2.sibylline- having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther cabalistic,kabbalistic,qabalistic,cryptic,cryptical esoteric- confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner cir...
For example, when a child from the Anglo-American world learns the word“dog”, he will normally learn the cultural meaning of the word: the dog is“man's best friend”. A child brought up in the Chinese culture would be taught that the dog is a dirty and dangerous animal. People, ...
Beyond discrete, dichotomous effects of event boundaries on memory, however, emotional states could also color the processing and encoding of individual items more subtly; that is, the emotions experienced while viewing a neutral image can imbue it with new meaning63. Thus, the current state of ...
4 Journeys in Film: Gender Revolution Introduction In 2017, National Geographic magazine and the National Geographic Channel are joining forces to help us all understand more about the meaning of gender. In both daily life and political discourse, gender has become an increasingly frequent topic. ...
The source-and-post-selection method was set to “Credibility” with intercept of 0 and slope of 1, meaning that source-post pairings also varied between participants, but in general true posts were more likely to be paired with more credible sources. Presentation of sources was constrained ...
For an objective measure based on position, length, and orientation of line, meaningfulness interacted with age group, being beneficial for 7- but not 9-year-olds. Overall, the results imply that, contrary to previous suggestions, meaningfulness can actually be beneficial to copying....
But academics across the social sciences, unfortunately often including economics, pack Marxian phraseology so tightly that not even vague meaning can be extracted. If you’re not familiar with Marx, consider a few lines from the preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ...
Even though she had completed the task successfully, there was no understanding of the meaning of the accomplishment. Now, granted, it was a game, but there is still a real life analogy. How well have we communicated the greater context of the work so that it has meaning to the people ...
Relative to the cross that we examined, natural populations may harbor substantially higher genetic diversity, meaning traits could be even more complex and difficult to dissect. Our work supports the premise that, to the extent possible, focusing on groups of more closely related individuals, such...
“Do I really want to do this, or am I doing it just to please my partner, children, parents, doctors, or society? By doing what truly brings me joy and meaning, what do I have to lose?” Altruism is valuable and an important part of maintaining health. At the same time boundaries...