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Love, in the world of Walt Disney films, has changed. Between Tangled (2010) and Moana (2016), the ideal of heterosexual romance has been dethroned by a new ideal: family love. The happy ending of our ...

is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among ...

‘All the acts of the drama of world history were performed before a chorus of the laughing people.’ From Rabelais and his World (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin The central question that anthropologists ask ...

Could autism explain Virginia Woolf’s unique voice? Her extraordinary eye for detail and connections suggests it might ...

From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor’s day. They should learn to embrace it ...

Suppose we could talk to whales – should we? Experts explore the scientific and philosophical challenges of decoding whale song ...

is professor of political science at Barnard College in New York. Her book Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

is a Classics graduate student at Stanford University in California. His primary research interests include archaic poetry and ancient philosophy. He works on the digitalisation of Homeric manuscripts ...

is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. He is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University in California and at Teachers College, Columbia University in New ...