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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"instinct"”.
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Martin Buber's Concept of Mutuality and its Potential Implications for the Teaching of Music
… suppositions are the concepts of confidence, the instinct of power, the instinct of Eros, the originator instinct, the instinct of communion, and the compulsion and communion that is within the realm of freedom.</p><p>The results of the study are as follows. Buber offers no methodology for the …
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Evolution And Ethics
… inform the ancient debate about the roles that instinct (emotion/passion/sentiment/feeling) and reason do and/or should play in how we decide what to do? Evolutionary ethicists typically adopt Darwinism as a suitable explanation for evolution, and on that basis draw conclusions about moral …
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
… the Oedipal parent, we can see a defusion of instinct occur, which allows for the concurrent release of creative and destructive energies. The ego is left unprotected against the death instinct, resulting in guilt and punishment for Oedipal phantasies. However, through creativity and …
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BDSM. A search for the container-contained experience: An object-relations approach to the problem of masochism
… to fit pleasure in pain (masochism) into his instinct theory. In his endeavours to do so, he developed several models of masochism that were dependent on instinct vicissitudes and their governing principles. Freud took a marked turn towards a quasi-object-relating theory when he recognised the …
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Intercultural awareness education in grades kindergarten through fourth
… aware and what is needed for teachers to instinct awareness in young students is examined. Literature research and data gathered from teachers through interviews and surveys is used to create a framework for teaching intercultural awareness education. In addition a set of recommendations …
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The Pragmatism of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
… the product of his senses, living according to "instinct" in the ordinary world. The natives of Erewhon live up to Butler's code of conduct, but his English protagonist, Higgs, fails to fully realize man's potential for enlightened progress. Erewhon is not as much a satire on the age of machines …
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Being in the consulting room: A study of the physical space of the consulting room and its role in the therapeutic process
… transference to me. I utilise Freud’s theory of instinct, as well as three data sets (1- Historical and Cultural, 2- Sigmund Freud’s Writings, 3- Object Relations and Winnicottian theories) to formulate my hypothesis to explain the phenomena better: The Room-object Spatialisation Matrix. …
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An exploratory study of family dining attitudes toward full service restaurant product/service attributes
… still define customer markets using instinct versus market segmentation research. By targeting families with children, the researcher investigated family dining attitudes according to gender, income, ages of children in the family unit, and frequency of dining out. The research was an …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… that can be maintained only within the realm of instinct and intuition.
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A Sense of Place.
… sense of place created in response to natural instinct and intuition.</p>
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Precarious womanhood: Maternal instinct’s role in gender-related anxiety
… or no scores following a supposed maternal instinct questionnaire. Then, their subsequent mood and gender identity endorsement were measured via self-report. It was hypothesized that, compared to participants who received either high or no scores, participants who received low scores (i.e., …
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Multicultural Perceptions of Creativity
… data collected revealed that creativity is an instinct that each person possesses and can activate within themselves. Creativity can be nurtured based on environment and through personal, educational, professional, and cultural experiences. Creativity involves responding to the world around you …
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Social dominance in relation to other putative basic emotions in humans
… to suggest the existence of a ‘social dominance instinct’. One such finding is that across mammalian species, groups of cohabiting animals reliably organise themselves into dominance hierarchies characterised by differential allocation of social and resource holding power, and that testosterone …
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Primitivism and The Animal in Shakespeare's Macbeth
… and act in accordance with morality rather than instinct.
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Contending with Binary Oppositions in Musical Aesthetics through Eros
… views is possible. Eros, when defined as a drive/instinct to sublimate oneself in order to create higher unities, can explain these opposing views while incorporating the sense of longing and delight that accompanies musical experience. Music triggers erotic desire in us through its sensorial …
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Everybody Dreams, Everybody Lies: A Novel of Blessing
… the father wound. Meaning The loss of wildness, instinct, what happens when men become distortions bent by what women want. About desire and looking for a man who can love without a measuring tape or mirror. This story will be set in Alaska, where the men are happy and the gods are Bear, Raven, …
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Less realism : more meaning : evaluating imagery for the graphic designer
… in the theory and in pratice is left to the instinct of the designer. In this thesis I try to find approaches for graphic designers to understand image to the degree that they understand type. These approaches are tested through assignments for graphic design students and the results recorded …
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Three-Dimensional Constraints on Human Cognition as Expressed in Human Language
… advocating the existence of a distinct language instinct generally claim that human language is not reliant on general human cognition. However, limitations on recursive patterns in human language are universally attested, from the micro-level elements of phonology, throughout the mid-level …
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The Space Between
… on action and reaction relying on pure artistic instinct. The work naturally evolved. The titles for the paintings come from memories of places, or sensations that reoccur throughout the artist's life. Stylistic and aesthetic inspiration references the world of Abstract Expressionism and German …
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Urban square as theater : issues of continuity and discontinuity in urban design
… lose their senses of self, the most basic and instinct concept linking body and environment. The issues discussed here are the time-space notion, self-identity, 20th century urban utopias, and the public-private relationship. Then the discussion goes to the dialect between" continuity" and" …
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