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Inspirations refers to an evoked state of creativity, which implies motivation, evocation, and transcendence. Traditionally in the literature inspiration is divided to two states such as being inspired by or inspired to. Inspiration is influenced by information and knowledge, nevertheless several studies indicate a positive association between academic major and inspiration occurrence frequency. Previous study results indicate that domain specific knowledge such as visual art has a major impact on visual stimuli p...

Several studies point to the relationship between callous-unemotional (CU) traits and symptoms of conduct disorder (CD) across different age groups. In case of young children and adolescents, it was found that in the presence of CU traits, externalizing behaviors are significantly more severe, as opposed to children who do not show CU traits. Integrating results from 11 studies, we analyzed data collected from n = 4381 participants from different age groups, ranging from toddlers to adolescents, to draw attention ...

In recent years, the topic of executive functions has been in the focus of clinical psychology because of the associations that have been observed between the appearance of several clinical symptoms and the underdevelopment of executive functions. The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions - Adult Version (BRIEF - A) is a self-reporting questionnaire which aims to measure constructs of the executive functions, such as shifting, inhibitory control, emotion regulation, self-monitoring, initiating, working ...

Previously published studies show a clear difference between the eye movement patterns of artists and non-artists. However, the findings of some studies show that the duration of eye fixation increases as a result of artistic expertise, while other studies show the opposite. In this meta-analysis, we included the findings from 14 studies in which the effect of artistic expertise on the duration of eye fixation was examined. We also examined the potential moderating effect of task type, level of expertise, the type...

Students’ critical thinking ability includes deductive and inductive thinking, the ability to pla experiments, precise assumption identification, all of which are essential cognitive abilities for prosperity in everyday life and for further career success. Previous studies concluded that students, who participated in extracurricular activities, such as competitions, have higher levels of critical thinking abilities than their non-attending peers. The im of this study is the investigation of the predictive power ...

Metacognitive processes influence not only success in learning, but also contribute to career success. One of the main aims of education is the improvement of higher-order cognitive abilities like metacognition. Earlier studies demonstrated that extracurricular activities, such as experiences acquired during competitions, improve metacognitive skills. The aim of our correlational, cross-sectional study is the establis ment of the explanatory power of different types and levels of competitions for the variability o...

There is a growing body of literature evidencing the link between studentsВ’ fixed intelligence mindset and different mental health indicators (i.e., negative emotions) [1] however, little is known about the nature of this relationship. DweckВ’s theory emphasizes that mindsets exert their greatest effect on behavior and emotions when self-threat is imminent [2], suggesting that self-evaluations might also be implicated in conveying mindsetsВ’ effect. Thus, the present study (N = 276) proposed to investigate two se...

The recent sentence of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation on the well-known case of Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti, in which thousands and thousands of genetic profiles were analysed, offers an occasion for a number of observations on the subject: on the one hand, on the genetic proof and its value in the Italian criminal process and, on the other hand, on the role of the DNA database which in Italy, in contrast to other European situations, as yet contains few profiles. In fact, even if active since 2017, it only ...

Starting from underlining the actual existence of a human society in full globalization process and from analyzing a phenomenon as old as time, i.e. human migration, we are trying to highlight in this study the relations that exist without any doubt between globalization and migration. At the same time, a review of the relations and effects between migration and the international community, between the religion and the culture of different societies that come into contact with the migratory phenomena, is performed...

Neurosciences, and in other words that series of disciplines which looks into the neuronal connections of human conduct, over the last few years have increasingly been influencing law, in particular Italian criminal law. This article intends to query the connections between neurosciences and criminal law, also observing a number of applications which have existed in recent years in Italy. On a more general note, neurosciences can be of assistance for ascertaining the impunity or reduced responsibility due to insan...

Environmental crime, in a large number of cases, is an expression of corporate crime: from this it is evident that action must be taken, not only against the individual responsible for the crime, but also the legal entity, increasingly playing a leading role, since an environmental crime is the result of a corporate policy that fails to safeguard the surrounding environment. In Italy, administrative liability (which actually amounts to criminal liability) of legal entities, companies and associations, including th...

By operation of the law introduced to ratify the Pr?m Treaty (no. 85 dated 30 June 2009), implementing the Schengen agreements aimed at stepping up cooperation with other EU States to combat terrorism, illegal immigration, international and cross-border crime, Italy regulated, inter alia, the setting-up of a DNA database. However, it was only with Presidential Decree no. 87 dated 7 April 2016 that the proclaimed regulations were actually brought in, with provisions implementing Italian Law no. 85/2009 relating to ...

This article presents philosophical analysis of such a phenomenon as video games. Today, video games represent a major part of modern culture, which requires a specific research to be carried out. Without studying the ontology of video games it is impossible to give clear answers to such questions as: What are video games? How are they built? It is our goal to disclose and analyze the ontologies in the framework of which video games exist. We need to note that there is no such thing as universal ontology of video ...

A fundamental element in the debate about public space is understanding and determining its meaning. Tadeusz Buksi?ski in his article O miejskiej sferze publicznej focuses on its prevailing social function and differentiates eight types of public realm: for presenting oneself, expression, worship and holy places, view/landscape/cityscape, authority, commercial, utility, leisure and entertainment.[7] In 1748 Giambattista Nolli had created a map of Rome, which most important feature is distinguishing public spaces i...

Development of information and communication technologies, including virtual reality, hardware and video game industry makes the issues of virtual worlds and objects existence quite urgent. To what extent are those real? Do virtual worlds exist, or are they just fiction and illusion? How mythological are they? The main goal of this article is to reveal mythology construction in video games virtual worlds. We illustrate how video games construct their own virtual worlds, which are mythological within, including syn...

This paper presents the findings of an experiment conducted in an innovative way through the use of the most popular social network: Facebook. Exploiting the system of “like” and “share”, on which this online platform is based, thousands of artwork images were submitted to a sample of over 10,000 users worldwide. Through the metrics analysis related to the aesthetic choices expressed by the users, it was observed that viewers are inclined to react in the same way towards certain visual stimuli coming from ...

The mediumistic art is a psychic phenomenon in which the subject appears to be possessed by an entity that guides the creation of an artwork. Until today it is preferred to classify this kind of creative performances as parapsychological or paranormal events calling them Channeling Phenomena. Through the study of some cases, we have analyzed the mediumistic art by a scientific point of view, classifying this psychic phenomenon as abnormal or anomalous manifestation of the human creativity, that in some neurophysio...