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A composer encourages viewers to find beauty in the mundane rhythms and repetitions of everyday traffic patterns ...

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is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among ...

Love, in the world of Walt Disney films, has changed. Between Tangled (2010) and Moana (2016), the ideal of heterosexual romance has been dethroned by a new ideal: family love. The happy ending of our ...

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is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. He is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University in California and at Teachers College, Columbia University in New ...

is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality (2021).