Alan Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6956-1952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Can vegetable e-books influence a child’s acceptance of vegetables? Preliminary findings from the See & Eat study
Aesthetic Pursuits: Essays in Philosophy of Art
Aesthetic Pursuits is Jerrold Levinson’s newest collection of essays and is marketed as a complement to his 2015 volume Musical Concerns.1 Whereas Musical Concerns was comprised exclusively of essays on music, Aesthetic Pursuits consists of essays on a variety of topics. As the broad title suggests, these topics are relatively disparate and wide-ranging, including issues of film, humour, literature, beauty and the emotions. All the essays, with o…
Humour is a Funny Thing
This paper considers the question of how immoral elements in instances of humour affect funniness. Comic ethicism is the position that each immoral element negatively affects funniness and if their cumulative effect is sufficient, then funniness is eliminated. I focus on Berys Gaut’s central argument in favour of comic ethicism; the merited response argument. In this journal, Noe&x0308;l Carroll has criticized the merited response argument as ill…
Are black-white differences in females' body dissatisfaction decreasing? A meta-analytic review.
Proponents of the sociocultural model of eating disorders have suggested that ethnic differences in body dissatisfaction may be diminishing as the thin ideal of beauty becomes more widely disseminated among minority women. In a meta-analysis, the authors examined temporal trends in Black-White differences and also examined whether these differences generalize across various age groups and measures. Results confirmed more favorable body image eval…
A Century of Forensic Social Work: Bridging the Past to the Present
This article traces the emergence of forensic social work from the Progressive Era and the founding of the first juvenile court in 1899 to present day policies and practices with victims of violent crimes and with juvenile and adult offenders. Although social workers have been providing outreach to at-risk youths, gang members, offenders, and crime victims for a century, the term "forensic social work" has not previously been widely used. A unify…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
On the comparison of literary and scientific styles: The letters and articles of Max Born, F. R. S
There has been much scholarly activity in literary textual analysis; problems have included the literary analysis of characters, the disputed authorship of texts, hidden insertions in another hand and the continuation of incomplete texts. Classically the interpretations of these literary problems are given in terms of literary judgements, but there are no reasons to forbid numerical arguments based on statistical techniques, and it is to be hoped…
Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours: Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness
The consistency of physical attractiveness ratings across cultural groups was examined. In Study 1, recently arrived native Asian and Hispanic students and White Americans rated the attractiveness of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and White photographed women. The mean correlation between groups in attractiveness ratings was r =.93. Asians, Hispanics, and Whites were equally influenced by many facial features, but Asians were less influenced by some sex…
Le chercheur d'or
Alexis part a la recherche d'un tresor cache dans un ravin de l'anse des Anglais, sur l'ile Maurice. Au fil des ans, et alors que les fouilles ne donnent aucun resultat, il decouvre que sa quete de l'or ne peut se resoudre qu'au fond de lui, dans sa passion de vivre
Mémoires de Judas
A Century of Forensic Social Work: Bridging the Past to the Present
This article traces the emergence of forensic social work from the Progressive Era and the founding of the first juvenile court in 1899 to present day policies and practices with victims of violent crimes and with juvenile and adult offenders. Although social workers have been providing outreach to at-risk youths, gang members, offenders, and crime victims for a century, the term "forensic social work" has not previously been widely used. A unify…
Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours: Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness
The consistency of physical attractiveness ratings across cultural groups was examined. In Study 1, recently arrived native Asian and Hispanic students and White Americans rated the attractiveness of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and White photographed women. The mean correlation between groups in attractiveness ratings was r =.93. Asians, Hispanics, and Whites were equally influenced by many facial features, but Asians were less influenced by some sex…
Le chercheur d'or
Alexis part a la recherche d'un tresor cache dans un ravin de l'anse des Anglais, sur l'ile Maurice. Au fil des ans, et alors que les fouilles ne donnent aucun resultat, il decouvre que sa quete de l'or ne peut se resoudre qu'au fond de lui, dans sa passion de vivre
Aesthetic Pursuits: Essays in Philosophy of Art
Aesthetic Pursuits is Jerrold Levinson’s newest collection of essays and is marketed as a complement to his 2015 volume Musical Concerns.1 Whereas Musical Concerns was comprised exclusively of essays on music, Aesthetic Pursuits consists of essays on a variety of topics. As the broad title suggests, these topics are relatively disparate and wide-ranging, including issues of film, humour, literature, beauty and the emotions. All the essays, with o…
Humour is a Funny Thing
This paper considers the question of how immoral elements in instances of humour affect funniness. Comic ethicism is the position that each immoral element negatively affects funniness and if their cumulative effect is sufficient, then funniness is eliminated. I focus on Berys Gaut’s central argument in favour of comic ethicism; the merited response argument. In this journal, Noe&x0308;l Carroll has criticized the merited response argument as ill…
Le chercheur d'or
Alexis part a la recherche d'un tresor cache dans un ravin de l'anse des Anglais, sur l'ile Maurice. Au fil des ans, et alors que les fouilles ne donnent aucun resultat, il decouvre que sa quete de l'or ne peut se resoudre qu'au fond de lui, dans sa passion de vivre
Mémoires de Judas
On the comparison of literary and scientific styles: The letters and articles of Max Born, F. R. S
There has been much scholarly activity in literary textual analysis; problems have included the literary analysis of characters, the disputed authorship of texts, hidden insertions in another hand and the continuation of incomplete texts. Classically the interpretations of these literary problems are given in terms of literary judgements, but there are no reasons to forbid numerical arguments based on statistical techniques, and it is to be hoped…
Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours: Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness
The consistency of physical attractiveness ratings across cultural groups was examined. In Study 1, recently arrived native Asian and Hispanic students and White Americans rated the attractiveness of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and White photographed women. The mean correlation between groups in attractiveness ratings was r =.93. Asians, Hispanics, and Whites were equally influenced by many facial features, but Asians were less influenced by some sex…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
A Century of Forensic Social Work: Bridging the Past to the Present
This article traces the emergence of forensic social work from the Progressive Era and the founding of the first juvenile court in 1899 to present day policies and practices with victims of violent crimes and with juvenile and adult offenders. Although social workers have been providing outreach to at-risk youths, gang members, offenders, and crime victims for a century, the term "forensic social work" has not previously been widely used. A unify…
Are black-white differences in females' body dissatisfaction decreasing? A meta-analytic review.
Proponents of the sociocultural model of eating disorders have suggested that ethnic differences in body dissatisfaction may be diminishing as the thin ideal of beauty becomes more widely disseminated among minority women. In a meta-analysis, the authors examined temporal trends in Black-White differences and also examined whether these differences generalize across various age groups and measures. Results confirmed more favorable body image eval…
Humour is a Funny Thing
This paper considers the question of how immoral elements in instances of humour affect funniness. Comic ethicism is the position that each immoral element negatively affects funniness and if their cumulative effect is sufficient, then funniness is eliminated. I focus on Berys Gaut’s central argument in favour of comic ethicism; the merited response argument. In this journal, Noe&x0308;l Carroll has criticized the merited response argument as ill…
Aesthetic Pursuits: Essays in Philosophy of Art
Aesthetic Pursuits is Jerrold Levinson’s newest collection of essays and is marketed as a complement to his 2015 volume Musical Concerns.1 Whereas Musical Concerns was comprised exclusively of essays on music, Aesthetic Pursuits consists of essays on a variety of topics. As the broad title suggests, these topics are relatively disparate and wide-ranging, including issues of film, humour, literature, beauty and the emotions. All the essays, with o…
Can vegetable e-books influence a child’s acceptance of vegetables? Preliminary findings from the See & Eat study
Psychology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Beauty (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)