In the final act of this play, "evil" is brought to "justice." The placement of this act at the end is critical because it gives meaning to the two previous stories. The imagery is stark. Mike Tyson is the brute valued by the master only for the strength of his back and arms. He is […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
What Makes a Dad?
Some women in this study, many of whom appear to be very similar to women who used known donors, were always very clear about what they wanted from these men: nothing. They used distance (sometimes an ocean) as a buffer. These men had all but disappeared. Those who did want a dad for their child […]
MASCULINITIES
We begin this chapter in what has long been thought of as a quintessentially male arena: the battlefield. Towards the close of The Storm of Steel (1929), the extraordinary memoir of his experiences as an officer in the First World War, the German writer Ernst Junger recounts the story of how he escaped being captured, […]
Choosing to marry?
Most partners had not imagined entering into a formalised same-sex relationship or marriage before their current relationship. While several women had had previous committed couple relationships with men, and some had children in this context, only one had married a man in the past. Neil recounted that he had once dreamt of a life with […]
A Processing Capacity Explanation for Age Differences in Social Judgments
Based on the research discussed so far, it appears that processing resource limitations play an important role in understanding how older adults process and access social information. In fact, social cognitive researchers use information-processing models to describe how individuals make social judgments (e. g., Gilbert & Malone, 1995). For example, Gilbert and his colleagues have […]
Knowledge Accessibility and Social Judgments
When we are faced with new situations, we draw on our previous experiences stored in memory, in other words, our social knowledge. The content of those experiences and knowledge and how easily we can retrieve it will affect what types of social judgments we make and how we behave in social situations. If you are […]
OF DIFFERENCE’
The intervention of feminism within the academy has been strengthened by the developments in the 1980s and 1990s of a greater degree of feminist pluralism, particularly as a result of debates emerging from non-Western women and women of colour. As indicated earlier, women of colour have challenged the uncritical use of concepts such as ‘oppression’ […]
Toward solutions
Although a government study found that men’s health was much worse than women s health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: "Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap."69 They did not say: "Men Face Large Health Care Gap." Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men’s lives with the saving […]
Don’t male doctors treat men’s symptoms more seriously?
The feeling that male doctors treat men more seriously seemed to have been respectably documented when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported on such a study conducted by Lawrence Schneiderman.65 But when I spoke with Dr. Schneiderman, he explained that he had, in fact, done two studies: one found that men were […]
Social Judgment Processes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is the negativity bias in impression formation, and how does it influence older adults’ thinking? • Are there age differences in accessibility of social information? • How does processing context influence social judgments? • To what extent do processing capacity limitations influence social judgments in older adults? A lexandra and Klaus […]