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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Charge The Cockpit Or Die: An Anatomy Of Fear-Driven Political Rhetoric In American Conservatism, Daniel Hostetter
Charge The Cockpit Or Die: An Anatomy Of Fear-Driven Political Rhetoric In American Conservatism, Daniel Hostetter
Senior Honors Theses
Subthreshold negative emotions have superseded conscious reason as the initial and strongest motivators of political behavior. Political neuroscience uses the concepts of negativity bias and terror management theory to explore why fear-driven rhetoric plays such an outsized role in determining human political actions. These mechanisms of human anthropology are explored by competing explanations from biblical and evolutionary scholars who attempt to understand their contribution to human vulnerabilities to fear. When these mechanisms are observed in fear-driven political rhetoric, three common characteristics emerge: exaggerated threat, tribal combat, and religious apocalypse, which provide a new framework for explaining how modern populist leaders …
Cultural Evolution: A Review Of Theoretical Challenges, Ryan Nichols, Mathieu Charbonneau, Azita Chellappoo, Taylor Davis, Miriam Haidle, Erik O. Kimbrough, Henrike Moll, Richard Moore, Thom Scott-Phillips, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Jose Segovia-Martin
Cultural Evolution: A Review Of Theoretical Challenges, Ryan Nichols, Mathieu Charbonneau, Azita Chellappoo, Taylor Davis, Miriam Haidle, Erik O. Kimbrough, Henrike Moll, Richard Moore, Thom Scott-Phillips, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Jose Segovia-Martin
Economics Faculty Articles and Research
The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary developments in theory and philosophy of science. This has led to concern, exemplified in results from a recent survey conducted with members of the Cultural Evolution Society, that the field lacks ‘knowledge synthesis’, is poorly supported by ‘theory’, has an ambiguous relation to biological evolution and uses key terms (e.g. ‘culture’, ‘social learning’, ‘cumulative culture’) in ways that hamper operationalization in models, experiments and field studies. Although numerous review papers in the field represent and categorize …
Human Zoo Healthcare At The 1904 World’S Fair, Angel Blake
Human Zoo Healthcare At The 1904 World’S Fair, Angel Blake
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Human Zoo Healthcare at the 1904 World’s Fair
Were precautions taken or put into place for the Human Zoo performers at the 1904 World’s Fair? This topic has been overlooked and understudied by historians, there are few articles written and we do not know the true death toll which shows the racism towards these indigenous peoples. The research for this project was conducted at the State Historical Society of Missouri, the St. Louis Mercantile Library, Newspapers.com, Archives.com, St. Louis Public Library, and the Missouri Historical Society, including research on primary sources such as official World’s Fair committee meeting minutes, hospital …
Ua12/2/82 Phi Beta Sigma, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/82 Phi Beta Sigma, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
Ua12/2/81 Omega Psi Phi, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/81 Omega Psi Phi, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Ua12/2/85 Sigma Gamma Rho, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/85 Sigma Gamma Rho, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
Ua12/2/86 Zeta Phi Beta, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/86 Zeta Phi Beta, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
Down The Bay Oral History Project Newsletter - Winter 2024, Center For Archaeological Studies, Mccall Library
Down The Bay Oral History Project Newsletter - Winter 2024, Center For Archaeological Studies, Mccall Library
Down the Bay Oral History Project Newsletter
Public newsletter sharing information about progress and discoveries during the ongoing Down The Bay Project.
“Sounds Like” Redemption? On The Musicality Of Species And The Species Of Musicality, Tyler Yamin, Alice Rudge
“Sounds Like” Redemption? On The Musicality Of Species And The Species Of Musicality, Tyler Yamin, Alice Rudge
Faculty Journal Articles
Popular and academic studies of music frequently claim that human musicality arose from the so-called ‘natural world’ of non-human species. And amid the anxieties produced by the Anthropocene, it is thought that the possibility of reconnecting with the natural world through a renewed appreciation of music’s links with nature may usher in a new era of posthuman environmental consciousness, offering repair and redemption. To critique these claims, we trace how notions of ‘musicality’ have been applied to or denied from non-human entities across diverse disciplines since the late nineteenth century. We conclude that such debates reinforce the separation that they …
Looted Cultural Objects, Elena Baylis
Looted Cultural Objects, Elena Baylis
Articles
In the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, museums are in possession of cultural objects that were unethically taken from their countries and communities of origin under the auspices of colonialism. For many years, the art world considered such holdings unexceptional. Now, a longstanding movement to decolonize museums is gaining momentum, and some museums are reconsidering their collections. Presently, whether to return such looted foreign cultural objects is typically a voluntary choice for individual museums to make, not a legal obligation. Modern treaties and statutes protecting cultural property apply only prospectively, to items stolen or illegally exported after their effective dates. …
Ua1c11/125 Arndt Stickles Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/125 Arndt Stickles Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs removed from Arndt Stickles personal papers.
Ua1c11/127 Stephen Flora Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/127 Stephen Flora Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs donated by WKU alumnus Stephen Flora, taken for class and College Heights Herald.
Ua94/5/6 Lucian Flora Student/Alumni Papers, Wku Archives
Ua94/5/6 Lucian Flora Student/Alumni Papers, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Scrapbook and memoirs created by alumni Lucian Flora of Smiths Grove, Kentucky of his activities as a soldier in World War II. Flora saw action through North Africa and Italy from 1941 to 1945.
Ua12/2/84 Sigma Chi, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/84 Sigma Chi, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Sigma Phi Alpha fraternity and it's forerunner Sigma Chi.
Ua1c11/128 Lucian Flora Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/128 Lucian Flora Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs and postcards removed from Lucian Flora's World War II scrapbook.