Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from March 2002

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from March 2002

At the edge of contemplation.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... "Solitude is un-American." --Erica Jong "He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom." --Schopenhauer "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." --Hans Hofmann When...

The phenomenon in retrospect: thematic and stylistic progenitors of The Blair Witch Project.
March 1, 2002... The darling of the film world in the summer of 1999 was the independently-produced The Blair Witch Project, a phenomenon that arose from a college class project for the principals involved. Many younger viewers and critics hailed the film in a...

Green scales and hot breath: Godzilla! again!
March 1, 2002... In 1954, when Toho Studios in Japan released Gojira, a film featuring a giant prehistoric beast who rose from the Pacific Ocean as the result of a nuclear explosion, no one could have foreseen either the fictional or the real outcomes that are...

Thoreau, Dickinson, and Barfield and the world as window of opportunity.
March 1, 2002... Emily Dickinson and H. D. Thoreau are very much alike. While they quarrel with the limitations of the Renaissance, they consolidate its achievements, (1) and do so in very much the same language. Owen Barfield also knows enough "to move forward...

I'm Nobody! Who are you?": horror through anonymity in American Psycho.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! They'd advertise, you know! How dreary to be Somebody! How public--like a Frog-- To tell one's name--the Livelong...

Fair and unfair sexual harassment charges.
March 1, 2002... There is a very revealing article by Trout (1994), "Second Thoughts on Sexual Harassment. "Here, I contribute some of my own insights, based on case studies I have done at various colleges throughout the United States. Trout (1994) discussed...

To catch a spy: John Le Carre and Sidney Lumet's use of Marlowe's Edward II in performance.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... John Le Carre's first novel Call for the Dead (1961) and Sidney Lumet's movie based on the novel The Deadly Affair (1967), both use Marlowe's Edward II in climactic senes during which the master spy kills his accomplice in unison with...

But it is impossible in such hurried visits to immortal works, to give an adequate idea of their character.
March 1, 2002... "Character," upon which Sophia Hawthorne's art appraisals focused, spawned many of the critical responses imprinted in her "Roman Journal" (1858), sculptures, and architectonic constructs imprinted in her "Roman Journal" (1858). Not only did...

Vicarious traumatization of psychotherapists.
March 1, 2002... "... vicarious traumatization, the /psychotherapist's/ disease, the illness that afflicts the healer, unveils the polarities--all systems of `them' and `us' --as they explode. And the neat divisions erupt, spilling over, within ...

The Zen-Mondo: an analytical study of its non-dual aspect.
March 1, 2002... The Resume The Zen Mondo is an enlightenment that can be achieved by means of meditation and intuition. This synthesis is of utmost importance, because many people are driven by emotions solely. The term "individual" describes the...

AIDS education for African-American and white school children in one state: African-American students received less.
March 1, 2002... Introduction As the HIV/AIDS problem has reached epidemic or pandemic proportions, states are becoming more concerned about education as a means of informing people about the dangers. HIV/AIDS is a major problem in the United States, and...

Blissful Thinking. (Poem).(Poem)
March 1, 2002... bliss (bliss) n. Extreme happiness: ecstasy. We sometimes segue from a kiss to bliss to marriage to a child in a carriage to animosity and remorse to divorce Can this be the New Age Evolution! ...

Popular Evolution: Life-Lessons from Anthropology.
March 1, 2002... Popp, Joseph L. Popular Evolution: Life-Lessons from Anthropology. Lake Jackson, TX: Man and Nature Press, 2000. ISBN 0-9701255-7-7. Joseph L. Popp. an anthropologist who holds a B.S. in zoology from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in...

The Films of John Carpenter.
March 1, 2002... Muir, John Kenneth. The Films of John Carpenter. Jefferson, NC:McFarland & Co., 2000 It is, perhaps, the ultimate sign of acceptance when someone in the film industry finds him or herself the subject of more than one book-length study of...