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The Prosociality of Prayer in the Literary Fiction of Felix Timmermans
This paper examines the ways in which Christian prayer in the literary fiction of Felix Timmermans is represented as a spiritual practice that produces behaviour that is prosocial, or in other words, beneficial to others. The authors combine readings of two texts (the short story Triptych of the Three Kings and the novel A Peasant Farmer’s Psalm) with insights stemming from recent sociological debates on prayer and prosociality to show how Felix Timmermans’ prose can prove helpful for understanding how praying transforms individuals by allowing them to behave in a more altruistic way.
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Motivation for writing long online reviews: a big data analysis of an anime community
PurposeBased on self-determination theory (SDT), this study aims to determine the motivation factors of reviewers writing long reviews in the anime industry.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes 171,188 online review data collected from an online anime community (MyAnimeList.net).FindingsThe findings show that intensity of emotions, experience in writing reviews and helpful votes in past reviews are the most important factors and positively influence review length. The overall rating of the anime moderates the effects of some motivation factors. Moreover, reviewers commenting on their favorite or nonfavorite anime also have varied motivation factors. Furthermore, this study has addressed the p-value problem due to the large sample size.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides a comprehensive and theoretical understanding of reviewers' motivation for writing long reviews.Practical implicationsOnline communities can incorporate the insights from this study into website design and motivate reviewers to write long reviews.Originality/valueMany past studies have investigated what reviews are more helpful. Review length is the most important factor of review helpfulness and positively affects it. However, few studies have examined the determinants of review length. This study attempts to address this issue.
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Roscoe Riley rules : 4 books in 1!
First-grader Roscoe Riley always seems to get himself into trouble, no matter how hard he tries not to break the rules, whether he is at school, in his neighborhood, or on a field trip.
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Does Fiction Make Us Less Empathic?
En este artículo se defiende que ciertos géneros de ficción tienen la capacidad de realzar nuestras capacidades empáticas. Ofrezco tres contribuciones a este debate. En primer lugar, la evidencia a favor de esta afirmación es pobre. En segundo lugar, es importante distinguir entre la capacidad que pueda tener la ficción para favorecer una respuesta empática y la capacidad de realzar nuestro control racional de la empatía. Finalmente, sugiero un cierto número de modos en los que la ficción puede desfavorecer la empatía o la conducta pro-social que esperamos que provoque la empatía. Examino uno de esos modos con algún detalle. It is said that certain kinds of fictions have the capacity to enhance our empathic powers. I offer three contributions to this debate. First, the evidence for this claim is poor. Secondly, it is important to distinguish a capacity on the part of fiction to encourage empathic responding and a capacity to enhance our rational control of empathy. Finally, I suggest a number of ways in which fiction may discourage empathy or the prosocial behaviour we expect empathy to provoke; I examine one of these ways in some detail.
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The infamous Ratsos
Rat brothers Louie and Ralphie Ratso try to prove they can be as rough and tough as their father in the Big City, but every time they try to show how tough they are, they end up accidentally doing good deeds instead.
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Is Ultimate Reality Unlimited Love?
This book draws from previously unpublished letters and interviews with physicists, theologians, and Sir John's close associates and family to present Sir John's ideas on pure unlimited love. Post, who was in dialogue with Sir John for fifteen years on this topic and who had founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love (www.unlimitedloveinstitute.com [http://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.com/]), addresses how John Templeton arrived at his philosophy as a youth growing up in Tennessee. Post also shares how classical Presbyterian ideas came to synergize in his mind with the more Eastern influences of American transcendentalism and the Unity School of Christianity and ponders if Sir John truly believed that science and spirituality might fully converge on the same view of Ultimate Reality with their very different ways of knowing. Is Ultimate Reality Unlimited Love? presents Sir John's hope for spiritual progress with the eventual convergence of ultimate reality and unlimited love.
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Malpas the Dragon
This beautifully illustrated children's book is about loss and survival. It will be enjoyed by children and adults alike, and is ideal for parents and professionals to read with children who find it hard to love and be loved.
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