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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Invulnerability"”.
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Illusions of unique invulnerability: impacts of beliefs on behavior
… or threatening feedback. The illusion of unique invulnerability is the expectation that others will be the victims of misfortune and negative events more so than oneself. One possible implication of holding this belief is that, if a false sense of security is fostered, actual vulnerability to …
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Predictors of Self-Injurious Behaviors: A Person by Situation Analysis of Health-Compromising Behavior
… often characterized by displays of toughness and invulnerability, it is important to establish under which conditions these expectations effect health behavior. Study 1 examined the combined effects of participant sex, masculine identity threat, and gender role orientation on self-injurious …
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Intencionalidade e dialética na fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty
… attempt to overcome the problem of the invulnerability of consciousness in relation to the lived world. By analysing Barbaras' critique and his ‘phenomenology of life’, in which the notion of intentionality is central, it will be possible to identify the problems of the Barbarasian …
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Us vs Them: A Critical Analysis of American Society in the Wake of 9/11 As Seen Through Muslim-American Literature
… trauma that destroyed Americans' illusion of invulnerability and looks at how trauma can be translated in writing. It scrutinises the cultivation of fear both on a domestic and nation-wide scale, in particular it focuses on the fear of the imagined 'other' cultivated by the American …
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Exploration of the interaction between risk and protective factors within the cultural construct of five male academically resilient Latino college graduates
… and role of their father, helped promote invulnerability to threat. Concomitantly, learning through others' struggles and experiences provided them with context about what risk factors to avoid in order to remain grounded to their goals and aspirations. This study adds to existing …
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Posthuman War: Race, Gender, Technology, and the Making of U.S. Military Futures
… posthumanity as a fantasy vision of future invulnerability, total knowledge, and control that is inseparable from fantasies of white supremacy that are built into the foundations of U.S. empire. It argues that in this context, the posthuman as well as the human remain exclusionary political …
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Overcoming Cognitive and Motivational Barriers to Media Literacy: A Dual-Process Approach
… barriers to motivation (perceptions of personal invulnerability) and processing ability (emotion-based advertising, environmental distractions) influence the processes of media literacy. Participants (N = 882) were randomly assigned to 16 conditions in a 2 [vulnerability: demonstrated, control] x …
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Living in the Shadow of Death A Philosophical Study of the Evil of Annihilation
… there is not any worthwhile means of securing invulnerability to the evil of death; the only way to make death less bad is to ensure one would not be better off continuing to live—but that is not something worth doing. In response to Epicurus’ argument that death cannot be bad for the one who …
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Coaches' perception of catastrophic injuries risks in South African Rugby Union : A qualitative exploration through a socio-ecological lens
… of CIs experience that prompted perceptions of invulnerability to CIs, 2) 'win at all costs' attitudes and intentions, and 3) coaches' pressure, both of which lowered concerns for CIs risks and resulted in players 'playing on' despite injuries. In addition, the SEM provided the overall …
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Investigating the Double-Edged Sword of Rifampicin Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
… in βS450L Mtb, and a top collateral invulnerability in these fast, hypo-terminating RifR mutants. We determined that the enhanced vulnerability of thiS in βS450L Mtb is due to the depletion of branch chain amino acids (BCAA) upon TPP limitation. This led us to investigate ilvB1, the …