Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from March 2003

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from March 2003

At the edge of contemplation.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... "Our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."--Will Rogers "Time is the thief you cannot banish."--Phyllis McGinley, American poet and author (1905-1978) "Truth often finds...

Working with emotionally disturbed prisoners: experiences in a prison treatment program for youthful offenders.
March 1, 2003... The Prisoners As Phelan (2002) has pointed out, psychotherapists can, in some instances, receive vicarious traumatization, as a result of the kinds of clients they work with. Others have also discussed the issue of the problem of working...

Learning to ski in middle age.
March 1, 2003... Yes, this is life! the face of the fragile bush for a backdrop Dusted with confectioners' sugar sweetness but real. Luring with picture postcard allure but true winds the trail. Toasty-warm, skin-tight clothes , securely sheltered, my face...

The human-animal divide: interdisciplinary ethical reflections.
March 1, 2003... If, indeed, science cannot be expected to "save" nature, then it is Important to resurrect the tradition of experiencing the loss of nature as the loss of human identity. *** Raymond Rogers The greatness of a nation and its moral...

Hum Drum. (Two Poems).(Poem)
March 1, 2003... HUM DRUM It's August.... again Many tired green leaves now saffron yellow and beige and brown Are scattered around Fading bright colors of summer, appear foolish and optimistic Like the heroine...

On Venting and Forgiving. (Two Poems).(Poem)
March 1, 2003... ON VENTING AND FORGIVING To vent is to unburden oneself of strong pent-up emotions Repeated Venting helps to make our problems seem mundane While our audiences unfortunate to be within hearing distance ...

Hope sinks: Pandora, Eve and the obsession of Ahab.
March 1, 2003... Most everyone is familiar with the mythology of Pandora; however, few realize its significant message: Hope is evil. First, the popular notion that Pandora was given a "box" is not quite accurate. A better translation would be "jar." And...

Oceans, fear and the Jungian connection in Solaris and Sphere.
March 1, 2003... For years writers have dabbled in the psychological mysteries of life. Although one derives from Poland and the other, from the United States, and their works are separated by over twenty years, Stanislaw Lem and Michael Crichton wrote...

Forgetting to use birth control: unwanted pregnancies support evolutionary psychology theory.
March 1, 2003... An important area for study is ovulation (Atwood, James, Keil, Roberts, & Hartmann, P.E. 1991; Biel-Casals, 1968; Chearskul & Visutakul, 1994; Freundl, Bremme, Frank-Hermann, Baur, Godehardt, & Sottong, 1996), including female sexual desire,...

Editorial comment concerning the article on Martin Heidegger.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... The article following on the next page is not intended to represent an analysis of Martin Heidegger's work or a critical approach to his philosophy per se. As a representative of evolutionary psychology, I am fascinated by the dichotomy...

Martin Heidegger: the philosopher of psychological con-fusion.
March 1, 2003... If he [the man] lifts himself upwards and touches the stars with his forhead, the soles of his feet dangle in mid-air, and he becomes a plaything of the clouds and the winds. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe: "Grenzen der...

Keri Hulme's The Bone People: the problem of beneficial child abuse.
March 1, 2003... The term "child abuse" is electric. It produces a visceral response from the general public and screaming headlines about nightmarish day care centers or pedophilic priests. The sexual or physically violent treatment of children seems to...

An ever-returning mummy: the gauze that refreshes.(Egyptian mummies in horror movies )
March 1, 2003... When Egyptian King Tutankahamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, the world became enthralled with the numerous splendors of Egyptian culture, including design, architecture, and fashion. Tut's tomb was filled with the king's fantastic art and...

Babylonian confusion and biblical inversion in Miller's The Crucible.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2003... Criticism of Arthur Miller's The Crucible has focused on seven related areas of concern. The most frequent critical emphasis, which began with the first performance of the play in 1953, concerned Miller's analogy between the McCarthyism of the...

The rise of the mother: violation and retribution of the maternal body in King Lear.
March 1, 2003... In her introduction to The Vagina Monologues, Gloria Steinem offers a compelling metaphor for the violation of the maternal body by patriarchal tradition. Directing our eye to church architecture, Steinem asserts that the "traditional design of...

"Coming into being": mourning, adolescence and creativity in Duras's The Lover.(Marguerite Duras)
March 1, 2003... Marguerite Duras's The Lover, a fictionalized memoir of her troubled adolescence in Indochina, is narrated from the points of view of age and youth. Though the "older" voice gives perspective and shapes the representation of the youthful self,...