In the introductory section, the article describes the problem with a clear definition of the political correctness. It is shows the split into two ways of presenting the subject. Then the main theme of Jonathan Haid’s ...

In this text I discuss the cognitive and non-cognitive factors that determine the effectiveness of persuasion and argumentation which I dub “persuasive imponderabilia” due to the obvious difficulties with the operationalization ...

The paper presents the results of a sets of experimental studies on the impact of activating the recipient’s personal standards on the persuasiveness of the communication effect. The results obtained in Polish cultural ...

The article provides an overview of the classic and contemporary trics and dirty manners in negotiating. There are such approaches as the school of neurolinguistic programming or the approach of cognitive dissonance. It ...

In its first section, the article focuses on certain concepts belonging to Adam Ważyk’s theory of poetics. Specifically, I note the role of entropy in Ważyk’s thought on the form of the poem. Ważyk’s thinking of entropy ...

The article is an attempt to capture improvisational theater as a modern dynamic phenomenon through analyzing its features, definitions and traits in order to characterize the genre and to systematize the current state of ...

The focus of this paper is the Polish translation of Charles Reznikoff poetry. Firstly, there goes an overall characteristic of the work by the American writer, whose conceptions became a core of the objectivist group-program ...

This article is a preliminary attempt to read the condition of survivors – those who were imprisoned in the displaced persons camps in occupied Germany just after the war. In this context author considers Tadeusz Nowakowski’s ...

The article is the analysis of women’s lager narrations that reflect the procedure of shaving hair applied to female lager prisoners. It shows cultural, social and psychological meanings of this procedure, presents it as ...