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The impact of economic and monetary uncertainty on the demand for money in emerging economies
From Applied Economics Abstract By introducing uncertainty, monetary volatility and economic volatility are said to make the public cautious, hence increase their cash holdings or their demand for money. On the other hand, because of monetary and economic uncertainty if the public seek safer assets than money, they may hold less cash. In the absence ...
Abraham Lincoln and the Movies
From American Nineteenth Century History By Melvyn Stokes Abstract Comparatively little work has been done on how Abraham Lincoln has been represented in American cinema. Yet movies have been a major – and during the first half of the twentieth century probably the major – influence on how his memory has been constructed in American ...
The empathic, physiological resonance of stress
From Social Neuroscience Abstract Physiological resonance between individuals is considered fundamental to the biological capacity for empathy. Observers of pain and distress commonly exhibit increases in reported distress, autonomic arousal, facial mimicry, and overlapping neural activity. An important, unstudied question is whether physiological stress can also resonate. Physiological stress is operationalized as activation of the ...
Phenomenology as a Form of Empathy
From Inquiry Abstract This paper proposes that adopting a “phenomenological stance“ enables a distinctive kind of empathy, which is required in order to understand forms of experience that occur in psychiatric illness and elsewhere. For the most part, we interpret other people’s experiences against the backdrop of a shared world. Hence our attempts to appreciate ...
Twitter as a Reporting Tool for Breaking News
From Digital Journalism By Farida Vis Abstract This study focuses on journalists Paul Lewis (The Guardian) and Ravi Somaiya (The New York Times), the most frequently mentioned national and international journalists on Twitter during the 2011 UK summer riots. Both actively tweeted throughout the four-day riot period and this article highlights how they used Twitter ...
Mobilising Lidice: Cosmopolitan Memory between Theory and Practice
From Culture, Theory and Critique By Jessica Rapson Abstract This paper interrogates the orthodoxies of cosmopolitanism via the example of an emerging commemorative network surrounding the Czech village of Lidice, drawing attention to a disjunction between idealised theories of memory and actual, instrumental memory practice. Razed by Nazi officials as an act of retaliation for ...