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319:, seriousness is studied as it relates to how children develop an ability to distinguish levels of seriousness as it relates to transgressions and expenditure of time; for example, a child must learn to distinguish between levels of seriousness in admonitions such as between "don't fidget" and "don't forget to look both ways when crossing the street", which have the same linguistic and normative structure, but different levels of seriousness. 420:; being of the wrong religious faith may be considered a serious crime in some cultures; smoking marijuana may be a serious crime in some cultures and not others; homosexuality a serious crime in some cultures; and prostitution is a serious crime in some cultures. Perception of seriousness is measured in assessing varying cultural perceptions on health risks. 292:
and a sense of seriousness to distinguish what is supposed to be taken literally or not. An even more keen sense is needed when humor is used to make a serious point. Psychologists have studied how humor is intended to be taken as having seriousness, as when court jesters used humor to convey serious
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Sometimes fields studying degrees of seriousness overlap, such as developmental psychology studies of development of the sense of degrees of seriousness as it relates to transgressions, which has overlap with criminology and the seriousness of crimes.
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the degree of seriousness is considered when meting out punishment to fit the crime, and in considering to what extent overcrowded prison facilities will be used. Seriousness of a crime is a major factor in considerations of the allocation of scarce
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nurse must evaluate levels of seriousness of medical emergencies and rank them to determine order of care. Seriousness of illness is used to make decisions as to whether to perform invasive procedures such as surgery.
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toward something considered to be of importance. Some notable philosophers and commentators have criticised excessive seriousness, while others have praised it. Seriousness is often contrasted with
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Degrees of seriousness are used in medicine to make decisions about care. Seriousness is related to the effects of delaying or not having medical care. In an emergency hospital, the
85:. There is a positive correlation with the degree of seriousness of a crime and viewer ratings of news coverage. What is or is not considered serious varies widely with different 130:
Many have expressed an attitude of disdain toward taking things too seriously, as opposed to viewing things with an attitude of humor. Poet, playwright, and philosopher
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The degree of seriousness of crimes is an important factor relating to crime. One standard for measurement is the degree to which a crime affects others or society. A
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called the "spirit of seriousness" the belief that there is an objective and independent goodness in things for people to discover, and that this belief leads to
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considerations. A quantitative scoring system called the "seriousness score" has been developed for use in allocating law enforcement resources and sentencing.
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is that nothing should be taken with too much seriousness, "the one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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said that being serious is dull, "we are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull." Political satirist
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said that the most important criteria used to judge the value of a poem were "high truth" and "high seriousness".
181:, "simple humanity cries at last for some relief from the interminable high seriousness of the Puritan code." 457: 173:, and puritanism with its hostility to social pleasures and indulgences are the only acceptable attitudes. 526:, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Spring, 1971), pp. 283–286, Roy Harvey Pearce, George Levine, 861: 743:, International Journal of Humor Research. Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 359–394, Nov 2004, Dean L. Yarwood 190: 611:, Developmental Psychology Volume 24, Issue 3, May 1988, Pages 352–357, Marie S. Tisak, Elliot Turiel 372: 312: 207: 147: 66: 826:
Explaining Risk Perception: An Evaluation of the Psychometric Paradigm in Risk Perception Research
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Preschoolers' Moral Judgments: Distinctions Between Realistic and Cartoon-Fantasy Transgressions
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Some use "seriousness" as a term of praise for scholarship or in literary review. 19th century
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or not, or of being important or not. Otherwise, it may also be contrasted with a sense of
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Variation in Seriousness of Transgressions and Children's Moral and Conventional Concepts
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Joel Chaston – Baum, Bakhtin, SAMMY and Broadway: A Centennial Look at the Carnival of Oz
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to form values and differentiate between the serious and that which is not is studied in
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When Congress makes a joke: Congressional Humor as Serious and Purposeful Communication
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said that "life is too important to be taken seriously." In a play on words, novelist
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between the degree of seriousness of a crime and viewer ratings of news coverage.
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in humor may cross a line after which it is taken seriously, though not intended.
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What is considered serious varies widely across cultures and is studied in
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information. Conversely, when humor is not intended to be taken seriously,
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religious sects, an attitude of seriousness is always to be taken, and
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Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar
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An Economic Analysis of the Criminal Law as Preference-Shaping Policy
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is generally considered to be a crime of "high seriousness", while a
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The meaning and measurement of seriousness is a major concern in
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Offense Seriousness Scaling: An Alternative to Scenario Methods
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structure of things to their simple material constitution."
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Detecting degree of seriousness in developmental psychology
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News Media Use and Public Perceptions of Crime Seriousness
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The Dark Comedy: The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy
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Praise for "high seriousness" in scholarship and poetry
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Detecting presence and absence of seriousness in humor
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said that "Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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The "spirit of seriousness" in existential philosophy
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Index

gravity
solemnity
earnestness
comedy
seriocomedy
sense of humor
sense of seriousness
literally
play
sense of seriousness
developmental psychology
educational psychology
sentencing
law
law enforcement
cultures
poet
cultural critic
literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Joseph Addison
P.J. O'Rourke
Epigramist
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Butler
ascetic
puritan
solemnity
sobriety
Perry Miller

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