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The well-researched sociological concept known as Zero Acquaintance Judgment frames first impression scenarios and highlights their prevalence and importance to our everyday lives, yet sociology so far overlooks how these might be affected by the built environment where first impressions are typically situated. Broadly, spatial discriminatory discourse investigates how spaces can affect social judgments, yet no research has investigated how this dynamic might unfold within a first impression scenario. Using the Zero Acquaintance Judgment concept as a lens of inquiry, a comprehensive review of feminist, queer, racial, and disability frameworks (which comprise spatial discriminatory discourse) was undertaken. From this investigation, three broad theoretical themes were articulated and rationalized as to how the built environment can potentially affect first impressions between strangers. The discussion bears relevance for researchers and designers of spaces where first impressions are paramount to function as well as highlights how the settings of research into first impressions may affect outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is suffering really bad? The late Derek Parfit argued that we all have reasons to want to avoid future agony and that suffering is in itself bad both for the one who suffers and impersonally. Nietzsche denied that suffering was intrinsically bad and that its value could even be impersonal. This paper has two aims. It argues against what I call 'Realism about the Value of Suffering' by drawing from a broadly Nietzschean debunking of our evaluative attitudes, showing that a recently influential response to the debunking challenge (the appeal to phenomenal introspection) fails. It also argues that a Nietzschean approach is well suited to support the challenge and is bolstered by the empirical literature. As strangers to ourselves, we cannot know whether suffering is really intrinsically bad for us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study conducted an online experiment with 384 participants to explore the mechanisms through which viewers form initial impressions of strangers based on their emotional self-disclosure in social media profiles. The findings revealed that positive emotional expressions fostered a higher degree of interpersonal liking and trust than negative emotional expressions. The relationship between emotional valence and interpersonal liking was partially mediated by perceived appropriateness and perceived similarity. Judgments of interpersonal trust were fully mediated by the perceived appropriateness and perceived similarity of emotional expressions. The study further discovered an interaction between emotional valence and intensity, such that the effect of emotional valence on perceived similarity became more pronounced when emotional intensity was high. The findings underscored the significant influence of emotional expressions on the development of interpersonal liking and trust on social media. The study also specified two inferential processes (perceived appropriateness and perceived similarity) underlying these effects and highlighted the moderating role of emotional intensity. The theoretical and practical implications were also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alarm signals have evolved to communicate imminent threats to conspecifics but animals may also perceive other species' alarm displays to obtain adaptive information. In birds, mixed‐species foraging flocks are often structured around a focal sentinel species, which produces reliable alarm calls that inform eavesdropping non‐sentinel heterospecifics about predation risk. Ongoing work has revealed that several species can recognize the alarm calls of certain sentinel species even without prior encounters, including when these are from distant biogeographic regions. Similar work has yet to examine whether naive subjects' responses to unfamiliar sentinel alarm calls differ from responses to non‐sentinel alarm calls. Here we played the alarm calls of three subtropical Asian bird species that participate in mixed species flocks, to temperate North American birds. Birds responded most to the alarm call of an allopatric core sentinel and a local sympatric sentinel control species, less so to an allopatric non‐core sentinel, and least so to an allopatric non‐sentinel and a negative control stimulus. These patterns provide evidence that broad phylogenetic and geographic recognition is a pertinent aspect of sentinel alarm calls in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors study how strangers become friends within an evolving online social network. By modeling the coevolution of individual users' friendship tie formations (when and with whom) and their concurrent online activities, the authors uncover important drivers underlying individuals' friendship decisions and, at the same time, quantify the resulting peer effects on individuals' actions. They estimate their model using a novel data set capturing the continuous development of a network and users' entire action histories within the network. The results reveal that similarity (homophily) with a potential friend, the properties of a potential friend's network, and the potential friend's domain expertise all play a role in friendship formation. Via prediction exercises, the authors find that stimulating anime watching is the most effective sitewide intervention, which leads to the highest overall site traffic and the largest number of active users, and that recommending a friend of a friend as a potential friend is the most effective strategy in stimulating friendship tie formation. In contrast to the common finding for static networks, the results indicate that seeding to users with the most friends is not the most effective strategy to increase users' activity levels in an evolving network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores Wollstonecraft's experimental first novel, Mary: A Fiction (1788) in the context of Dissenting preoccupation with prejudice. It shows how Wollstonecraft shared the Dissenters' analysis that prejudice was the source of political and social oppression, and how she extended that insight into her account of the situation of women. She shared with Dissent a belief in education and in print culture as tools to combat prejudice, but her experimental textual strategies differ significantly from, for instance, that of Dissenter Anna Laetitia Barbauld, in her "Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts" (1790). Where Barbauld replicates in print the rhetorical strategies of public and political discourse, Wollstonecraft, in key moments in Mary, draws on the model, from Edward Young, of authentic, persuasive enthusiasm, to "steal into the soul" of her readers. Early in her writing career, she can thus be seen seeking to turn affective transport to political effect, and experimenting with the resources and registers of print culture to combat prejudice, and enact dissent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People commit to monogamous relationships with the intent of maintaining sexual exclusivity but often fail to do so. Existing research has focused on individual and relationship characteristics that render relationships more vulnerable to infidelity, paying less attention to strategies that decrease the likelihood of straying. Three experiments investigated the impact of one strategy that might encourage people to enact relationship-protective responses toward alternative partners, perspective-taking. In all studies, participants either adopted the perspective of their partner or not and then evaluated, encountered, or thought about attractive strangers, in Studies 1–3, respectively. Participants' pro-relationship orientation and reactions during these experiences (interest in alternative and current partners, commitment to current relationships, and fantasmatic themes) were recorded. Results showed that perspective-taking decreased sexual and romantic interest in alternatives, while increasing commitment and desire for current partners. These findings suggest that partner perspective-taking discourages engagement in behaviors that may hurt partners and damage the relationship with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On Friday 17 July 1818, Keats and Charles Armitage Brown arrived at Inveraray in Scotland, midway through their Scottish walking tour. Here Keats, a passionate theatre-goer, saw for the first time Augustus von Kotzebue's play The Stranger at a makeshift playhouse inside a barn. Although Keats dedicated a long letter and a poem to this experience the precise location of the barn has never been located, nor has there been discussion of how this performance of The Stranger contributed to Keats's theatrical experience. In this article I show that the barn-theatre at Inveraray still survives, and suggest how the Stranger performance at Inveraray, heavily ridden with Scottish inflections not present in the playscript, left an impression on Keats. I also point to traces of The Stranger found in later poems such as 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nearly two decades after its formal endorsement by the international community, the Responsibility to Protect is stuck in a quagmire reminiscent of the contentious politics that both preceded and precipitated it. A once ambitious effort to transform notions of responsibility and practices of accountability regarding civilian protection and atrocity prevention, R2P has stagnated to such a degree that some have dismissed it as a dead letter. This research diagnoses the primary cause of that stagnation while also proposing a way forward for resuscitating R2P's normative aims, via a return to R2P's origins as an accountability mechanism for the provision of human rights and security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses two different books: "Strangers in the Archive: Literary Evidence and London's East End" by Heidi Kaufman and "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" edited by Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel. "Strangers in the Archive" explores the East End of London and its literary representations, challenging dominant narratives and highlighting the complexity of the area. "After Darwin" examines the relevance of Darwin's theories in the present day, emphasizing the adaptability and richness of his work. Both books offer valuable insights into their respective subjects and contribute to ongoing conversations in their fields. [Extracted from the article]

This study explores the centrality of the senses for the maintenance or disruption of people's commonsensical familiarity with the world. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people affected by depersonalization/derealization, which the American Psychiatric Association defines as a dissociative condition in which people perceive the world as dream-like, I conceptualize what I term somatic defamiliarization. I define somatic defamiliarization as a process whereby people experience previously unquestioned sensory phenomena, such as mundane objects or their bodies, as unfamiliar. Building on Berger and Luckmann's work, I contend that somatic defamiliarization is a perpetual, albeit latent, condition of social life that threatens reality maintenance. I discuss how the concept of somatic defamiliarization can be applied to explore the somatic qualities of experiential ruptures that people may undergo in various circumstances, such as immigration or war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a personal paper about the author's animus, Watsky explores his fascination with Louise Glück, after attempting to solicit first her poetry for Jung Journal and then an interview about her voice in her poetry shortly after her death. He realized he had projected his anima onto a complete stranger known only through her writing. Suspicious of his motives, he proceeds to read her entire oeuvre during a two-week period, exploring their intersections and their divergences. Watsky then narrates a previous projection onto the writer Joanna Field who turned out to be the Freudian analyst Marion Milner. After reading all of her work and convinced that she had been influenced by Jung, he sought her out in Hamstead, England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As robots become more common, people interact with them individually, with strangers, and with friends. For example, when coming across a robot in a mall, a family might ask it for instructions. An individual person might hesitate to interact with the robot until they see another person interacting, and then explore the robot together. Although human–robot interaction (HRI) research has recently uncovered the importance of examining differences in group behavior toward robots versus individuals' behavior, thus far, most HRI research has not distinguished behavior based on group type (e.g., stranger, companion). In this online lab-based study, we explore how individuals, strangers, and companions collaborate with robot teammates. We test competing hypotheses: (1) More cohesive companion groups will form a human subgroup and exclude the robots more than strangers or individuals, vs. (2) More cohesive companion groups will provide social support to interact better with the novel robotic technology than strangers or individuals. In this cooperative context in which participants were required to interact with the robot, results supported H1: the subgroup hypothesis. Based on these findings, people deploying robots should note that if people are required to interact with the robots, the interactions may not go as smoothly for companion groups compared to stranger groups or individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law" by Paul Raffield is a book that examines the concept of "strangers" in Shakespearean works and their relationship to English juridical culture. The book is organized into five chapters, mirroring the structure of Shakespearean plays, and explores various issues related to strangers during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. The author argues for tolerance and challenges populist and racist attitudes. The review provides an overview of the book's chapters and highlights the intersections between social, legal, and individual dimensions in Shakespeare's works. It also discusses the themes of strangers, citizenship, and justice, and how Shakespeare's plays reflect the cultural and legal context of the time. The text draws connections to contemporary events, such as Brexit, and emphasizes the importance of considering the role of law in society. Overall, it offers a thought-provoking analysis of Shakespeare's portrayal of strangers and their interactions with the legal system. [Extracted from the article]

Drawing on Granovetter's strength of ties concept, studies have argued that the strength of job seekers' ties to the people through whom they obtained job information makes different job search outcomes. Recent studies suggest that having both strong and weak ties within one's job information network will engender a synergetic effect on the job search outcomes, compared to when only having either strong or weak ties within the network. Extending this argument, we demonstrate that individuals' current job satisfaction can be optimized when they primarily obtained their current job information from the person with whom they had a medium-strength tie when they initially applied for the jobs. Through an analysis of 3,451 samples from the 2016 NASP-Citizen Survey, we found that 1) employees' current job satisfaction is maximized if they did not receive the job information from a close friend or a stranger but from a moderately-tied person and that 2) this phenomenon is more likely to be found among employees who joined organizations recently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People have been giving away their money, property, and time to others for millennia. What's novel about the contemporary practice of philanthropy is the availability of tax incentives to give money away. Such incentives are built into tax systems in nearly all developed and many developing democracies. In this sense, philanthropy is not an invention of the state but ought to be viewed today as an artifact of the state. This paper specifies and assesses three possible justifications for the existence of tax incentives for charitable giving, identifies a distinctive role for philanthropy in democracies, and argues for a fundamental redesign of the current legal framework governing philanthropy. Empirically, giving to assist the needy and care for strangers is an uncommon form of giving in the United States. Normatively, it is but one potential justification for philanthropy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the friendship between Cardinal Basil Hume and Archbishop Rembert Weakland, two influential figures in the Church. The author, Gertrude Feick, aims to honor and preserve the memory of both men. Feick conducted interviews with people who knew Cardinal Hume, including Archbishop Weakland, and shares their insights on his spirituality and the unique contemplative dimension of the English Benedictine Congregation. The text discusses various aspects of Cardinal Hume's life and spirituality, including his participation in morning prayers, his sense of humor, and his role in addressing issues within the church. It also highlights his ability to form deep connections with others, including Prince Charles. The article concludes by emphasizing the personal connection between Cardinal Hume and Archbishop Weakland, and their shared ability to make others feel like friends. [Extracted from the article]

Magdalena Holdar's book, "Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things: The Agency of Chance Collaborations," offers a historical account of the Fluxus movement. Holdar takes an unbiased approach, focusing on the entanglements of archival materials rather than providing a precise definition of Fluxus. The book explores the transnational scope of Fluxus activities and highlights the contributions of artists, groups, and spaces that have been overlooked in previous historiography. Holdar's analysis emphasizes the importance of non-human agents within the network, such as objects and materials, in shaping the movement. Overall, the book provides new perspectives on Fluxus and its complexities, challenging traditional narratives and offering insights into the avant-garde more broadly. [Extracted from the article]

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"A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War" is a book by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi writer and journalist. The book provides a semi-autobiographical account of Iraq and its wars, with a focus on the battle for Mosul in 2016. Abdul-Ahad explores the cycle of violence and political ineptitude in Iraq, touching on topics such as life under Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War, and the US-led invasion in 2003. The book also delves into themes of strong men, humiliation, patronage, and corruption, and highlights the author's perspective on the US occupation and the rise of ISIS. The narrative ends with the 2019 protests in Tishreen Square, offering a glimmer of hope for a more united Iraq. [Extracted from the article]

AbstractThe film All Of Us Strangers hit our cinema screens in January 2024, and made an instant big impact on the public and critics winning multiple awards. On the surface, it is the story of a gay screenwriter who begins to face the grief of the loss of his parents through writing. He recently moved in a new, empty building. He met the other occupant in the building, and embarked on an intimate relationship together. This film is much more than the surface description above. It is not what it seems at first glance. It is not only a love story or a grief story, it is actually a film that shows the deeper layers of the inner world of many gay men through symbolic representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is more than the eighth years (2023) since the culmination of the “Migrant Crisis (2015)”, the biggest and most serious since WW2, and in the Serbian theological scientific community, a scientific work with such a topic, overview and research (?) has not yet appeared. In this five-part paper, the engagement, i.e. what were the attitudes, activities, and contributions of the Serbian Orthodox Church in overcoming it during the culmination year (2015-2016) of the “Migrant Crisis (2015)” is presented. The author also provided definitions of the terms: migrant, refugee, asylum seeker, foreigner, internally displaced person, and stateless person. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a career spanning more than five decades Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons (Barcelona, 1945) has directed over 30 films. His eclectic filmography does not easily fit categories or labels of any kind, including queer cinema. However, the frequent presence of gay male characters and same-sex desire in his films is significant, especially given the advanced age of a very high proportion of those men. Pons’ camera does not shy away from presenting their bodies as both desirable and desiring, older bodies that don’t hide away from the camera. Starting with a re-reading of Amic/Amat (1998) from the perspective of aging studies, the article focuses on key examples of older gay and queer men in his work, with special emphasis on films that Pons directed in his sixties (Forasters (2008), A la deriva (2009), Mil cretins (2010)). It identifies recurring themes and tropes in this context, such as cross-dressing, memory or inheritance and finds that the filmmaker’s interest in queer memory is closely linked to arguably the main preoccupation of his work: the cultural history of Catalonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When establishing new peer relationships, animals may explore different modes of interaction, testing-out dominance roles, reciprocation of affiliation, and responses to investigation. This exploration is potentially risky, as higher variability may be counterproductive to establishing expectations and trust. There is therefore a tradeoff between exploration within a new social relationship and maintaining predictable, 'safe' behaviours, raising questions about how animals differ in how they engage with strangers. The Chilean degu offers an opportune case study to investigate novel social situations, as females form relationships relatively rapidly with unrelated peers. We presented degu dyads with a series of 20 min 'reunion' sessions and found that session-to-session variability in stranger females is, in fact, lower than in cagemates, and lower than stranger or cagemate males. Reduced variability was observed only after an initial social exposure, suggesting it was a feature of new relationships rather than novelty. There was no evidence that groups differed in predictability of behaviours within a reunion. It is known that in the wild, female degus differ from males by readily forming cooperative relationships with unrelated individuals. The data therefore raise the possibility that animals predisposed to cooperation might also show reduced behavioural variability across encounters with new individuals. This work offers new results and methods for considering strategies animals use to cope with social uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Gallic invasion of Greece in 280/279 BC left a deep mark in the collective memory of the Greeks. From then on, they represented the Celts as the stereotypical ‘barbarians’ – primitive, wild, violent and without any culture of their own. As the newcomers had established permanent kingdoms in Thrace and Phrygia, however, both sides had to learn how to deal with each other. The paper asks how the rulers of the Galatians on both sides of the Bosporus handled this challenge and how this influenced their own identity. To go beyond existing research, the analysis draws both on the literary Greek sources and the coinage which the Eastern Celts started to produce in the 3rd century BC. It will be shown that the Galatian elites quickly adapted to the political practices of the Hellenistic world and confidently asserted their own place within it, mixing their own customs with Greek and local (Thracian, Anatolian) elements to create a unique blend of identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language about strangers, including 'the heart of a stranger' specifically, appears with frequency throughout the writings of John Woolman. This article argues that the stranger, inspired to a great extent by passages from the Bible, was a central philosophical and theological concept around which Woolman's thought was gathered. For Woolman the stranger also functioned as a literary figure that united various parts of his work in what I refer to comprehensively as an aesthetics of the stranger. Ultimately, Woolman writing about strangers reflected his understanding of Jesus Christ as a stranger, which was the ground from which all his thinking originated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the ways in which media represent maternal femininity under the context of neoliberalism and migration, and how diasporic housewives rework such representations. By employing a mixed method that includes a textual and online audience analysis of the Korean reality show Strangers, we investigate how diasporic Korean women's online communities (DKWOC) related to the show's portrayal of Korean female migrants' racialized and gendered everyday lives in the US as trailing wives. We found that, while a critique of gender politics and class-ignorance in Strangers already existed, overall diasporic women blamed themselves by constantly comparing their motherhood performance to that portrayed on the show, and justified their sacrifice and hardships using the logic of "migration as a family strategy." However, the solidarity and comradeship among DKWOC built through positive psychology discourse easily diluted those critical reflections. We argue that a belief in resilience is problematic for the survival of trailing wives, since it casts a blind eye to their real experiences—which includes gender discrimination embedded in both public and domestic spaces—and legitimates backlash narratives, including the belief that the stay-at-home mother position is an active choice, rather than the result of unequal global, legal, and gender infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the author's personal experiences and reflections on the concept of home and land as an immigrant. They discuss their connection to the land through memories of their grandparents' vegetable patch and their longing for a deeper connection to the land in a densely populated European city. The article also highlights the teachings of Indigenous peoples and their relationship with the land, emphasizing the importance of understanding and honoring the more-than-human world. The author reflects on the history of colonization and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the area where their family settled, and discusses the complexities of identity, belonging, and the relationship between humans and the land. They also discuss the transformation of the landscape due to immigration and colonization, and the negative consequences that resulted from farming practices and religious divisions. The author emphasizes the need to decolonize environmental allyship and work towards a more reciprocal relationship with the land, sharing their own gardening practices and efforts to support soil recovery and honor the more-than-human life in their backyard. [Extracted from the article]

Recruitment, retention, and reactivation programs are a nationwide movement focusing on strategically increasing and diversifying participation in and support for shooting sports, hunting, and angling. Efforts focused on increasing hunting participation may use mentors to replicate traditional pathways into hunting, but few data are available that examine the mentor–mentee relationship. We surveyed waterfowl hunters and nonwaterfowl hunters in several Midwestern states to identify through a series of questions whether mentors would likely accept certain types of mentees for waterfowl hunting and whether mentees would likely accept certain types of mentors for waterfowl hunting. We found that waterfowl hunters were willing to accept most mentee types except for hunters they had not met previously. The most frequently reported reason for unwillingness to mentor was a perceived lack of skill by the waterfowl hunter. Nonwaterfowl hunters were most likely to accept mentoring by a family member or friend. Feelings of being uncomfortable and desire to focus on other activities were the most frequently reported reasons for nonwaterfowl hunters not wishing to be mentored. Our results indicate that efforts or programs directed at increasing hunter participation need to consider or incorporate a close social connection between mentees and mentors to be more effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]