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Fall 2015
Although many researchers have incorporated concepts related to the human essence in their research, there has yet been a measure to quantify the degree to which one believes that there is a human essence. In the current studies, a belief in human essentialism scale (BHES) is developed,...
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The Role of Target “Humanness” on Killing: A Study of Moral Disengagement within a Bug-Killing Paradigm
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Dehumanization—the stripping of human qualities from someone—has been theorized to exclude that individual from the bounds of morality, thereby making violent and transgressive behavior perpetrated against that individual acceptable and appropriate. Although past research has indeed found this to...
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Divine Corporeality: Remembering Yhwh's Different Body Parts in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Yehud/Judah
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In an effort to contribute to the rich and ongoing conversation on divine anthropomorphism(s), this work examines references to Yhwh’s various body parts in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic period texts of (what is now known in scholarly circles as) the Hebrew Bible from the perspective of social...
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Fall 2019
Terror management theory (TMT) posits the human concept is one of value because it helps mitigate existential anxiety by denying our strictly animal, thus mortal, nature. Further, TMT argues one’s culture, a construct tied to humanness, also assists in death and creatureliness denial. Therefore,...