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A social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action How can ordinary people fight for social justice? Can individual actions change structural inequality? In this book, social psychologist Nilanjana Dasgupta offers a science-driven approach to achieving social change, arguing that small changes to the “wallpaper”—the local cultures around us—are far more effective in producing structural change locally than seeking change through bias awareness training, symbolic acts, or relying solely on good intentions. By integrating knowledge across diverse fields—including psychology, neuroscience, education, sociology, economics, public health, urban studies, cultural geography, and landscape architecture—Dasgupta shows how attitudes and beliefs take root in our mind based on what we see and hear every day. This wallpaper nudges our behavior to create or reinforce small inequalities that go unnoticed and accumulate over time. Disrupting these patterns and habits requires creating opportunities for social mixing across lines of difference, allowing new relationships to form, and promoting a better understanding of unfamiliar others'experiences, followed by organizing and collective action. Together, these types of experiences and actions bring real change within our reach—in workplaces, in neighborhoods, in cities and towns. Dasgupta provides fresh, actionable approaches for everyone interested in working toward justice for all.

Teaching Creative Writing in Canada maps the landscape of Creative Writing programmes across Canada. Canada's position, both culturally and physically, as a midpoint between the two major Anglophone influences on Creative Writing pedagogyy—the UK and the USA—makes it a unique and relevant vantage for the study of contemporary Creative Writing pedagogy.Showcasing writer-professors from Canada's major Creative Writing programmes, the collection considers the climate-crisis, contemporary workshop scepticism, curriculum design, programme management, prize culture, grants and interdisciplinarity. Each chapter concludes with field-tested writing advice from many of Canada's most influential professors of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and drama.This authoritative volume offers an important national perspective on contemporary and timeless issues in Creative Writing pedagogy and their varied treatment in Canada. It will be of valuable to other creative teachers and practitioners, those with an interest in teaching and learning a creative art and anyone working on cultural and educational landscapes.

The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional and ethical impact of eight novels written between 1864 and 2018, indicating how Freud's provisional ideas in psychology are now being placed on an organic foundation. An emerging new language describes the brain and body's primary-process powers now influencing the practices of literary theory, verifying the novel's importance for self and cultural understanding.

This volume deals with aspects of soteriology in John and Paul. While it does not primarily focus on comparing their soteriological perspectives, such comparisons are not excluded. Instead, the emphasis is on different aspects of John?s and Paul?s respective views on salvation. The themes addressed do not repeat?standard? soteriological issues, but highlight often-neglected aspects, resulting in a thought-provoking and challenging series of articles. Topics discussed include Jesus as the Holy One, the position of Jesus?s brothers, the soteriological role of angels in John, wisdom in John, volition in John, freedom in Paul, salvation as war in Paul, and participation as a key soteriological category in John and Paul. The in-depth discussions of these and other themes enrich our understanding of soteriology in the New Testament.

In einer Welt, die sich rasant verändert, liegt der Schlüssel zu einem erfüllten Leben oft in unserer Fähigkeit, die Perspektive zu wechseln. Tara Meadow nimmt Sie in'Transformation durch neue Sichtweisen'mit auf eine inspirierende Reise der Selbstentdeckung und Veränderung. Erfahren Sie, wie ein bewusster Perspektivenwechsel nicht nur eingefahrene Denkmuster durchbrechen, sondern auch neue Türen öffnen kann – zu persönlichem Wachstum, innerer Stärke und einem tieferen Verständnis für die Welt um uns herum. Mit einfühl-samen Geschichten, praktischen Ansätzen und wissenschaftlich fundierten Erkenntnissen zeigt Meadow, wie wir mutige Schritte gehen können, um alte Ängste zu überwinden und neue Horizonte zu erkunden. Dieses Buch ist eine Einladung, den Wandel nicht nur zu akzeptieren, sondern aktiv zu gestalten. Lassen Sie sich inspirieren, die Welt mit frischen Augen zu sehen und die transformative Kraft Ihrer eigenen Gedanken zu entfesseln. Entdecken Sie Ihre Stärke, Ihren Mut – und Ihre neuen Perspektiven.

Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collaboration between Classics and Cognitive studies. It is intended as a stocktaking of various branches of Classics, such as literary criticism and poetics, linguistics, ancient history and archaeology. Four major research areas or clusters have been chosen for the presentation of the chapters. Chapter one discusses recent studies of'cognitive'materiality and material agency in relation to the human mind, chapter two the so-called'spatial turn'and cognition and the perception of space in place in relation to antiquity, chapter three imagination and vision and cognitive approaches to seeing, while chapter four considers experience and experientiality and the'sensory turn'as applied to ancient sources. Finally, the fifth chapter is a special case and a different medium: it consists of three interviews with three well-known pioneers of the study of emotions in antiquity, David Konstan, Angelos Chaniotis and Douglas Cairns, who in various direct and indirect ways have greatly influenced the interplay and dialogue between classical studies and cognitive approaches in recent decades. This book takes stock of a rapidly developing and highly controversial field that is currently in full bloom.

Studying politics and elections generally is considered the realm of political scientists, but other fields—such as psychology, computational science, and data science—play an important role in understanding how elections work, what influences voters, and who is likely to win an election. This volume offers readers an inside look at how data and technology impact elections and help inform how candidates and their teams run campaigns. It also explores what is and is not known about the psychological aspects of voting and how this can be used for political forecasting, along with the limitations to predicting the outcomes of elections.