Journal of Evolutionary Psychology articles from October 2006

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology archives from October 2006

At the edge of contemplation.(quotations)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... "We make progress by a constant spiral back and forth between the inner world and the outer one, the personal and the political, the self and the circumstances. Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we." ...

Abbott and Costello meet ... John Hawkes: The Goose on the Grave, affect, and Tomkins's script theory.(Bud Abbott and Lou Costello)(Silvan Tomkins)
October 1, 2006... "The sublime has always located itself between discrete orders of meaning. It is not a category in itself as a term that describes what cannot be categorized, and the writers it claims cannot be held to any one literary genre." Joseph...

All Fall.(Poem)
October 1, 2006... ALL FALL Mel, Musician and army vet: Down he fell and broke his hip His wife so disappointed as they were planning a trip. George, former football star: He missed a step fell and opened his head: He...

The Satanic Whitman: woman, nature and the magic of four.(Walt Whitman)
October 1, 2006... I Had the Romantics lived in the twentieth-century and maintained their Romantic sensibility, they might have been Jungians, which is to say, there are a considerable number of parallels between Jungian theory and Romantic aesthetics....

Daddy's Death.(Poem)
October 1, 2006... Daddy's Death I wonder what my five year old--almost six. Told that death is Freedom Would think, would understand? No doubt when I die He will be told, "Daddy went to heaven." I would rather they told...

My Grandfather's New Buick.(Poem)
October 1, 2006... My Grandfather's New Buick My Grandfather bought a brand new Buick A 1954 Roadmaster four door sedan Tu-tone paint, dark green and blue. Dyna-Flow automatic transmission, Clock and push button radio in the dash. ...

The paradigm shift to post-modern theory in counseling and psychotherapy: are we throwing out the babies with the bathwater?
October 1, 2006... Psychologists trained in the tradition of the medical model may find themselves dismayed at some post-modern theorists' rejection of traditional theoretical foundations. The paradigm shift to post-modern thought represents a truly admirable and...

Influences exerted on the child viewer when exposed to violent imagery in television and print advertising.
October 1, 2006... Abstract A great deal of concern exists regarding the exposure of the child viewer or reader to mediated violent imagery. Studies have suggested that the viewer learns aggressive behavior and becomes desensitized to such expression. Is the...

Risking pregnancy for "Mr. Right": unintended pregnancy and female mating preferences.
October 1, 2006... Abstract Mate selection theory, specifically female mating preferences, was used to frame the issue of unintended pregnancy. Eight female mating characteristics: commitment, a partner's desire for home and family, physical attractiveness,...

Ted Hughes's archetypal marriage with Sylvia Plath: Birthday Letters, Her Husband, and Jungian alchemical individuation.
October 1, 2006... Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath--A Marriage (2003) is a thoroughly researched critical biography of the couple; it builds on the extensive work of previous commentators, and incorporates archival materials newly made...

Who am I when the other disappears?: identity and progress in Doris Lessing's The Sirian Experiments.
October 1, 2006... The tremendous social realities of our time are ghosts, specters of murdered gods and our own humanity returned to haunt and destroy us. The Negroes, the Jews, the Reds. Them. Only you and I dressed differently. The texture of the fabric of...

Not at the edge of contemplation.(common sense)
October 1, 2006... You might find it to be of interest that in the English language, there are no words that rhyme with the words "orange", "purple" or "silver." For the Military-minded, a "Twenty-One Gun Salute" at the burial of fallen military personnel,...