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Re-Present 2012. A macro photograph taken of a jewellery piece from the Victoria and Albert collection. #contemporarycraft #contemporaryjewellery #victoriaandalbertmuseum #macrophotography #research #researchpaper #researchjewellery #closeup #photography by Michelle Jessop

Re-Present 2012. A macro photograph taken of a jewellery piece from Victoria and Albert collection. #contemporarycraft #contemporaryjewellery #victoriaandalbertmuseum #macrophotography #research #researchpaper #researchjewellery by Michelle Jessop

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Week in Photos - 40 by Ole Miss

Sandra Mortal, left, and Vishal Gupta, standing, present their research Barbarians at the Gate: Do Women CEOs Face Greater Threat From Activist Investors Than Male CEOs? Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications

Week in Photos - 41 by Ole Miss

Vishal Gupta discusses his research with faculty members. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications

October 31 2009 by Alex

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research papers are a drag.

The One Ring Scam from Hell by Timothy Takemoto

Updated version on my blog.

"It is Quiet in Hell” (300)

Missed call scams, where criminals ring mobile phones for one ring, then cut off in the hope that the receiver will ring back and be connected to a number that costs them money, have just hit the USA in early 2014 (CNN Money, KLTV, CBNC). They had a very brief life in the UK in 2004(BBC). But as any Japanese mobile phone user (over the age of about 30) is aware, "one ring scams" (Or "wan giri" one (ring and) cut=kiri) have a far longer history and originate in Japan.

The Japanese are generally so honest (at least according to OECD crime statistics) and cautious (e.g. with higher "uncertainty avoidance", Hofstede, 1980) than other nations. The Japanese are so bright and bushy tailed, so it is strange that a scam of this type should originate in the land of the rising shine.

That these calls started in Japan is I feel because the Japanese are more susceptible. Japanese people are more likely to see that missed call and ring back. Is it because the Japanese are more polite, feeling obliged to respond to missed calls. That is probably part of the motivation, but I think it is something else. As a Texas TV station opines.,"They are preying on the victim's curiosity," and the Japanese are that much more curious about missed phone calls. This is because, I believe, Japan is, collectively, missing a phone call.

As often argued on this blog the main difference between the psychology of Japanese and Westerners is in the medium of their "generalised other." Western psychologists argue that humans, or at least all Westerners, have or have simulated an imaginary friend (Wyndham, 1968) in their head. If you are Christian you believe that you have a friend in Jesus, and a psychic hot-line to God. If you are a Western psychologist then you theorise this entity in secular terms as a "super ego" (Freud, 1913) Other (Lacan, 1967 [2007]), alter ego (Derrida) "generalised other" (Mead), "impartial spectator" (Smith, 1812; see also Brat, 2005) "super addressee" (Bakhtin, 1986. p126).

Taking the last example, Bakhtin was a Russian literary critic who dabbled in psychology (and inspired a branch of psychology: Hermans and Kempen, 1993), He argues that language is always understood in dialogue. Even when we are on our own we imagine how our statements would be understood by those to whom we will addressee them. But, Bakhtin goes on to say, since the self is also understood via self speech, then if we were incapable of understanding who we ourselves are without real others, and this would be hell. We would be continually dependent upon the understanding of whomever we are or plan to talking to. If we are not understood then can not understand ourselves. Our meaning, our desires would be lost in a fog of confusion. Fortunately, Bakhtin says (along with all the other Western commentators) even when we are talking to someone present, and more so when we are on our own, we are always also 'talking off' to a super-addressee. Taking the metaphor of email, Bakhtin argues that is as if we are always also sending a BCC email to one of our parents, or God.

As argued by Mori Arimasa (1999) , and myself, in Japan there is no such generalised ear of the Other. Japanese people just talk to other people. They send email to other people. They do not absent mindedly BCC. Their words are for, and only for, the person that they are sent to. Japan is therefore a Western Hell, since the Japanese are not wired up to the ear in the sky. Yahew-san's phone is off the hook. There is nothing but 'Silence,' or perhaps white noise (c.f. the phone call that Sanada Hrioyuki's role receives before he he is visited by the Other from the image - Sadako!).

Lacking a psychic hot-line, the Japanese are I argue, that much more curious about missed calls. One day some is going to phone, they think. One day they will be connected. And this is why the one ring scam works that much better on Japanese and is (or was, even the Japanese tire of it) that much more prevalent in Japan. It is probably also linked to Japanese susceptibility to that other form of Japanese scam "Its me, its me" (ore ore) phone calls. The Japanese are, in their silence, always hoping that someone who loves them and needs them will ring them up.

Fortunately, the Japanese are not in Japanese hell at all because they have another type of more maternal, super-addressee - Mirrors in their Heads (Heine, Takemoto, Moskalenko, Lasaleta, & Henrich, 2008).

Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. (V. W. McGee, Trans., C. Emerson & M. Holquist, Eds.) (Second Printing.). University of Texas Press.

Brat, D. (2005). Adam Smith’s God: The End of Economics. Virginia Economic Journal, 59. Retrieved from faculty.rmc.edu/dbrat/researchpapers/2005VAEAdamSmithPape...

Freud, S. (1913). Totem and taboo. (A. A. Brill, Trans.). New York: Moffat, Yard and Company. Retrieved from en.wikisource.org/wiki/Totem_and_Taboo

Heine, S. J., Takemoto, T., Moskalenko, S., Lasaleta, J., & Henrich, J. (2008). Mirrors in the head: Cultural variation in objective self-awareness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(7), 879–887. Retrieved from www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/docs/2008Mirrors.pdf

Hermans, H. J. M., & Kempen, H. J. G. (1993). The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement. Academic Press.

Hofstede, G. (1980). Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations (2nd ed.). Sage Publications, Inc.

Lacan, J. (2007). Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English. (B. Fink, Trans.) (1st ed.). W W Norton & Co Inc.

Mead, G. H. (1967). Mind, self, and society: From the standpoint of a social behaviorist (Vol. 1). The University of Chicago Press.

Smith, A. (1812). The theory of moral sentiments. Retrieved from books.google.co.jp/books?hl=en&lr=&id=d-UUAAAAQAA...

Wyndham, J. (1968). Chocky.

Mori, A. 森有正. (1999). 森有正エッセー集成〈5〉. 筑摩書房.

1-Create-your-bibliography-database by Team Mendeley

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Week in Photos - 42 by Ole Miss

Sandra Mortal discusses her research with faculty members. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications

2-Capture-citations-from-everywhere by Team Mendeley

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IMG_0110 by miss leigh mahon

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it's particularly cold for may and i have two research papers due this month. i miss last year.

Bench Monday: "Research Paper" edition by featheredpennyphoto

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Happy Bench Monday!!

It's that time of year again. I have a stack of books (as you can see here) and I am to glean from them what is necessary to write a 12 page argumentative essay. (Both sides being represented, of course.)

It's kind of ironic, though, don't you think? A stack of books about obesity next to a woman who, well, let's just say, buys her clothes in the Women's department?

(I often wonder what was going through the heads of the library staff when they saw the kinds of books I was collecting! Ha!)

Anyway, this is bordering on self-dislike, so I stop now.

For Bench Monday & 111 Pictures.

111 Pictures Info:

#62: books

Caffeinated Assisted Suicide by Joe Mal

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Anyone drink coffee?

I knew I was going to have a hell of a morning today...I had planned previously this week to get a bunch of homework done this morning. So I wake up, and start pounding the coffee, as usual. I drink coffee every morning, so this wasn't anything abnormal. Coffee tastes great in the AM (good coffee, at least (*cough cough* 8 O'Clock Coffee *cough*)) and obviously, wakes you up.

Coffee drinkers out there will probably sympathize with me. Sometimes, we hit it a little too hard. Like the young guy at the party that just can't keep the beer bottle from his mouth; we drink too much. Everything is going great, and then it happens.

I don't know what it is, but it's like my brain goes on overload and can't take the caffeine anymore. It almost has a reverse effect, sending users into a comatose-like state. I can't think straight, I don't want to open my eyes, but I can't keep them shut either. All I want to do is kill myself for drinking that much. Which honestly is strange, because sometimes when this happens, I don't actually drink any more than I would any other day. But for some reason, my body tells me that I've overdone it.

I ended up getting my homework done, but damn it's a lot easier to concentrate when you aren't on overload. I hope someone out there knows what I'm talking about...otherwise I probably sound like a rampant idiot.

A lot of the light in this shot was natural, I added a little of the white on the outsides to give it a feeling like I was on my way to heaven. I was 'seeing the light' at the point lol. One of my first creative attempts with my new 35mm :) :) It's an awesome lens...I can see how people get addicted to primes....

Salzburg Heavy Metal by Mike Licht

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Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

Grading by vanwas

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As both the semester and the school year draw to an end, my wife is grading papers like crazy. Late into the early hours on most weekends, she is drinking coffee and grading papers as I head to bed.

This shot is posed, but it accurately describes how she feels at around 1:00 am.

US scientists are more likely to fake research. Once again, America is #1! by GEEKSTATS

The highest number of retracted papers were written by US first authors (260), or 33% of the total. 1/3 of these was attributed to fraud.

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279/365: Research Paper. by Erika Hietala

I GOT AN A ON MY RESEARCH PAPER. NO BIG DEAL OR ANYTHING.

It's actually a very big deal. WOO!

Day 205 by Jenifer

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Working on my research paper.

Library for the Digital Age; Mr. Muhammad Asif, Director AIRC delivers a workshop on e-Library USA at Hajvery University (HU). by Hajvery University

15 March, 2012. Mr. Muhammad Asif, Director American Information Resource Center (AIRC), US Consulate General Lahore, delivered a workshop on harnessing the potential of e-Library USA at Hajvery University (HU). Students from across all faculties; Pharmacy, Business, Fashion, Media Studies, Engineering, Humanities, and others including researchers and teaching faculty attended the workshop. The objective of this workshop was to introduce e-library USA which gives access to 20 authoritative databases, which include several thousand books, magazines, journals, research papers, citations, documentaries, and a lot more.

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