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A better understanding of modifiable psychological processes that could reduce pathways to violent radicalization (VR) would greatly aid researchers, providers, policy makers, and individuals at risk for VR. Cognitive fusion, the tendency for behavior to be overly regulated and influenced by one’s thoughts and feelings, and a common intervention target within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), may be one such fulcrum. Participants, recruited via gateway snowball sampling, were 233 young adults drawn from five communities in North America as part of Wave 4 of the Somali Youth Longitudinal Study. Utilizing moderation and mediation path analysis in MPlus, the study examined the relations between cognitive fusion, VR, and three important variables associated with VR risk: post traumatic stress symptoms, experiences of daily discrimination, and perceptions of a just government. Findings supported that higher levels of cognitive fusion were directly related to greater openness to VR. Additionally, higher levels of cognitive fusion statistically mediated the link between both daily discrimination and openness to VR as well as between post traumatic stress symptoms and openness to VR. Findings also highlighted that cognitive fusion and perceptions of a just government interacted such that openness to VR was highest in individuals who had low perceptions of a just government and had high levels of cognitive fusion. Results of this study provide preliminary evidence of the potential role of high cognitive fusion in the pathways to VR and further evidence for its potential integration as a target domain within deradicalization efforts.

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The article presents information on the concept of magical legalism with respect to the stories by author Marcel Aymé. The establishment of the magical legalism and moral outlaws is when the rule of law of the country fails in the administration of justice. Information on the role of heroes and metaphysics driven by egocentrism and self-actualization on the natural law is also presented.

The article discusses issues centered around the ritualization of emotions. A comprehensive definition for the term ritual is provided, followed by a discussion on the ritualization of human existence, prior to proceeding to the core of the argument, namely the ritualization and regulation of emotions. Themes discussed include sociology, rituals, and emotions, and reference is made to the prominent figures Michael Maffesoli, Gilbert Durand, and Roger Caillois.

The article focuses on the central role of visual communication in the Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation, the period of Catholic revival beginning around 1545 and ending in 1648, in Antwerp (Anvers in French), Belgium. The author proposes to analyze a series of examples showing the way, both various and systematic, through which city planning, architecture, the decoration of churches and miscellaneous sacred objects formed a specific world incarnating the content of the message transmitted by catechism, predication and rites, in order to reach all the levels of society.

This article dissects the philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas in order to determine how they relate to those of Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer. Several aspects of their philosophies are compared, in particular their interpretations of Plato and his view of essence being good. A commentary on this idea in the "Republic" of Plato is provided.

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Born and raised in Zurich (Switzerland) to parents of Ghanaian descent, Jeffrey Provencal grew up between two cultures. He studied banking and finance, before working at BlackRock for a few years. Looking to engage in a more purpose-driven activity, he later came across the concept of impact investing and chose to redirect his career path. In 2015, after winning a grant from the European innovative fund EIT Climate Kic, he created rePATRN, a startup that aims to solve Ghana’s plastic waste mismanagement issue by working with informal waste pickers. He is now fully dedicated to the growth of rePATRN.

Integrating regional linguistic variation more heavily into classes of German as a foreign language (DaF) and German as a second language (DaZ) has been subject to discussion for quite some time in the research literature. Surveys have shown that students of DaF and DaZ are interested in learning about regional varieties of German, but that this often fails for two reasons: the lack of appropriate materials as well as reluctance on the part of teachers (cf. Baßler/Spiekermann 2001, Spiekermann 2007). Consequently, there are numerous non-standard variants of which students are not aware. It has also been observed that non-standard linguistic structures can lead to miscomprehension (cf. Negele 2012: 94). This con-tribution calls attention to two desiderata: 1. Areal linguistic variation is covered only sel-dom in DaF and DaZ classes. 2. There is insufficient suitable teaching material for treating and imparting knowledge on regional linguistic variants in these classes. The goal of the present contribution is then twofold: to provide teachers and textbook authors with information about the resources available over the research platform Regionalsprache.de (REDE) and then to give some impulses for its use in DaF and DaZ courses.

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This article reviews the French version of the website for the Test d'Associations Implicite (https://implicit.harvard.edu).