�Healthy the great unwashed are more willing to take drugs to raise traits that are non fundamental to their identity.
According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people's willingness to take a tablet or drug depends on whether the trait the drug promises to enhance is peerless they study fundamental.
Authors Jason Riis (NYU, Harvard Business School), Joseph P. Simmons (Yale University), and Geoffrey P. Goodwin (Princeton University) examine the moral dilemmas that arise as technologies develop that not only cure disease but too enhance already-healthy people. As many thomas Young people without diagnosed disorders or deficits take Ritalin or Adderall to ameliorate concentration or anti-depressants to lift their moods, this study examines what makes healthy citizenry willing to take pills.
The researchers compulsive that people do not feel comfortable using a pill to enhance a trait they believe to be underlying to their identity. But less-fundamental traits, including concentration, are more acceptable targets.
"We suggest that people's willingness to accept psychological enhancements will largely depend on beliefs about whether those enhancements testament alter characteristics considered fundamental to self-identity," the authors write.
During a series of studies, the researchers ground that loretta Young people were less likely to agree to aim a do drugs to step-up their social comfort than one that increased their ability to concentrate. The most common reason participants said they wouldn't want to make a pill was because it would "fundamentally change who I am."
Not surprisingly, the marketing message stirred participants' responses. When the researchers time-tested different advertizement taglines, they found that participants responded more positively to a drug bright to help them suit "more than who you are," than one that would admit them to become "world Health Organization you are."
"Together, this enquiry converges to highlight the importance of identity expression and preservation in government activity the choices and lives of consumers," write the authors.
Jason Riis, Joseph P. Simmons, and Geoffrey P. Goodwin. "Preferences for Enhancement Pharmaceuticals: The Reluctance to Enhance Fundamental Traits" Journal of Consumer Research: October 2008.
Source: Mary-Ann Twist
University of Chicago Press Journals
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Monday 11 August 2008
Brightman, Liu sing Olympics theme
Duo performs 'You and Me' on top of 16-ton globe
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BEIJING -- U.K. soprano vocalist Sarah Brightman and Chinese singer Liu Huan unveiled the official 2008 Beijing Olympics theme song "You and Me" at the National Stadium during Friday's opening ceremony in front of a crowd of 91,000.
The performance, which came an hour into the opening ceremony, was the orgasm of the artistic dowery of the program.
It featured the duo singing from the top of a 16-ton orb, surrounded by a sea of portraits of grinning children's faces from round the mankind. The song, which was a heavily guarded secret before existence performed at the ceremony, was composed by France-based Chinese classical composer Chen Qigang, the musical director of the opening ceremony.
Zhang Yimou was responsible for the artistic direction of the ceremony. The parade of nations competing in the Games followed the Olympic theme.
Liu, who began the functioning by telling the Chinese verse of the birdcall, previously sang the theme to the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. Brightman also sang the official theme to the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, "Friends for Life," with Jose Carreras.
Lang Lang's performance pronounced the but other visual aspect of a solo recording artist in the artistic portion of the ceremony. The Chinese pianist wore his trademark white suit of clothes and sat at a white pianissimo in the center of a human "Bird's Nest," constructed by a team of neon-green clad Chinese acrobats.
Click for more than Beijing Olympics news
BEIJING -- U.K. soprano vocalist Sarah Brightman and Chinese singer Liu Huan unveiled the official 2008 Beijing Olympics theme song "You and Me" at the National Stadium during Friday's opening ceremony in front of a crowd of 91,000.
The performance, which came an hour into the opening ceremony, was the orgasm of the artistic dowery of the program.
It featured the duo singing from the top of a 16-ton orb, surrounded by a sea of portraits of grinning children's faces from round the mankind. The song, which was a heavily guarded secret before existence performed at the ceremony, was composed by France-based Chinese classical composer Chen Qigang, the musical director of the opening ceremony.
Zhang Yimou was responsible for the artistic direction of the ceremony. The parade of nations competing in the Games followed the Olympic theme.
Liu, who began the functioning by telling the Chinese verse of the birdcall, previously sang the theme to the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. Brightman also sang the official theme to the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, "Friends for Life," with Jose Carreras.
Lang Lang's performance pronounced the but other visual aspect of a solo recording artist in the artistic portion of the ceremony. The Chinese pianist wore his trademark white suit of clothes and sat at a white pianissimo in the center of a human "Bird's Nest," constructed by a team of neon-green clad Chinese acrobats.
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Samael
Artist: Samael
Genre(s):
Rock
Industrial
Metal: Industrial
Electronic
Metal: Gothic
Blues
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Solar Soul (Ltd. Edition)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Lesson In Magic #1
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Era One
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Telepath
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Reign Of Light
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Eternal
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Exodus
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
Xytras's Passage
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Passage
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Rebellion
Year: 1995
Tracks: 6
Ceremony Of Opposites
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Blood Ritual
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Worship Him
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Macabre Operetta (Demo)
Year: 1988
Tracks: 3
Into The Infernal Storm Of Evil (Demo)
Year: 1987
Tracks: 4
Switzerland's Samael has evolved from a mine incline bleak alloy band into one of Europe's virtually original and innovational metallic element bands by introducing industrial, gothic, and infinite other influences into their extreme sound.
Formed in the late '80s by Vorphalack (guitars/vocals), Xytras (drums/keyboards), and bassist Masmiseim, Samael was heavily influenced by first-generation bleak alloy bands such as England's Venom and Swiss compatriots Celtic Frost. An super raw, self-financed EP called Medieval Prophecy caught the attention of French-based Osmose Records, which agreed to press release the band's first base full-length record album, Worship Him, in 1991. The record's poor production values and unremarkable black alloy did little for the isthmus, just the following year's much more mature Blood Ritual was another chronicle. The album found Samael incorporating keyboards and different guitar textures to their good, and a permanent keyboard player (Rodolphe H.) was drafted presently after.
After sign language with the Century Media mark, the stria returned to the studio with noted black alloy manufacturer Waldemar Sorychta (noted for his crop with Tiamat) to record 1994's impressive Ceremonial occasion of Opposites. Samael began to find their unique voice on this record, combine swirling keyboard melodies with their brutal guitar attempt to create what they called "grisly operettas." The bet were raised even higher on 1996's groundbreaking ceremony Passage, which saw Xytras (today plainly Xy) pickings over keyboard duties as well as programing all his drum tracks. This unlawful mix of opprobrious metallic element savagery and synthesizers resulted in one of the decade's most original and extreme alloy releases, and was followed by blanket touring (including the band's first American shows). After producing deuce albums by labelmates Rotting Christ, Xy reconvened the group to criminal record 1999's Eternal, with extra guitar player Kaos. The album contains even bolder experiments with applied science and confirmed the band's position as forerunners in their field.
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