Ever since the times we can refer to, we notice that man has been actively and condescendingly related to his suffering fellow, particularizing the patient in its ontic integrity --body, spirit, ...immortal soul--and not the disease. In short, there are patients and not diseases! Later, the same man, caring for the fate of his fellow man and the community, identified a disease of the spirit that changed the man into a kind of "inventor" of new, unreal, utopian facts. When these new facts--utopias were hidden among allegories and metaphors and the religious industry (the oldest type of corporate society) was "thought out", while the man personified and invaded the sky, the situation became complicated and the man in question was declared ill--mythomaniac. Much later other people introduced the concept of intellectual lucidity among "seven other distinctive signs, of the man who "trusts the invitation of God". Indeed!? We need a neuro-psychiatric certificate to justify our faith! We specify that we neither intend to analyze the "religious creativity of modern societies", nor to outline the ideational path of the "logic of religion". In this article we aim at identifying and introducing the roots and consequences of lying with the hidden pathological features of the human being that relate to transcendence, taking as a basis for research the text of the Bible. Here we will approach the following aspects: the falsehood in interpersonal relationships, falsehood related to Otherness and the father of lies--the one we have to beware of. In order to emphasize the pathology in question, we chose as an epistemological novelty to alternate the biblical quotations with text excerpts, personally collected from the newspaper Lupta Moldovei, a journalistic publication of Soviet propaganda, which was meant to work in the consciousness of our people to form the new ideological man. In short, we present good and evil, truth and falsehood. The reader will decide if we have succeeded. KEYWORDS: Patients, healing, falsehood, truth, knowledge, faith.
Interpersonal relation defines the association, e.g., warm, friendliness, and dominance, between two or more people. We investigate if such fine-grained and high-level relation traits can be ...characterized and quantified from face images in the wild. We address this challenging problem by first studying a deep network architecture for robust recognition of facial expressions. Unlike existing models that typically learn from facial expression labels alone, we devise an effective multitask network that is capable of learning from rich auxiliary attributes such as gender, age, and head pose, beyond just facial expression data. While conventional supervised training requires datasets with complete labels (e.g., all samples must be labeled with gender, age, and expression), we show that this requirement can be relaxed via a novel attribute propagation method. The approach further allows us to leverage the inherent correspondences between heterogeneous attribute sources despite the disparate distributions of different datasets. With the network we demonstrate state-of-the-art results on existing facial expression recognition benchmarks. To predict inter-personal relation, we use the expression recognition network as branches for a Siamese model. Extensive experiments show that our model is capable of mining mutual context of faces for accurate fine-grained interpersonal prediction.
Social bonding is fundamental to human society, and romantic interest involves an important type of bonding. Speed dating research paradigms offer both high external validity and experimental control ...for studying romantic interest in real-world settings. While previous studies focused on the effect of social and personality factors on romantic interest, the role of non-verbal interaction has been little studied in initial romantic interest, despite being commonly viewed as a crucial factor. The present study investigated whether romantic interest can be predicted by non-verbal dyadic interactive body sway, and enhanced by movement-promoting ('groovy') background music. Participants' body sway trajectories were recorded during speed dating. Directional (predictive) body sway coupling, but not body sway similarity, predicted interest in a long-term relationship above and beyond rated physical attractiveness. In addition, presence of groovy background music promoted interest in meeting a dating partner again. Overall, we demonstrate that romantic interest is reflected by non-verbal body sway in dyads in a real-world dating setting. This novel approach could potentially be applied to investigate non-verbal aspects of social bonding in other dynamic interpersonal interactions such as between infants and parents and in non-verbal populations including those with communication disorders.
Partiality Keller, Simon
2013., 20130521, 2013, 2013-05-21, Letnik:
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We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if ...so, why?Partialitypresents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how we might reconcile the moral value of these relationships with competing claims of impartial morality.
Simon Keller explains that in order to understand why we give special treatment to our family and friends, we need to understand how people come to matter in their own rights. Keller first presents two main accounts of partiality: the projects view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the place that people take within our lives and our commitments, and the relationships view, on which relationships themselves contain fundamental value or reason-giving force. Keller then argues that neither view is satisfactory because neither captures the experience of acting well within special relationships. Instead, Keller defends the individuals view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the value of the individuals with whom our relationships are shared. He defends this view by saying that we must accept that two people, whether friend or stranger, can have the same value, even as their value makes different demands upon people with whom they share different relationships. Keller explores the implications of this claim within a wider understanding of morality and our relationships with groups, institutions, and countries.
Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay close attention to the social and emotional aspects of learning in order to ...understand why and how it occurs. How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do builds a theoretical argument for and a methodological approach to studying learning in a holistic way. The authors provide examples of urban fourth graders from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds studying science as a way to illustrate how this model contributes to a more complete and complex understanding of learning in school settings. What makes this book unique is its insistence that to fully understand human learning we have to consider the affective-volitional processes of learning along with the more familiar emphasis on knowledge and skills.
Participation is considered a critical outcome of successful rehabilitation and should be evaluated. We aimed to evaluate the structural validity of the Participation Behaviour Questionnaire (PBQ) in ...people with hand injuries. The PBQ contains 30 items that measure participation as conceptualized in the ICF. PBQ was developed with Rasch analysis to measure participation in hand injured. A sample of 404 patients with hand injuries and a mean age of 37 (16.0) participated and was randomly split for exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA/CFA). Both EFA and CFA confirmed a four factor-solution. These factors were named: Social Participation and Interpersonal Relationships, Autonomy and Role, Subjective Satisfaction with Participation, Recreational, Sport, and Leisure Time. The value of Cronbach's alpha was 0.96 for the total scale and >0.85 for each subscale. The structural validity of the PBQ was confirmed using both EFA and CFA. The PBQ measures four dimensions of participation.
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