"The WTP/WTA Discrepancy: A Preliminary Qualitative Examination"
Anthony C., Burton, Susan M. Chilton, and Martin K. Jones explores the psychological foundations of the “Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept” discrepancy.
Anthony C., Burton, Susan M. Chilton, and Martin K. Jones explores the psychological foundations of the “Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept” discrepancy.
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
The article considers the example of dummy tanks used to deceive the enemy during WWII, the false expectations of the Allied forces that led them to believe that Franco’s fascist regime would fall long before it did, and the therapeutic promises offered by messianic leaders of totalitarian regimes.
Human cultures have exploited bottlenecks in commodities or resources in order to gain power and control. This essay looks at two examples of psychotropic mechanisms being used in this way
Bodily adaptations have been integrated into human culture in a co-evolutionary process, such as the social and regulating function of the moral emotion shame. The ability to feel shame and physiological markers of it, such as blushing, are hardwired, but they are used in many different and sometimes even contradicting ways in specific cultures.
The third episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the relationship between mental health and public safety for workers through the research conducted by Rose Ricciardelli, Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Alex Menrisky on his recent book Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC Fellow Alexa Weik von Mossner is interviewed on her recent book, Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.