Control by Contextual Stimuli in Novel Second-Order Conditional Discriminations

The Psychological Record - Eighteen undergraduates participated in studies designed to examine the factors that produce transfer of contextual functions to novel stimuli in second-order conditional...     

Feed the Church,starve the party? Church-state relations and religious political mobilisation in 21 Catholic-majority countries

ABSTRACT

This contribution examines the effects of state religion policy on religious political mobilisation, focusing on the case of the Catholic Church in the post-Cold War era. Catholicism remains politically salient in most Catholic-majority societies, but the presence and success of parties that explicitly mobilise Catholicism in the electoral arena varies enormously. In addition, Catholic-majority countries display a wide variety of institutional arrangements governing the relationship between religion and state. This contribution presents a theoretical framework for analysing the effect of these institutions on the performance of political parties that seek to mobilise religion. Relying on a dataset that covers 137 elections in 21 Catholic-majority countries as well as key measures from the Religion and State (RAS) dataset, this contribution shows that countries with higher levels of state regulation of religion and friendlier religion-state relations are more likely to host parties that mobilise religion; it also suggests that funding for the Catholic Church may constrain such parties.     

La habituación a corto plazo y las consecuencias del E habituador

Resumen

Con objeto de. comprobar si la habituación depende de las consecuencias del estimulo habituador, 24 ratas mistar fueron sometidas a habituación acústica de la respuesta de sobresalto. El grupo 1, en el que el sonido era segued de una consecuencia diferente en cada ensayo, no mostró prácticamente habituación, mientras que el grupo 2, en el que era seguido de una consecuencia fija (destello), mostró una habituación mayor incluso que en el grupo 3, de habituación normal (seguido de ausencia de consecuencias). Los datos parecen apoyar la hipótesis sostenida, a pesar de algunos problemas con el grupo 2.     

A Nelsonian Response to ‘the Most Embarrassing of All Twelfth-century Arguments’

Alberic of Paris put forward an argument, ‘the most embarrassing of all twelfth-century arguments’ according to Christopher Martin, which shows that the connexive principles contradict some other logical principles that have become deeply entrenched in our most widely accepted logical theories. Building upon some of Everett Nelson’s ideas, we will show that the steps in Alberic of Paris’ argument that should be rejected are precisely the ones that presuppose the validity of schemas that are nowadays taken as some of the most trivial logical truths: (A∧B) →_AB A and (A∧B) →_AB B, i.e. Simplification.