scholarly journals Humanness Is Not Always Positive: Automatic Associations between Incivilities and Human Symbols

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4353
Author(s):  
Laura Rodríguez-Gómez ◽  
Naira Delgado ◽  
Verónica Betancor ◽  
Xing Jie Chen-Xia ◽  
Armando Rodríguez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Automatic Associations ◽  
Uncivil Behavior ◽  
Uncivil Behaviors

Uncivil behavior involves an attack on social norms related to the protection of public property and respect for community life. However, at the same time, the low-frequency and relatively low-intensity damage caused by most of these behaviors could lead to incivilities being considered a typically human action. The purpose of this set of studies is to examine the automatic associations that people establish between humanness and both civic and uncivil behaviors. Across three studies, uncivil behaviors were more strongly associated with human pictures than animal pictures (study 1) and with human-related words than animal-related words (study 2). We replicated study 2 with uncivil behaviors that do not prime graphically human beings (study 3). Overall, our results showed that uncivil behaviors and civic behaviors were clearly associated with human concepts. Our findings have direct implications for the conceptualization of humanness and its denial.

Secondary-Cause Autonomy and Divine Motivation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Christian Schröer
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Theoretical View ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
The Voice

An act-theoretical view on the profile of responsibility discourse shows in what sense not only all kinds of technical, pragmatic and moral reason, but also all kinds of religious motivation cannot justify a human action sufficiently without acknowledgment to three basic principles of human autonomy as supreme limiting conditions that are human dignity, sense, and justifiability. According to Thomas Aquinas human beings ultimately owe their moral autonomy to a divine creator. So this autonomy can be considered as an expression of secondary-cause autonomy and as the voice of God in the enlightened conscience.

EEG Responses to Low-Level Chemicals in Normals and Cacosmics

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 633-643
Author(s):  
Gary E. Schwartz ◽  
Iris R. Bell ◽  
Ziya V. Dikman ◽  
Mercedes Fernandez ◽  
John P. Kline ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Isoamyl Acetate ◽  
Alpha Activity ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Liquid Silicone ◽  
Increased Sensitivity ◽  
The University

Recent studies from the University of Arizona indicate that normal subjects, both college students and the elderly, can register the presence of low-intensity odors in the electroencephalogram (EEG) in the absence of conscious awareness of the odors. The experimental paradigm involves subjects sniffing pairs of bottles, one containing an odorant (e.g. isoamyl acetate) dissolved in an odorless solvent (water or liquid silicone), the other containing just the solvent, while 19 channels of EEG are continuously recorded. For the low-intensity odor conditions, concentrations are adjusted downward (decreased) until subjects correctly identify the odor bottle at chance (50). The order of odorants, concentrations, and hand holding the control bottle, are counterbalanced within and across subjects. Three previous experiments found that alpha activity (8-12 hz) decreased in midline and posterior regions when subjects sniffed the low-intensity odors. The most recent study suggests that decreased theta activity (4-8 hz) may reflect sensory registration and decreased alpha activity may reflect perceptual registration. In a just completed experiment involving college students who were selected based on combinations of high and low scores on a scale measuring cacosmia (chemical odor intolerance) and high and low scores on a scale measuring depression, cacosmic subjects (independent of depression) showed greater decreases in low-frequency alpha (8-10 hz) and greater increases in low-frequency beta (12-16 hz) to the solvent propylene glycol compared to an empty bottle. Topographic EEG mapping to low-intensity odorants may provide a useful tool for investigating possible increased sensitivity to specific chemicals in chemically sensitive individuals.

scholarly journals Effects of electromagnetic fields of low frequency and low intensity on rat metabolism

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Gerardi ◽  
Antonella De Ninno ◽  
Marco Prosdocimi ◽  
Vanni Ferrari ◽  
Filippo Barbaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Low Intensity

Content Changes of Carbon and Nitrogen during the Decomposition of Mire Wetland in Xiaoxing'anling in Northeast China

2014 ◽  
Vol 522-524 ◽  
pp. 361-364
Author(s):  
Ji Guang Li ◽  
Hui Sun ◽  
Min Tao ◽  
Qi Shuo Wang ◽  
Wei Ming Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Support ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Wetland Soil ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Biogeochemical Process ◽  
Environment Change ◽  
Hydrogen Water ◽  
Nitrogen Phosphorus

The global environment change is human beings are facing with the important and urgent environmental problems: in natural and human action double drive, the surface of the earth element biogeochemical process and its environmental effect is the current global change research in the area of the important content. In order to estimate and forecast geochemical cycle of change and to the global life support system influence, since the 1970s on the ecological system of the nitrogen cycle extensive and in-depth research, and in the process of this a series of ecological environment effect.Wetland biogeochemical process is refers to the carbon, hydrogen (water), oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur and various essential elements in the wetland soil and plant all kinds of migration between transformation and energy exchange process. Chemical process including nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients in the wetland system of flow and transformation, Wetland in heavy metals and other organic inorganic pollutants absorption, so close, transformation and enrichment, etc.

Impact of Wi-Fi Electromagnetic Waves on Brainwaves

2014 ◽  
Vol 1079-1080 ◽  
pp. 882-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Chien Kao ◽  
Shin Ping R. Wang ◽  
Yun Kai Lin ◽  
Chih Chia Chen ◽  
Chih Hsun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Primary Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Wireless Internet ◽  
Financial Transactions

In the era of wireless communication, WiFi becomes an indispensable accessory to most of us. People use WIFI to interact with the wireless Internet, perform commercial and financial transactions, or conducting recreational activities, etc.Though it offers a more convenient life to people, the strong Electromagnetic waves(EMW) resulted from it endangers human health, that has already turned out to be the primary study for medical science. Furthermore, EMW also attracts concern and panic of the inhabitants living in the surroundings which is filled with high-frequency and low-frequency EMwave. EMW today comes from broadcast towers, the system of the wireless communication, GPS, TVs and defense satellites mostly. Enjoying the convenience resulted from communication technology, people nowadays should also concern about whether EM wave would damage people’s health at the same time. Based on the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, this study mainly focuses on how EM wave produced from WiFi affects subject’s brainwaves under a specific physiological situation. The researcher observes different changing of brainwave when human beings expose in various strength of EM wave, and analyses the affection of EMW toward subject’s brainwaves.

Karl Barth's Moral Thought

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald McKenny
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Moral Good ◽  
Moral Thought ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
The Right

Does theological ethics articulate moral norms with the assistance of moral philosophy? Or does it leave that task to moral philosophy alone while it describes a distinctively Christian way of acting or form of life? These questions lie at the heart of theological ethics as a discipline. Karl Barth’s theological ethics makes a strong case for the first alternative. This book follows Barth’s efforts to present God’s grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency. It shows how Barth’s conviction that grace is the norm of human action generates problems for his ethics at nearly every turn, as it involves a moral good that confronts human beings from outside rather than perfecting them as the kind of creature they are. Yet it defends Barth’s insistence on the right of theology to articulate moral norms, and it shows how Barth may lead theological ethics to exercise that right in a more compelling way than he did.

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