use of dominating fetish gear on women or any of the other characteristics th

A former Army Specialist in Baghdad explains why the leaker of the WikiLeaks documents is a hero

During World War I, peace broke out. It was Christmas 1914 on the Western Front. Despite strict orders not to chillax with the enemy, British and German soldiers left their trenches, crossed No Man's Land, and gathered to bury their dead, exchange gifts, and play games. Meanwhile: it's 2017, the West has been at peace for decades, and wow, we suck at trust. Surveys show that, over the past forty years, fewer and fewer people say they trust each other. So here's our puzzle: Why, even in peacetime, do friends become enemies? And why, even in wartime, do enemies become friends?

overactive amygdala interferes with decision-making, problem-solving

There are over 200 million Rajputs who settled in India. Most of the Rajput community lived in Rajasthan but they are also settled in U.P, Madhya Pradesh, south, and many more cities where they settled. The Rajput community is one of the ancient and eminent families originating from the north-western part of India. Rajput was a warrior caste in India and is considered to be one of the most distinguished communities and includes 65% population. At the time of kings and queens, most of the Indian kings were Rajput. In ancient times Rajput kings had multiple wives some of the wives are they won in war. Rajput is a community where all they loved luxury and respect and their marriage always luxuries In modern days Rajput is a community where they always seek high-class families in the same community. According to the Indian matrimonial site survey Rajput community always looking for the same community and makes alliances with those families who understand their culture and tradition so, the Rajput community is the one who mostly preferred Online matrimonial sites for the same cultural value so, they find that families who understand their culture and tradition. Most of the rajput who looking for their partner always preferred rajput matrimonial They not choose those matrimonial who have normal databases they select that Indian marriage sites that have elite databases and who have provided elite matrimonial services and who In a survey of Rajput matrimonial services most of the people in rajput community looking for khandani families who live luxuries life. Most of the Rajput matrimony customers is Manglik or divorcee so, these profiles are open for all Matrimonial profiles if profiler are Manglik so, they always looking for a Manglik profiler in the Rajput community this Manglik tradition is very important and if the profiler is a divorcee so, they always seek for divorcee profiles In the past decade in Rajput community widowhood they can't remarry but everyone need