Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The concept of cyberdelics emerged in the 1980s and 1990s as an umbrella term denoting the nexus connecting cybernetic (digital) technologies and psychedelic (mind manifesting) drugs. Cyberdelic technologies, in particular the then newly emerging field of virtual reality, were touted by psychedelic cultural icons including Timothy Leary and Terence...
Magistrsko delo obravnava problematiko onesnaženja narave ter vlogo človeka v tem degradiranem okolju. V teoretičnem delu sem vzpostavila povezavo med trenutnim družbenogospodarskim sistemom in posledičnim spreminjanjem naravnega okolja. V stoletju tehnološkega napredka, je človek postal orodje gospodarskega sistema, ki zasleduje kolesje nenehne ra...
Globally, human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation is rapidly growing, with new HRDD legislation introduced or passed in multiple jurisdictions over the past 8 years. This legislative trend has seen countries adopt increasingly stringent requirements and penalties, and demands for precision in addressing specific human rights abuses (e.g., Uni...
The analysis presented in this article concerns one of the newest philosophical novels of Aldo Nove, entitled “Il professore di Viggiù” (2018). In the book the author presents an invented interview with mysterious person, by which he transmits reflections on human life in the modern world. The text evokes the existential issues concerning the incre...
Published in Current opinion in psychology
Narcissists are prone to conspicuous consumption, that is, preference for luxury over mundane products. We analyze four reasons for their conspicuous consumption: positive distinctiveness (individuation and status), meaning in life, materialism, and sexual signaling. Empirical support for these reasons ranges from good to preliminary. We then discu...
Published in Journal of World Languages
The climate crisis has received a great deal of attention of late, yet its root causes go back to the last century and beyond. Also going back many years have been efforts to address the roots of the climate crisis. These efforts include the work of language teachers to research, create, trial, and share materials and pedagogical strategies for edu...
Published in Frontiers in Energy Research
A pervasive sense of dissatisfaction is driving an unstoppable longing for materialistic things, resulting in anthropogenic disruptions of the earth’s natural systems. Behavioral economics integrates insights from psychological research into economic science. This policy brief explores how behavioral economics can be a practical approach citizens c...
V magistrskem delu Preseganje eksistencialnih stisk v romanih treh francoskih avtorjev me je zanimalo, kaj protagonistom v romanih 2.999 SIT, Ljubezen traja tri leta, Francoski roman, Razširitev področja boja, Osnovni delci, Serotonin in Pridni sinko povzroča največjo eksistencialno stisko in kako le-to skušajo preseči. Z vsebinsko analizo romanov ...
The article focuses on how low and lower-middle class youth employed in new private sector jobs in the booming service economy in Indian cities engage with the material environment of their workplace, and how, through their ‘aesthetic scrutiny’ of its materiality, come to ‘consume’ work. The setting is the store floor of a fast-expanding or...
Published in The Journal of analytical psychology
Começando com a pandemia atual, um símbolo potente de morte para todos, a autora explora a necessidade de transformar nossa visão e posição no mundo. A autora descreve o mundo em que vivemos em termos de transformação acelerada e desequilíbrio extremo: suicídio ambiental, consumismo, poluição ambiental, aquecimento global e intensa polarização prov...
