Women in Conflict: The Psychological Effect of Propaganda in Conflict

In conflicts across the world, propaganda is used to encourage people to support causes whether than be freedom, revolution, or political or economic changes. Previous research has shown that propaganda that targets preexisting notions is particularly effective. Women have been found to be particularly susceptible to propaganda that has emotional implications. My research has been conducted to discover if propaganda that is centered around female empowerment is more effective in getting women to participate in conflict. I use accounts from women participating in conflicts to learn about the roles they play, and the number of women involved. These numbers are then compared with the types of propaganda found in the specific conflicts and countries. My findings show that propaganda is indeed more successful when it empowers oppressed groups, especially women. Additional research in more modern conflicts shows that social media will be crucial in conflicts moving forward as it provides a quick and easy way to spread the empowering propaganda and accompanying messages

“Useless”: Disability, Slave Labor, and Contradiction on Antebellum Southern Plantations

African American slaves with disabilities (broadly defined as physical, mental or aesthetic conditions seen as unfavorable or impairing) performed a variety of duties on antebellum southern plantations. However, tensions between goals of production, profit, control, and planters’ expectations often created contradictory assessments of disability in slaves. Slaves with disabilities were also at risk of abuse—including corporeal punishment, neglect, and murder—from masters

Customizable User Interfaces: Does Giving Individuals The Ability To Customize Information Organization Improve Decision Making ?

Recent technological innovations permit individuals to customize the way information they view is organized by incorporating personal themes, personal menu structures, personal reports, and custom dashboards. Relying on the theory of cognitive fit, I investigate the effects of one aspect of customization on decision making, information order. Through use of an online experiment with Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, I test the hypothesis that decision accuracy will increase for participants who use custom displays. However, I do not find support for the hypothesis using either the originally proposed measure of decision accuracy or two additional measures of decision accuracy. Furthermore, supplemental analysis finds no significant relations between customization and two other measures of decision quality. Analysis suggests the participants possess sufficient self-insight to reliably perform the task and provides initial statistical confirmation that people organize information on a list from top to bottom based on the relative importance of the information to the decision maker

Homenaje al P. Silvio Broseghini

Las expresiones de Silvio ponen de manifiesto cuán trabajosamente elaboró el tema del encuentro de la teolo gía cristiana con el pensamiento indígena y cómo le preocupó enfocar la presencia misionera