Heroic Helping: The Effects of Priming Superhero Images on Prosociality

Two experiments examined how exposure to superhero images influences both prosociality and meaning in life. In Experiment 1 (N = 246) exposed individuals to scenes with superhero images or neutral images. Individuals primed with superhero images reported greater helping intentions relative to the control group, which, in turn, were associated with increased meaning in life (indirect effect only; no direct effect). In Experiment 2 (N = 123), individuals exposed to a superhero poster helped an experimenter in a tedious task more than those exposed to a bicycle poster, though no differences were found for meaning in life. These results suggest that subtle activation of superhero stimuli increases prosocial intentions and behavior

Heinrich Schliemann and the walls of Troy

Art forms in Troy's city walls, and Schliemann's awareness thereof

Refractive Index of Humid Air in the Infrared: Model Fits

The theory of summation of electromagnetic line transitions is used to tabulate the Taylor expansion of the refractive index of humid air over the basic independent parameters (temperature, pressure, humidity, wavelength) in five separate infrared regions from the H to the Q band at a fixed percentage of Carbon Dioxide. These are least-squares fits to raw, highly resolved spectra for a set of temperatures from 10 to 25 C, a set of pressures from 500 to 1023 hPa, and a set of relative humidities from 5 to 60%. These choices reflect the prospective application to characterize ambient air at mountain altitudes of astronomical telescopes.Comment: Corrected exponents of c0ref, c1ref and c1p in Table

Hoa Hakananai'a and other potential Linear and cult art in the southern hemisphere

A paper of 17 pages as described in its title and opening lines. "Hoa Hakananai'a" is an Easter Island statue, now in the British Museum. For "Linear and cult art", see The Problem with Linear B (https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:20833

Linear and cult art: addenda, corrigenda, concludenda

As per its titl

A ring from Pylos

A three-page paper on the artistry of a bronze age ring whose discovery was reported in 2019

Geoglyphs in the UK

A 12-page paper illustrating the likely presence, in geoglyph form, of a probably long-established cult art form in the UK, as elsewhere

Field identification guide to Western Australian sharks and shark-like rays

This guide is intended to improve the standard of identification and shark-catch reporting in Western Australia\u27s widespread and varied fisheries.https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/fr_fop/1005/thumbnail.jp

How dysfunctional can an archive be? The case of Linear B.

Whilst "The Problem with Linear B" (https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:20833/) focused on the physical or visual aspects of Linear objects, this paper mainly examines the secondary assumptions and arguments used to support the thesis that those objects are purely administrative

A note on a Linear B tablet from Thebes: TH X 105

A 5-page paper discussing the Linear signage and visual aspects of a Linear B tablet from Thebes, Greece, apparently discovered in the 1990s