The prevalence and nature of unrequited love

Unrequited love (UL) is unreciprocated love that causes yearning for more complete love. Five types of UL are delineated and conceptualized on a continuum from lower to greater levels of interdependence: crush on someone unavailable, crush on someone nearby, pursuing a love object, longing for a past lover, and an unequal love relationship. Study 1a found all types of UL relationships to be less emotionally intense than equal love and 4 times more frequent than equal love during a 2-year period. Study 1b found little evidence for limerent qualities of UL. Study 2 found all types of UL to be less intense than equal love on passion, sacrifice, dependency, commitment, and practical love, but more intense than equal love on turmoil. These results suggest that UL is not a good simulation of true romantic love, but an inferior approximation of that ideal

Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley

America’s War with Spain inspired Tin Pan Alley music publishers to generate popular songs to accompany America’s military victories and subsequent occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. By expanding the genre of the so-called “coon song” to include the people of these islands, composers and publishers contributed to the domestication of empire in fin-de-siècle America

Generalization versus contextualization in automatic evaluation revisited: a meta-analysis of successful and failed replications

To account for disparate findings in the literature on automatic evaluation, Gawronski, Rydell, Vervliet, and De Houwer (2010) proposed a representational theory that specifies the contextual conditions under which automatic evaluations reflect initially acquired attitudinal information or subsequently acquired counterattitudinal information. The theory predicts that automatic evaluations should reflect the valence of expectancy-violating counterattitudinal information only in the context in which this information had been learned. In contrast, automatic evaluations should reflect the valence of initial attitudinal information in any other context, be it the context in which the initial attitudinal information had been acquired (ABA renewal) or a novel context in which the target object had not been encountered before (ABC renewal). The current article presents a meta-analysis of all published and unpublished studies from the authors' research groups regardless of whether they produced the predicted pattern of results. Results revealed average effect sizes of d = 0.249 for ABA renewal (30 studies, N = 3,142) and d = 0.174 for ABC renewal (27 studies, N = 2,930), both of which were significantly different from zero. Effect sizes were moderated by attention to context during learning, order of positive and negative information, context-valence contingencies during learning, and sample country. Although some of the obtained moderator effects are consistent with the representational theory, others require theoretical refinements and future research to gain deeper insights into the mechanisms underlying contextual renewal

Effects of portion size on chronic energy intake

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Imagens da nação, do progresso e da tecnologia: a Exposição Universal de Filadélfia de 1876

Após considerar premissas sobre as imagens como representações sociais e sobre as Exposições Universais como um teatro privilegiado para a exibição daquela hermenêutica do real engendra-da pela transformação capitalista do mundo e pelo ideá rio burguês, incluindo ainda a dimensão utópica da época, a A. brevemente caracteriza a Exposição do Centenário (da Independência Americana), na Filadélfia, 1876. Comenta a presença de um pavilhão brasileiro e os ecos da visita do Imperador D.Pedro 11. Enfim, confronta sentidos divergentes, quer se trate da auto-imagem de sucesso do "sonho americano", quer das contradições de uma identidade brasileira que tenta incorporar a nova ética do trabalho livre mecanizado, numa sociedade escravocrata e vinculada ao mercado internacional