Laura Harty, Laura McCloskey the mediators in their study were moral emotions and aggression. These authors wanted to study the relationship between moral emotion and aggression. The researchers wanted to “operationalize measures of verbal and physical emotions into four independent samples” (Stuewig, Tangney, Heigel, Harty & McCloskey, 2009, p. 91). The researchers studied teacher, observational, and parental reports to evaluate aggression (Stuewig, Tangney, Heigel, Harty & McCloskey, 2009). The researchers
McCloskey in his article, "On Being An Atheist" claims that proofs or arguments which theists provide to support their belief “have no weight”. He speaks of this primarily in relation to the ontological argument, the argument which attempts to show that the very concept of God implies his reality. McCloskey believes that there is no point in debating on this particular proof because it has no bearing but the ontological argument serves as the very foundation for other arguments which supports and
present a model of social change that combines public choice analysis and intellectual shifts to explain how change happens. They use public choice analysis to examine the institutions, and the particular incentives which follow from particular institutions, that influence political actors. Institutions do not occur by chance. They arise from “bottom up and top down” forces that spread ideas (Leighton and Lopez 120). Following their analysis of the forces of political change, Leighton and Lopez argue
ability to engage in the purposeful, organized, strategic, self-regulated, goal directed behavior” (McCloskey), a construct of behavior identified as intrinsic motivation. In a study to measure infant working memory involving fifty eight-month-old infants, associations between “experience-dependent activity in the brain and executive function in young children” have been submitted as measurable analysis (Bell, “A Psychobiological”; Bell and Fox; Calkins and Bell). The results demonstrated connections