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  • Despite a stunning ending and an in-her-prime Stacey Nelkin, fans and critics despised the film and it flopped.

    Top 10 Unfairly Maligned Sequels » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • See also Nelkin, Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions (1992). back

    Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

  • Surprisingly, however, Nelkin claims that the evaluative component should not be equated with affect and motivation involved in experiencing pain.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • According to Nelkin, these two are only contingently related to pain experiences.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • Nelkin conceives of this evaluation as a form of spontaneous de re judgment about the phenomenal state as representing harm to the body.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • Restricting the motivating desire to a desire to believe p, according to Nelkin, makes clear what twisted and straight self-deception have in common as well as why other forms of motivated belief formation are not cases of self-deception.

    Self-Deception Deweese-Boyd, Ian 2008

  • Nelkin, Dorothy, 2002, “Patenting Genes and the Public Interest,” American Journal of Bioethics 2 (3):

    The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008

  • The gene is a “cultural icon”: in popular culture, from movies to cartoons to Dear Abby, quite apart from its biological and medical contexts, the gene has become “a symbol, a metaphor, a convenient way to define personhood, identity, and relationships in socially meaningful ways” (Nelkin and Lindee 1995, p. 16).

    The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008

  • Malcolm McDowell plays "Reggie Wanker," a jaded Rock Singer, Stacey Nelkin playe "Suzie," the little sister -- Lou Reed sings a song to her.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • Nelkin (2002) argues that the motivation for self-deceptive belief formation be restricted to a desire to believe p. She points out that the phrase “unwelcome belief” is ambiguous, since a belief itself might be desirable even if its being true is not.

    Self-Deception Deweese-Boyd, Ian 2008

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