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61In this paper we present a German scale assessing intuitive and rational processing as well as new scales assessing the use and evaluation of various persuasion heuristics. The German REI is shown to have good item characteristics and high reliability and to replicate the two-dimensional structure of the original scale with its subscales faith in intuition and need for cognition. Both dimensions are independent of social desirability, and correlations with various personality traits speak to the…Read more
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32Inducing empathy affects cardiovascular reactivity reflected in changes in high-frequency heart rate variabilityTandf: Cognition and Emotion 1-7. forthcoming..
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18Inducing empathy affects cardiovascular reactivity reflected in changes in high-frequency heart rate variabilityCognition and Emotion 35 (2): 393-399. 2021.
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14The Relation Between Human Values and Perceived Situation Characteristics in Everyday LifeFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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15Regulatory focus and generalized trust: the impact of prevention-focused self-regulation on trusting othersFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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16When interoception helps to overcome negative feelings caused by social exclusionFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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33An emotion-differentiated perspective on empathy with the emotion specific empathy questionnaireFrontiers in Psychology 5. 2014.
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50#MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activismEuropean Journal of Women's Studies 25 (2): 236-246. 2018.
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Weakness of Will Implies Freedom of Will: An Argument for Libertarian FreedomDissertation, Purdue University. 1999.The purpose of this study is to argue for libertarian freedom on the basis of weakness of will as a common possibility for human agents. The phenomenon of weakness of will is widely acknowledged as a human possibility. Few contemporary philosophers, however, are proponents of libertarian freedom. I argue first that the possibility of weakness of will is implied by human agency. I then describe several sets of conditions philosophers have proposed to explain the apparent freedom necessary for wea…Read more
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416Politics and Transformation: critical approaches toward political aspects of educationPolicy Futures in Education 12 (3): 359-369. 2014.
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605Mutuality or Monopoly: Reflections on the Ethics of International Curriculum WorkIn Terrence C. Mason & Robert J. Helfenbein (eds.), Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context, Information Age Publishing. 2012.
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482The Practice of Dialogue: Socrates in the MenoIn Hanna Patricia (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Volume 4, Atiner. pp. 19-26. 2010.
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341Socrates, Dialogue, and Us: Ignorance as Learning ParadigmIn Malewski Erik & Jaramillo Nathalia (eds.), Epistemologies of Ignorance and Studies of Limits in Education, Information Age Publishing. 2011.
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382Dialogue as Moral Paradigm: Paths Toward Intercultural TransformationPolicy Futures in Education 9 29-34. 2011.The Council of Europe’s 2008 White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue: ‘living together as equals in dignity’ points to the need for shared values upon which intercultural dialogue might rest. In order, however, to overcome the monologic separateness that threatens community, we must educate ourselves to recognize the dialogism of our humanity and to engage in deep encounters with others with a mature skepticism of all dogmatisms, including our own. In order to aid us in reaching the necessary insi…Read more
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284Spirituality, Economics, and Education A Dialogic Critique of Spiritual CapitalNebula 5 (4): 109-128. 2008.This paper consists of a conversation between a philosopher specialising in ethics and religion and an educational researcher with an interest in cultural studies and contemporary social theory. Dialogic in form, this paper employs an interdisciplinary response to an interdisciplinary project and offers the following components: a dialogic theorizing of the implications for education of a research project on spiritual capital; a continuation of the project of analyzing moral thinking in various …Read more
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506Agency Implies Weakness of WillProtoSociology 25 225-240. 2008.Notions of agency and of weakness of will clearly seem to be related to one another. This essay takes on a rather modest task in relation to current discussion of these topics; it seeks to establish the following claim: If A is a normal human agent, weakness of will is possible for A. The argument relies on demonstrating that certain necessary conditions for normal human agency are at least roughly equivalent to certain sufficient conditions for weakness of will. The connection between agency an…Read more
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488The Moral Thinking of MacbethPhilosophy and Literature 29 (1): 41-56. 2005.In her article, "Thinking and Moral Considerations," Hannah Arendt provides a provocative approach to the question of evil by suggesting that banal evil-the most common kind-may arise directly from thoughtlessness. If that is so, thinking may provide an antidote to evil. Learning to think would then offer the individual and society protection against the dangers of thoughtless evil. She further suggests that thinking may clear the way for a form of judging that "when the chips are down" may turn…Read more
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501On Perfect GoodnessSophia 49 (1): 29-36. 2010.God is typically conceived as perfectly good and necessarily so, in two senses: in terms of always performing the best possible act and in terms of having maximal moral worth. Yet any being that freely performs the best act she can must be accorded greater moral worth for any such action than a being that does so necessarily. I conclude that any being that performs the best possible act of necessity cannot also have maximal moral worth, making the concept of God’s perfect goodness incoherent.
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