These categories relate to things like intentional agents, animacy, social exchange, moral intuitions, natural hazards, and ways of understanding human misfortune.
Bad childhoods are a human misfortune, but for writers they are often a stroke of luck.
For archaeologists, such great human misfortune has been useful; today, Pompeii offers a remarkable snapshot of 1st-century Roman life.
As a window into human misfortune, #gunfail is hard to beat.
By Peter Manseau March 21, 2013 As a window into human misfortune, #gunfail is hard to beat.
This theory, which has recently gained wide acceptance, was formulated thanks to one of those grievous human misfortunes described by scientists as "a natural experiment".
That was ruled an infringement of human rights.
Finding biological markers for crime is difficult because one of the sad truths of human development is that misfortune tends to beget misfortune, and cause and correlation become nearly indistinguishable.
With envy, scorn and Schadenfreude -- the dark side of human nature that finds glee in another's misfortune.
Are the misfortunes Latin America is facing - staggering inequality, heightened violence, corruption, breaches of human rights, bottom-ranked education systems, crippling natural disasters- traumatic, or can they be seen as opportunities to learn and grow?
