Cynicism Research Articles

Cynicism overturned

Cynicism overturned

Cynicism Is Not Innate

Cynicism Is Not Innate

The Relationship between Irony, Sarcasm and Cynicism

The Relationship between Irony, Sarcasm and Cynicism

The Play of Cynicism inHenry IV, Part Two

The Play of Cynicism in<i>Henry IV, Part Two</i>

Daniel Allen suspends his usual cynicism and gives a thumbs up to health MoTs

Daniel Allen suspends his usual cynicism and gives a thumbs up to health MoTs

Book Review: Media and the Restyling of Politics: Consumerism, Celebrity and Cynicism

Book Review: Media and the Restyling of Politics: Consumerism, Celebrity and Cynicism

Defending science—Within reason: Between scientism and cynicism

Defending science—Within reason: Between scientism and cynicism

Leading in Cynical Times

Times of uncertainty often breed cynicism. Disillusionment with people in high places who misuse the public’s trust erodes confidence in leaders. Given that leadership is a relationship—with credibility at the heart of this relationship—we postulate six important requirements for beating the cynics and restoring both the opportunity to lead and to have trust in our leaders.

Torn between Optimism and Cynicism

Torn between Optimism and Cynicism

Media and the restyling of politics: consumerism, celebrity and cynicism

Media and the restyling of politics: consumerism, celebrity and cynicism

Who Can Believe? Sentiment vs. Cynicism in Richardson's Clarissa

You actually accept a law . . . and respect it as absolute. So do I, but I go further than you, because I am beyond this law and can make it to suit myself. It is not the thing that is excellent, but I who am so; as the master of law and thing alike, I simply play with them as with my caprice; my consciously ironical attitude lets the highest perish and I merely hug myself at the thought. —Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821)

Both Better Off and Better: Moral Progress amid Continuing Carnage

To victims of twentieth-century atrocities, my argument may seem sin ister and hollow. To intellectuals who equate sophistication with cyni cism, it will appear naive and perhaps shallow. To seekers after perfection who find each number wanting because it falls shy of the infinite, it will be a lesson in futility. But to the rest of us, what I have to say may serve as a useful reminder of how fortunate we are to live today and not even just a few hundred years ago. It may also evoke rea sonable hopes for the future and establish a standard by which to meas ure the magnitude of the tasks on the road ahead. I wish to show that in spite of the misery and wickedness that still remain in the world, the human race has enjoyed significant moral progress over the course of history. Only fools would deny that, on the whole, there has been striking material progress. But many believe, quite wrongly, that there is no connection between material and moral advancement or even that growth of comfort entails loss of character. At the very least, the ways in which being better off contributes to being better are poorly understood and inadequately appreciated. I hope to be able to clarify the connection. The facts fall considerably short of proving John Stuart Mill's nine teenth-century hope that humankind is by nature a progressive being.1 There is no assurance that the positive changes achieved through cen turies of effort will continue or that we have once and for all escaped the threats of nuclear annihilation, ideological repression and murder ous intolerance. I have, moreover, no desire to deny or explain away the evidence against moral improvement. Progress is not universal and

Student soapbox: descent into cynicism

Student soapbox: descent into cynicism

Cynicism and Its Discontents

Cynicism and Its Discontents

Biosafety protocol. Cynicism and politics dominate UN biotechnology deliberations.

Biosafety protocol. Cynicism and politics dominate UN biotechnology deliberations.

Thinkingdisclosure:or, the structure of post‐feminist cynicism

Thinking<i>disclosure:</i>or, the structure of post‐feminist cynicism

Interpretive Limitations of the MMPI-2 Anger and Cynicism Content Scales

Relationships between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tetlegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) anger (ANG) and cynicism (CYN) content scales and concurrent measures of anger and subjective distress were examined among 97 men admitted to an inpatient chronic pain management program. Subjects completed the MMPI-2, StateTrait Anger Expression Inventory (Spielberger, 1988), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961) on the day of admission. Regression analyses indicated that Trait Anger was the best single predictor of ANG. CYN elevation was best predicted by BDI scores. Factor analyses revealed associations between ANG and anger externalization and between CYN and anger internalization. The results suggest that ANG is a reliable index of predispositions to the external expression of anger, whereas CYN is more difficult to characterize, perhaps be...

Lau: A windward perspective

(1993). Lau: A windward perspective. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 159-180.

Science, Cynicism and Scarcity

Science, Cynicism and Scarcity

Cynicism: Causes, Consequences, and Antidotes

Cynicism: Causes, Consequences, and Antidotes