Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from August 2003

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from August 2003

At the edge of contemplation.(Editorial)
August 1, 2003... We live in a time, in which terrorism has become a "new" kind of war. The question that arises is: Why is this "new" war so difficult to understand? We are living in an age of excellent technological development. What is the diffilculty to...

Imagery, form and the romance in Martin Recuerda's Amadis de Gaula and Laforet's Nada.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... Jose Martin Recuerda's Amadis de Gaula (1986) and Carmen Laforet's Nada (1942) (1) are not merely additions to their corpus of Francoist works, but ones which criticize the perpetuation of violence and injustice, while underscoring social life...

Cultural competence and professional psychology training: creating the architecture for change.
August 1, 2003... Culture is defined as a highly variable system of meanings which are learned and shared by an identifiable racial, ethnic, religious or social group. It includes components of life that are transmitted intergenerationally (Rohner, 1984). These...

Why evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation or "just so" stories: with examples from human sexuality and from narratives.
August 1, 2003... Contrary to what some of its opponents claim, evolutionary psychology is not mere speculation, or "just so" stories which are incapable of being tested. Many believe these critiques. In fact, a former colleague of mine, now a journal editor,...

Universe as the interaction of its parts with limitations.
August 1, 2003... Universe contains animate and inanimate objects that in a dynamic manner constitute creation. Dynamic condition of creation indicates that constituent parts of universe are not static and unchanging but are subject to change within the context...

The Variables Set Forth.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... The Variables Set Forth I am lost in attraction to my other half a simple fact beyond my power a plan, perhaps Nature's a complementary affair

The False Equation.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... The False Equation In being lost I do not lose myself what is is and to fear losing is to over-think how, by definition, we are and psychologize into sinister a natural act

Bad Math.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... BAD Math To find the natural a threat is to twist is into a personal problem where one's ego must win and love into a game where one's love must lose

Mistaking Addition for Substraction.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... Mistaking Addition for Subtraction The equation is contrived subdue or be subdued the attracting half taught a hard lesson to unlearn that love can be avoided victory is in isolation

The Error Detected.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... The Error Detected The self is only found when lost into part of two that are the real one Love flees us from a solipsistic prison self created chains incarcerating the one offering...

Conundrum.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... Conundrum Did I then do him an injustice seeing him only lately realizing he might see himself a man of color for all that meant? Am I now done an injustice to feel so and to wonder... was...

Amor Fati.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... Amor Fati My love is afraid of my love worries walls and defenses down to welcome risk wounding and betrayal so raises walls and defenses up to guarantee safety and...

The Ghost in the Machine.(Getting the Whole Thing Right)(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... The Ghost in the Machine I believed I was free until I heard synaesthesia was real hardwired in some brains making the number three a real blue giving flavor to words thus hardwiring...

The orgy of self-renunciation an analysis of the motif of war in modern literature.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... The abundance of modern literature dealing with the topic of war makes it incumbent upon the writer of this article to limit the scope of his undertaking. The innumerable angles of discussion include the religious, politicsl, sociological,...

Maternal instinct in Miguel de Unamuno's "Dos Madres".(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... The question of immortality has been one of the principal human preoccupations in the history of mankind (Olshansky; Carnes). This query has been directed in different directions to find a means to satisfy a yearning for immortality. Religion...

Lane's Jeremiadic Mizora.(Mary Bradley Lane, Mizora: A Prophecy)(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... In the United States, utopian narratives owe much not only to the rhetoric but also the structure of the jeremiad sermon. Amending Miller's focus on the jeremiad's cathartic function, Sacvan Bercovitch has directed attention to its ideological...

Three poems.(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... Three Poems Magic Now you see him Now you don't Like when a loved one suddenly dies The Saving in Half Act The body usually enclosed in a box appears severed by a sword. Like the shock...

Tracking the sands of time: origin stories in the mummy films.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... During the 1930s and 40s Universal Studios gained Prominence with its stable of horror films featuring wnat became known as the studio's "Big Four" of Dracula, the Frankensteins creature, the Wolfman, and the Mummy. Tales featuring these four...

Reading Tea.(Brief Article)(Poem)
August 1, 2003... Reading Tea When we joined on the riverbank, the earth declined to move. Strange signs did not emerge from the colored entrails of our deeds, nor did an aura rise over his new whitened hair (for we were no...

Performance as metadramatic biography in John Mortimer's Will Shakespeare.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... Much of the wit and excitement in the delightful Shakespeare in Love derives from the depiction of the reciprocity between Shakespeare's life and his art. As Shakespeare struggles to write Romeo and Juliet, his life unfolds in ways that...

The murder of Judge Pyncheon: confusion and suggestion in The House of the Seven Gables.(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2003... In his recent study of The House of the Seven Gables, William J. Scheick says that Hawthorne's novel presents us with a world structured by skeptical empiricism, a world, that is, which we cannot ultimately come to know. Scheick's provocative...

Crossing over the line.(Short Story)
August 1, 2003... It was snowing heavily that Tuesday morning in mid-December. The prior evening's forecast had called for two to four inches by noon, tapering off to flurries, with little or no further accumulation. But at 6:45 A.M., Brent Martin was driving to...

Latino Children and Families in the United States: Current Research and Future Directions.(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Eds. Josefina M. Contreras, Kathryn A. Kerns, and Angela M. Neal-Barnett. Praeger Series in Applied Psychology. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. The steady growth and influence of the Latino population in the United States necessitates an...