DOING WITHOUT EMOTIONS

This article considers a central question in the philosophy of emotion: what is an (instance of) emotion? This is a highly controversial question, which has attracted numerous answers. I argue that a good answer to this question may prove very hard to find. The difficulty, I suggest, can be traced back to three features of emotional phenomena: their diversity, their complexity and their coherence. I end by suggesting that we should not be disturbed by this result, as we do not need to know what an instance of emotion is in order to investigate the topic of emotion.     

Do Employment Recruiters Discriminate on the Basis of Nonstandard Dialect?

A sample of 65 recruiters rated the effect of specific social dialect characteristics on the job interview and rated their perceptions of social dialect speakers.     

The Child Development Specialist: A Prevention Program

The Child Development Specialist Program makes use of a new professional specialist and is designed to provide intervention before the child develops personal or learning problems.