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Book Review: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson
April 28, 2013 Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson is an excellent book about options for people in their second adulthood. The second adulthood is the period after a lifetime career, raising children and paying... Read More >>

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and On the Job (2013)

    Showkeir, M. & Showkeir, J. (2013). Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and On the Job. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
    Book Description Publication Date: May 6, 2013 Yoga’s Ancient Wisdom Can Transform Your Work Life Everyone knows that yoga helps reduce stress and increase the body’s flexibility and strength. But the physical aspects barely scratch the surface of yoga... Read more>>
    May 09 2013, 01:24 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2013Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and On the Job

  • Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering (2013)

    Weng, H.Y. et al. (2013). Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering. Psychological Science May 21, 2013 0956797612469537
    Abstract: Compassion is a key motivator of altruistic behavior, but little is known about individuals’ capacity to cultivate compassion through training. We examined whether compassion may be systematically trained by testing whether (a) short-term compassion... Read more>>
    May 22 2013, 02:52 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2013Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering

  • A Review of School Climate Research (2013)

    Thapa, A., Cohen, J., Guffey, S., & Higgins-D'Alessandro, A. (2013). A Review of School Climate Research. REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH April 19, 2013 0034654313483907
    Abstract: For more than a century, there has been a growing interest in school climate. Recently, the U.S. Department of Education, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Institute for Educational Sciences, a growing number of State Departments of... Read more>>
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    4/1/2013A Review of School Climate Research

  • The Language of Human Character (2013)

    Fager, M.G. (2013). The Language of Human Character. Human Progress: Farmington, Utah.
    Book Description: Hardcover release date 22 April 2013. It is virtuous to be wise and wise to be virtuous. The Language of Human Character is a reference book, textbook and workbook in one. It contains "The Human Character Dictionary," a definitive... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    4/1/2013The Language of Human Character

  • Book Review: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson (2013)

    By Joseph S. Maresca, blogcritics.org
    April 28, 2013 Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson is an excellent book about options for people in their second adulthood. The second adulthood is the period after a lifetime career, raising children and paying... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2013Book Review: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson

  • Need Satisfaction and Well-Being: Testing Self-Determination Theory in Eight Cultures (2013)

    A. Timothy Church, Marcia S. Katigbak, Kenneth D. Locke, Hengsheng Zhang, Jiliang Shen, José de Jesús Vargas-Flores, Joselina Ibáñez-Reyes, Junko Tanaka-Matsumi, Guy J. Curtis, Helena F. Cabrera, Khairul A. Mastor, Juan M. Alvarez, Fernando A. Ortiz, Jean-Yves R. Simon, and Charles M. ChingNeed Satisfaction and Wel. (2013). l-Being: Testing Self-Determination Theory in Eight Cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 2013; 44:507-534.
    Abstract: According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), satisfaction of needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness is a universal requirement for psychological well-being. We tested this hypothesis with college students in the United States, Australia... Read more>>
    Apr 04 2013, 08:47 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2013Need Satisfaction and Well-Being: Testing Self-Determination Theory in Eight Cultures

  • How Supportive of Their Specific Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are? (2013)

    Seana Moran, Matthew J. Bundick, Heather Malin, & Timothy S. Reilly. (2013). How Supportive of Their Specific Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are? Journal of Adolescent Research May 2013 vol. 28 no. 3 348-377.
    Abstract: Prior studies have found that youth reporting a general sense that “I have a purpose” also describe having social supports that enhance thriving. This study links specific social supports to specific purposes described by youth. We examined... Read more>>
    Apr 10 2013, 10:30 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2013How Supportive of Their Specific Purposes Do Youth Believe Their Family and Friends Are?

  • Book Review: Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success (2013)

    Stacey, R. (2013). Book Review: Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success. Organization Studies April 2013 vol. 34 no. 4 559-561
    Excerpt:In the first part of this review I want to select what seem to me to be the key points that Nonaka and Zhu make in this book about strategy, and I will try to convey the essence of each of these key points in quotes taken from the book. In the... Read more>>
    Apr 12 2013, 12:01 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2013Book Review: Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success

  • Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians (2013)

    Gleichgerrcht E, Decety J (2013) Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61526. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061526
    Abstract: To better understand clinical empathy and what factors can undermine its experience and outcome in care-giving settings, a large-scale study was conducted with 7,584 board certified practicing physicians. Online validated instruments assessing... Read more>>
    Apr 22 2013, 02:46 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2013Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians

  • Through the Eyes of the Other Using Event Analysis to Build Cultural Competence (2013)

    Kozub, M.L. (2013). Through the Eyes of the Other Using Event Analysis to Build Cultural Competence. J Transcult Nurs April 1, 2013 1043659613481809
    Abstract: Cultural competence requires more than the accumulation of information about cultural groups. An awareness of the nurse’s own culture, beliefs, and values is considered by several transcultural nursing theorists to be essential to the development... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2013, 03:46 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2013Through the Eyes of the Other Using Event Analysis to Build Cultural Competence

  • Life Authorship: A Psychological Challenge for Emerging Adulthood, as Illustrated in Two Notable Case Studies (2013)

    McAdams, D. (2013). Life Authorship: A Psychological Challenge for Emerging Adulthood, as Illustrated in Two Notable Case Studies. Emerging Adulthood published online 26 March 2013
    Abstract: A central psychological challenge of emerging adulthood is the construction and internalization of a self-defining life story or narrative identity. In becoming an author for one’s own life, the emerging adult develops a personal narrative that... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Life Authorship: A Psychological Challenge for Emerging Adulthood, as Illustrated in Two Notable Case Studies

  • Collective Futures: How Projections About the Future of Society Are Related to Actions and Attitudes Supporting Social Change (2013)

    Bain, P.G., Hornsey, M.J., Bongiorno, R., Kashima, Y., & Crimston, D. (2013). Collective Futures: How Projections About the Future of Society Are Related to Actions and Attitudes Supporting Social Change. Pers Soc Psychol Bull March 1, 2013 0146167213478200.
    Abstract: We identified the active ingredients in people’s visions of society’s future (“collective futures”) that could drive political behavior in the present. In eight studies (N = 595), people imagined society in 2050 where climate change was mitigated... Read more>>
    Mar 05 2013, 02:47 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Collective Futures: How Projections About the Future of Society Are Related to Actions and Attitudes Supporting Social Change

  • Mindfulness starts with the body: Somatosensory attention and top-down modulation of cortical alpha rhythms in mindfulness meditation (2013)

    Kerr, C.E., Sacchet, M.D., Lazar, S.W., Moore, C.I., & Jones S.R. (2013). Mindfulness starts with the body: Somatosensory attention and top-down modulation of cortical alpha rhythms in mindfulness meditation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2013;7:12. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00012. Epub 2013 Feb 13.
    Abstract: Using a common set of mindfulness exercises, mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) have been shown to reduce distress in chronic pain and decrease risk of depression relapse. These standardized... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Mindfulness starts with the body: Somatosensory attention and top-down modulation of cortical alpha rhythms in mindfulness meditation

  • Exploring Meaning in Life in the Tel Hai Gifted Children’s Center (2013)

    Jon Kasler, Sima Goldfarb-Rivlin, Jossef Levi, and Maurice J. Elias. (2013). Exploring Meaning in Life in the Tel Hai Gifted Children’s Center. Gifted Child Today April 2013 vol. 36 no. 2 133-138.
    Abstract: While high IQ is likely to be an advantage in moral reasoning, it does not guarantee students’ putting those morals into practice. A clearly defined sense of purpose grounded in values of social responsibility, exploration of values, and the... Read more>>
    Mar 08 2013, 03:16 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Exploring Meaning in Life in the Tel Hai Gifted Children’s Center

  • Aging, irony, and wisdom: On the narrative psychology of later life (2013)

    Randall, W.L. (2013). Aging, irony, and wisdom: On the narrative psychology of later life. Theory Psychology March 10, 2013 0959354312470754.
    Abstract: This paper introduces the idea that aging inclines us naturally toward an ironic stance on life. The conscious cultivation of that stance through some form of narrative reflection is linked to the development of wisdom, where wisdom is understood... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Aging, irony, and wisdom: On the narrative psychology of later life

  • Mindful Authoring Through Invocation: Leaders’ Constitution of a Spiritual Organization (2013)

    Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Jennie M. Hwang and Pauline Hope Cheong. (2013). Mindful Authoring Through Invocation: Leaders’ Constitution of a Spiritual Organization. Management Communication Quarterly March 18, 2013 0893318913479176
    Abstract: This article examines how those who hold leadership positions in an internationally renowned Taiwanese Buddhist humanitarian organization establish themselves as legitimate authors of their organization by invoking a spiritual leader in their... Read more>>
    Mar 22 2013, 03:50 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Mindful Authoring Through Invocation: Leaders’ Constitution of a Spiritual Organization

  • Examining the use of message tailoring to promote physical activity among medically underserved adults (2013)

    Josefa L Martinez, Lindsay R Duncan, Susan E Rivers, Amy E Latimer, and Peter Salovey. (2013). Examining the use of message tailoring to promote physical activity among medically underserved adults. The American Review of Public Administration. April 2013 vol. 18 no. 4 470-476.
    Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine if messages tailored to an individual’s regulatory focus (i.e. their tendency to focus on prevention or promotion) increased exercise intentions and behavior in a medically underserved sample. Adult English... Read more>>
    Mar 29 2013, 10:09 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2013Examining the use of message tailoring to promote physical activity among medically underserved adults

  • Neural mechanisms of attentional control in mindfulness meditation (2013)

    Malinowski, P. (2013). Neural mechanisms of attentional control in mindfulness meditation. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2013; 7: 8. Published online 2013 February 4. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00008.
    Abstract: The scientific interest in meditation and mindfulness practice has recently seen an unprecedented surge. After an initial phase of presenting beneficial effects of mindfulness practice in various domains, research is now seeking to unravel the... Read more>>
    Mar 07 2013, 11:35 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013Neural mechanisms of attentional control in mindfulness meditation

  • Power and knowledge: The politics of the knowledge society (2013)

    Innerarity, D. (2013). Power and knowledge: The politics of the knowledge society. European Journal of Social Theory. 2013; 16:3-16.
    Abstract: The future of democratic societies is at stake in the manner we articulate the legitimacy of their decisions and the cognitive competence with which those decisions are taken. Nowadays this requirement clashes with the drawback that there is... Read more>>
    Jan 22 2013, 01:38 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013Power and knowledge: The politics of the knowledge society

  • What Is Shared in Shared Decision Making? Complex Decisions When the Evidence Is Unclear (2013)

    Epstein, R.M. & Gramling, R.E. (2013). What Is Shared in Shared Decision Making? Complex Decisions When the Evidence Is Unclear. Medical Care Research and Review. February 2013, vol. 70, no. 1 suppl 94S-112S.
    Abstract: Patient involvement in decisions is central to patient-centered care. Yet many important decisions must be made in complex, ambiguous clinical situations in which all possible options cannot be known, evidence is inadequate to inform patients... Read more>>
    Jan 22 2013, 09:14 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013What Is Shared in Shared Decision Making? Complex Decisions When the Evidence Is Unclear

  • Creative Power of Metaphorical Expression (2013)

    Sharoff, L. (2013). Creative Power of Metaphorical Expression. Journal of Holist Nursing, 31(1): 6-18. doi: 10.1177/0898010112461948
    Abstract: Gathering metaphors of holistic nurses provides for an exploration of how that metaphor is captured in real-life experiences. Metaphors are a way of describing an experience or a perceived notion as a personal expression of thought. The metaphoric... Read more>>
    Feb 05 2013, 10:30 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013Creative Power of Metaphorical Expression

  • "The Intelligence of Nations": Smart but not Wise—A Comment on Hunt (2012) (2013)

    Sternberg, R.J. (2013). "The Intelligence of Nations": Smart but not Wise—A Comment on Hunt (2012). Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2013 vol. 8 no. 2 187-189.
    Abstract: I argue in this comment that Hunt’s analysis of the intelligence of nations is smarter than it is wise. It is based on too narrow a conception of intelligence. It also conflates correlation and causation with regard to the relation between IQ... Read more>>
    Feb 27 2013, 03:23 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013"The Intelligence of Nations": Smart but not Wise—A Comment on Hunt (2012)

  • The Future of Emotion Regulation Research - Capturing Context (2013)

    Aldao, A. (2013). The Future of Emotion Regulation Research - Capturing Context. Perspectives on Psychological Science March 2013 vol. 8 no. 2 155-172.
    Abstract: Emotion regulation has been conceptualized as a process by which individuals modify their emotional experiences, expressions, and physiology and the situations eliciting such emotions in order to produce appropriate responses to the ever-changing... Read more>>
    Feb 27 2013, 03:36 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013The Future of Emotion Regulation Research - Capturing Context

  • Someone to Look Up To: Executive–Follower Ethical Reasoning and Perceptions of Ethical Leadership (2013)

    Jordan, J., Brown, M.E., Trevino, L.K., & Finkelstein, S. (2013). Someone to Look Up To: Executive–Follower Ethical Reasoning and Perceptions of Ethical Leadership. Journal of Management March 2013 vol. 39 no. 3 660-683.
    Abstract: Despite a business environment that highlights the importance of executives’ ethical leadership, the individual antecedents of ethical leadership remain largely unknown. In this study, the authors propose that follower perceptions of ethical... Read more>>
    Feb 27 2013, 03:53 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013Someone to Look Up To: Executive–Follower Ethical Reasoning and Perceptions of Ethical Leadership

  • A Handbook of Practical Wisdom Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice (2013)

    Küpers, W. and Pauleen, D. (March 2013). A Handbook of Practical Wisdom Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice. United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
    Edited by Wendelin Küpers and David Pauleen, both at the School of Management, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand Throughout history, wisdom has been exalted in many cultures as a resource and has become increasingly important for dealing with the... Read more>>
    Oct 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2013 A Handbook of Practical Wisdom Leadership, Organization and Integral Business Practice

  • Constructive Recollection THESIS (2013)

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    We all live in the same world and we all have our trust, expectations, presumptions, predictions, beliefs and intentions. They might even be wrapped up in a theory or a model that we can try and value, intuit and realize or know and sense, in our own... Read more>>
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    2/1/2013Constructive Recollection THESIS

  • Tools of the trade: Theory and method in mindfulness neuroscience (2013)

    Tang, Y-Y. & Posner, M. I. (2013). Tools of the trade: Theory and method in mindfulness neuroscience. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci (2013) 8 (1): 118-120. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss112.
    Abstract: Mindfulness neuroscience is an emerging research field that investigates the underlying mechanisms of different mindfulness practices, different stages and different states of practice as well as different effects of practice over the lifespan... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2013Tools of the trade: Theory and method in mindfulness neuroscience

  • Special issue on mindfulness neuroscience (2013)

    Tang, Y-Y., & Posner, M.I. (2013). Special issue on mindfulness neuroscience. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci (2013) 8 (1): 1-3. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss104.
    Excerpt: Mindfulness neuroscience is a new, interdisciplinary field of mindfulness practice and neuroscientific research; it applies neuroimaging techniques, physiological measures and behavioral tests to explore the underlying mechanisms of different... Read more>>
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    1/1/2013Special issue on mindfulness neuroscience

  • A Pilot Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mindful Self-Compassion Program (2013)

    Neff, K.D. & Germer, C.K. (2013). A Pilot Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. Journal of Clinical Psychology Volume 69, Issue 1, pages 28–44.
    Abstract: Objectives: The aim of these two studies was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, an 8-week workshop designed to train people to be more self-compassionate. Methods: Study 1 was a pilot study that examined... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2013A Pilot Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mindful Self-Compassion Program

  • The relationship of core belief challenge, rumination, disclosure, and sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth (2013)

    Lindstrom, C.M., Cann, A., Calhoun, L.G., & Tedeschi, R.G. (2013). The relationship of core belief challenge, rumination, disclosure, and sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, Vol 5(1), Jan 2013, 50-55. doi: 10.1037/a0022030
    Abstract: The relationship of challenge to core beliefs, rumination, disclosure, and some sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth (PTG) were explored. Participants were college students enrolled in psychology classes who reported having experienced... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2013The relationship of core belief challenge, rumination, disclosure, and sociocultural elements to posttraumatic growth

  • Are Persons with Profound Intellectual Disabilities Sacramental Icons of Heavenly Life? Aquinas on Impairment (2013)

    Berkman, J. (2013). Are Persons with Profound Intellectual Disabilities Sacramental Icons of Heavenly Life? Aquinas on Impairment. Studies in Christian Ethics 2013 26: 83. DOI: 10.1177/0953946812466494
    Abstract: Although almost completely ignored, Aquinas’s account of persons with severe intellectual disabilities is key to his understanding of human persons and their salvation. Aquinas extensively addresses questions of human impairment, and for Aquinas... Read more>>
    Feb 05 2013, 04:21 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2013Are Persons with Profound Intellectual Disabilities Sacramental Icons of Heavenly Life? Aquinas on Impairment

  • Strategy as Storytelling A Phenomenological Collaboration (2013)

    Küpers, W., Mantere, S., & Statler, M. (2013). Strategy as Storytelling A Phenomenological Collaboration.Journal of Management Inquiry. January 2013, vol. 22, no. 1, 83-100.
    Abstract: This article presents a phenomenological inquiry into storytelling practices in corporate strategy-making processes, as experienced by nonsenior stakeholders. The authors utilize the potential of phenomenological methods to provide an enriched... Read more>>
    Jan 04 2013, 09:41 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2013Strategy as Storytelling A Phenomenological Collaboration

  • Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership (2013)

    Park, G. (2013). Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership. Gower Publishing Company.
    Book Description: Why do some corporate superstars collapse dramatically, while others survive and prosper over many decades? Is the fall primarily caused by 'technical factors', such as poor products and pricing, financial management or market... Read more>>
    Jan 22 2013, 09:39 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2013Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership

  • Processing Criticism And Spontaneity (2013)

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    If Social Constructionism does not prefer monistic Postmodernism over dualistic Modernism, it should include, next to living expressions and spontaneous gestures, criticism into its process model, occurring as independent confirmation and implying coordinated... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2013, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    1/1/2013Processing Criticism And Spontaneity

  • Money Moxie: How to Transcend the Paradox of Privilege and Liberate Your True Worth (2012)

    There is an underserved and misunderstood phenomenon amongst the wealthy in that they often pay a heavy emotional, and sometimes physical, price for such privilege. What makes matters even more difficult to deal with is the lack of compassion by the masses... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    12/1/2012Money Moxie: How to Transcend the Paradox of Privilege and Liberate Your True Worth

  • Wisdom and Mental Health Across the Lifespan (2012)

    Webster, J.D., Westerhof, G.J., & Bohlmeijer, E.T. (2012). Wisdom and Mental Health Across the Lifespan. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2012) doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbs121.
    Abstract: Objectives. The relationships between wisdom and age and between wisdom and mental health are complex with empirical results often inconsistent. We used a lifespan sample and broad, psychometrically sound measures of wisdom and mental health... Read more>>
    Jan 29 2013, 09:29 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2012Wisdom and Mental Health Across the Lifespan

  • Hedge Funds and Unconscious Fantasy (2012)

    Eshraghi, A., & Taffler, R. (2012). Hedge Funds and Unconscious Fantasy. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, 25(8), 1244-1265.
    Abstract: We help to explain the rapid growth in aggregate hedge fund assets under management until June 2008 followed by their collapse in terms of the conflicting emotions such investment vehicles evoke. Specifically, we describe how some high-profile... Read more>>
    Feb 06 2013, 02:15 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2012Hedge Funds and Unconscious Fantasy

  • Visual Attention Modulates Insight Versus Analytic Solving of Verbal Problems (2012)

    Wegbreit, Ezra; Suzuki, Satoru; Grabowecky, Marcia; Kounios, John; and Beeman, Mark (2012) "Visual Attention Modulates Insight Versus Analytic Solving of Verbal Problems," The Journal of Problem Solving: Vol. 4: Iss. 2, Article 6. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1932-6246.1127
    Abstract: Behavioral and neuroimaging findings indicate that distinct cognitive and neural processes underlie solving problems with sudden insight. Moreover, people with less focused attention sometimes perform better on tests of insight and creative... Read more>>
    May 02 2013, 04:14 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2012Visual Attention Modulates Insight Versus Analytic Solving of Verbal Problems

  • The Language of Human Virtue (2012)

    Fager, M.G. (2012). The Language of Human Virtue. Human Progress: Farmington, Utah.
    Book Description: Hardcover release date: 20 December 2012. It is virtuous to be wise and wise to be virtuous. The Language of Human Virtue is a reference book, textbook and workbook in one. It contains "The Building Virtue Dictionary," a definitive... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2012, 01:00 AM Type:Mine
    12/1/2012The Language of Human Virtue

  • To Be Virtuous, Second Edition (2012)

    Fager, M.G. (2012). To Be Virtuous, Second Edition. Human Progress: Farmington, Utah.
    Book Description: Hardcover release date 12 December 2012. It is virtuous to be wise and wise to be virtuous. To Be Virtuous, Second Edition is a reference book, textbook and workbook in one. It contains "The Human Virtues Dictionary," a definitive... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2012, 01:00 AM Type:Mine
    12/1/2012To Be Virtuous, Second Edition

  • Arguing for wisdom in the university: an intellectual autobiography (2012)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2012) Arguing for wisdom in the university: an intellectual autobiography. Philosophia, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 663-704. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1344128/.
    Abstract For forty years I have argued that we urgently need to bring about a revolution in academia so that the basic task becomes to seek and promote wisdom. How did I come to argue for such a preposterously gigantic intellectual revolution? It goes... Read more>>
    Dec 23 2012, 07:16 PM Type:Mine
    12/1/2012Arguing for wisdom in the university: an intellectual autobiography

  • Wisdom and Ego-Identity for Korean and American Late Adolescents (2012)

    Hyeyoung Bang and Diane Montgomery. (2012). Wisdom and Ego-Identity for Korean and American Late Adolescents. ournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology published 19 November 2012, 10.1177/0022022112466941
    Abstract: Overcoming identity crises during adolescence may help adolescents understand the world around them. Although adolescents may have developmental potential for wisdom, little is known about the direct relationship between wisdom and ego-identity... Read more>>
    Nov 20 2012, 10:05 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012Wisdom and Ego-Identity for Korean and American Late Adolescents

  • The Financial Costs of Sadness (2012)

    Jennifer S. Lerner, Ye Li and Elke U. Weber. (2012). The Financial Costs of Sadness. 7/0956797612450302 Psychological Science published online 13 November 2012. DOI: 10.1177/0956797612450302
    Abstract: We hypothesized a phenomenon that we term myopic misery. According to our hypothesis, sadness increases impatience and creates a myopic focus on obtaining money immediately instead of later. This focus, in turn, increases intertemporal discount... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012The Financial Costs of Sadness

  • Gathering the Patient’s Story and Clinical Empathy (2012)

    Halpern, J. (2012). Gathering the patient’s story and clinical empathy. The Permanente Journal. Winter 2012 - Volume 16 Number 1.
    Excerpt: While nothing replaces meeting with a patient, reading another physician’s description of interviewing a patient can provide insights into physician-patient interactions that we cannot get when we ourselves are involved. In my view, “A Case of... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012Gathering the Patient’s Story and Clinical Empathy

  • When should I trust my gut? Linking domain expertise to intuitive decision-making effectiveness (2012)

    Erik Dane, Kevin W. Rockmann, & Michael G. Pratt. (2012). When should I trust my gut? Linking domain expertise to intuitive decision-making effectiveness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume 119, Issue 2, November 2012, Pages 187–194.
    Abstract: Despite a growing body of scholarship on the concept of intuition, there is a scarcity of empirical research spotlighting the circumstances in which intuitive decision making is effective relative to analytical decision making. Seeking to address... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012When should I trust my gut? Linking domain expertise to intuitive decision-making effectiveness

  • The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience (2012)

    M. Ferrari & N. Weststrate (Eds.). (November 2012). The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience. New York: Springer.
    Description: Examines the scientific study of personal wisdom Unique in presenting empirical evidence about how wisdom can be studied as a characteristic of persons Explores the nuances in the debate about the scientific study of personal wisdom The rich... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience

  • Coaching With Compassion: Inspiring Health, Well-Being, and Development in Organizations (2012)

    Richard E. Boyatzis, Melvin L. Smith, and 'Alim J. Beveridge. (2012). Coaching With Compassion: Inspiring Health, Well-Being, and Development in Organizations. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science published 1 November 2012, 10.1177/0021886312462236
    Abstract: Compassion involves noticing another’s need, empathizing, and acting to enhance their well-being. In response to another’s pain, the motivation is to increase hedonic well-being or the absence of pain. In response to another’s desire to grow... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012Coaching With Compassion: Inspiring Health, Well-Being, and Development in Organizations

  • Military Cognitive Readiness at the Operational and Strategic Levels: A Theoretical Model for Measurement Development (2012)

    Rebecca A. Grier. (2012). Military Cognitive Readiness at the Operational and Strategic Levels: A Theoretical Model for Measurement Development. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making December 2012 vol. 6 no. 4 358-392.
    Abstract: Military cognitive readiness is a somewhat new concept that has been defined many ways. In this article, I review these definitions and propose that cognitive readiness is not just one construct, but three inter-related constructs akin to the... Read more>>
    Nov 05 2012, 10:26 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2012Military Cognitive Readiness at the Operational and Strategic Levels: A Theoretical Model for Measurement Development

  • Chiasmic Reflection And Confirmation (2012)

    http://www.academia.edu/2126112/Chiasmic_Reflection_And_Confirmation_11_12_
    Epistemological monism and ontological dualism, closely parallel philological Postmodernism and philosophical Modernism. As Social Constructionism seems to be a product of Postmodernism from which roots one of its founders, John Shotter now "backs... Read more>>
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    11/1/2012Chiasmic Reflection And Confirmation

  • A Moment of Transformative Learning Creating a Disorientating Dilemma for a Health Care Student Using Video Feedback (2012)

    James, D.M., Collins, L.C., & Samoylova, E. A Moment of Transformative Learning Creating a Disorientating Dilemma for a Health Care Student Using Video Feedback. Journal of Transformative Education October 2012 vol. 10 no. 4 236-256.
    Abstract: This study describes a moment during clinical supervision when a student speech and language therapist reported that she had a moment of illumination that changed her trajectory from failing her clinical placement to passing it. The student... Read more>>
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    10/1/2012A Moment of Transformative Learning Creating a Disorientating Dilemma for a Health Care Student Using Video Feedback

  • Revisiting the Multicultural Experience–Creativity Link: The Effects of Perceived Cultural Distance and Comparison Mind-Set (2012)

    Cheng, C-Y. & Leung, A.K. (2012). Revisiting the Multicultural Experience–Creativity Link: The Effects of Perceived Cultural Distance and Comparison Mind-Set. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 1948550612462413, first published on October 16, 2012.
    Abstract: A growing literature provides evidence for the multicultural experience–creativity link such that exposure to the juxtaposition of two cultures facilitates individual creativity. The underlying mechanisms for this relationship, however, are... Read more>>
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    10/1/2012Revisiting the Multicultural Experience–Creativity Link: The Effects of Perceived Cultural Distance and Comparison Mind-Set

  • Can Consumers Be Wise? Aristotle Speaks to the 21st Century (2012)

    Mick, D.G. & Schwartz, B. (2012). "Can Consumers Be Wise? Aristotle Speaks to the 21st Century," in Mick et al., editors, Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being, Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 663-680.
    Excerpt: What does it mean to be a wise consumer? We suspect that for most people, wise in this context means shrewd; that is, someone who is not taken in by marketing hype, who negotiates good deals, and who gets what he or she wants. In this chapter... Read more>>
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    10/1/2012Can Consumers Be Wise? Aristotle Speaks to the 21st Century

  • High Altitude Leadership and the Humanbecoming Leading-Following Model An Executive Director’s Perspective (2012)

    Damgaard, G. (2012). High Altitude Leadership and the Humanbecoming Leading-Following Model: An Executive Director’s Perspective. Nursing Science Quarterly, October 2012 25: 370-373, doi:10.1177/0894318412457062
    Abstract: The concept of high altitude leadership and the humanbecoming leading-following model are explored from the perspective of the Executive Director of the South Dakota Board of Nursing. The humanbecoming essentials inherent in leading: commitment... Read more>>
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    10/1/2012High Altitude Leadership and the Humanbecoming Leading-Following Model An Executive Director’s Perspective

  • The Communication of Wisdom: The Nature and Impact of Communication and Language Change Across the Life Span (2012)

    Nussbaum, Jon F. (2012). The Communication of Wisdom: The Nature and Impact of Communication and Language Change Across the Life Span. Journal of Language and Social Psychology October 23, 2012 0261927X12463009
    Abstract: Wisdom has played a central role in the attempt to understand the positive nature of human behavior for more than 4,000 years. Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and life span developmental scholars have joined this discussion in recent... Read more>>
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    10/1/2012The Communication of Wisdom: The Nature and Impact of Communication and Language Change Across the Life Span

  • Storytelling in a digital age: digital storytelling as an emerging narrative method for preserving and promoting indigenous oral wisdom (2012)

    Wilcox, A.c. et al. (2012). Storytelling in a digital age: digital storytelling as an emerging narrative method for preserving and promoting indigenous oral wisdom. Qualitative Research October 22, 2012 1468794112446105
    Abstract: This article outlines the methodological process of a transdisciplinary team of indigenous and nonindigenous individuals, who came together in early 2009 to develop a digital narrative method to engage a remote community in northern Labrador... Read more>>
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    10/1/2012Storytelling in a digital age: digital storytelling as an emerging narrative method for preserving and promoting indigenous oral wisdom

  • How universities can help humanity learn how to resolve the crises of our times - from knowledge to wisdom: the University College London experience (2012)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2012) How universities can help humanity learn how to resolve the crises of our times - from knowledge to wisdom: the University College London experience. In: Rooney, D and Hearn, G and Kastelle, T, (eds.) Handbook on the knowledge economy, volume two, pp. 158 - 179, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK. Available online at http://philpapers.org/rec/MAXHUC-2
    We are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries or so, academia has been devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and technological know-how. This has enormously increased our power to act which has, in turn... Read more>>
    Dec 23 2012, 07:20 PM Type:Mine
    10/1/2012How universities can help humanity learn how to resolve the crises of our times - from knowledge to wisdom: the University College London experience

  • “Cognitive Efficiency” in Display Media: A First Investigation of Basic Signal Dimensions (2012)

    Shiyan Yang, Karan Shukla & Thomas K. Ferris. (2012). “Cognitive Efficiency” in Display Media: A First Investigation of Basic Signal Dimensions. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting September 2012 vol. 56 no. 1 1371-1375
    Abstract: In many work domains, such as aviation cockpits and hospital operation rooms, data overload can result when a human operator is unable to make efficient use of his/her limited cognitive resources in processing task-relevant data. One way to... Read more>>
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    9/1/2012“Cognitive Efficiency” in Display Media: A First Investigation of Basic Signal Dimensions

  • Clinical Communications – Human Factors for the Hidden Network In Medicine (2012)

    Zachary, W. et al. (2012). Clinical Communications – Human Factors for the Hidden Network In Medicine. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting September 2012 vol. 56 no. 1 850-854.
    Abstract: Medicine is practiced not only through encounters and other interactions between patients and providers, but also through documentation of event-centered information via the patient record, and through patient-centered communications between... Read more>>
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    9/1/2012Clinical Communications – Human Factors for the Hidden Network In Medicine

  • Constructivism in Practical Philosophy (2012)

    James Lenman (Editor), Yonatan Shemmer (Editor). (2012). Constructivism in Practical Philosophy: Oxford University Press.
    Book Description: Publication Date: September 29, 2012 This volume presents twelve original papers on constructivism--some sympathetic, others critical--by a distinguished group of moral philosophers. "Kantian constructivism holds that moral objectivity... Read more>>
    Sep 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2012Constructivism in Practical Philosophy

  • Constructivism and Wise Judgment (2012)

    Tiberius, V. (2012). Constructivism and Wise Judgment, in Constructivism in Practical Philosophy, edited by James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer.(Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 195-212.
    Chapter 11 Constructivism and Wise Judgment by Valerie TIberius in Constructivism in Practical Philosophy , edited by James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer. Read reviews and buy the book . Read more>>
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    9/1/2012Constructivism and Wise Judgment

  • Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 7 (2012)

    Shafer-Landau, R. (editor). (2012). Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 7: Oxford University Press.
    Description: Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview... Read more>>
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    9/1/2012Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 7

  • Play It (Again) Sam: Linguistic Changes Predict Improved Mental and Physical Health Among Older Adults (2012)

    Nathan S. Consedine, Yulia S. Krivoshekova and Carol Magai. (2012). Play It (Again) Sam: Linguistic Changes Predict Improved Mental and Physical Health Among Older Adults. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 2012 31: 240 originally published online 10 May 2012, DOI: 10.1177/0261927X12446736.
    Abstract: Studies suggest that disclosure alters representations of emotional or traumatic events and that linguistic parameters may index such change. Most work has been conducted among younger adults; hence, this report examined whether changes in the... Read more>>
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    9/1/2012Play It (Again) Sam: Linguistic Changes Predict Improved Mental and Physical Health Among Older Adults

  • Who Knows Who Is Wise? Self and Peer Ratings of Wisdom (2012)

    Redzanowski, U. & Glück, J. (2012). Who Knows Who Is Wise? Self and Peer Ratings of Wisdom. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2012) doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbs079
    Abstract: Objectives. This study investigated relationships between three measures of wisdom: self-ratings, peer ratings, and a self-report scale. We expected to find a zero or negative correlation between the self-rating and the average peer rating and... Read more>>
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    9/1/2012Who Knows Who Is Wise? Self and Peer Ratings of Wisdom

  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction effects on moral reasoning and decision making (2012)

    Shapiro, S.L., Jazaieri, H., & Goldin. P.R. (2012). The Journal of Positive Psychology (impact factor: 1.67). 01/2012; 7(6):504-515. DOI:10.1080/17439760.2012.723732
    Abstract: Previous research has demonstrated that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) improves psychological functioning in multiple domains. However, to date, no studies have examined the effects of MBSR on moral reasoning and decision making.... Read more>>
    Feb 06 2013, 02:41 PM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2012Mindfulness-based stress reduction effects on moral reasoning and decision making

  • Bodiless Affect (2012)

    http://www.academia.edu/1904829/Bodiless_Affect_9_12_
    Mind and body have been reunited by the "affective turn" in philosophy and (neuro-) psychology. Yet, for centuries they have been painstakingly kept apart, for a specific reason. Methodologically, to find out about the world, apply justice or... Read more>>
    Mar 14 2013, 04:07 AM Type:Mine
    9/1/2012Bodiless Affect

  • The Social Side of Abstraction Psychological Distance Enhances Conformity to Group Norms (2012)

    Ledgerwood, A. & Callahan, S.P. (2012). The Social Side of Abstraction Psychological Distance Enhances Conformity to Group Norms. Psychological Science August 2012 vol. 23 no. 8 907-913.
    Abstract: Intuition suggests that a distanced or abstract thinker should be immune to social influence, and on its surface, the current literature could seem to support this view. The present research builds on recent theorizing to suggest a different... Read more>>
    Jan 04 2013, 09:27 AM Type:NotMine
    8/1/2012The Social Side of Abstraction Psychological Distance Enhances Conformity to Group Norms

  • Wisdom of groups promotes cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas (2012)

    Szolnoki, A., Wang, Z. & Perc, M. (2012). Wisdom of groups promotes cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas. Sci Rep. 2012; 2: 576. Published online 2012 August 14. doi: 10.1038/srep00576
    Abstract: Whether or not to change strategy depends not only on the personal success of each individual, but also on the success of others. Using this as motivation, we study the evolution of cooperation in games that describe social dilemmas, where the... Read more>>
    Sep 14 2012, 11:53 AM Type:NotMine
    8/1/2012Wisdom of groups promotes cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas

  • Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters (2012)

    Grossmann, I., Karasawa, M., Izumi, S., Na, J., Varnum, M. E. W., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2012). Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters. Psychological Science.
    Abstract: People from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have developmental consequences... Read more>>
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    8/1/2012Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters

  • Judicial Wisdom: An Introductory Empirical Account and Research Agenda (2012)

    Blumenthal, Jeremy A. and Bakina, Daria A, Judicial Wisdom: An Introductory Empirical Account and Research Agenda (August 15, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2129792
    By Jeremy A. Blumenthal and Daria A. Bakina Abstract: We present the first empirical analysis of “judicial wisdom”: what it means to be a “wise judge.” We surveyed 40 federal judges; half listed characteristics of a “wise” judge and, to compare, half... Read more>>
    Aug 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    8/1/2012Judicial Wisdom: An Introductory Empirical Account and Research Agenda

  • Spirituality and religion in psychotherapy: Views of Brazilian psychotherapists (2012)

    Vandenberghe, L.; F.C. Prado & E.A. de Camargo (2012). International Perspectives in Psychology: REsearch, Practice, Consultation
    Interviews with Brazilian psychotherapists were subjected to a grounded theory analysis. The findings support distinctly separate roles for religion and spirituality in psychotherapy. Religion emerged as a therapeutic challenge in that therapists must... Read more>>
    Aug 11 2012, 12:04 PM Type:Mine
    8/1/2012Spirituality and religion in psychotherapy: Views of Brazilian psychotherapists

  • Wisdom of crowds for robust gene network inference (2012)

    Marbach, D., Costello, J.C., Küffner, R., Vega, N.M., Prill, R.J., Camacho, D.M., Allison, K.R., The DREAM5 Consortium, Kellis, M., Collins, J.J., & Stolovitzky, G. (2012). Wisdom of crowds for robust gene network inference. Nature Methods, Vol 9: 796–804. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2016
    Abstract: Reconstructing gene regulatory networks from high-throughput data is a long-standing challenge. Through the Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM) project, we performed a comprehensive blind assessment of over 30 network... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    7/1/2012Wisdom of crowds for robust gene network inference

  • A systematic self-observation study of consumers' conceptions of practical wisdom in everyday purchase events (2012)

    Mick D.G., Spiller, S.A., & Baglioni, A.J. (2012). A systematic self-observation study of consumers' conceptions of practical wisdom in everyday purchase events. Journal of Business Research Volume 65, Issue 7, July 2012, Pages 1051–1059.
    Abstract: This project introduces the method of Systematic Self-Observation (SSO) to business researchers, compares it to other modes of introspection, and illustrates its application in a study of consumers' conceptions of their practical wisdom... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2012A systematic self-observation study of consumers' conceptions of practical wisdom in everyday purchase events

  • Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing through Life-Changing Difficulties (2012)

    Plews-Ogan, M., Owens, J., & May, N. (2012). Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing through Life-Changing Difficulties: Templeton Press.
    We all know the saying, “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger,” but is that really true? After all, for some people, traumatic experiences ultimately lead to truly debilitating outcomes. For others though, adversity really does seem to lead... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2012Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing through Life-Changing Difficulties

  • A is for aphorism - Is it true that 'a careful history will lead to the diagnosis 80% of the time'? (2012)

    Cooke, G. (Jul 2012). A is for aphorism - Is it true that 'a careful history will lead to the diagnosis 80% of the time'? Australian Family Physician, Vol 41(7): 534. PMID: 22762076 [PubMed - in process]
    By Georga Cooke Abstract: Medicine is an uncertain pursuit. As medical students and junior doctors, we often try to manage this by collecting golden rules as we progress through our education. And there are many occasions when a 'third voice'... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2012A is for aphorism - Is it true that 'a careful history will lead to the diagnosis 80% of the time'?

  • Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility (2012)

    Rittera, S.M., Damianb, R.I., Simontonb, D.K., van Baarena, R.B., Stricka, M., Derksa, J., & Dijksterhuisa, A. (2012). Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Volume 48, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 961–964.
    Abstract: Past research has linked creativity to unusual and unexpected experiences, such as early parental loss or living abroad. However, few studies have investigated the underlying cognitive processes. We propose that these experiences have in common... Read more>>
    Jan 04 2013, 09:19 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2012Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility

  • The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases (2012)

    Keysar, B., Hayakawa, S.L. & An, S.G. (2012). The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases. Psychological Science. June 2012, vol. 23, no. 6: 661-668.
    Abstract: Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue? It may be intuitive that people would make the same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the difficulty of using a foreign language... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2012The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases

  • Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom (2012)

    Breznitz, S. & Hemingway, C. (2012). Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom. Ballantine Books: New York.
    Book Description Release date: June 26, 2012 We all understand the importance of daily exercise in keeping physically fit. But mental exercise is just as essential to our health and well-being—especially when it comes to defending against forgetfulness... Read more>>
    Feb 05 2013, 03:26 PM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2012Maximum Brainpower: Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom

  • Self-Compassion: A Concept Analysis (2012)

    Darcel Reyes. (2012). Self-Compassion: A Concept Analysis. J Holist Nurs June 2012 vol. 30 no. 2 81-89.
    Abstract: This concept analysis uses a modification of the evolutionary method (Rodgers, 1989) to identify the antecedent, attributes, and consequences of self-compassion. The antecedent to self-compassion is suffering, experienced in six possible realms... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2012Self-Compassion: A Concept Analysis

  • Socratic Dialogue and Self-Directed Group Work: Strengthening Ethical Practice in Social Work (2012)

    Social work with groups Volume 35, Issue 3, 2012, pages 253- 266 Available online: 01 Jun 2012 DOI: 10.1080/01609513.2011.624377 June 2, 2012
    Socratic dialogue is a practical method of philosophical inquiry used to develop ethical and critical thinking among participants. On the other hand, self-directed group work is a practical intervention model based on social justice principles aimed at... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    6/1/2012Socratic Dialogue and Self-Directed Group Work: Strengthening Ethical Practice in Social Work

  • How Boots Befooled the King: Wisdom, Truth, and the Stoics (2012)

    Wright, S. (2012). How Boots Befooled the King: Wisdom, Truth, and the Stoics. Acta Analytica June 2012, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 113-126
    Abstract: Can the wise person be fooled? The Stoics take a very strong view on this question, holding that the wise person (or sage) is never deceived and never believes anything that is false. This seems to be an implausibly strong claim, but it follows... Read more>>
    Sep 14 2012, 01:54 PM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2012How Boots Befooled the King: Wisdom, Truth, and the Stoics

  • Expertise, Wisdom and Moral Philosophers: A Response to Gesang (2012)

    Cowley, Christopher, Expertise, Wisdom and Moral Philosophers: A Response to Gesang (July 2012). Bioethics, Vol. 26, Issue 6, pp. 337-342, 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2084037 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01860.x
    Abstract: In a recent issue of Bioethics, Bernard Gesang asks whether a moral philosopher possesses greater moral expertise than a non‐philosopher, and his answer is a qualified yes, based not so much on his infallible access to the truth, but on the... Read more>>
    Sep 07 2012, 02:46 PM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2012Expertise, Wisdom and Moral Philosophers: A Response to Gesang

  • Stephen Hawking and Alien life forms (2012)

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    R ecently the world renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking created a stir by saying, "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Such advanced aliens... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    6/1/2012Stephen Hawking and Alien life forms

  • Practising engagement: Infusing communication with empathy and compassion in medical students’ clinical encounters (2012)

    Warmington, S. (2012). Practising engagement: Infusing communication with empathy and compassion in medical students’ clinical encounters. Health (London) May 2012 vol. 16 no. 3 327-342
    Abstract: Patients commonly experience some physicians’ ways of interacting with them as detached and indicating a lack of concern for their welfare. This is likely to add to the distress experienced by a person seeking healing, as well as interfering... Read more>>
    May 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2012Practising engagement: Infusing communication with empathy and compassion in medical students’ clinical encounters

  • Mindful Attention Prevents Mindless Impulses (2012)

    Papies, E.K., Barsalou, L.W., & Custers, R. (2012). Mindful Attention Prevents Mindless Impulses. Social Psychological and Personality Science May 2012 vol. 3 no. 3 291-299.
    Abstract: Three studies illustrate that mindful attention prevents impulses toward attractive food. Participants received a brief mindfulness procedure in which they observed their reactions to external stimuli as transient mental events rather than subjectively... Read more>>
    Mar 06 2013, 03:40 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2012Mindful Attention Prevents Mindless Impulses

  • Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success (2012)

    Nonaka, I. & Zhu, Z. (2012). Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Book Description: Pragmatism is enjoying a renaissance in management studies and the social sciences. Once written off as amoral, relativist and opposed to the ideals of Truth, Reason and Progress, it is now regaining influence in public policy, international... Read more>>
    Apr 12 2013, 11:54 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2012Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success

  • Stepping Back While Staying Engaged When Facing an Obstacle Increases Psychological Distance (2012)

    Marguc, J., Van Kleef, G.A., & Förster, J. (2012). Stepping Back While Staying Engaged When Facing an Obstacle Increases Psychological Distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science May 2012 vol. 3 no. 3 379-386.
    Abstract: When do people respond to obstacles by mentally “stepping back” and taking a more distanced perspective? Manipulating obstacles to social goals, to personal goals, and in a computer game, three studies tested the hypothesis that people should... Read more>>
    Jan 04 2013, 09:13 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2012Stepping Back While Staying Engaged When Facing an Obstacle Increases Psychological Distance

  • Unadaptive Consciousness In Evolutionary Psychology (2012)

    http://www.academia.edu/1818123/Unadaptive_Consciousness_In_Evolutionary_Psychology_7_12_
    The role of consciousness in evolutionary psychology, apart from postponing, rerouting, reinterpreting or ignoring stimuli, may simply be independently confirming, as in any science’s methodology. Responding to prof René van Hezewijk's 1997 paper... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    5/1/2012Unadaptive Consciousness In Evolutionary Psychology

  • The Buddha's Teachings: Seeing without Illusion A Contemporary Cognitive Science Approach (2012)

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    Building on the author's own study and experiences in Buddhist meditation, this book incorporates the writings of contemporary Buddhist scholars, cognitive scientists and physicists to provide a fascinating and authoritative framework for the interpretation... Read more>>
    May 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    5/1/2012The Buddha's Teachings: Seeing without Illusion A Contemporary Cognitive Science Approach

  • An Empirical Study of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience (2012)

    Barton, Benjamin H., An Empirical Study of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience (February 24, 2012). University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 181. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2010781 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2010781
    Abstract: This study compares the years of experience that preceded appointment to the Supreme Court for each Justice. The study seeks to demonstrate that the background experiences of the Roberts Court Justices are quite different from the Justices of... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2012An Empirical Study of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience

  • The Hot-Cold Decision Triangle: A Framework for Healthier Choices (2012)

    Yang, Haiyang, Carmon, Ziv, Kahn, Barbara, Malani, Anup, Schwartz, Janet, Volpp, Kevin and Wansink, Brian, The Hot-Cold Decision Triangle: A Framework for Healthier Choices (April 18, 2012). INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/45/MKT. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2041943 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2041943
    Abstract: People often behave in ways that are clearly detrimental to their health. We review representative research on unhealthy behaviors within a parsimonious framework, the Hot-Cold Decision Triangle. Through this framework, we describe how when... Read more>>
    Feb 06 2013, 02:29 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2012The Hot-Cold Decision Triangle: A Framework for Healthier Choices

  • Rousseau’s Virtue Epistemology (2012)

    Ryan Patrick Hanley. "Rousseau’s Virtue Epistemology." Journal of the History of Philosophy 50.2 (2012): 239-263. Project MUSE. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. .
    Abstract: Rousseau’s moral and political philosophy is grounded in a largely overlooked virtue epistemology. This essay reconstructs this epistemology with a particular focus on Rousseau’s conception of how our capacity for sensation might be cultivated... Read more>>
    Oct 19 2012, 03:05 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2012Rousseau’s Virtue Epistemology

  • Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making: A principled review (2012)

    Christensen, J.F. & Gomila, A. (2012). Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making: A principled review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Volume 36, Issue 4, April 2012, Pages 1249–1264.
    Abstract: Moral dilemma tasks have been a much appreciated experimental paradigm in empirical studies on moral cognition for decades and have, more recently, also become a preferred paradigm in the field of cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2012Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making: A principled review

  • Situations in Which I Was Wise: Autobiographical Wisdom Memories of Children and Adolescents (2012)

    König, S. and Glück, J. (2012), Situations in Which I Was Wise: Autobiographical Wisdom Memories of Children and Adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 22: 512–525. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00800.x
    Previous studies with adults have shown that age has an important influence on laypeople's wisdom theories. However, children's and adolescents' understanding of the concept of wisdom has hardly been investigated. In the current study, 80... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2012Situations in Which I Was Wise: Autobiographical Wisdom Memories of Children and Adolescents

  • "Wisdom As An Expert Skill" (2012)

    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (forthcoming in print; online first, DOI: 10.1007/s10677-012-9367-2)
    Link: http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-012-9367-2 Abstract: Practical wisdom is the intellectual virtue that enables a person to make reliably good decisions about how, all-things-considered, to live. As such, it is a lofty and important... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    4/1/2012"Wisdom As An Expert Skill"

  • Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses (2012)

    Kemeny, Margaret E.; Foltz, Carol; Cavanagh, James F.; Cullen, Margaret; Giese-Davis, Janine; Jennings, Patricia; Rosenberg, Erika L.; Gillath, Omri; Shaver, Phillip R.; Wallace, B. Alan; Ekman, Paul. (2012). Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses.Emotion, Vol 12(2), Apr 2012, 338-350. doi: 10.1037/a0026118
    Abstract: Contemplative practices are believed to alleviate psychological problems, cultivate prosocial behavior and promote self-awareness. In addition, psychological science has developed tools and models for understanding the mind and promoting well... Read more>>
    Sep 14 2012, 03:40 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2012Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses

  • Predicting elections: A ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ approach (2012)

    Boon, M. (2012). Predicting elections: A ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ approach. International Journal of Market Research Vol. 54 Issue 4. DOI: 10.2501/IJMR-54-4-465-483
    Abstract: Opinion polls are the currency of politics. They are used by media organisations to evaluate the performance of governments, and by governments and political parties to test the policies that shape manifestos and reform agendas. But opinion... Read more>>
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    3/1/2012Predicting elections: A ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ approach

  • What’s so Good about a Wise and Knowledgeable Public? (2012)

    Ahlstrom-Vij, K. (2012). What’s so Good about a Wise and Knowledgeable Public? Acta Analytica Volume 27, Number 2 (2012), 199-216, DOI: 10.1007/s12136-012-0157-1
    Abstract: Philosophers have been concerned for some time with the epistemic caliber of the general public, qua the body that is, ultimately, tasked with political decision-making in democratic societies. Unfortunately, the empirical data paint a pretty... Read more>>
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    3/1/2012What’s so Good about a Wise and Knowledgeable Public?

  • Triaging the fittest: Practical wisdom versus logical calculus? (2012)

    Szalados, James E. (2012). Triaging the fittest: Practical wisdom versus logical calculus?*. Critical care medicine, 40. Retreived from http://www.biomedsearch.com/nih/Triaging-fittest-Practical-wisdom-versus/22249061.html
    Excerpt: For physicians, now increasingly highly trained in objective analysis, clinical ethics is frequently perceived as a “softer” and therefore more theoretical medical discipline because the issues addressed in ethical analyses are typically poorly... Read more>>
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    2/1/2012Triaging the fittest: Practical wisdom versus logical calculus?

  • “Two Types of Wisdom” (2012)

    Baehr, J. (2012). Two Types of Wisdom”. Acta Analytica Volume 27, Number 2 (2012), 81-97, DOI: 10.1007/s12136-012-0155-3
    Abstract: The concept of wisdom is largely ignored by contemporary philosophers. But given recent movements in the fields of ethics and epistemology, the time is ripe for a return to this concept. This article lays some groundwork for further philosophical... Read more>>
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    2/1/2012“Two Types of Wisdom”

  • Mindfulness and its relationship to emotional regulation (2012)

    Hill, C.L.M. & Updegraff, J.A. (2012). Mindfulness and its relationship to emotional regulation. Emotion. 2012 Feb;12(1):81-90. Epub 2011 Dec 12.
    Abstract: Research on the effectiveness and mechanisms of mindfulness training applied in psychotherapy is still in its infancy (Erisman & Roemer, 2010). For instance, little is known about the extent and processes through which mindfulness practice... Read more>>
    Sep 14 2012, 03:29 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2012Mindfulness and its relationship to emotional regulation

  • The Power of Predictive Wisdom: Making Precision Predictions in an Uncertain World (2012)

    Stock Market Randomness Theory under Serious Challenge A Synopsis of The Power of Predictive Wisdom: Making Precision Predictions in an Uncertain World by Dr. Qingsong Zhang, PhD A conventional wisdom in the financial world claims that the stock market... Read more>>
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    2/1/2012The Power of Predictive Wisdom: Making Precision Predictions in an Uncertain World

  • Boosting Wisdom: Distance from the self enhances wise reasoning, attitudes and behavior. (2012)

    Kross, E., & Grossmann, I. (2012). Boosting wisdom: Distance from the self enhances wise reasoning, attitudes, and behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(1), 43-48. doi:10.1037/a0024158
    Although humans strive to be wise, they often fail to do so when reasoning over issues that have profound personal implications. Here we test the hypothesis that psychological distance enhances wise reasoning, attitudes and behavior under such circumstances... Read more>>
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    2/1/2012Boosting Wisdom: Distance from the self enhances wise reasoning, attitudes and behavior.

  • The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity: A neurodevelopmental study. (2012)

    Decety, J., Michalska, K. J., & Kinzler, K. D. (2012). The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity: A neurodevelopmental study. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 209-220.
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    1/1/2012The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity: A neurodevelopmental study.

  • Neural decoding of collective wisdom with multi-brain computing (2012)

    Eckstein, MP, Das, K, Pham, BT, Peterson, MF, Abbey, CK, Sy, JL, & Giesbrecht, B. (2012). Neural decoding of collective wisdom with multi-brain computing. NeuroImage Volume 59, Issue 1, 2 January 2012, Pages 94–108.
    Abstract: Group decisions and even aggregation of multiple opinions lead to greater decision accuracy, a phenomenon known as collective wisdom. Little is known about the neural basis of collective wisdom and whether its benefits arise in late decision... Read more>>
    Sep 14 2012, 01:59 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2012Neural decoding of collective wisdom with multi-brain computing

  • Impact of employees' character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance (2012)

    vey, J. B., Luthans, F., Hannah, S. T., Sweetman, D. and Peterson, C. (2012), Impact of employees' character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance. Human Resource Management Journal, 22: 165–181. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2010.00157.x
    Abstract: Both conventional understanding and positive psychology recognise an important link between people's character strengths and how they perform their jobs. However, no research to date has focused on the relationship of employees' wisdom... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2012Impact of employees' character strengths of wisdom on stress and creative performance

  • The Wisdom of the Crowd in Combinatorial Problems (2012)

    Yi, S. K. M., Steyvers, M., Lee, M. D. and Dry, M. J. (2012), The Wisdom of the Crowd in Combinatorial Problems. Cognitive Science, 36: 452–470. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01223.x
    Abstract: The “wisdom of the crowd” phenomenon refers to the finding that the aggregate of a set of proposed solutions from a group of individuals performs better than the majority of individual solutions. Most often, wisdom of the crowd effects have... Read more>>
    Sep 07 2012, 03:12 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2012The Wisdom of the Crowd in Combinatorial Problems

  • Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition (2012)

    Carlson, J.W. (2012). Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
    Like their predecessors throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the importance of philosophy in the Catholic intellectual tradition. In his encyclical Fides et ratio (1998), John Paul... Read more>>
    Sep 12 2012, 01:09 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2012Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition

  • Creating a better world: towards the university of wisdom (2011)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2011) Creating a better world: towards the university of wisdom. In: Barnett, R, (ed.) The future university: ideas and possibilities, pp. 123 - 138, Routledge: New York. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1329627/
    Universities need to change dramatically in order to help humanity make progress towards as good a world as possible. Read more>>
    Dec 23 2012, 08:40 PM Type:Mine
    12/1/2011Creating a better world: towards the university of wisdom

  • Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing (2011)

    Schwartz, B. & Sharpe, K. (2011). Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing. New York: Riverhead Trade, Reprint edition.
    A reasoned and urgent call to embrace and protect the essential human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom. In their provocative new book, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe explore the insights essential to leading satisfying lives.... Read more>>
    Oct 19 2012, 01:18 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2011Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

  • Intergenerational Relations in the West of Ireland and Sociocultural Approaches to Wisdom (2011)

    Edmondson, R. (2011). Intergenerational Relations in the West of Ireland and Sociocultural Approaches to Wisdom. Journal of Family Issues January 2012 vol. 33 no. 1 76-98
    Abstract: Discussion of intergenerational relationships has perennially questioned how life experience can be transmitted effectively. This article revisits that debate, focusing on the intergenerational role of wisdom in the West of Ireland. Ethnographic... Read more>>
    Sep 14 2012, 01:26 PM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2011Intergenerational Relations in the West of Ireland and Sociocultural Approaches to Wisdom

  • Finding faults: How moral dilemmas illuminate cognitive structure (2011)

    Fiery Cushman & Joshua D. Greene (2012): Finding faults: How moral dilemmas illuminate cognitive structure, Social Neuroscience, 7:3, 269-279.
    Abstract: Philosophy is rife with intractable moral dilemmas. We propose that these debates often exist because competing psychological systems yield different answers to the same problem. Consequently, philosophical debate points to the natural fault... Read more>>
    Dec 18 2012, 09:59 AM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2011Finding faults: How moral dilemmas illuminate cognitive structure

  • Wisdom revisited: A case study in normative theorizing (2011)

    Tiberius, V. & Swartwood, J. (2011). Wisdom revisited: A case study in normative theorizing. In J. Kennett (Ed.), Philosophical Explorations. Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2011, pp. 277–295.
    Abstract: Extensive discussions of practical wisdom are relatively rare in the philosophical literature these days. This is strange given the theoretical and practical importance of wisdom and, indeed, the etymology of the word “philosophy”. In this paper... Read more>>
    Oct 24 2012, 02:01 PM Type:NotMine
    8/1/2011Wisdom revisited: A case study in normative theorizing

  • Chapter 40: Intelligence and wisdom (2011)

    Staudinger, U.M. & Glück, J. (2011). Intelligence and wisdom. In R.J. Sternberg & S.B. Kaufman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 827-846.
    Book Description: This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of theory and research in the field of human intelligence. Each of the 42 chapters is written by world-renowned experts in their respective fields, and collectively... Read more>>
    Oct 25 2012, 03:04 PM Type:NotMine
    8/1/2011Chapter 40: Intelligence and wisdom

  • Successful aging: Choosing wisdom over despair (2011)

    Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, Vol 49(3), Mar 2011, 23-26
    By Joanne C. Giblin Abstract: This article defines wisdom and despair as choices for cognitively intact older adults. Some individuals are able to integrate the conditions of old age while others respond in ways that inhibit effective integration. The... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    7/1/2011Successful aging: Choosing wisdom over despair

  • David Hume and the "Politics of Humanity" (2011)

    Political Theory, Vol 39(2), 205-233
    By Ryan P. Hanley Abstract: Recently a call has gone up for a revival of the “politics of humanity.” But what exactly is the “politics of humanity”? For illumination this paper turns to Hume’s analysis of humanity’s foundational role in morality and modern... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2011David Hume and the "Politics of Humanity"

  • LA FISIOLOGÍA DEL SABER DE LA EXPERIENCIA Y LOS FRUTOS DE SU POSESIÓ (2011)

    Thémata. Revista de Filosofía. Número 44. 2011
    This work analyses what are the requisites to get a specific kind of knowledge: Knowledge of experience or experience of life. Age, to live experiences,patient, to live a “social retreat” and to go inside ourselves (“abismiento”) are items needed to produce... Read more>>
    Jul 18 2012, 10:22 PM Type:Mine
    7/1/2011 LA FISIOLOGÍA DEL SABER DE LA EXPERIENCIA Y LOS FRUTOS DE SU POSESIÓ

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Wisdom: A Reply to Ardelt (2011)

    Experimental Aging Research, Vol 37(2), Mar 2011, 256-259
    By Matthew Taylor, Glen Bates and Jeffrey Dean Webster The authors reply to Ardelt's comment (see record 2011-06003-006) on their original paper (see record 2011-06003-001) comparing the 3D-WS and SAWS and discuss the SAWS relative to cognition, critical... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2011Conceptualizing and Measuring Wisdom: A Reply to Ardelt

  • Local Wisdom and Health Promotion: Barrier or Catalyst? (2011)

    Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, Vol 23(2), Apr 2011, 127-132
    By Alessandro Demaio The respectful, appropriate use of local wisdom (LW) in health promotion increases penetration and longevity of positive behavior change. Collaborations based on mutual respect, flexibility and trust between health program organizers... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2011Local Wisdom and Health Promotion: Barrier or Catalyst?

  • Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices (2011)

    “Wisdom is the freedom and the ability to make the kinds of choices that move our life forward and benefit the planet.” Wisdom is actually a “How” we make our best choices and not a “what we choose or “why we choose it.” Wisdom is the antidote for the... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    6/1/2011Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices

  • The ABCs of the science of dialogic design (2011)

    Laouris, Y. (in press). The ABCs of the science of dialogic design. Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies.
    Abstract: This paper has been drafted as a laymans introduction to the science of structured dialogic design. Using a helicopter view of the processes involved in a typical organization and implementation of an interactive workshop, the author highlights... Read more>>
    Sep 27 2012, 09:03 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2011The ABCs of the science of dialogic design

  • Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation (2011)

    Bergsma, A. & Ardelt, M. (2011). Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation. J Happiness Stud (2012) 13:481–499 DOI 10.1007/s10902-011-9275-5
    Abstract: Possible tensions between wisdom and happiness have been extensively debated in philosophy. Some regard wisdom as the ‘supreme part of happiness’, whereas other think that a more accurate and wiser view on reality might reduce happiness. Analyzing... Read more>>
    Sep 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2011Self-Reported Wisdom and Happiness: An Empirical Investigation

  • Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good (2011)

    Matousek, M. (2011). Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good. New York, NY: Random House.
    Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil. Mark Matousek arrives at the answer in Ethical Wisdom . Contrary to what we've been taught in our reason-obsessed culture, emotions are... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2012, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2011Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good

  • Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field (2011)

    Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 62: 215-241
    By Ursula M. Staudinger and Judith Glück Abstract: Wisdom represents a fruitful topic for psychological investigations for at least two reasons. First, the study of wisdom emphasizes the search for the continued optimization and the further cultural evolution... Read more>>
    May 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2011Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field

  • Comparing the Psychometric Properties of Two Measures of Wisdom: Predicting Forgiveness and Psychological Well-Being with the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) and the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS) (2011)

    Experimental Aging Research, Vol 37(2), 129-141
    By Matthew Taylor, Glen Bates and Jeffrey Dean Webster Abstract: Two recently developed scales of wisdom were compared on their abilities to have their dimensional structure replicated and to predict relevant personality (i.e., forgiveness) and life satisfaction... Read more>>
    May 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2011Comparing the Psychometric Properties of Two Measures of Wisdom: Predicting Forgiveness and Psychological Well-Being with the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS) and the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS)

  • The measurement of wisdom: A commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster's comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS. (2011)

    Experimental Aging Research, Vol 37(2): 241-255
    By Monika Ardelt Abstract: In a commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster's article, the author (a) clarifies the development and assessment of the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS); (b) describes the difference between the essential components... Read more>>
    May 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2011The measurement of wisdom: A commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster's comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS.

  • Being a Good Ruler in a Deviant Community: Aristotle's Account of the Polity (2011)

    Polis: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Greek Political Thought, 27(1), 58-79
    By Elena Irrera Abstract: In 'Politics' III, 4.1277a15-16 Aristotle presents 'phronesis' as the characteristic excellence of the good ruler. Difficulties arise when we consider that, on his view, a good ruler should 'always' be... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2011Being a Good Ruler in a Deviant Community: Aristotle's Account of the Polity

  • Mindfulness and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Awareness (2011)

    Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 45(3), 627-646
    By Antonino Raffone, Angela Tagini, and Narayanan Srinivasan Abstract: Mindfulness can be understood as the mental ability to focus on the direct and immediate perception or monitoring of the present moment with a state of open and nonjudgmental awareness... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2011Mindfulness and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Awareness

  • Identity styles and wisdom during emerging adulthood: Relationships with mindfulness and savoring. (2011)

    Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, Vol 11(2), Apr 2011, 155-180.
    By Sherry L. Beaumont Erikson’s (1968) supposition about the importance of mature identity for wisdom was examined by testing the hypothesis that informational identity processing is uniquely associated with wisdom and with related positive subjective... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2011Identity styles and wisdom during emerging adulthood: Relationships with mindfulness and savoring.

  • Older and wiser? An affective science perspective on age-related challenges in financial decision making (2011)

    Weierich, Mariann R. et al. (2011). Older and wiser? An affective science perspective on age-related challenges in financial decision making. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2011 April; 6(2): 195–206. Published online 2010 June 29. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsq056.
    Abstract: Financial planning decisionss are fundamentally affective in nature; they are decisions related to money, longevity and quality of life. Over the next several decades people will be increasingly responsible for managing their own assets and... Read more>>
    Oct 23 2012, 11:36 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2011Older and wiser? An affective science perspective on age-related challenges in financial decision making

  • "From Promised Land to Reconciled Cosmos: Paul's Translation of 'Worldview,' 'Worldstory,' and 'Worldperson'" (2011)

    In The Gospel and the Land of Promise: Christian Approaches to the Land of the Bible, New York: Wipf & Stock Publishers
    Although in a selection of biblical and theological essays, my contribution is on Paul as a major contributor to the subsequent shape of western thought and society. The central puzzle of Paul's life is how this zealous Pharisee obsessed with land... Read more>>
    Dec 17 2011, 08:43 AM Type:Mine
    4/1/2011"From Promised Land to Reconciled Cosmos: Paul's Translation of 'Worldview,' 'Worldstory,' and 'Worldperson'"

  • Successful aging through the eyes of Alaska Natives: Exploring generational differences among Alaska Natives. (2011)

    Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Vol 25(4), Dec 2010, 385-396
    By Lewis P. Jordan Abstract: There is very little research on Alaska Native (AN) elders and how they subjectively define a successful older age. The lack of a culturally-specific definition often results in the use of a generic definition that portrays... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2011Successful aging through the eyes of Alaska Natives: Exploring generational differences among Alaska Natives.

  • A Rational Heuristic Model of Economic Decision-Making (2011)

    Rationality and Society, Vol 22(4), Nov 2010, 477-504
    By Anna Grandori A conspicuous ‘hole’ lies between the ‘rational-choice’ paradigm and the ‘behavioral decision-making’ paradigm. The ‘missing model’ is ‘heuristic’ (research-based) yet ‘rational’ (non-biasing): a set of methods for the logically sound... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2011A Rational Heuristic Model of Economic Decision-Making

  • Laypeople's Conceptions of Wisdom and Its Development: Cognitive and Integrative Views (2011)

    The Journals of Gerontology, Vol. 66B(3) 321-324
    By Judith Glück and Susan Bluck Objectives. This study examined individual differences in laypeople's conceptions of wisdom using a person-oriented approach, as previous studies using a priori group variables may have underestimated the variability... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2011Laypeople's Conceptions of Wisdom and Its Development: Cognitive and Integrative Views

  • Ethics and Conduct in Self-directed Groupwork: Some Lessons for the Development of a More Ethical Social Work Practice (2011)

    Ethics and Social Welfare Volume 5, Issue 4, 2011
    This paper compares and contrasts the impact and the interface of different sets of values held by social care practitioners in their decision-making process with regard to ethical dilemmas. Specifically, it explores some of the fundamental distinctions... Read more>>
    Oct 10 2012, 10:19 AM Type:Mine
    3/1/2011Ethics and Conduct in Self-directed Groupwork: Some Lessons for the Development of a More Ethical Social Work Practice

  • Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system (2011)

    New Media & Society, Vol 12(8), Dec 2010, 1368-1387
    By Sabine Niederer and José van Dijck Wikipedia is often considered as an example of 'collaborative knowledge'. Researchers have contested the value of Wikipedia content on various accounts. Some have disputed the ability of anonymous amateurs... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2011Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system

  • Profiting with Honor: Cicero’s Vision of Leadership (2011)

    Journal of Business Ethics, Vol 97(1), Nov 2010, 21-33
    By George Bragues This article attempts to uncover the relevance of Cicero’s thought to present-day management through an analysis of his last philosophical study, On Duties. Applying a methodology grounded in Socratic skepticism, Cicero synthesizes the... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2011, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2011Profiting with Honor: Cicero’s Vision of Leadership

  • We need an academic revolution (2011)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2011) We need an academic revolution, Oxford Magazine, no. 309, pp. 15-18. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1329516/
    Universities today betray both reason and humanity. They are still dominated by the idea, inherited from the past, that the best way the academic enterprise can help promote human welfare is, in the first instance, to pursue the intellectual aim of acquiring... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 12:53 PM Type:Mine
    2/1/2011We need an academic revolution

  • The measurement of wisdom: A commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster’s comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS (2011)

    Ardelt, M. (2011). The measurement of wisdom: A commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster’s comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS. Experimental Aging Research, 37(2), 241-255. doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2011.554509.
    In my reply to Taylor, Bates, and Webster’s article, I (a) clarify the development and assessment of the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale (3D-WS), (b) describe the difference between the essential components of wisdom and its predictors, correlates, and... Read more>>
    Oct 21 2011, 01:12 PM Type:Mine
    1/1/2011The measurement of wisdom: A commentary on Taylor, Bates, and Webster’s comparison of the SAWS and 3D-WS

  • Wisdom, age, and well-being (2011)

    Ardelt, M. (2011). Wisdom, age, and well-being. In K. W. Schaie & S. L. Willis (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of aging (7th ed., pp. 279-291 ). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
    After giving an overview of Western, Eastern, and culturally inclusive theories of wisdom, this chapter summarizes the theoretical and empirical research on the association between aging and wisdom and the effect of wisdom on well-being. Cross-sectional... Read more>>
    Oct 21 2011, 01:18 PM Type:Mine
    1/1/2011Wisdom, age, and well-being

  • Commentary: Neuroenhancement: Wisdom of the Masses or ”False Phronesis”? (2010)

    Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, (2010) 88 4, 459–461
    By D. Larriviere and M. A. Williams Abstract: Neuroenhancement (NE) refers to the use of prescription medications by healthy persons to boost their cognitive skills. This growing phenomenon represents a potential market not only for pharmaceutical manufacturers... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2010Commentary: Neuroenhancement: Wisdom of the Masses or ”False Phronesis”?

  • Are Older Adults Wiser Than College Students? A Comparison of Two Age Cohorts (2010)

    Journal of Adult Development, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 193-207
    By Monika Ardelt Abstract: This study examined whether (a) older adults are wiser than college students, (b) college-educated older adults are wiser than current college students, and (c) wise older adults show evidence of personal growth. Using a sample... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2010Are Older Adults Wiser Than College Students? A Comparison of Two Age Cohorts

  • The Role of Emotional Wisdom in Salespersons' Relationships with Colleagues and Customers (2010)

    Psychology & Marketing, Volume 27, Issue 11, pages 1001–1031, November 2010
    By Richard P. Bagozzi, Frank Belschak, Willem Verbek Abstract: Emotional wisdom is defined as a set of seven dimensions of basic skills and meta-narratives concerning how to regulate emotions within specific domains in such a way that the individual's... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    12/1/2010The Role of Emotional Wisdom in Salespersons' Relationships with Colleagues and Customers

  • The Long-Term Effects of World War II Combat Exposure on Later Life Well-Being Moderated by Generativity (2010)

    Research in Human Development, Volume 7, Issue 3 July 2010 , pages 202 - 220
    By Monika Ardelta, Scott D. Landesa and George E. Vaillant Abstract: According to theories of stress-related growth, coping with traumatic events can lead to greater psychosocial maturity in resilient individuals or psychosocial maladjustment in less... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2010The Long-Term Effects of World War II Combat Exposure on Later Life Well-Being Moderated by Generativity

  • Wisdom - The Ultimate Christmas Gift (2010)

    http://douglasmckee.com/pdf/Wisdom_The%20Ultimate%20Christmas%20Gift.pdf
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    12/1/2010Wisdom - The Ultimate Christmas Gift

  • Reply to Comments on Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom (2010)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2010) Reply to Comments on Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom, Philosophia, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 667-690. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1329617/
    In this article I reply to comments made by Agustin Vicente and Giridhari Lal Pandit on Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom (McHenry, 2009). I criticize analytic philosophy, go on to expound the argument for the need for a revolution in academic inquiry... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 01:11 PM Type:Mine
    12/1/2010Reply to Comments on Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom

  • Democracy Under Uncertainty (2010)

    Psychological Review, 9/6/2010, epub ahead of print
    Democracy Under Uncertainty: The Wisdom of Crowds and the Free-Rider Problem in Group Decision Making By Tatsuya Kameda, Takafumi Tsukasaki, Reid Hastie, Nathan Berg Abstract: We introduce a game theory model of individual decisions to cooperate by contributing... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2010Democracy Under Uncertainty

  • Wisdom of Crowds Versus Wisdom of Linguists: Measuring the Semantic Relatedness of Words (2010)

    Natural Language Engineering, (2010) 16: 25-59
    by Torsten Zesch and Iryna Gurevych In this article, we present a comprehensive study aimed at computing semantic relatedness of word pairs. We analyze the performance of a large number of semantic relatedness measures proposed in the literature with... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    11/1/2010Wisdom of Crowds Versus Wisdom of Linguists: Measuring the Semantic Relatedness of Words

  • John Dewey and the Moral Resources of Humanistic Naturalism (2010)

    Dewey’s Enduring Impact
    To be published in the forthcoming volume "Dewey’s Enduring Impact." Edited by John Shook. Forthcoming, 2010 (Prometheus Books) Read more>>
    Nov 30 2010, 11:00 PM Type:Mine
    11/1/2010John Dewey and the Moral Resources of Humanistic Naturalism

  • Practical wisdom and the development of cross-cultural knowledge management (2010)

    European Journal of International Management, Volume 4, Number 4 / 2010
    Practical wisdom and the development of cross-cultural knowledge management: a global leadership perspective By David J. Pauleen, David Rooney, and Nigel J. Holden Abstract: This paper responds to calls for pragmatic context-dependent cross-cultural scholarship... Read more>>
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    10/1/2010Practical wisdom and the development of cross-cultural knowledge management

  • Wisdom-inquiry. One of the 50 best ideas of the 21st century (2010)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2010) Wisdom-inquiry. One of the 50 best ideas of the 21st century, The Philosophers' Magazine, issue 50, 3rd quarter, article 34. Available online at http://philpapers.org/rec/MAXDPL
    The most exciting and important new philosophical idea of the past decade, in my view, is the discovery that we urgently need to bring about a revolution in science, and in academic inquiry more generally, so that the basic intellectual aim becomes to... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 01:44 PM Type:Mine
    10/1/2010Wisdom-inquiry. One of the 50 best ideas of the 21st century

  • Teaching Practical Wisdom in Medicine through Clinical Judgement (2010)

    Journal of Medical Ethics, Volume 36, Issue 9, Pages 558-562
    Teaching practical wisdom in medicine through clinical judgement, goals of care, and ethical reasoning by Lauris Christopher Kaldjian Clinical decision making is a challenging task that requires practical wisdom—the practised ability to help patients... Read more>>
    Sep 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2010Teaching Practical Wisdom in Medicine through Clinical Judgement

  • Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude (2010)

    Neuron, Volume 67, Issue 4, 26 August 2010, Pages 667-677
    Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude By Amitai Shenhav and Joshua D. Greene "Many important moral decisions, particularly at the policy level, require the evaluation... Read more>>
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    9/1/2010Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude

  • Are Health and Happiness the Product of Wisdom? The Relationship of General Mental Ability to Educational and Occupational Attainment, Health, and Well-Being (2010)

    The Journal of Applied Psychology, Volume 95, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 454-468
    By Timothy A. Judge, Remus Iliesb and Nikolaos Dimotakisb Abstract: This study tested a structural model explaining the effects of general mental ability on economic, physical, and subjective well-being. A model was proposed that linked general mental... Read more>>
    Sep 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2010Are Health and Happiness the Product of Wisdom? The Relationship of General Mental Ability to Educational and Occupational Attainment, Health, and Well-Being

  • Wisdom: Definition, assessment, and its relation to successful cognitive and emotional aging (2010)

    Ardelt, M., & Oh, H. (2010). Wisdom: Definition, assessment, and its relation to successful cognitive and emotional aging. In D. Jeste & C. Depp (Eds.), Successful cognitive and emotional aging (pp. 87-113). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
    This chapter gives an overview of the definition and assessment of wisdom in the contemporary literature and describes its relation to successful cognitive and emotional aging. Read more>>
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    9/1/2010Wisdom: Definition, assessment, and its relation to successful cognitive and emotional aging

  • The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life- Chapter (2010)

    The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1, Cognition, Biology, and Methods
    By Karelitz, T. M., Jarvin, L., & Sternberg, R. J. "Wisdom is a valuable virtue that has been praised, appreciated, and studied throughout the span of human civilization. Yet, wisdom is hard to achieve and harder to apply to one’s life. This... Read more>>
    Aug 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    8/1/2010The Meaning of Wisdom and Its Development Throughout Life- Chapter

  • Universities: from knowledge to wisdom (2010)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2010) Universities: from knowledge to wisdom, Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter, issue 38, pp. 18-20. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/105705/
    We need a revolution in academic inquiry so that problems of living are put at the heart of the academic enterprise, and the basic aim becomes to seek and promote wisdom. There are signs that this revolution is beginning to occur, especially in connection... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 01:38 PM Type:Mine
    8/1/2010Universities: from knowledge to wisdom

  • Virtue Ethics for Social Work: Towards a New Pedagogy for Encouraging Practical Reasoning among Social Work Students (2010)

    Social Work Education, Vol.29(4) pp 402-415. July 2010
    Virtue ethics has begun to regain popularity among philosophers, and recent commentators have expressed enthusiasm vis-a-vis its appropriateness and strengths in the task of practising ethically in social work. Notwithstanding this growing interest in... Read more>>
    Oct 10 2012, 10:26 AM Type:Mine
    7/1/2010Virtue Ethics for Social Work: Towards a New Pedagogy for Encouraging Practical Reasoning among Social Work Students

  • How the Opinion of Others Affects Our Valuation of Objects (2010)

    Current Biology Current Biology 20, 1–6, July 13, 2010
    By Daniel K. Campbell-Meiklejohn, Dominik R. Bach, Andreas Roepstorff, Raymond J. Dolan1 and Chris D. Frith "The opinions of others can easily affect how much we value things. We investigated what happens in our brain when we agree with others about... Read more>>
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    7/1/2010How the Opinion of Others Affects Our Valuation of Objects

  • Intellectual enrichment lessens the effect of brain atrophy on learning and memory in multiple sclerosis (2010)

    NEUROLOGY 2010;74:1942-1945
    By James F. Sumowski, Glenn R. Wylie, DPhil, Nancy Chiaravalloti, and John DeLuca "Learning and memory impairments are prevalent among persons with multiple sclerosis (MS); however, such deficits are only weakly associated with MS disease severity... Read more>>
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    7/1/2010Intellectual enrichment lessens the effect of brain atrophy on learning and memory in multiple sclerosis

  • Predicting Persuasion-Induced Behavior Change from the Brain (2010)

    The Journal of Neuroscience 30: 8421-8424
    By Emily B. Falk, Elliot T. Berkman, Traci Mann, Brittany Harrison, and Matthew D. Lieberman "Although persuasive messages often alter people's self-reported attitudes and intentions to perform behaviors, these self-reports do not necessarily... Read more>>
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    7/1/2010Predicting Persuasion-Induced Behavior Change from the Brain

  • Information Without Truth (2010)

    Metaphilosophy Volume 41 Issue 3, Pages 313 - 330
    BY ANDREA SCARANTINO AND GUALTIERO PICCININI "According to the Veridicality Thesis, information requires truth. On this view, smoke carries information about there being a fire only if there is a fire, the proposition that the earth has two moons... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2010, 04:09 PM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2010Information Without Truth

  • The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness (2010)

    Science, Vol. 329. no. 5987, pg. 47 - 50.
    by Ruud Custers and Henk Aarts People often act in order to realize desired outcomes, or goals. Although behavioral science recognizes that people can skillfully pursue goals without consciously attending to their behavior once these goals are set, conscious... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2010The Unconscious Will: How the Pursuit of Goals Operates Outside of Conscious Awareness

  • Epistemology and Science Education: A Study of Epistemological Views of Teachers (2010)

    Research in Science & Technological Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 149 - 166.
    By Alexandros Apostolou and Vasilis Koulaidis The aim of this paper is to study the epistemological views of science teachers for the following epistemological issues: scientific method, demarcation of scientific knowledge, change of scientific knowledge... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2010Epistemology and Science Education: A Study of Epistemological Views of Teachers

  • How Neuroscience Will Change Our View On Consciousness (2010)

    Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/17588921003731586
    By Victor A. F. Lamme Is there consciousness in machines? Or in animals? What happens to consciousness when we are asleep, or in vegetative state? These are just a few examples of the many questions about consciousness that are troubling scientists and... Read more>>
    Jun 09 2010, 09:23 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2010How Neuroscience Will Change Our View On Consciousness

  • Selective Changes in Thin Spine Density and Morphology in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Correlate with Aging-Related Cognitive Impairment (2010)

    The Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 30 (22), pp. 7507–7515
    By Dani Dumitriu, Jiandong Hao, Yuko Hara, Jeffrey Kaufmann, William G. M. Janssen, Wendy Lou, Peter R. Rapp, and John H. Morrison Age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) occurs in many mammalian species, including humans. In contrast to Alzheimer’s disease... Read more>>
    Jun 09 2010, 09:36 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2010Selective Changes in Thin Spine Density and Morphology in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Correlate with Aging-Related Cognitive Impairment

  • Facilitating Client Change: Principles Based Upon the Experience of Eminent Psychotherapists (2010)

    Psychotherapy Research; May 2010, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p337-352, 16p
    By Heidi M. Levitt and Daniel Williams "Eminent therapists across psychotherapy meta-orientations were asked to describe the processes by which they facilitate change in psychotherapy. A grounded theory analysis of these interviews was conducted... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2010Facilitating Client Change: Principles Based Upon the Experience of Eminent Psychotherapists

  • Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions (2010)

    Science 25 June 2010: Vol. 328. no. 5986, pp. 1712 - 1715
    By Joshua M. Ackerman, Christopher C. Nocera, John A. Bargh "Touch is both the first sense to develop and a critical means of information acquisition and environmental manipulation. Physical touch experiences may create an ontological scaffold for... Read more>>
    Jun 25 2010, 02:14 PM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2010Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions

  • Defining Wisdom (2010)

    http://douglasmckee.com/pdf/WisdomDefined.pdf
    We all know the story in which science supposedly demonstrates a Bumblebee only flies because it doesn’t know it can’t. I know the real story but like that one better because the bumblebee still goes about its daily tasks, unencumbered by knowing about... Read more>>
    Jun 26 2010, 07:52 AM Type:Mine
    6/1/2010Defining Wisdom

  • Wisdom mathematics (2010)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2010) Wisdom mathematics, Friends of Wisdom Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 1 - 6. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1370628/
    What implications does wisdom-inquiry have for mathematics? Is not mathematics an especially secure branch of knowledge, immune to any changes that may be brought about by moving from knowledge-inquiry to wisdom-inquiry? All the well-known views that... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 01:04 PM Type:Mine
    6/1/2010Wisdom mathematics

  • El rostro de la experiencia de la vidad desde la marea zambriana (2010)

    Endoxa: Series Filosóficas, ISSN 1133-5351, Nº 25, 2010 , págs. 279-314
    Experience knowledge constitutes an epistemic way of entering into reality. It doesn’t ground on a logic framework; their owners learn from life, creating its sound and accurate knowledge. This article studies in depth its general description (experience... Read more>>
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    6/1/2010El rostro de la experiencia de la vidad desde la marea zambriana

  • Ways of Knowing, Learning, and Developing (2010)

    Annals of Family Medicine,Vol. 8, PP. 4-10.
    By Kurt C. Strange The information age presents great opportunity to move from data to information to knowledge and potentially to go further to generate understanding and wisdom. As information is generated in ever smaller segments, however, and as we... Read more>>
    May 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Ways of Knowing, Learning, and Developing

  • From Executive Mechanisms Underlying Perception and Action to the Parallel Processing of Meaning (2010)

    Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number S1.
    By Philip J. Barnard The dominant conceptualization of working memory distinguishes mechanisms that handle auditory‐verbal and visuospatial representations from central executive resources that control and guide them. A straightforward case can be made... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:30 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010From Executive Mechanisms Underlying Perception and Action to the Parallel Processing of Meaning

  • Complexipacity, Wisdom and Education (2010)

    On the Horizon, Vol.18, Is.1, PP. 16 - 24.
    By Tom Abeles Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the emerging science of complexity and the rise of fast computational capabilities on human understanding of the world and the implications for education. Design/methodology... Read more>>
    May 27 2010, 12:35 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Complexipacity, Wisdom and Education

  • Calvin and Locke: Dueling Epistemologies in The New-England Primer, 1720–1790 (2010)

    Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 250-287.
    By Stephanie Schnorbus Most historians agree there was a shift away from Calvinism and toward Enlightenment thought during the eighteenth century. When discussing that shift in relation to children's literature or education, some historians use The... Read more>>
    May 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Calvin and Locke: Dueling Epistemologies in The New-England Primer, 1720–1790

  • Proverbs and the Wisdom of Literature: The Proverbs of Alfred and Chaucer's Tale of Melibee (2010)

    Textual Practice, Volume 24, Issue 3, pages 407 - 434.
    By Christopher Cannon In an essay in which he explored the nature of the proverb, Kenneth Burke wondered why it would not be possible to 'extend such analysis … to encompass the whole field of literature'. For Burke, the possibility for such extension... Read more>>
    May 27 2010, 12:20 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Proverbs and the Wisdom of Literature: The Proverbs of Alfred and Chaucer's Tale of Melibee

  • Prior Information Biases Stimulus Representations during Vibrotactile Decision Making (2010)

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 22, No. 5, pgs. 875-887, 2010.
    Claudia Preuschhof, Torsten Schubert, Arno Villringer, and Hauke R. Heekeren Neurophysiological data suggest that the integration of prior information and incoming sensory evidence represents the neural basis of the decision-making process. Here, we aimed... Read more>>
    Apr 02 2010, 10:15 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Prior Information Biases Stimulus Representations during Vibrotactile Decision Making

  • Coevolution of Composite‐Tool Technology, Constructive Memory, and Language (2010)

    Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number S1.
    By Stanley H. Ambrose The evolution of modern human behavior was undoubtedly accompanied by neurological changes that enhanced capacities for innovation in technology, language, and social organization associated with working memory. Constructive memory... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:37 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Coevolution of Composite‐Tool Technology, Constructive Memory, and Language

  • Working Memory and the Speed of Life (2010)

    Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number S1.
    By April Nowell Hominin evolution is the result of complex interactions of biology and behavior within particular physical, social, and cultural environments. While evolution takes place at the species level, species are made up of individuals engaging... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:45 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010 Working Memory and the Speed of Life

  • Wisdom and Numbers (2010)

    Social Science Information, Vol. 49, No. 1, PP. 29-59.
    By Eerik Lagerspetz There is a permanent tension between the requirements of substantive goodness or wisdom and those of formal legitimacy in public decision-making. This article charts the various attempts to reconcile the two requirements within decision... Read more>>
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    5/1/2010Wisdom and Numbers

  • Educational Wisdom of African Oral Literature: African Proverbs as vehicles for Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills in Social Studies Education (2010)

    International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Volume 5, Issue 3, PP 59-69.
    By Lewis Asimeng-Boahene Preparing children to function effectively as global citizens in today's complex and ethnically polarized nations and the world, will require students who think critically about the knowledge of the histories, experiences... Read more>>
    May 04 2010, 12:19 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Educational Wisdom of African Oral Literature: African Proverbs as vehicles for Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills in Social Studies Education

  • Weatherwiser? (2010)

    Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 40 Issue 1, pg. 125-135.
    The article, written by Defining Wisdom grantee Deborah Coen , reviews several books on the history of weather, including "Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783," by Matthew Mulcahy, "British Weather and the... Read more>>
    May 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Weatherwiser?

  • Collective wisdom and decision making in surgical oncology (2010)

    European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology, Vol. 38, pg. 230-6.
    by N Robson and D Rew AIM: To describe systems for capturing and optimising collective knowledge and insight in areas of complexity and uncertainty in surgical oncology, with particular reference to the Delphi process and related systems. METHODS: Internet... Read more>>
    May 05 2010, 10:52 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Collective wisdom and decision making in surgical oncology

  • Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems (2010)

    Science, Vol. 328. No. 5978, pg. 613 - 617.
    by Marco A. Janssen, Robert Holahan, Allen Lee, and Elinor Ostrom Governance of social-ecological systems is a major policy problem of the contemporary era. Field studies of fisheries, forests, and pastoral and water resources have identified many variables... Read more>>
    May 05 2010, 11:05 AM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2010Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems

  • Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters (2010)

    Edited by Nathan Bupp (Prometheus Books), Forthcoming, early 2011
    Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters The Writngs of Paul Kurtz Edited by Nathan Bupp The term eupraxsophy was first coined and introduced by Paul Kurtz in 1988 to characterize a secular orientation to life that stands in contrast... Read more>>
    May 05 2010, 03:49 PM Type:Mine
    5/1/2010Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters

  • Practical Wisdom and Ethical Awareness Through Student Experiences Of Development (2010)

    Development in Practice, Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 205 - 218.
    By Karim-Aly Kassam How is book-learning at university made relevant to societal needs? What pedagogical framework helps to transform students from those who know about major challenges of the twenty-first century to those who know how to respond to such... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Practical Wisdom and Ethical Awareness Through Student Experiences Of Development

  • For Mortal Souls: Philosophy and Therapeia in Nietzsche's Dawn (2010)

    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Vol.85, PP. 137-163.
    By Keith Ansell Pearson This chapter seeks to make a contribution to the growing interest in Nietzsche's relation to traditions of therapy in philosophy that has emerged in recent years. It is in the texts of his middle period (1878–82) that Nietzsche's... Read more>>
    May 27 2010, 12:40 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010For Mortal Souls: Philosophy and Therapeia in Nietzsche's Dawn

  • Epistemic Beliefs and Achievement Motivation in Early Adolescence (2010)

    The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 30, No. 2, 305-340.
    By Robert Ricco, Sara Schuyten Pierce and Connie Medinilla This study seeks to establish the relevance of middle school students’ naïve beliefs about knowledge and learning in science to their achievement motivation in this domain. A predominantly Hispanic... Read more>>
    May 27 2010, 12:49 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Epistemic Beliefs and Achievement Motivation in Early Adolescence

  • Depth of Field/Depth of Understanding (2010)

    Schools: Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1086/651297.
    By Eric Baylin The article is a personal account of my engagement with some recent neuroscientific theory put forth by Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang (University of Southern California) about the integral relationship between emotion and cognition. Specifically... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:34 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Depth of Field/Depth of Understanding

  • A Perspective on Epistemology and Ontology of Indian Psychology (2010)

    Psychology & Developing Societies, Vol. 22, No. 1, 157-190.
    By Dharm P. S. Bhawuk The epistemology of Indian Psychology (IP) is akin to that of Indian Philosophy or in general the Indian world view of knowledge, truth and belief about making sense of the self and the world. In this article, the epistemological... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:48 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010A Perspective on Epistemology and Ontology of Indian Psychology

  • Epistemological Beliefs and Theory of Planned Behavior: Examining Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing as Distal Predictors of Indonesian Tertiary Students’ Intention to Study (2010)

    The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Vol 19, No 1
    By Gregory Arief D. Liem, Allan B. I. Bernardo Using the theory of planned behavior or TPB (Ajzen, 2005) as a general framework, the study examines the role of Indonesian students’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing (epistemological beliefs... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Epistemological Beliefs and Theory of Planned Behavior: Examining Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing as Distal Predictors of Indonesian Tertiary Students’ Intention to Study

  • Problems of Other Minds: Solutions and Dissolutions in Analytic and Continental Philosophy (2010)

    Philosophy Compass, Volume 5, Issue 4, PP. 326 - 335.
    By Jack Reynolds While there is a great diversity of treatments of other minds and inter-subjectivity within both analytic and continental philosophy, this article specifies some of the core structural differences between these treatments. Although there... Read more>>
    May 04 2010, 12:03 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Problems of Other Minds: Solutions and Dissolutions in Analytic and Continental Philosophy

  • Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know (2010)

    Philosophy and Literature, Volume 34, Number 1, pp. 263-265.
    By Suzanna Smith The very title of Eva Brann's book suggests the extent to which "our feelings" is a topic at once familiar and unknown. The title could have been "Feeling Your Feelings" or simply "Feeling Feelings,"... Read more>>
    Apr 14 2010, 02:22 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know

  • Baring the Brain as Well as the Soul: Milan Kundera's The Joke (2010)

    Philosophy and Literature, Volume 34, Number 1, pp. 201-217.
    By Yvonne Howell Are we innately superstitious? Is it possible for even the most hardened atheist-existentialist not see the hand of destiny, traffic deities, or other disembodied psychological agents when a fortuitous parking spot transforms his life... Read more>>
    Apr 14 2010, 02:25 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Baring the Brain as Well as the Soul: Milan Kundera's The Joke

  • Genes, Memes, and the Chinese Concept of Wen: Toward a Nature/Culture Model of Genetics (2010)

    Philosophy East and West, Volume 60, Number 2, pp. 167-186.
    By Thorsten Botz-Bornstein The Chinese concept of wen is examined here in the context of contemporary gene theory and the "cultural branch" of gene theory called "memetics." The Chinese notion of wen is an untranslatable term meaning... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:10 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Genes, Memes, and the Chinese Concept of Wen: Toward a Nature/Culture Model of Genetics

  • The Rehabilitation of Spontaneity: A New Approach in Philosophy of Action (2010)

    Philosophy East and West, Volume 60, Number 2, pp. 207-250.
    By Brian J. Bruya Scholars working in philosophy of action still struggle with the freedom/determinism dichotomy that stretches back to Hellenist philosophy and the metaphysics that gave rise to it. Although that metaphysics has been repudiated in current... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:15 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010The Rehabilitation of Spontaneity: A New Approach in Philosophy of Action

  • Keeping Faith: Evolution and Theology (2010)

    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Volume 13, Number 2, pp. 132-152.
    By Jayna L. Ditty and Philip A. Rolnick Since 1859, with the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species , biology has increasingly challenged comfortable theological assumptions. Being convinced, however, that evolutionary biology and theology... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:20 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Keeping Faith: Evolution and Theology

  • Expert Consensus on Characteristics of Wisdom: A Delphi Method Study (2010)

    The Gerontologist, doi: 10.1093/geront/gnq022
    By Dilip V. Jeste, Monika Ardelt, Dan Blazer, Helena C. Kraemer, George Vaillant and Thomas W. Meeks Purpose: Wisdom has received increasing attention in empirical research in recent years, especially in gerontology and psychology, but consistent definitions... Read more>>
    Apr 29 2010, 12:22 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Expert Consensus on Characteristics of Wisdom: A Delphi Method Study

  • Collective Wisdom and Individual Freedom (2010)

    The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 44 Issue S1, Pages 168 - 176.
    By Christopher McMahon The paper distinguishes two ways of understanding a wise society. A society can be wise by virtue of possessing mostly true evaluative beliefs. Or it can be wise by virtue of employing rational procedures of collective belief formation... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Collective Wisdom and Individual Freedom

  • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Robert Grosseteste on Universals (and the Posterior Analytics) (2010)

    Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 48, Number 2, pp. 153-170.
    By Christina Van *** The reintroduction of aristotle's Analytics to the Latin West—in particular, the reintroduction of the Posterior Analytics —forever altered the course of medieval epistemological discussions. 1 In the memorable words of Jonathan... Read more>>
    Apr 14 2010, 02:13 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Robert Grosseteste on Universals (and the Posterior Analytics)

  • How Prevalent is Wishful Thinking? Misattribution of Arousal Causes Optimism and Pessimism in Subjective Probabilities (2010)

    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Vol 139(1), pg. 32-48, 2010.
    by Joachim Vosgerau People appear to be unrealistically optimistic about their future prospects, as reflected by theory and research in the fields of psychology, organizational behavior, behavioral economics, and behavioral finance. Many real-world examples... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010How Prevalent is Wishful Thinking? Misattribution of Arousal Causes Optimism and Pessimism in Subjective Probabilities

  • Behavior and Energy Policy (2010)

    Science, Vol. 327, Issue 5970, pg. 1204-1205, 2010.
    by Hunt Allcott and Sendhil Mullainathan The article discusses energy efficiency, human behavior, and research on both. The authors opine that behavioral sciences can be used to develop business and policy innovations. The article discusses relevant research... Read more>>
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    4/1/2010Behavior and Energy Policy

  • The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity (2010)

    American Anthropologist, Vol. 112, Issue 1, pg. 66-78, 2010.
    by Luhrmann, T. M., Nusbaum, Howard, Thisted, Ronald In this article, we use a combination of ethnographic data and empirical methods to identify a process called “absorption,” which may be involved in contemporary Christian evangelical prayer practice... Read more>>
    Apr 02 2010, 01:41 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010 The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity

  • The Social Desirability of Punishment Avoidance (2010)

    Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, doi:10.1093/jleo/ewp037
    by Avraham D. Tabbach This article argues that the law should sometimes encourage offenders to incur costs to avoid punishment. Avoidance, such as concealment of evidence, perjury, or obstruction of justice, is generally deemed socially undesirable because... Read more>>
    Apr 02 2010, 03:33 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010The Social Desirability of Punishment Avoidance

  • Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations (2010)

    Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pg. 47-64, 2010.
    by Gordon Sammut and George Gaskell The challenge of intercultural relations has become an important issue in many societies. In spite of the claimed value of intercultural diversity, successful outcomes as predicted by the contact hypothesis are but... Read more>>
    Apr 02 2010, 04:01 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Points of View, Social Positioning and Intercultural Relations

  • Degrees of Uncertainty: An Overview and Framework For Future Research On Experience-Based Choice (2010)

    Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 23 Issue 1, pg. 1-14, 2010.
    by Tim Rakow and Ben R. Newell A striking finding has emerged recently in the literature: When decision makers are faced with essentially the same choice, their preferences differ as a function of whether options are described or are “experienced” via... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Degrees of Uncertainty: An Overview and Framework For Future Research On Experience-Based Choice

  • Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Attenuated Discounting of Delayed Rewards in Aged Fischer 344 Rats (2010)

    Neurobiology of Aging, Vol. 31, Issue 5, pgs. 853-862, 2010.
    Nicholas W. Simon , Candi L. LaSarge , Karienn S. Montgomery , Matthew T. Williams , Ian A. Mendez , Barry Setlow , Jennifer L. Bizon The ability to make advantageous choices among outcomes that differ in magnitude, probability, and delay until their... Read more>>
    Apr 05 2010, 03:19 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Attenuated Discounting of Delayed Rewards in Aged Fischer 344 Rats

  • Framing Essay: Performing Public Wisdom (2010)

    Social Dynamics, Vol. 36, Issue 1, pgs. 179 - 186, 2010.
    by Leon de Kock "The conceit is often adopted in the strategic performance of public wisdom - oracular, figurative, enunciating visions and versions of self as well as community - that truth is looming, that it is there to be embraced in self-evidently... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Framing Essay: Performing Public Wisdom

  • How Planful is Routine Behavior? A Selective-Attention Model of Performance in the Tower of Hanoi (2010)

    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 139(1), pg. 95-116, 2010.
    by Elena G. Patsenko , Erik M. Altmann Routine human behavior has often been attributed to plans—mental representations of sequences goals and actions—but can also be attributed to more opportunistic interactions of mind and a structured environment.... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010How Planful is Routine Behavior? A Selective-Attention Model of Performance in the Tower of Hanoi

  • Pro-Environmental Behavior and Rational Consumer Choice: Evidence From Surveys of Life Satisfaction (2010)

    Journal of Economic Psychology, doi:10.1016/j.joep.2010.01.009, 2010.
    Heinz Welsch and Jan Kühling This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the hypothesis of decision error in environmental-friendly consumption. Existing evidence suggests that people make systematic mistakes in affective forecasting that lead... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010Pro-Environmental Behavior and Rational Consumer Choice: Evidence From Surveys of Life Satisfaction

  • The Impact of Autonomy and Task Uncertainty On Team Performance: A Longitudinal Field Study (2010)

    Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 31, Issue 2-3, pg. 240 - 258, 2010.
    by John L. Cordery, David Morrison, Brett M. Wright, Toby D. Wal In this paper, we seek to account for modest and inconsistent empirical support for a positive relationship between team autonomy and team performance by proposing that team task uncertainty... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2010The Impact of Autonomy and Task Uncertainty On Team Performance: A Longitudinal Field Study

  • The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution (2010)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2010) The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution, in Levene, M and Johnson, R and Roberts, P, (eds.) History at the End of the World?, pp. 80-93, Humanities-Ebooks: Penrith, UK
    Humanity faces two great problems of learning: learning about the nature of the universe and about ourselves as a part of the universe, and learning how to make progress towards a good, civilized world. We solved the first problem when we created modern... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 01:31 PM Type:Mine
    4/1/2010The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution

  • Neural Correlates of the "Aha" Experiences: Evidence From an fMRI Study of Insight Problem Solving (2010)

    Cortex Volume 46, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 397-403
    By Qiu J, Li H, Jou J, Liu J, Luo Y, Feng T, and Wu Z, Zhang Q. "In the present study, we used learning-testing paradigm to examine brain activation of "Aha" effects with event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010Neural Correlates of the "Aha" Experiences: Evidence From an fMRI Study of Insight Problem Solving

  • Conceptual Challenges and Directions for Social Neuroscience (2010)

    Neuron, Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 752-767
    By Ralph Adolphs Social neuroscience has been enormously successful and is making major contributions to fields ranging from psychiatry to economics. Yet deep and interesting conceptual challenges abound. Is social information processing domain specific... Read more>>
    Jun 09 2010, 09:16 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010Conceptual Challenges and Directions for Social Neuroscience

  • Debate: To Nudge or Not to Nudge (2010)

    Journal of Political Philosophy Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1, Pg. 123-136, 2010.
    Daniel M. Hausman and Brynn Welch One of the hottest ideas in current policy debates is “libertarian paternalism,” the design of policies that push individuals toward better choices without limiting their liberty. In their recent book, Nudge, Richard... Read more>>
    Feb 18 2010, 03:38 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010Debate: To Nudge or Not to Nudge

  • From Moral to Legal Judgment: The Influence of Normative Context in Lawyers and other Academics (2010)

    Social Cognitive and Effective Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq010, 2010.
    Stephan Schleim , Tade M. Spranger , Susanne Erk, Henrik Walter Various kinds of normative judgments are an integral part of everyday life. We extended the scrutiny of social cognitive neuroscience into the domain of legal decisions, investigating two... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010From Moral to Legal Judgment: The Influence of Normative Context in Lawyers and other Academics

  • Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (2010)

    From Philosophy to Neuroscience. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.
    Stephen S. Hall "A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience

  • Daniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory (2010)

    TED2010, filmed February 2010; Posted March 2010
    From TED "Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010Daniel Kahneman: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory

  • Reasoning About Social Conflicts Improves Into Old Age (2010)

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Science - www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1001715107
    by Igor Grossmann, Jinkyung Na, Michael E. W. Varnum, Denise C. Park, Shinobu Kitayama, and Richard E. Nisbett It is well documented that aging is associated with cognitive declines in many domains. Yet it is a common lay belief that some aspects of thinking... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    3/1/2010Reasoning About Social Conflicts Improves Into Old Age

  • Going Green to be Seen: Status, Reputation, and Conspicuous Conservation (2010)

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 98, No. 3, pg. 392-404, 2010.
    Vladas Griskevicius, Joshua M. Tybur, Bram Van den Bergh Why do people purchase proenvironmental “green” products? We argue that buying such products can be construed as altruistic, since green products often cost more and are of lower quality than their... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010Going Green to be Seen: Status, Reputation, and Conspicuous Conservation

  • On the Epistemology of Language (2010)

    The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 44, Issue 4, PP. 677 - 696.
    By Cheng-hung Tsai Epistemology of language, a branch of both epistemology and the philosophy of language, asks what knowledge of language consists in. In this paper, I argue that such an inquiry is a pointless enterprise due to its being based upon the... Read more>>
    May 04 2010, 12:08 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2010On the Epistemology of Language

  • The Epistemology of the Financial Crisis: Complexity, Causation, Law, and Judgment (2010)

    Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 19(2), pp. 299-351
    The focus on complexity as a problem of the financial meltdown of 2008–2009 suggests that crisis is in part epistemological: we now know enough about financial and economic systems to be threatened by their complexity, but not enough to relieve our fears... Read more>>
    Apr 07 2010, 09:46 AM Type:Mine
    3/1/2010The Epistemology of the Financial Crisis: Complexity, Causation, Law, and Judgment

  • Fragments and Figments (2010)

    http://charlesstirton.posterous.com/
    I have created a blog site where I will be uploading all my published and unpublished work plus Estories and Ebooks. To access these please go Charles Stirton's profile which lists the entries. The hotlink is situated just below the photograph. Read more>>
    Apr 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    3/1/2010Fragments and Figments

  • Cutting God in Half - and Putting the Pieces Together Again: A New Approach to Philosophy (2010)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2010) Cutting God in Half - and Putting the Pieces Together Again: A New Approach to Philosophy, Pentire Press, London, UK. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/105672/
    Cutting God in Half argues that, in order to tackle climate change, world poverty, extinction of species and our other global problems rather better than we are doing at present we need to bring about a revolution in science, and in academia more generally... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 01:20 PM Type:Mine
    3/1/2010Cutting God in Half - and Putting the Pieces Together Again: A New Approach to Philosophy

  • Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out (2010)

    Pronovost, P. & Vohr, E. (2012). Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out. New York, NY: Hudson Street Press.
    Book Description: Release Date: February 18, 2010 | Series: Pronovost, Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals The inspiring story of how a leading innovator in patient safety found a simple way to save countless lives. First, do no harm-doctors, nurses and clinicians... Read more>>
    Oct 24 2012, 01:05 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

  • Load Theory of Selective Attention and the Role of Perceptual Load: Is it Time for Revision? (2010)

    European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/09541440902787014.
    by Neha Khetrapal Perceptual load hypothesis is proposed as a compromise between early and late theory of selective attention which states that the selection will operate early when the load on perception is high and it will operate late when the load... Read more>>
    May 06 2010, 09:34 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Load Theory of Selective Attention and the Role of Perceptual Load: Is it Time for Revision?

  • The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning (2010)

    Information Age Publishing.
    (A Collaborative Project of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras) "The Talking Point is all about how people learn within groups. People can be much smarter than crowds if you measure “smart” as decision-making speed. Crowds can be much wiser than... Read more>>
    Jan 12 2010, 12:24 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning

  • The Role of Therapist Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Review. (2010)

    Clinical Psychology Review, Vol. 30, pg. 63-77,
    Jennifer R. Henretty, Heidi M. Levitt Over 90% of therapists self-disclose to clients (Mathews, 1989; Pope, Tabachnick, & Keith-Spiegel, 1987; Edwards & Murdock, 1994), however, the implications of therapist self-disclosure are unclear, with highly... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010The Role of Therapist Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Review.

  • Emotional and Behavioural Reactions to Moral Transgressions: Cross-Cultural and Individual Variations in India and Britain (2010)

    International Journal of Psychology, Vol. 45(1), pg. 64 - 71, 2010.
    by Simon M. Laham, Sonavi Chopra, Mansur Lalljee, Brian Parkinson Reactions to moral transgressions are subject to influence at both the cultural and individual levels. Transgressions against an individual's rights or against social conventions of... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Emotional and Behavioural Reactions to Moral Transgressions: Cross-Cultural and Individual Variations in India and Britain

  • Neural Evidence for Inequality-averse Social Preferences (2010)

    Nature, No. 463, pg. 1089-1091, 2010.
    Elizabeth Tricomi, Antonio Rangel, Colin F. Camerer, John P. O’Doherty A popular hypothesis in the social sciences is that humans have social preferences to reduce inequality in outcome distributions because it has a negative impact on their experienced... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Neural Evidence for Inequality-averse Social Preferences

  • Crossing the Interdisciplinary Divide: Political Science and Biological Science (2010)

    Political Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2, Pg. 320-339, 2010.
    Justin Greaves, Wyn Grant This article argues that interdisciplinary collaboration can offer significant intellectual gains to political science in terms of methodological insights, questioning received assumptions and providing new perspectives on subject... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Crossing the Interdisciplinary Divide: Political Science and Biological Science

  • Actors are Skilled in Theory of Mind But Not Empathy (2010)

    Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Vol. 29, No 2, 2010.
    by Thalia R. Goldstein, Katherine Wu, Ellen Winner Actors must imagine themselves in a different world: they must adopt the perspective of multiple characters, grasp their beliefs and intentions, and feel their emotions. In this study we tested the hypothesis... Read more>>
    Apr 02 2010, 11:20 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Actors are Skilled in Theory of Mind But Not Empathy

  • Confidence Mediates How Investment Knowledge Influences Investing Self-Efficacy (2010)

    Journal of Economic Psychology, doi:10.1016/j.joep.2010.01.012, 2010.
    by James Forbes and S. Murat Kara A comprehensive investment literacy questionnaire surveyed potential sources (viz., knowledge, confidence) of investing self-efficacy in a large sample of working adults. As expected, the effect of investment knowledge... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2010Confidence Mediates How Investment Knowledge Influences Investing Self-Efficacy

  • Leadership and Cultural Context: A theoretical and empirical examination based on Project GLOBE. (2010)

    Javidan, M., Dorfman, P.W., Howell, J.P., & Hanges, P.J. (2010). Leadership and Cultural Context: A theoretical and empirical examination based on Project GLOBE. (pp. 335- 376). In N. Nohria & R. Khurana (Eds.), Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
    In this chapter we examine how effective leadership varies across national and cultural boundaries. Specifically, we ask what elements of leadership are core and more universal across these boundaries? The foundation of our approach is the notion that... Read more>>
    Feb 26 2010, 03:56 PM Type:Mine
    2/1/2010Leadership and Cultural Context: A theoretical and empirical examination based on Project GLOBE.

  • Age, experience, and the beginning of wisdom (2010)

    Ardelt, M. (2010). Age, experience, and the beginning of wisdom. In D. Dannefer & C. Phillipson (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of social gerontology (pp. 306-316). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
    What wisdom is and what it encompasses has been variously defined across the ages, starting with the earliest ‘wisdom literature' among the ancient Sumerians in 3000 B.C. (Birren and Svensson, 2005). Distinctions between wisdom as knowledge of the... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    2/1/2010Age, experience, and the beginning of wisdom

  • The Centrality of Wisdom (2010)

    Macdonald, Copthorne. (2010). The Centrality of Wisdom. John E. Wade II Ed., How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth, Pelican Publishing Company, pp. 294-296.
    This article begins Considering the complexity of the world situation and the large number of problems that humanity faces, the task of achieving a heaven on earth seems daunting. Where does one start? Is there by any chance a simplifying element, a focal... Read more>>
    May 07 2010, 12:09 PM Type:Mine
    2/1/2010The Centrality of Wisdom

  • Evolving the Capacity to Understand Actions, Intentions, and Goals (2010)

    Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 61, pg. 303-324, 2010.
    Marc Hauser and Justin Wood We synthesize the contrasting predictions of motor simulation and teleological theories of action comprehension and present evidence from a series of studies showing that monkeys and apes—like humans—extract the meaning of... Read more>>
    Feb 12 2010, 11:36 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Evolving the Capacity to Understand Actions, Intentions, and Goals

  • Challenging Certainty: The Utility and History of Counterfactualism (2010)

    History and Theory, Vol. 49, No. 1, Pg. 38-57, 2010.
    Simon T. Kaye Counterfactualism is a useful process for historians as a thought-experiment because it offers grounds to challenge an unfortunate contemporary historical mindset of assumed, deterministic certainty. This article suggests that the methodological... Read more>>
    Feb 18 2010, 03:12 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Challenging Certainty: The Utility and History of Counterfactualism

  • Embodied Cognition and Mindreading (2010)

    Mind & Language, Vol. 25, No. 1, Pg. 119-140, 2010.
    Shannon Spaulding Recently, philosophers and psychologists defending the embodied cognition research program have offered arguments against mindreading as a general model of our social understanding. The embodied cognition arguments are of two kinds:... Read more>>
    Feb 18 2010, 03:17 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Embodied Cognition and Mindreading

  • A Social-Cognitive Framework of Multidisciplinary Team Innovation (2010)

    Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, Pg. 73-95, 2010.
    Susannah B. F. Paletz , Christian D. Schunn The psychology of science typically lacks integration between cognitive and social variables. We present a new framework of team innovation in multidisciplinary science and engineering groups that ties factors... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010A Social-Cognitive Framework of Multidisciplinary Team Innovation

  • The Freedom of Desire: Hegel's Response to Rousseau on the Problem of Civil Society (2010)

    American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 54, No. 1, Pg. 125-139, 2010.
    Jeffrey Church The ever-growing body of literature on civil society can benefit from a return to the original theoretical articulation and defense of the concept in the work of G.W.F. Hegel. Specifically, this article suggests that Jean-Jacques Rousseau's... Read more>>
    Feb 18 2010, 03:29 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010The Freedom of Desire: Hegel's Response to Rousseau on the Problem of Civil Society

  • Good and Good For You: An Affect Theory of Happiness (2010)

    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 80, No. 1, pg. 133-163, 2010.
    Laura Sizer Happiness is something we all want and strive for. But what is it and why do we want it so badly? Philosophers have offered two sorts of answers to the first question, identifying happiness either with a psychological state or condition (a... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Good and Good For You: An Affect Theory of Happiness

  • Comparing the Neural Basis of Monetary Reward and Cognitive Feedback during Information-Integration Category Learning (2010)

    The Journal of Neuroscience,Vol. 30, No. 1, pg. 47–55, 2010.
    Reka Daniel and Stefan Pollmann The dopaminergic system is known to play a central role in reward-based learning (Schultz, 2006), yet it was also observed to be involved when only cognitive feedback is given (Aron et al., 2004). Within the domain of information... Read more>>
    Feb 12 2010, 12:57 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Comparing the Neural Basis of Monetary Reward and Cognitive Feedback during Information-Integration Category Learning

  • A Distraction Can Impair or Enhance Motor Performance (2010)

    The Journal of Neuroscience,Vol. 30, No. 2, pg. 650-654, 2010.
    Christopher Hemond, Rachel M. Brown, Edwin M. Robertson Humans have a prodigious capacity to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Being distracted while, for example, performing a complex motor skill adds complexity to a task and thus leads to a performance... Read more>>
    Feb 12 2010, 01:02 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010A Distraction Can Impair or Enhance Motor Performance

  • Cognitive Management in an Enduring National Rivalry: The Case of India and Pakistan (2010)

    Political Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 6, Pg. 937-951.
    Peter Suedfeld, Rajiv Jhangiani Using integrative complexity scoring, the current study addresses how communications by leaders of India and Pakistan have revealed their information processing and decision-making strategies. The hostility between India... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 03:45 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Cognitive Management in an Enduring National Rivalry: The Case of India and Pakistan

  • Infant and Early Childhood Exposure to Adult-Directed and Child-Directed Television Programming: Relations with Cognitive Skills at Age Four (2010)

    Volume 56, Number 1, pp. 21-48.
    By Rachel Barr, Alexis Lauricella, Elizabeth Zack, Sandra L. Calvert. This study described the relations among the amount of child-directed versus adult-directed television exposure at ages 1 and 4 with cognitive outcomes at age 4. Sixty parents completed... Read more>>
    Mar 03 2010, 12:06 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Infant and Early Childhood Exposure to Adult-Directed and Child-Directed Television Programming: Relations with Cognitive Skills at Age Four

  • Parents and peers as providers of support in adolescents' social network: a developmental perspective (2010)

    Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 1, Pg. 16-27.
    Jorge F. del Valle, Amaia Bravo, Mónica López The authors carried out an assessment of social support networks with a sample of 884 Spanish adolescents aged 12 to 17. The main goal was to analyze the development of the figures of parents and peers as... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 03:32 PM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Parents and peers as providers of support in adolescents' social network: a developmental perspective

  • Dynamic Cultural Influences on Neural Representations of the Self (2010)

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 22, No. 1, pg. 1-11.
    Joan Y. Chiao , Tokiko Harada , Hidetsugu Komeda , Zhang Li , Yoko Mano , Daisuke Saito , Todd B. Parrish , Norihiro Sadato and Tetsuya Iidaka People living in multicultural environments often encounter situations which require them to acquire different... Read more>>
    Jan 01 2010, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    1/1/2010Dynamic Cultural Influences on Neural Representations of the Self

  • Democracy and Judicial Review: Are They Really Incompatible? (2009)

    Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pg. 805-822.
    Annabelle Lever This article shows that judicial review has a democratic justification, although it is not necessary for democratic government and its virtues are controversial and often speculative. Against critics like Waldron and Bellamy, it shows... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Democracy and Judicial Review: Are They Really Incompatible?

  • Measuring the Quality of Life in the U.S.: Political Reflections (2009)

    Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pg. .
    Jacob Hacker A review of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009 , by Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins. Reports from abroad on the American condition have a special place in the canon of social... Read more>>
    Jan 06 2010, 04:39 PM Type:Mine
    12/1/2009Measuring the Quality of Life in the U.S.: Political Reflections

  • Imagination, Concentration, and Generalization: Peirce on the Reasoning Abilities of the Mathematician (2009)

    Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 2.
    By Daniel G. Campos I discuss the epistemic conditions for the possibility of mathematical discovery that are implied by Peirce’s logic of mathematical inquiry. Peirce describes the mathematician’s reasoning abilities as the powers of imagination, concentration... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Imagination, Concentration, and Generalization: Peirce on the Reasoning Abilities of the Mathematician

  • Attending to Nature: Empathetic Engagement with the More than Human World (2009)

    Ethics & the Environment, Vol. 14, No. 2.
    By Lori Gruen Val Plumwood urged us to attend to earth others in non-dualistic ways. In this essay I suggest that such attention be promoted through what I call "engaged empathy." Engaged empathy involves critical attention to the conditions... Read more>>
    Jan 07 2010, 02:19 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Attending to Nature: Empathetic Engagement with the More than Human World

  • A Theology of Meaning: Hasidism and Deconstruction in Elie Wiesel's Souls on Fire (2009)

    Studies in American Jewish Literature, Vol. 28, pp 41-45.
    By Lauren Barlow Elie Wiesel's Souls on Fire , released in 1972, is a personal retelling of the lives and legends of the early Hasidic masters of Eastern Europe. The novel begins with the movement's founder, the Baal Shem, and chronicles the rise... Read more>>
    Jan 07 2010, 02:25 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009A Theology of Meaning: Hasidism and Deconstruction in Elie Wiesel's Souls on Fire

  • Translation as Self-Consciousness: Ancient Sciences, Antediluvian Wisdom, and the ‘Abbāsid Translation Movement (2009)

    Journal of World History, Vol. 20, No. 4.
    By Hayrettín Yücesoy This article discusses the translation of ancient Greek, Indian, and Persian texts of philosophy and sciences into Arabic from the eighth through the tenth centuries c.e. In particular, it addresses the issue of how ancient sciences... Read more>>
    Jan 07 2010, 02:30 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Translation as Self-Consciousness: Ancient Sciences, Antediluvian Wisdom, and the ‘Abbāsid Translation Movement

  • Nameless + harmless = blameless: When seemingly irrelevant factors influence judgment of (un)ethical behavior (2009)

    DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.11.001
    Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu and Max H. Bazerman People often make judgments about the ethicality of others’ behaviors and then decide how harshly to punish such behaviors. When they make these judgments and decisions, sometimes the victims of the unethical... Read more>>
    Jan 06 2010, 03:40 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Nameless + harmless = blameless: When seemingly irrelevant factors influence judgment of (un)ethical behavior

  • The Problem of Single-Party Predominance in an Unconsolidated Democracy: The Example of Argentina (2009)

    Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pg. 767-784.
    Leslie E. Anderson Parties can be a crucial to democratic function but not all parties or party systems are democratic. Some parties are fully competitive within a pluralist system while others, notably hegemonic parties, are antithetical to democracy... Read more>>
    Jan 06 2010, 03:49 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009The Problem of Single-Party Predominance in an Unconsolidated Democracy: The Example of Argentina

  • Restricted and Elaborated Modes in the Cultural Analysis of Politics (2009)

    Sociological Forum, Vol. 24, No. 4, Pg. 926-934.
    Brian Steensland The "cultural turn" that swept across the social sciences a generation ago ushered in renewed attention to the cultural analysis of politics. Yet despite this growing area of research, there remains a lack of integration between... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 03:29 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Restricted and Elaborated Modes in the Cultural Analysis of Politics

  • The ‘return to community’ (2009)

    Journal of Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 4, 433-444.
    Barbara Fawcett, Maurice Hanlon In Australia and the United Kingdom over the past two decades, the way human service professionals have been involved in ‘communities’, whether defined by ‘place’, ‘interest’ or ‘exclusion’, has varied with the political... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 11:31 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009The ‘return to community’

  • A Social Representations Approach To The Communication Between Different Spheres: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Two Discursive Formats (2009)

    Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 39, No. 4, Pg. 415 - 433.
    Susana Batel and Paula Castro This paper discusses the potential of the notions of reification and consensualization as developed by the theory of social representations as analytical tools for addressing the communication between the lay and scientific... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 11:47 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009A Social Representations Approach To The Communication Between Different Spheres: An Analysis Of The Impacts Of Two Discursive Formats

  • Unconscious Learning versus Visual Perception: Dissociable Roles for Gamma Oscillations Revealed in MEG (2009)

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 21, No. 12, Pg. 2287-2299.
    Maximilien Chaumon , Denis Schwartz and Catherine Tallon-Baudry Oscillatory synchrony in the gamma band (30–120 Hz) has been involved in various cognitive functions including conscious perception and learning. Explicit memory encoding, in particular,... Read more>>
    Jan 11 2010, 03:49 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Unconscious Learning versus Visual Perception: Dissociable Roles for Gamma Oscillations Revealed in MEG

  • What Is Political Psychology? (2009)

    Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pg. 859-882.
    Kristen Renwick Monroea, William Chiua, Adam Martina and Bridgette Portman We contribute to a greater understanding of political psychology by 1) collecting data in a more systematic way for the intellectual community, 2) sensitizing students to the extent... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009What Is Political Psychology?

  • Public Intellectuality: Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession (2009)

    Theory & Event, Vol. 12, No. 4.
    Patricia Mooney Nickel Painting in fin-de-siècle Vienna, like public intellectuality in fin-de-siècle America, was an act of portrayal at a time when artists then, like intellectuals today, composed in an environment characterized by rapid technological... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Public Intellectuality: Academies of Exhibition and the New Disciplinary Secession

  • A Longitudinal Test of the Model of Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition (2009)

    Political Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 6, Pg. 921-936.
    Miriam Matthews , Shana Levin , Jim Sidanius Using data from a longitudinal study of college students, this study assessed the relationships among the threat perceptions of realistic threat and intergroup anxiety, the ideological motives of system justification... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009A Longitudinal Test of the Model of Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition

  • Purpose: giftedness in intrapersonal intelligence. (2009)

    High Ability Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, pg. 143-159.
    Seana Moran Purpose is an internal compass that integrates engagement in activities that affect others, self-awareness of one's reasons, and the intention to continue these activities. We argue that purpose represents giftedness in intrapersonal intelligence... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Purpose: giftedness in intrapersonal intelligence.

  • Automatic Evaluation (2009)

    Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 18, No. 6, pg. 362-366.
    Melissa J. Ferguson and Vivian Zayas Humans continuously evaluate aspects of their environment (people, objects, places) in an automatic fashion (i.e., unintentionally, rapidly). Such evaluations can be highly adaptive, triggering behavioral responses... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Automatic Evaluation

  • The Process of Personal Change Through Reading Fictional Narratives: Implications for Psychotherapy Practice and Theory. (2009)

    Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 37, No. 4, pg. 326-352.
    Heidi M. Levitt, Woraporn Rattanasampan, Sean Suwichit, Caroline Stanley, Tamara Robinson This qualitative study provides an understanding of how and when individuals experience transformational change as a consequence of reading narratives. Six participants... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009 The Process of Personal Change Through Reading Fictional Narratives: Implications for Psychotherapy Practice and Theory.

  • Distinguishing the Power of Agency from Agentic Power: A Note on Weber and the "Black Box" of Personal Agency (2009)

    Sociological Theory, Vol. 27, No. 4, Pg. 407-418.
    Colin Campbell The concept of agency, although central to many sociological debates, has remained frustratingly elusive to pin down. This article is an attempt to open up what has been called the "black box" of personal agency by distinguishing... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Distinguishing the Power of Agency from Agentic Power: A Note on Weber and the "Black Box" of Personal Agency

  • Does Habitus Matter? A Comparative Review of Bourdieu's Habitus and Simon's Bounded Rationality with Some Implications for Economic Sociology (2009)

    Sociological Theory, Vol. 27, No. 4, Pg. 419-434.
    Francois Collet In this article, I revisit Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus and contrast it with Herbert Simon's notion of bounded rationality. Through a discussion of the literature of economic sociology on status and Fligstein's political... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 11:58 AM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Does Habitus Matter? A Comparative Review of Bourdieu's Habitus and Simon's Bounded Rationality with Some Implications for Economic Sociology

  • Philosophical Pitfalls: The Methods Debate in American Political Science (2009)

    Journal of Integrated Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, pg. 141-176, 2009.
    Nivien Saleh Positivism dominates research in U.S. political science. I will show that even though critical realism is virtually unknown in the discipline, realist concepts have found their way into debates among qualitative methodologists. The analysis... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Philosophical Pitfalls: The Methods Debate in American Political Science

  • Contextualized self: When the self runs into social dilemmas (2009)

    International Journal of Psychology, Vol. 44, No. 6, pg. 451-458, 2009.
    Chang-Jiang Liu, Shu Li Research on the construction of self and of others has indicated that the way that individuals construe themselves and others exerts an important influence on their cognition, emotion, and even behavior. The present study extends... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Contextualized self: When the self runs into social dilemmas

  • The Evolution of Misbelief (2009)

    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 32, No. 6, pg. 493-510, 2009.
    Ryan T. McKay, Daniel C. Dennett From an evolutionary standpoint, a default presumption is that true beliefs are adaptive and misbeliefs maladaptive. But if humans are biologically engineered to appraise the world accurately and to form true beliefs,... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009The Evolution of Misbelief

  • Non-instrumental belief is largely founded on singularity (2009)

    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 32, No. 6, pg. 511-512, 2009.
    George Ainslie The radical evolutionary step that divides human decision-making from that of nonhumans is the ability to excite the reward process for its own sake, in imagination. Combined with hyperbolic over-valuation of the present, this ability is... Read more>>
    Feb 12 2010, 12:27 PM Type:NotMine
    12/1/2009Non-instrumental belief is largely founded on singularity

  • Extending the range of adaptive misbelief: Memory “distortions” as functional features (2009)

    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 32, No. 6, pg. 513-514, 2009.
    Pascal Boyer A large amount of research in cognitive psychology is focused on memory distortions, understood as deviations from various (largely implicit) standards. Many alleged distortions actually suggest a highly functional system that balances the... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009Extending the range of adaptive misbelief: Memory “distortions” as functional features

  • What’s Wrong With Science? Towards a People’s Rational Science of Delight and Compassion. (2009)

    London: Pentire Press.
    By Nicholas Maxwell. What ought to be the aims of science? How can science best serve humanity? What would an ideal science be like, a science that is sensitively and humanely responsive to the needs, problems and aspirations of people? How ought the... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009What’s Wrong With Science? Towards a People’s Rational Science of Delight and Compassion.

  • Emotional Reactivity Across the Adult Life Span: The Cognitive Pragmatics Make a Difference (2009)

    Psychology & Aging, Vol. 24, Issue 4, pg. 879-889, 2009.
    by Ute Kunzmann and David Richter Previously, we found that during films about age-typical losses, older adults experienced greater sadness than young adults, whereas their physiological responses were just as large. In the present study, our goal was... Read more>>
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    12/1/2009 Emotional Reactivity Across the Adult Life Span: The Cognitive Pragmatics Make a Difference

  • Fast and Frugal Heuristics: Tools of Social Rationality (2009)

    Social Cognition, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pg. 661-698
    Ralph Hertwig and Stefan M. Herzog Homo economicus cannot help but be puzzled by people's baffling array of social behaviors that conflict with economic theory. To accommodate these “deviant” behaviors within the standard view of rationality, defined... Read more>>
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    11/1/2009Fast and Frugal Heuristics: Tools of Social Rationality

  • The Cognitive-Ecological Approach to Rationality in Social Psychology (2009)

    Social Cognition, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pg. 699-732
    Klaus Fiedler and Michaela Wänke The entire discipline of social cognition has been greatly influenced by the heuristics-and-biases research program, which was traditionally based on an internal attribution of bounded rationality to the individual's... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The Cognitive-Ecological Approach to Rationality in Social Psychology

  • Adaptive Rationality: An Evolutionary Perspective on Cognitive Bias (2009)

    Social Cognition, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pg. 733-763
    Martie G. Haselton , Gregory A. Bryant , Andreas Wilke , David A. Frederick , Andrew Galperin , Willem E. Frankenhuis , Tyler Moore A casual look at the literature in social cognition reveals a vast collection of biases, errors, violations of rational... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Adaptive Rationality: An Evolutionary Perspective on Cognitive Bias

  • Neuroculture (2009)

    Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Vol. 10, pg. 815-821
    Giovanni Frazzetto & Suzanne Anker Neuroscience addresses questions that, if resolved, will reveal aspects of our individuality. Therefore neuroscientific knowledge is not solely constrained within laboratories, but readily captures the attention... Read more>>
    Nov 02 2009, 03:34 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Neuroculture

  • The motivated use of moral principles (2009)

    Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 476-491
    by Eric Luis Uhlmann, David A. Pizarro, David Tannenbaum and Peter H. Ditto Five studies demonstrated that people selectively use general moral principles to rationalize preferred moral conclusions. In Studies 1a and 1b, college students and community... Read more>>
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    11/1/2009The motivated use of moral principles

  • Investigating the Role of Two Types of Understanding in Relationship Well-Being: Understanding Is More Important Than Knowledge (2009)

    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 11, pg. 1512-1527.
    By: Monique M. H. Pollman and Catrin Finkenauer Understanding is at the heart of intimate relationships. It is unclear, however, whether understanding—partners’ subjective feeling that they understand each other—or knowledge—partners’ accurate knowledge... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Investigating the Role of Two Types of Understanding in Relationship Well-Being: Understanding Is More Important Than Knowledge

  • Emotions as Within or Between People? Cultural Variation in Lay Theories of Emotion Expression and Inference (2009)

    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 11, 1427-1439.
    By Yukiko Uchida, Sarah S. M. Townsend, Hazel Rose Markus, and Hilary B. Bergsieker Four studies using open-ended and experimental methods test the hypothesis that in Japanese contexts, emotions are understood as between people, whereas in American contexts... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    11/1/2009Emotions as Within or Between People? Cultural Variation in Lay Theories of Emotion Expression and Inference

  • Individuals, groups, fitness and utility: multi-level selection meets social choice theory (2009)

    Biology and Philosophy Volume 24, Number 5, pg. 561-584.
    By Samir Okasha In models of multi-level selection, the property of Darwinian fitness is attributed to entities at more than one level of the biological hierarchy, e.g. individuals and groups. However, the relation between individual and group fitness... Read more>>
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    11/1/2009Individuals, groups, fitness and utility: multi-level selection meets social choice theory

  • The long reach of philosophy of biology (2009)

    Biology and Philosophy, DOI 10.1007/s10539-009-9185-7.
    A review of Michael Ruse's book by Matt Gers. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology covers a broad range of topics in this field. It is not just a textbook focusing on evolutionary theory but encompasses ethics, social science and behaviour... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The long reach of philosophy of biology

  • Knowledge and Intellectual Practice in Swahili Context: 'Wisdom' and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge (2009)

    Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Volume 79, Number 1, pp. 148-167.
    By Kai Kresse This article investigates ‘wisdom’ from an ethnographic perspective that pays attention to the ways in which knowledge is performed, appreciated, negotiated and questioned in everyday life in Mombasa, on the Swahili coast. It discusses the... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Knowledge and Intellectual Practice in Swahili Context: 'Wisdom' and the Social Dimensions of Knowledge

  • Cognitive Error and Contemplative Practices: The Cultivation of Discernment in Mind and Heart (2009)

    Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 29, pp. 61-82.
    By Wesley J. Wildman Brains are amazing organs in all creatures with central nervous systems and especially in human beings. But they are not perfect. Without forgetting the larger success story of cognitive evolution, I want to explore the way that cognitive... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2009, 11:55 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Cognitive Error and Contemplative Practices: The Cultivation of Discernment in Mind and Heart

  • Beholding the Logos: The Church, the Environment, and the Meaning of Man (2009)

    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Volume 12, Number 3, pp. 33-52.
    By Christopher J. Thompson To behold the heavens and gaze upon the infinite expanse of a star-studded sky, indeed to ponder any vista of creation's splendor is to be drawn not merely into the mystery of creation, the intricacies of cause and effect;... Read more>>
    Dec 01 2009, 12:03 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Beholding the Logos: The Church, the Environment, and the Meaning of Man

  • Optimal Predictions in Everyday Cognition: The Wisdom of Individuals or Crowds? (2009)

    Cognitive Science 32: 1133-1147
    by Michael C. Mozer, Harold Pashler and Hadjar Homaei Griffiths and Tenenbaum (2006) asked individuals to make predictions about the duration or extent of everyday events (e.g., cake baking times), and reported that predictions were optimal, employing... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Optimal Predictions in Everyday Cognition: The Wisdom of Individuals or Crowds?

  • The Wisdom of Individuals: Exploring People’s Knowledge About Everyday Events Using Iterated Learning (2009)

    Cognitive Science 33: 969–998.
    by Stephan Lewandowsky, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael L. Kalish Determining the knowledge that guides human judgments is fundamental to understanding how people reason, make decisions, and form predictions. We use an experimental procedure called ‘‘iterated... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The Wisdom of Individuals: Exploring People’s Knowledge About Everyday Events Using Iterated Learning

  • The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life (2009)

    Tarcher, 2009
    by Jeremy Taylor "Renowned dream expert Jeremy Taylor can help you discover how the hidden messages in your dreams can change your life. In The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap Into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life, Taylor shows... Read more>>
    Nov 13 2009, 11:41 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life

  • "I Was a Boy with Power to Talk" (Conf. 1.8.13): Augustine and Ancient Theories of Language Acquisition (2009)

    Journal of Late Antiquity, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 357-373.
    By Tarmo Toom This study compares Augustine's remarks on language acquisition in the Confessions with those of Stoics, Epicureans, and Pyrrhonists and assesses the similarities and differences of the respective accounts. It studies a specific issue... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:Mine
    11/1/2009"I Was a Boy with Power to Talk" (Conf. 1.8.13): Augustine and Ancient Theories of Language Acquisition

  • Cortex and Memory: Emergence of a New Paradigm (2009)

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 21, No. 11, Pages 2047-2072.
    Joaquín M. Fuster Converging evidence from humans and nonhuman primates is obliging us to abandon conventional models in favor of a radically different, distributed-network paradigm of cortical memory. Central to the new paradigm is the concept of memory... Read more>>
    Nov 24 2009, 03:57 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Cortex and Memory: Emergence of a New Paradigm

  • The scent of supercolonies: the discovery, synthesis and behavioural verification of ant colony recognition cues (2009)

    BMC Biology 2009, 7:71
    Miriam Brandt, Ellen van Wilgenburg, Robert Sulc, Kenneth J Shea and Neil D Tsutsui (wisdom grantee) Background Ants form highly social and cooperative colonies that compete, and often fight, against other such colonies, both intra- and interspecifically... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The scent of supercolonies: the discovery, synthesis and behavioural verification of ant colony recognition cues

  • How effectively do people learn from a variety of different opinions? (2009)

    Experimental Economics, DOI 10.1007/s10683-009-9220-1
    by Andrew Healy This paper presents experimental evidence about how effectively individuals learn from information coming from heterogeneous sources. In the experiment, Thai subjects observed information that came from Americans and from other Thais that... Read more>>
    Nov 02 2009, 02:36 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009How effectively do people learn from a variety of different opinions?

  • The cognitive neuroscience of deception (2009)

    Social Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/17470910802507660
    Giorgio Ganis and Julian Paul Keenan William Hazlitt (1778-1830), a British writer, once asserted that, “life is the art of being deceived.” Human social relations are so steeped in deception that it is impossible to imagine life without it. From great... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The cognitive neuroscience of deception

  • When Elephants Fly: Differential Sensitivity of Right and Left Inferior Frontal Gyri to Discourse and World Knowledge (2009)

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 21, No. 12, pg. 2358-2368
    Laura Menenti , Karl Magnus Petersson, René Scheeringa , and Peter Hagoort Both local discourse and world knowledge are known to influence sentence processing. We investigated how these two sources of information conspire in language comprehension. Two... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009When Elephants Fly: Differential Sensitivity of Right and Left Inferior Frontal Gyri to Discourse and World Knowledge

  • Toward a Relativity Theory of Rationality (2009)

    Social Cognition, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pg. 639-660
    Arie W. Kruglanski and Edward Orehek We analyze two conceptions of rationality featured in the social science literature, rationality as a means-ends relation and rationality as logical consistency . The former concerns the rationality of actions ; it... Read more>>
    Nov 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Toward a Relativity Theory of Rationality

  • The Role of Peer Social Capital in Educational Assimilation of Immigrant Youths (2009)

    Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 79, No. 4, 453-480.
    Igor Ryabov The academic achievement of immigrant children has been a focus of social research for decades. Yet little attention has been paid to peer social capital and its importance as a school context factor for the academic success of immigrant youths... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 12:01 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The Role of Peer Social Capital in Educational Assimilation of Immigrant Youths

  • Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change (2009)

    Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 79, No. 4, 735-753.
    Kathleen Gerson Sociology's enduring concern with explaining the links between individual and social change has never been more relevant. We are poised at a moment when changing lives are colliding with resistant institutions. These tensions have... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 12:03 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change

  • The Mafioso Case: Autonomy and Self-respect (2009)

    Ethical Theory and Practice, Vol. 12, No. 5, 477-493.
    Carla Bagnoli This article argues that immoralists do not fully enjoy autonomous agency because they are not capable of engaging in the proper form of practical reflection, which requires relating to others as having equal standing. An adequate diagnosis... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 03:51 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The Mafioso Case: Autonomy and Self-respect

  • Responsibility and the Brain Sciences (2009)

    Ethical Theory and Practice, Vol. 12, No. 5, 511-524.
    Felipe De Brigard, Eric Mandelbaum, David Ripley Some theorists think that the more we get to know about the neural underpinnings of our behaviors, the less likely we will be to hold people responsible for their actions. This intuition has driven some... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 03:59 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Responsibility and the Brain Sciences

  • Taken on Faith? The Impact of Uncertainty, Knowledge Relatedness, and Richness of Information on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exploitation (2009)

    Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, pg. 117-130.
    Matthew S. Wood, J. Michael Pearson This article develops a theoretical model that suggests that differential levels of uncertainty, knowledge relatedness, and richness of information will have a substantial impact on the decision to engage in entrepreneurship... Read more>>
    Jan 06 2010, 04:36 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Taken on Faith? The Impact of Uncertainty, Knowledge Relatedness, and Richness of Information on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exploitation

  • Sit Back and Enjoy The Ride: Financial planners and the symbolic domination of clients. (2009)

    Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1065-1086.
    Patrick F. Parnaby Borrowing from Bourdieu’s theory of practice, specifically, the relationship between forms of capital and discourse on the one hand and the nature of symbolic domination on the other (see Bourdieu 1998; 1991), this paper seeks to answer... Read more>>
    Jan 11 2010, 03:46 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Sit Back and Enjoy The Ride: Financial planners and the symbolic domination of clients.

  • Free time as a necessary condition of free life (2009)

    Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4, pg. 373-393.
    Jeff Noonan Human life is finite. Given that lifetime is necessarily limited, the experience of time in any given society is a central ethical problem. If all or most of human lifetime is consumed by routine tasks (or resting for the resumption of routine... Read more>>
    Jan 11 2010, 04:05 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Free time as a necessary condition of free life

  • The Self-Organization of Explicit Attitudes. (2009)

    Psychological Science, Vol. 20, No. 11, pg.1428-1435.
    Michael T. Wojnowicz, Melissa J. Ferguson, Rick Dale, Michael J. Spivey How do minds produce explicit attitudes over several hundred milliseconds? Speeded evaluative measures have revealed implicit biases beyond cognitive control and subjective awareness... Read more>>
    Jan 14 2010, 03:17 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009The Self-Organization of Explicit Attitudes.

  • Self-Affirmation Enhances Attentional Bias Toward Threatening Components of a Persuasive Message (2009)

    Psychological Science, Vol. 20, No. 12, Pages 1463-1467.
    William M.P. Klein and Peter R. Harris We explored whether self-affirmation enhances attentional bias toward threatening elements of a persuasive message. Female alcohol consumers read an article linking alcohol to *** cancer and were then exposed supraliminally... Read more>>
    Jan 06 2010, 03:57 PM Type:NotMine
    11/1/2009Self-Affirmation Enhances Attentional Bias Toward Threatening Components of a Persuasive Message

  • The Institutional Production of National Science in the 20th Century (2009)

    International Sociology, Vol. 24, No. 6, pg. 833-869.
    Emilio J. Castillo Science and scientific production have been widely promoted as powerful tools for advancing national economic and social development. While much progress has been made in determining whether this is the case, less understood are the... Read more>>
    Jan 06 2010, 04:17 PM Type:Mine
    11/1/2009The Institutional Production of National Science in the 20th Century

  • The urgent need for an academic revolution: the rational pursuit of wisdom (2009)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2009) The urgent need for an academic revolution: the rational pursuit of wisdom, in Tandy, C, (ed.) Nine Hundred Years After St. Anselm (1033-1109), pp. 211-238, Ria University Press, Palto Alto, California. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/105666/
    We are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries or so, academia has been devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and technological know-how. This has enormously increased our power to act which has, in turn... Read more>>
    Dec 24 2012, 02:36 PM Type:Mine
    11/1/2009The urgent need for an academic revolution: the rational pursuit of wisdom

  • Teaching for Wisdom in Public Schools to Promote Personal Giftedness (2009)

    Ferrari, M. (2009). Teaching for Wisdom in Public Schools to Promote Personal Giftedness. Springer Netherlands.
    Description: Schools must educate students not merely to become knowledgeable about disciplines that concern the external world (like history or geography) but also to pursue a responsible and happy life. This is a personal discipline or an art unto itself... Read more>>
    Oct 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Teaching for Wisdom in Public Schools to Promote Personal Giftedness

  • You are who remembers you. Detecting leadership through accuracy of recall (2009)

    Social Networks, Vol. 31, No. 4, pg. 255-261.
    Francesca Grippa and Peter A. Gloor We measured interpersonal perception accuracy by focusing on the relationship between actors’ centrality and their ability to accurately report their social interactions. We used the network measures of actors’ betweenness... Read more>>
    Jan 11 2010, 03:39 PM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009You are who remembers you. Detecting leadership through accuracy of recall

  • Opening the black box of link formation: Social factors underlying the structure of the web (2009)

    Social Networks, Vol. 31, No. 4, pg. 271-280.
    Sondra Gonzalez-Bailon Links play a twofold role on the web: they open the channels through which users access information, and they determine the centrality of sites and their visibility. This paper adds two factors to the analysis of links that aim... Read more>>
    Jan 11 2010, 03:42 PM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Opening the black box of link formation: Social factors underlying the structure of the web

  • Saving the world one patient at a time: Psychoanalysis and social critique (2009)

    Psychotherapy and Politics International, Vol. 7, No. 3, Pg. 190-205.
    Jennifer Tolleson In contrast to its revolutionary beginnings, the psychoanalytic discourse has abandoned its potential as a critical, dissident force in contemporary life. It is imperative, in our efforts to engage in socially responsible clinical practice... Read more>>
    Jan 15 2010, 04:15 PM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Saving the world one patient at a time: Psychoanalysis and social critique

  • Christian Women in IPV Relationships: An Exploratory Study of Religious Factors. (2009)

    Journal of Psychology & Christianity, Vol. 28, No. 3, pg, 224-235.
    Mei-Chuan Wang, Sharon G. Horne, Heidi M. Levitt, Lisa M. Klesges The study examined Christian women's religious beliefs and practices in relationship to their intimate partner violence (IPV) relationships. The religious variables included religious... Read more>>
    Jan 14 2010, 03:12 PM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Christian Women in IPV Relationships: An Exploratory Study of Religious Factors.

  • Perceptual Decisions: From Sensory Signals to Behavior (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 18, pgs. R847-R849
    by Joachim Gross and Markus Ploner Recent non-invasive studies in humans provide new insights into the timing of perceptual decision making and show that integrated sensory evidence is represented in motor areas well before a behavioral response. Read... Read more>>
    Oct 01 2009, 09:10 AM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Perceptual Decisions: From Sensory Signals to Behavior

  • Animal Cognition: Aesop's Fable Flies from Fiction to Fact (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 17, pgs R731-R732
    by Alex H. Taylor and Russell D. Gray A new study shows that rooks are able to spontaneously drop stones into a tube of water to obtain a floating worm. This sophisticated problem solving raises intriguing questions about the use of imagination in animals... Read more>>
    Oct 01 2009, 09:13 AM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Animal Cognition: Aesop's Fable Flies from Fiction to Fact

  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (2009)

    House of Anansi Press (October 13, 2009)
    by Wade Davis "Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking... Read more>>
    Oct 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

  • Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making (2009)

    Klein, Gary. Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009.
    "In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we... Read more>>
    Oct 09 2009, 03:04 PM Type:NotMine
    10/1/2009Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

  • Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks (2009)

    DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2009.04.005.
    Camille Roth, Jean-Philippe Cointet Socio-semantic networks involve agents creating and processing information: communities of scientists, software developers, wiki contributors and webloggers are, among others, examples of such knowledge networks. We... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks

  • Are complex decisions better left to the unconscious? Further failed replications of the deliberation-without-attention effect (2009)

    Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 4, No. 6, pg. 509–517.
    Dustin P. Calvillo and Alan Penaloza The deliberation-without-attention effect occurs when better decisions are made when people experience a period of distraction before a decision than when they make decisions immediately or when they spend time reflecting... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009Are complex decisions better left to the unconscious? Further failed replications of the deliberation-without-attention effect

  • Predicting Soccer Matches After Unconscious and Conscious Thought as a Function of Expertise (2009)

    Psychological Science, Vol. 20, No. 11, Pg. 1381-1387.
    Ap Dijksterhuis , Maarten W. Bos , Andries van der Leij , and Rick B. van Baaren In two experiments, we investigated the effects of expertise and mode of thought on the accuracy of people's predictions. Both experts and nonexperts predicted the results... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009Predicting Soccer Matches After Unconscious and Conscious Thought as a Function of Expertise

  • Decisions Under Distress: Stress Profiles Influence Anchoring and Adjustment (2009)

    Psychological Science, Volume 20, No. 11, Pages 1394 - 1399.
    Karim S. Kassam , Katrina Koslov , Wendy Berry Mendes People frequently make decisions under stress. Understanding how stress affects decision making is complicated by the fact that not all stress responses are created equal. Challenge states, for example... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009Decisions Under Distress: Stress Profiles Influence Anchoring and Adjustment

  • Wisdom and Positive Psychosocial Values in Young Adulthood (2009)

    Journal of Adult Development, DOI 10.1007/s10804-009-9081-z
    by Jeffrey Dean Webster Abstract : The current project investigates wisdom and positive psychosocial characteristics in young adults in a series of three overlapping studies. Study 1 ( N = 61) investigated wisdom and ego-integrity, values, and life attitudes... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009Wisdom and Positive Psychosocial Values in Young Adulthood

  • Are Universities Undergoing an Intellectual Revolution? (2009)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2009) Are Universities Undergoing an Intellectual Revolution?, Oxford Magazine , issue 290, 8th Week, Trinity Term, pp. 13-16. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/105613/
    For over 30 years I have argued, in and out of print that, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, we urgently need a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry. Instead of giving priority to the search for knowledge, academia needs... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009Are Universities Undergoing an Intellectual Revolution?

  • The Berlin Wisdom Paradigm: A Conceptual Analysis of a Psychological Approach to Wisdom (2009)

    History & Philosophy of Psychology, 2009, 11(2), pp. 25-35
    By Konrad Banicki. The main purpose of this article is to undertake a conceptual investigation of the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm: a psychological project initiated by Paul Baltes and intended to study the complex phenomenon of wisdom. Firstly, in order to... Read more>>
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    10/1/2009The Berlin Wisdom Paradigm: A Conceptual Analysis of a Psychological Approach to Wisdom

  • Fitness “kinematics”: biological function, altruism, and organism–environment development (2009)

    Biology and Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 4.
    by Marshall Abrams Abstract: It’s recently been argued that biological fitness can’t change over the course of an organism’s life as a result of organisms’ behaviors. However, some characterizations of biological function and biological altruism tacitly... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009Fitness “kinematics”: biological function, altruism, and organism–environment development

  • Autonomy, Experience, and Reflection. On a Neglected Aspect of Personal Autonomy (2009)

    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. ISSN 1572-8447
    By Claudia Blöser, Aron Schöpf and Marcus Willaschek The aim of this paper is to suggest that a necessary condition of autonomy has not been sufficiently recognized in the literature: the capacity to critically reflect on one’s practical attitudes (desires... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009Autonomy, Experience, and Reflection. On a Neglected Aspect of Personal Autonomy

  • The Validity of a New, Self-report Measure of Multiple Intelligence (2009)

    Current Psychology. ISSN 1936-4733
    By Adrian Furnham In all, 187 participants completed a new, self-report measure of eight multiple intelligences (Haselbauer 2005), a General Knowledge test (Irwing et al. Personality and Individual Differences 30:857–871, 2001), a measure of Approaches... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009The Validity of a New, Self-report Measure of Multiple Intelligence

  • Varieties of (Scientific) Creativity: A Hierarchical Model of Domain-Specific Disposition, Development, and Achievement (2009)

    Perspectives on Psychological Science, Volume 4, No. 5, Pages 441 - 452.
    Dean Keith Simonton Prior research supports the inference that scientific disciplines can be ordered into a hierarchy ranging from the "hard" natural sciences to the "soft" social sciences. This ordering corresponds with such objective... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009Varieties of (Scientific) Creativity: A Hierarchical Model of Domain-Specific Disposition, Development, and Achievement

  • What Do ‘We’ Know That ‘They’ Don’t? Sociologists’ versus Non-Sociologists’ Knowledge (2009)

    Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 3, 671-695.
    Anne Mesny This paper attempts to clarify or to reposition some of the controversies generated by Burawoy’s defense of public sociology and by his vision of the mutually stimulating relationship between the different forms of sociology. Before arguing... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009What Do ‘We’ Know That ‘They’ Don’t? Sociologists’ versus Non-Sociologists’ Knowledge

  • The Unconscious Eye Opener: Pupil Dilation Reveals Strategic Recruitment of Resources Upon Presentation of Subliminal Reward Cues (2009)

    Psychological Science, Vol. 20, No. 11, Pg. 1313-1315.
    Erik Bijleveld, Ruud Custers, and Henk Aarts No abstract available. Read the article . Read more>>
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    9/1/2009The Unconscious Eye Opener: Pupil Dilation Reveals Strategic Recruitment of Resources Upon Presentation of Subliminal Reward Cues

  • The desirability bias in predictions: Going optimistic without leaving realism (2009)

    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, DOI:10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.08.003.
    Paul D. Windschitl, Andrew R. Smith, Jason P. Rose and Zlatan Krizan Does desire for an outcome inflate optimism? Previous experiments have produced mixed results regarding the desirability bias , with the bulk of supportive findings coming from one paradigm... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009The desirability bias in predictions: Going optimistic without leaving realism

  • "Fighting with Proverbs": Kasena Women's (Re)Definition of Female Personhood through Proverbial Jesting (2009)

    Research in African Literatures, Volume 40, Number 3, Fall 2009, pp. 74-95
    By Helen Yitah This study is an attempt to document and critically explore what I term the "proverbial revolt" of Kasena women from northern Ghana. The women take advantage of a socially sanctioned medium, the joking relationship that exists... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009"Fighting with Proverbs": Kasena Women's (Re)Definition of Female Personhood through Proverbial Jesting

  • The effects of insula damage on decision-making for risky gains and losses (2009)

    Social Neuroscience, Volume 4, Issue 4 August 2009 , pages 347 - 358
    By Joshua A. Weller; Irwin P. Levin; Baba Shiv; Antoine Bechara Several lines of functional neuroimaging studies have attributed a role for the insula, a critical component of the brain's emotional circuitry, in risky decision-making. However, very... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009The effects of insula damage on decision-making for risky gains and losses

  • Fairness as Appropriateness (2009)

    Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 34, No. 5, 573-606
    By Grégoire Mallard, Michèle Lamont, Joshua Guetzkow Epistemological differences fuel continuous and frequently divisive debates in the social sciences and the humanities. Sociologists have yet to consider how such differences affect peer evaluation.... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009Fairness as Appropriateness

  • Empathic forecasting: How do we predict other people's feelings? (2009)

    Cognition and Emotion - 2009 - volume 23 - issue 5 - first page 978
    By Pollmann, Monique; Finkenauer, Catrin When making affective forecasts, people commit the impact bias. They overestimate the impact an emotional event has on their affective experience. In three studies we show that people also commit the impact bias... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009Empathic forecasting: How do we predict other people's feelings?

  • The Romance of Learning from Disagreement. The Effect of Cohesiveness and Disagreement on Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Individual Performance Within Teams (2009)

    Journal of Business and Psychology
    By Marianne van Woerkom and Karin Sanders | Journal of Business and Psychology ' Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of disagreement and cohesiveness on knowledge sharing in teams, and on the performance of individual team... Read more>>
    Sep 24 2009, 11:43 AM Type:NotMine
    9/1/2009The Romance of Learning from Disagreement. The Effect of Cohesiveness and Disagreement on Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Individual Performance Within Teams

  • A Process Model of Organizational Change in Cultural Context (OC3 Model) (2009)

    Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, 19-37 (2009)
    By Gail F. Latta Change resides at the heart of leadership. Organizational culture is one of many situational variables that have emerged as pivotal in determining the success of leaders' efforts to implement change initiatives. This article introduces... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009A Process Model of Organizational Change in Cultural Context (OC3 Model)

  • Bringing Meaning to Numbers: The Impact of Evaluative Categories on Decisions (2009)

    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Vol. 15, No. 3, pg. 213-227.
    Ellen Peters, Nathan F. Dieckmann, Daniel Västfjäll, C. K. Mertz, Paul Slovic, Judith H. Hibbard Decision makers are often quite poor at using numeric information in decisions. The results of 4 experiments demonstrate that a manipulation of evaluative... Read more>>
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    9/1/2009Bringing Meaning to Numbers: The Impact of Evaluative Categories on Decisions

  • Why Compare? (2009)

    New Literary History, Volume 40, Number 3, pp. 453-471.
    By R. Radhakrishnan. The purpose of this essay is to complicate the rationale that informs "our" will to comparative knowledge. Why do we want to compare when we are not sure who the "we" is? Any act of comparison, despite the best... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Why Compare?

  • The Material World of Comparison (2009)

    New Literary History, Volume 40, Number 3, pp. 523-545.
    By Pheng Cheah. If comparison is a fundamental activity of human consciousness, then what is its stimulus internal to consciousness or the human spirit or something that comes from the external or objective world? This essay traces the genealogy of the... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009The Material World of Comparison

  • Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organizations, Persons (2009)

    Religious Studies Review Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 153-153
    By Amos Yong | Religious Studies Review "This volume extends the conversation opened up by the series of volumes produced by the jointly sponsored Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (Berkeley, CA) ventures and... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organizations, Persons

  • The Crystallization of Contemporary Racial Prejudice across the Lifespan (2009)

    Political Psychology, Volume 30, Number 4, August 2009 , pp. 569-590(22)
    By P. J. Henry and David O Sears 'The conventional wisdom is that racial prejudice remains largely stable through adulthood. However, very little is known about the development of contemporary racial attitudes like symbolic racism. The growing crystallization... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009The Crystallization of Contemporary Racial Prejudice across the Lifespan

  • Thinking about Language (2009)

    CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 50, Number 4
    By Robin Dunbar. "Just what makes the difference between apes (and especially chimpanzees) and humans has remained one of the perennial questions that has bedeviled much of the debate in comparative psychology, as well as primatology and anthropology... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Thinking about Language

  • The Developmental Etiology of High IQ (2009)

    Behavior Genetics, Volume 39, Number, 1573-3297.
    By Angela M. Brant and et al. "The genetic and environmental trends in IQ development were assessed in 483 same-sex twin pairs in the Colorado longitudinal twin study using maximum-likelihood model-fitting analysis. The twins were assessed periodically... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009The Developmental Etiology of High IQ

  • Discounting future green: Money versus the environment (2009)

    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Vol 138(3), 2009, 329-340.
    In 3 studies, participants made choices between hypothetical financial, environmental, and health gains and losses that took effect either immediately or with a delay of 1 or 10 years. In all 3 domains, choices indicated that gains were discounted more... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Discounting future green: Money versus the environment

  • Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment (2009)

    Cognition, Volume 111, Issue 3, Pages 364-371.
    By Joshua D. Greene, et al. (Joshua Green is a wisdom grantee). In some cases people judge it morally acceptable to sacrifice one person’s life in order to save several other lives, while in other similar cases they make the opposite judgment. Researchers... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Pushing moral buttons: The interaction between personal force and intention in moral judgment

  • Social Science & Human Flourishing: The Scottish Enlightenment & Today (2009)

    Journal of Scottish Philosophy
    By Ryan P. Hanley, a wisdom grantee. The Scottish Enlightenment is commonly identified as the birthplace of modern social science. But while Scottish and contemporary social science share a commitment to empiricism, contemporary insistence on the separation... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Social Science & Human Flourishing: The Scottish Enlightenment & Today

  • The Role of Self-Compassion in Development: A Healthier Way to Relate to Oneself (2009)

    Human Development, 2009;52:211–214.
    By Kristin D. Neff The idea that people need high self-esteem in order to be psychologically healthy is almost a truism in Western developmental psychology. Parents are told that one of their most important tasks is to nurture their children’s self-esteem... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009The Role of Self-Compassion in Development: A Healthier Way to Relate to Oneself

  • Rapid evolution of social learning (2009)

    Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 22 Issue 9, pg 1914 - 1922.
    By M. FRANZ & C. L. NUNN "Culture is widely thought to be beneficial when social learning is less costly than individual learning and thus may explain the enormous ecological success of humans. Rogers (1988. Does biology constrain culture. Am... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Rapid evolution of social learning

  • The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution (2009)

    Annals of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 5, pg 562 - 572.
    By R. I. M. Dunbar "The social brain hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the fact that primates have unusually large brains for body size compared to all other vertebrates: Primates evolved large brains to manage their unusually complex... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution

  • Neural Correlates of Value, Risk, and Risk Aversion Contributing to Decision Making under Risk (2009)

    DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2614-09.2009.
    George I. Christopoulos, Philippe N. Tobler, Peter Bossaerts, Raymond J. Dolan, and Wolfram Schultz Decision making under risk is central to human behavior. Economic decision theory suggests that value, risk, and risk aversion influence choice behavior... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Neural Correlates of Value, Risk, and Risk Aversion Contributing to Decision Making under Risk

  • Mindfulness and Psychotherapy (2009)

    Religious Studies Review. Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 151-152
    By Ann Gleig "This edited collection provides a useful and clear overview of the increasing adoption of mindfulness practice by psychotherapeutic and medical communities. Defining mindfulness as the "awareness of present experience with acceptance... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

  • Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right (2009)

    Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 10, 439-446, 28 August 2009
    By Terry Regier and Paul Kay "The Whorf hypothesis holds that we view the world filtered through the semantic categories of our native language. Over the years, consensus has oscillated between embrace and dismissal of this hypothesis. Here, we review... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right

  • Nicholas Maxwell in Context: The Relationship of His Wisdom Theses to the Contemporary Global Interest in Wisdom (2009)

    Macdonald, Copthorne. (2009). Nicholas Maxwell in Context: The Relationship of His Wisdom Theses to the Contemporary Global Interest in Wisdom. Leemon McHenry, Ed. Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell. Ontos Verlag. pp. 61-81.
    This chapter in Leemon McHenry's book acknowledges Nicholas Maxwell's quest since the early 1980s: Maxwell has called for a shift in academic focus from knowledge acquisition for its own sake to “what is of value in life” for human beings. Knowledge... Read more>>
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    8/1/2009Nicholas Maxwell in Context: The Relationship of His Wisdom Theses to the Contemporary Global Interest in Wisdom

  • Feeling Validated Versus Being Correct: A Meta-Analysis of Selective Exposure to Information (2009)

    Psychological Bulletin, 135, pg. 555-588.
    William Hart, Dolores Albarracín, Alice H. Eagly, Inge Brechan, Matthew J. Lindberg, Lisa Merrill A meta-analysis assessed whether exposure to information is guided by defense or accuracy motives. The studies examined information preferences in relation... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Feeling Validated Versus Being Correct: A Meta-Analysis of Selective Exposure to Information

  • Proactivity Directed Toward the Team and Organization: The Role of Leadership, Commitment and Role-breadth Self-efficacy (2009)

    British Journal of Management, Vol. 20, No. 3, Pg. 279 - 291.
    Karoline Strauss , Mark A. Griffin and Alannah E. Rafferty Employees' proactive behaviour is increasingly important for organizations seeking to adapt in uncertain economic environments. This study examined the link between leadership and proactive... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Proactivity Directed Toward the Team and Organization: The Role of Leadership, Commitment and Role-breadth Self-efficacy

  • Medial cortex activity, self-reflection and depression (2009)

    Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Vol. 4, No. 4, pg. 313-327.
    Marcia K. Johnson , Susan Nolen-Hoeksema , Karen J. Mitchell and Yael Levin Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated neural activity associated with self-reflection in depressed [current major depressive episode (MDE)] and healthy... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Medial cortex activity, self-reflection and depression

  • Philosophy in the trenches: from naturalized to experimental philosophy (of science) (2009)

    Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 40, Issue 2, pg 225-226
    Karola Stotz Recent years have seen the development of an approach both to general philosophy and philosophy of science often referred to as ‘experimental philosophy’ or just ‘X-Phi’. Philosophers often make or presuppose empirical claims about how people... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009Philosophy in the trenches: from naturalized to experimental philosophy (of science)

  • Eliciting conceptual models to support interdisciplinary research (2009)

    Journal of Information Science, Vol. 35, No. 3, 259-278
    Pieter J. Beers and Pieter W.G. Bots Constructing interdisciplinary knowledge is particularly difficult because scientific knowledge is situated in its discipline. Researchers must find common ground to share, and this causes high transaction costs. This... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2009, 08:57 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009Eliciting conceptual models to support interdisciplinary research

  • Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry (2009)

    Journal of Research in Personality, 43: 18-24
    Cokely, E.T., & Feltz, A. When the side effect of an action involves moral considerations (e.g. when a chairman’s pursuit of profits harms the environment) it tends to influence theory-of-mind judgments. On average, bad side effects are judged intentional... Read more>>
    Jun 29 2009, 11:31 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry

  • The dynamics of development: Challenges for Bayesian reasoning (2009)

    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32: 103-104
    Straubinger, N., Cokely, E.T., & Stevens, J.R. According to Aristotle, humans are the rational animal. The borderline between rationality and irrationality is fundamental to many aspects of human life including the law, mental health, and language... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009The dynamics of development: Challenges for Bayesian reasoning

  • What is context? (2009)

    Anthropological Theory, Vol. 9, No. 2, 149-169
    This essay is an attempt to explore the ontology of context by elucidating its uses in the production of new knowledges out of the old. It is argued that some of the master concepts in anthropological discourse, to wit nature, culture, society and the... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009What is context?

  • Valuing Knowledge: A Deontological Approach (2009)

    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 10.1007/s10677-009-9185-3
    The fact that we ought to prefer what is comparatively more likely to be good, I argue, does, contrary to consequentialism, not rest on any evaluative facts. It is, in this sense, a deontological requirement. As such it is the basis of our valuing those... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Valuing Knowledge: A Deontological Approach

  • Neuroscience: Knowledge rewards (2009)

    Nature
    "Monkeys like to know the size of rewards coming their way, and, in the brain, this desire is signalled by the same dopamine neurons that signal primitive rewards like sex and food. Ethan Bromberg-Martin and Okihide Hikosaka of the National Eye Institute... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Neuroscience: Knowledge rewards

  • From Rational to Wise Action: Recasting Our Theories of Entrepreneurship (2009)

    Journal of Business Ethics, DOI 10.1007/s10551-009-0170-5
    In this article, I argue that if we challenge some tacit assumptions of narrow rationality that endure in much of entrepreneurial studies, we can elevate entrepreneurial ethics beyond mere external constraints on rational action, and move toward fuller... Read more>>
    Aug 04 2009, 03:54 PM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009From Rational to Wise Action: Recasting Our Theories of Entrepreneurship

  • Cognitive Ecology: Environmental Dependence of the Fitness Costs of Learning (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 12, pgs R486-R488
    Nigel E. Raine A recent study has found that butterflies maintain behavioural plasticity useful to them in rare environments by reducing associated costs in common environments. Butterflies use innate sensory biases to locate common green hosts, but learn... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2009, 09:32 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009Cognitive Ecology: Environmental Dependence of the Fitness Costs of Learning

  • Learning and Memory: While You Rest, Your Brain Keeps Working (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 12, 23 June 2009, pgs R484-R486
    Justin L. Vincent A recent study shows that brain activity recorded while the human subject is at ‘rest’ is significantly affected by a prior learning episode. These results suggest that understanding resting brain activity may be critical to understanding... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Learning and Memory: While You Rest, Your Brain Keeps Working

  • Mothers and Others (2009)

    Harvard University Press, 2009
    The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Mothers and Others

  • Clinical reasoning: new challenges (2009)

    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol 30, 3: 173-179.
    William E. Stempsey This article is an introduction to a special issue of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics on clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning encompasses the gamut of thinking about clinical medical practice-the evaluation and management of patients'... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009Clinical reasoning: new challenges

  • Wisdom in clinical reasoning and medical practice (2009)

    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol 30, 3: 231-247.
    Exploring informal components of clinical reasoning, we argue that they need to be understood via the analysis of professional wisdom. Wise decisions are needed where action or insight is vital, but neither everyday nor expert knowledge provides solutions... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Wisdom in clinical reasoning and medical practice

  • Calculative Deliberation is Insufficient for Practical Wisdom (2009)

    Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol 43, Issue 2: 149-164.
    After witnessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt was particularly astonished not by the criminal's horrific deeds during the Holocaust but by his thoughtlessness. Thoughtlessness is not stupidity but the inability or failure to think from... Read more>>
    Jul 27 2009, 11:28 AM Type:NotMine
    7/1/2009Calculative Deliberation is Insufficient for Practical Wisdom

  • Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest (2009)

    PNAS June 30, 2009 vol. 106 no. 26 10841-10846.
    By Howard C. Nusbaum, et al. "The human brain demonstrates complex yet systematic patterns of neural activity at rest. We examined whether functional connectivity among those brain regions typically active during rest depends on ongoing and recent... Read more>>
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    7/1/2009Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest

  • Psychology and Medical Decision-Making (2009)

    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 9, Issue 6 & 7 June 2009 , pgs 79 - 81
    Christopher Suhler and Patricia Churchland "In the target article discussion of the Changing Ethical Norms category, Kon (2009) rightly highlights the contributions psychological research can make to bioethics. In this commentary, we suggest that... Read more>>
    Jul 01 2009, 09:17 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2009Psychology and Medical Decision-Making

  • Wisdom: Exploring the Pinnacle of Human Virtues as a Central Link from Micromarketing to Macromarketing” (2009)

    Journal of Macromarketing, 29 (2), 98-118
    The macromarketing system is largely the function of many micromarketing decisions made each day. But this connection has not been probed thoroughly in the macromarketing literature, and there is a need for conceptual frameworks that can successfully... Read more>>
    Aug 06 2009, 10:44 AM Type:Mine
    6/1/2009Wisdom: Exploring the Pinnacle of Human Virtues as a Central Link from Micromarketing to Macromarketing”

  • The x-phi(les): unusual insights into the nature of inquiry (2009)

    Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 40, Issue 2, pg 227-232
    Jonathan M. Weinberg and Stephen Crowley Experimental philosophy is often regarded as a category mistake. Even those who reject that view typically see it as irrelevant to standard philosophical projects. We argue that neither of these claims can be sustained... Read more>>
    Jun 30 2009, 02:46 PM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2009The x-phi(les): unusual insights into the nature of inquiry

  • The Experience of Depth Curiosity: The Pursuit of Congruence Despite the Danger of Engulfment (2009)

    Journal of Constructivist Psychology; Jul2009, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p187-212.
    A recent publication by one of our grantees and colleagues, Heidi Levitt. This article presents a grounded theory analysis of the experience of sustaining an abiding curiosity. Results emphasize how curiosity became inherently motivating and pleasurable... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    6/1/2009The Experience of Depth Curiosity: The Pursuit of Congruence Despite the Danger of Engulfment

  • Temperament and intuition: A commentary on Feltz and Cokely (2009)

    Consciousness & Cognition; Mar2009, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p351-355.
    Co-authored by one of our grantees, Eddy Nahmias. "In this paper, we examine Adam Feltz and Edward Cokely’s recent claim that “the personality trait extraversion predicts people’s intuitions about the relationship of determinism to free will and... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Temperament and intuition: A commentary on Feltz and Cokely

  • A quantum probability explanation for violations of ‘rational’ decision theory (2009)

    Proc. R. Soc. B, 276, 1665: 2171-2178.
    Emmanuel M. Pothos and Jerome R. Busemeyer Two experimental tasks in psychology, the two-stage gambling game and the Prisoner's Dilemma game, show that people violate the sure thing principle of decision theory. These paradoxical findings have resisted... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009A quantum probability explanation for violations of ‘rational’ decision theory

  • Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Intelligence (2009)

    Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
    "In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the outsize intelligence of our ancestors, who had bigger brains than humans living today. Weaving together... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Intelligence

  • Learning: An evolutionary analysis (2009)

    Educational Philosophy and Theory Volume 41 Issue 3, Pages 256 - 269
    J oanna S wann " This paper draws on the philosophy of Karl Popper to present a descriptive evolutionary epistemology that offers philosophical solutions to the following related problems: 'What happens when learning takes place?' and 'What... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Learning: An evolutionary analysis

  • The Cultural Roots of Professional Wisdom: Towards a broader view of teacher expertise (2009)

    Educational Philosophy and Theory Volume 41 Issue 2, Pages 141 - 154
    D avid C arr & D on S kinner "Perhaps the most pressing issue concerning teacher education and training since the end of the Second World War has been that of the role of theory—or principled reflection—in professional expertise. Here, although... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009The Cultural Roots of Professional Wisdom: Towards a broader view of teacher expertise

  • Reason, emotion and decision-making: risk and reward computation with feeling (2009)

    Trends in Cognitive Sciences Volume 13, Issue 5, May 2009, Pages 209-215
    Steven R. Quartz Many models of judgment and decision-making posit distinct cognitive and emotional contributions to decision-making under uncertainty. Cognitive processes typically involve exact computations according to a cost-benefit calculus, whereas... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Reason, emotion and decision-making: risk and reward computation with feeling

  • Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are? Personality differences in intuitions about compatibilism and incompatibilism (2009)

    Consciousness and Cognition Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 342-350
    Adam Feltz and Edward T. Cokely "Recently, there has been an increased interest in folk intuitions about freedom and moral responsibility from both philosophers and psychologists. We aim to extend our understanding of folk intuitions about freedom... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are? Personality differences in intuitions about compatibilism and incompatibilism

  • Dirty work, clean hands: The moral psychology of indirect agency (2009)

    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Article in Press, Corrected Proof
    Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene and Max H. Bazerman When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Dirty work, clean hands: The moral psychology of indirect agency

  • The Wisdom Development Scale: Further Validity Investigations (2009)

    Int'l J. Aging and Human Development, Vol. 68 (4) 289-320.
    by Jeffrey A. Greene and Scott C. Brown Researchers are gaining an interest in the concept of wisdom, a more holistic yet often ineffable educational outcome. Models of wisdom abound, but few have rigorously tested measures. This study looks at Brown... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009The Wisdom Development Scale: Further Validity Investigations

  • Natural compatibilism versus natural incompatibilism: Back to the drawing board (2009)

    Mind and Language, 24, 1-23.
    Feltz, A., Cokely, E.T., Nadelhoffer, T. In the free will literature, some compatibilists and some incompatibilists claim that their views best capture ordinary intuitions concerning free will and moral responsibility. One goal of researchers working... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Natural compatibilism versus natural incompatibilism: Back to the drawing board

  • An Interfaith Wisdom: Scriptural Reasoning between Jews, Christians, and Muslims (2009)

    Modern Theology, Volume 22 Issue 3, pgs 345 - 366
    David F. Ford The origins of scriptural reasoning, in which Jews, Christians and Muslims study their scriptures in conversation with each other, are described. Some maxims implicit in its form of Abrahamic collegiality are distilled (including the emphasis... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009An Interfaith Wisdom: Scriptural Reasoning between Jews, Christians, and Muslims

  • Genetic contributions of the serotonin transporter to social learning of fear and economic decision making (2009)

    Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Vol. 4, No. 3, pg. 399-408.
    Liviu G. Cri an, Simona Pan , Romana Vulturar, Renata M. Heilman, Raluca Szekely,Bogdan Drug and Andrei C. Miu Serotonin (5-HT) modulates emotional and cognitive functions such as fear conditioning (FC) and decision making. This study investigated the... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Genetic contributions of the serotonin transporter to social learning of fear and economic decision making

  • Serotonin shapes risky decision making in monkeys (2009)

    # Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, Vol. 4, No. 4, pg. 346-356.
    Arwen B. Long, Cynthia M. Kuhn and Michael L. Platt Some people love taking risks, while others avoid gambles at all costs. The neural mechanisms underlying individual variation in preference for risky or certain outcomes, however, remain poorly understood... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Serotonin shapes risky decision making in monkeys

  • Law and Grace in Saint Augustine. A fresh perspective on mindfulness and spirituality in behavior therapy. (2009)

    Vandenberghe, L., & Costa Prado, F. (2009). Law and grace in Saint Augustine: a fresh perspective on mindfulness and spirituality in behaviour therapy. Mental health, religion & culture, 12, 587-600.
    This article compares some aspects of Saint Augustine's philosophy with the ideas that underlay mindfulness work in modern psychotherapy. It suggests that some ideas current in behavioral treatments like ACT, DBT and FAP can be recognised in Saint... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Law and Grace in Saint Augustine. A fresh perspective on mindfulness and spirituality in behavior therapy.

  • How Can Life of Value Best Flourish in the Real World? (2009)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2009) How Can Life of Value Best Flourish in the Real World?, in McHenry, L, (ed.) Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, pp. 1-56, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15607/
    In this essay I outline my work in philosophy during the last forty years. I explain how my work has sought to help solve two fundamental problems, namely: Problem 1 : How can we understand our human world, embedded as it is within the physical universe... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009How Can Life of Value Best Flourish in the Real World?

  • Replies and Reflections (2009)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2009) Replies and Reflections, in McHenry, L, (ed.) Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, pp. 249-313, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/105618/
    I reply to critical discussion of my work by Copthorne Macdonald, Steve Fuller, John Stewart, Joseph Agassi, Margaret Boden, Donald Gillies, Mathew Iredale, David Hodgson, Karl Rogers, and Leemon McHenry. Read more>>
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    6/1/2009Replies and Reflections

  • From knowledge to wisdom (2009)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2009) From knowledge to wisdom, in Cayley, D, (ed.) Ideas on the Nature of Science, pp. 360-378, Goose Lane Edictions, New Brunswick, Canada. See http://philpapers.org/rec/MAXFKT-6
    There are these two absolutely basic problems: to learn about the universe and ourselves as a part of the universe, and to learn how to create a civilized world. Essentially, we have solved the first problem. We solved it when we created modern science... Read more>>
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    6/1/2009From knowledge to wisdom

  • Relations of homology between higher cognitive emotions and basic emotions (2009)

    Biology and Philosophy, epub ahead of print.
    Jason A. Clark In the last 10 years, several authors including Griffiths and Matthen have employed classificatory principles from biology to argue for a radical revision in the way that we individuate psychological traits. Arguing that the fundamental... Read more>>
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    5/1/2009Relations of homology between higher cognitive emotions and basic emotions

  • Colony-level cognition (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 10, 26 May 2009
    James A.R. Marshall and Nigel R. Franks "What is cognition? We favour the following definition of cognition: “cognition [is] the ability to use internal representations of information acquired in separate events, and to combine these to generate... Read more>>
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    5/1/2009Colony-level cognition

  • Functional Neuroanatomy: The Locus of Human Intelligence (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 10, 26 May 2009
    Parashkev Nachev, Yee-Haur Mah and Masud Husain A new study mapping the functional effects of brain lesions has revealed a surprising map of human intelligence, stimulating a re-evaluation of data from purely correlative methods such as functional magnetic... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2009, 03:45 PM Type:NotMine
    5/1/2009Functional Neuroanatomy: The Locus of Human Intelligence

  • Social Learning: What Do Drosophila Have to Offer? (2009)

    Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 9, 12 May 2009
    Ellouise Leadbeater The recent finding that female Drosophila copy the mate-choice criteria of other females introduces a mainstream model species to the study of how animals use social information. Read the article. Read more>>
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    5/1/2009Social Learning: What Do Drosophila Have to Offer?

  • Can evolution explain how minds work? (2009)

    Nature 458, 832-833
    Johan J. Bolhuis & Clive D. L. Wynne "Biologists have tended to assume that closely related species will have similar cognitive abilities. Johan J. Bolhuis and Clive D. L. Wynne put this evolutionarily inspired idea through its paces. Darwin's... Read more>>
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    5/1/2009Can evolution explain how minds work?

  • Is free will an illusion? (2009)

    Nature 459, 164-165
    Martin Heisenberg Scientists and philosophers are using new discoveries in neuroscience to question the idea of free will. They are misguided, says Martin Heisenberg. Examining animal behaviour shows how our actions can be free... Read the essay. Read more>>
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    5/1/2009Is free will an illusion?

  • Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (2009)

    Ballentine Books, 2009.
    by Ellen J. Langer "If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise... Read more>>
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    5/1/2009Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

  • What is Human Wisdom?: An Interrogation of Posthuman Futures in Transhuman Evolutionary Discourse (2009)

    Deane-Drummond, C. (2009). What is Human Wisdom?: An Interrogation of Posthuman Futures in Transhuman Evolutionary Discourse. The Global Spiral, 10 (2).
    Excerpt: " Transhumanism is the view that humans should be permitted to use technology in order to re-make human nature, offered as the next stage in human evolution. It differs from posthumanism in as much as posthumanity is largely concerned with... Read more>>
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    5/1/2009What is Human Wisdom?: An Interrogation of Posthuman Futures in Transhuman Evolutionary Discourse

  • Hagia Sophia (Divine Wisdom) (2009)

    Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(4):353
    Perspective on wisdom, holism, and epistemics, a term used to describe the systematic study of subjective knowledge. This article is a commentary on the Neurobiology of Wisdom article in the same issue and journal. by James C. Harris, M.D. There is in... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Hagia Sophia (Divine Wisdom)

  • Inferior Parietal Lobule Supports Decision Making under Uncertainty in Humans (2009)

    Vickery, T. J., & Jiang, Y. V. (2009). Inferior Parietal Lobule Supports Decision Making under Uncertainty in Humans. Cerebral Cortex, 19 (4): 916-925.
    Abstract: The optimal responses for many decisions faced by humans are ill defined, yet we are able to choose well by associating choices with outcomes, and employing this information in decision making.Previous studies suggest that the parietal cortex... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009Inferior Parietal Lobule Supports Decision Making under Uncertainty in Humans

  • Empirical Ethics as Dialogical Practice (2009)

    Bioethics, Vol. 23, Issue 4, pg. 236-248
    Widdershoven, G (Widdershoven, Guy), Abma, T (Abma, Tineke), Molewijk, B (Molewijk, Bert) Abstract: In this article, we present a dialogical approach to empirical ethics, based upon hermeneutic ethics and responsive evaluation. Hermeneutic ethics regards... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009Empirical Ethics as Dialogical Practice

  • The justificatory power of moral experience (2009)

    Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pg. 234-237
    by van Thiel, G. J. M. W., van Delden, J. J. M. Abstract: A recurrent issue in the vast amount of literature on reasoning models in ethics is the role and nature of moral intuitions. In this paper, we start from the view that people who work and live... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009The justificatory power of moral experience

  • Questions of wisdom (2009)

    Nurs Sci Q, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pg. 120-124
    Sandra Schmidt Bunkers, RN; PhD; FAAN Abstract: In this column questions concerning wisdom are addressed, such as, what is wisdom? Can wisdom be taught in the academy? Several perspectives on wisdom from philosophy, education, business, and psychology... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009Questions of wisdom

  • Wisdom in Caring Research (2009)

    Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2, 109-115
    Marguerite J. Purnell, RN; PhD Abstract: Light is the metaphor for wisdom; we seek and turn toward light as we seek and reach for wisdom, personally and professionally. The purpose of human life is, as Jung noted, kindling the light of meaning to illuminate... Read more>>
    Apr 16 2009, 09:09 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Wisdom in Caring Research

  • Wisdom principles as a meta-theoretical basis for evaluating leadership (2009)

    Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 20, Issue 2: 177-190
    McKenna, Bernard, Rooney, David, Boal, Kimberley B " Abstract : This article responds to calls in the management and leadership literature to articulate a role for wisdom. While many talk about the role of wisdom, few people have attempted to articulate... Read more>>
    Apr 16 2009, 09:19 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Wisdom principles as a meta-theoretical basis for evaluating leadership

  • The knowledge pyramid: a critique of the DIKW hierarchy (2009)

    Journal of Information Science Frické 35 (2): 131
    by Martin Frické Abstract : The paper evaluates the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy. This hierarchy, also known as the 'knowledge hierarchy', is part of the canon of information science and management. Arguments are offered... Read more>>
    Apr 16 2009, 09:26 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009The knowledge pyramid: a critique of the DIKW hierarchy

  • Knowledge, wisdom and intellectual leadership: a question of the future and knowledge-based sustainability (2009)

    International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Vol. 6, No.1/2 : 52 - 70
    David Rooney, Bernard McKenna Abstract: Important aspects of knowledge that are underresearched include links between knowledge, wisdom and leadership. This represents a research lacuna, which, if addressed, can help leaders develop knowledge-based strategies... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Knowledge, wisdom and intellectual leadership: a question of the future and knowledge-based sustainability

  • Introductory: The Global Potential of Pragmatism (2009)

    Human Affairs 19, 1–9
    EMIL VIŠŇOVSKÝ "From among the many philosophies that have ever existed, the best versions may be considered the philosophies that exert their effect on human conduct. Philosophy for the sake of philosophy itself may be edifying and sublime, like... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009Introductory: The Global Potential of Pragmatism

  • The Neurobiology of Wisdom: A Literature Overview (2009)

    Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(4):355-365.
    Thomas W. Meeks, MD; Dilip V. Jeste, MD Context Wisdom is a unique psychological trait noted since antiquity, long discussed in humanities disciplines, recently operationalized by psychology and sociology researchers, but largely unexamined in psychiatry... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009The Neurobiology of Wisdom: A Literature Overview

  • Is Our Brain Too Big to Think Effectively? (2009)

    Current Anthropology Volume 50, Number 2, April 2009
    Konrad R. Fialkowski "In their paper, “Archaic Human Admixture,” Garrigan and Kingan ( 2007 ) wrote, In contrast to Xp21 and RRM2P4 examples, in which the putatively introgressed archaic lineages were found at relatively low frequencies, the MCPH1... Read more>>
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    4/1/2009Is Our Brain Too Big to Think Effectively?

  • Intention, Belief, and Wishful Thinking: Setiya on “Practical Knowledge” (2009)

    Ethics 119 (April 2009): 546–557
    Sarah K. Paul In “Practical Knowledge,” Kieran Setiya argues for the thesis that “forming an intention is forming a belief about what one is doing, or what one is going to do.” He then takes up what appears to be a curious consequence of this thesis:... Read more>>
    Jun 30 2009, 04:15 PM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Intention, Belief, and Wishful Thinking: Setiya on “Practical Knowledge”

  • Social Imperatives for Better education: Putting Wisdom on the Agenda (2009)

    Education Canada, Volume 49, No. 2, p. 40-3.
    By Sharon Rich, John McLaughlin Educators must adapt the institutions in which they work to ensure students' wisdom is developed. They should recognize and articulate the current educational context, broaden their perspective of education , be prepared... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Social Imperatives for Better education: Putting Wisdom on the Agenda

  • What role does commitment play among writers with different levels of creativity? (2009)

    Creativity Research Journal
    By Seana Moran, a wisdom grantee. "Commitment involves how a person invests resources in a work role over long periods of time. Creativity is a novel, appropriate variation that is embraced by a field of gatekeepers and transforms the symbolic domain... Read more>>
    Apr 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009What role does commitment play among writers with different levels of creativity?

  • Intention, Practical Rationality, and Self‐Governance (2009)

    Ethics 119: 411–443.
    The planning theory of intention and of our agency highlights the fundamental coordinating and organizing roles of structures of planning in the temporally extended and social practical thought and action of agents like us. Intentions are elements of... Read more>>
    Jul 29 2009, 08:31 AM Type:NotMine
    4/1/2009Intention, Practical Rationality, and Self‐Governance

  • Renewal Coaching: Sustainable change for individuals and organizations (2009)

    San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
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    3/1/2009Renewal Coaching: Sustainable change for individuals and organizations

  • Gender Differences in Implicit Theories of Wisdom (2009)

    Gluck, J., Strasser, I. & Bluck, S. (2009). Gender differences in implicit theories of wisdom. Research in Human Development, 6 (Special Issue: Gender and Wisdom), 27-44.
    Abstract: Three studies are reported that investigated different aspects of gender differences in implicit theories. In Study 1, participants rated characteristics and possible sources of wisdom concerning their importance for wisdom. Gender differences... Read more>>
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    3/1/2009Gender Differences in Implicit Theories of Wisdom

  • Adaptive variation in judgment and philosophical intuition (2009)

    Consciousness and Cognition Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 356-358.
    Our theoretical understanding of individual differences can be used as a tool to test and refine theory. Individual differences are useful because judgments, including philosophically relevant intuitions, are the predictable products of the fit between... Read more>>
    Jun 01 2009, 12:52 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2009Adaptive variation in judgment and philosophical intuition

  • Neuroethics as a Brain-Based Philosophy of Life: The Case of Michael S. Gazzaniga (2009)

    Neuroethics, 2: 3-11
    "Michael S. Gazzaniga, a pioneer and world leader in cognitive neuroscience, has made an initial attempt to develop neuroethics into a brain-based philosophy of life that he hopes will replace the irrational religious and political belief-systems... Read more>>
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    3/1/2009Neuroethics as a Brain-Based Philosophy of Life: The Case of Michael S. Gazzaniga

  • Conceptions of Wisdom (2009)

    JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, Vol. 35, Issue 1, pg. 110
    Abstract: This article reports exploratory research on the meanings associated with the concept of wisdom by two groups of intending information professionals. Concern for the limited success of knowledge management initiatives and the complexity and... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2009Conceptions of Wisdom

  • The role of overall justice judgments in organizational justice research (2009)

    Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol 94(2), pg. 491-500.
    "Organizational justice research traditionally focuses on the unique predictability of different types of justice (distributive, procedural, and interactional) and the relative importance of these types of justice on outcome variables. Recently,... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2009The role of overall justice judgments in organizational justice research

  • Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell (2009)

    Ontos Verlag
    by Leemon McHenry (Ed.) "Nicholas Maxwell's provocative and highly-original philosophy of science urges a revolution in academic inquiry affecting all branches of learning, so that the single-minded pursuit of knowledge is replaced with the aim... Read more>>
    Mar 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2009Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell

  • The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism (2009)

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Vol. 45, Issue 1, pg. 114
    A recently published review of J.L. Schellenberg's 2007 "The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism," Cornell University Press, 2007 by Jack Macintosh. Read the review Read more>>
    Mar 17 2009, 10:44 AM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2009The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism

  • Spontaneous planning for future stone throwing by a male chimpanzee (2009)

    Osvath, M. (2009). Spontaneous planning for future stone throwing by a male chimpanzee. Current Biology, 19 (5): R190-R191.
    Abstract: Planning for a future, rather than a current, mental state is a cognitive process generally viewed as uniquely human. Here, however, I shall report on a decade of observations of spontaneous planning by a male chimpanzee in a zoo. The planning... Read more>>
    Apr 20 2009, 03:29 PM Type:NotMine
    3/1/2009Spontaneous planning for future stone throwing by a male chimpanzee

  • Beyond belief: The emergence of a new enlightenment. (2009)

    Proceedings of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 11: 161-168
    The paper explores the question: Is humanity undergoing a radical shift in consciousness and are we in the beginnings of a new enlightenment that takes us beyond belief? I argue that we have entered a ‘transmodern age’ and identify, using key words, the... Read more>>
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    3/1/2009Beyond belief: The emergence of a new enlightenment.

  • The Poet Scientists: Johann Woflgang Goethe and Erasmus Darwin (2009)

    Proceedings of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution 11: 27-34
    This paper compares, for the first time in one paper, two of the most eminent poet scientists of the seventeenh century and their enquiry into the challenges of science and technology, culture and society, and then, just as now, of a new beckoning enlightenment... Read more>>
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    3/1/2009The Poet Scientists: Johann Woflgang Goethe and Erasmus Darwin

  • Decisions 2.0: The Power of Collective Intelligence (2009)

    Bonabeau, E. (2009). Decisions 2.0: The Power of Collective Intelligence. MIT Sloan Management Review, 50 (2): 45-52.
    "The human brain is a magnificent instrument that has evolved over thousands of years to enable us to prosper in an impressive range of conditions. But it is wired to avoid complexity (not embrace it) and to respond quickly to ensure survival (not... Read more>>
    Apr 20 2009, 03:36 PM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2009Decisions 2.0: The Power of Collective Intelligence

  • Political grandstanding and the use of proverbs in African political discourse (2009)

    Discourse & Society, Vol. 20, No. 1, 123-146
    Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo In Africa, the transmission of the overwhelming complexity of the people's day-to-day experiences are deeply rooted in the continent's rich cultural artistry. Proverbs are the most widely and commonly used in the continent's... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2009Political grandstanding and the use of proverbs in African political discourse

  • Professional supervision: trusting the wisdom that 'comes' (2009)

    British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Vol 37, Issue 1
    Elizabeth Ann Smythe, Tony MacCulloch, Richard Charmley The lived experience of professional supervision is complex and dynamic. Techne, the knowledge that informs the 'know-how' of practice, offers guidance. Phronesis, the dynamic wisdom that... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2009Professional supervision: trusting the wisdom that 'comes'

  • The Wisdom of Many in One Mind: Improving Individual Judgments With Dialectical Bootstrapping (2009)

    Psychological Science, Volume 20, Number 2, pp. 231-237(7)
    Herzog, Stefan M., Hertwig, Ralph The “wisdom of crowds” in making judgments about the future or other unknown events is well established. The average quantitative estimate of a group of individuals is consistently more accurate than the typical estimate... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2009The Wisdom of Many in One Mind: Improving Individual Judgments With Dialectical Bootstrapping

  • Teaching Wisdom to Interest: Book Five of Plato's Republic (2009)

    Political Science & Politics, 42:197-200 Cambridge University Press
    Timothy J. Lukes and Mary F. Scudder We suggest that Book Five of the Republic , where Plato discusses the status of women in the guardian class, is a superb source of Platonic insight. For it is precisely the discussion of women that is most vulnerable... Read more>>
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    2/1/2009Teaching Wisdom to Interest: Book Five of Plato's Republic

  • The uncertain reasoner: Bayes, logic, and rationality (2009)

    Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 32, Issue 1
    Abstract: Human cognition requires coping with a complex and uncertain world. This suggests that dealing with uncertainty may be the central challenge for human reasoning. In Bayesian Rationality we argue that probability theory, the calculus of uncertainty... Read more>>
    Feb 01 2009, 12:00 AM Type:NotMine
    2/1/2009The uncertain reasoner: Bayes, logic, and rationality

  • Culture, corruption, and the endorsement of ethical leadership. (2009)

    Resick, C.J., Mitchelson, J.K., Dickson, M.W., & Hanges, P.J. (2009). Culture, corruption, and the endorsement of ethical leadership. (pp. 113-144). In W.H. Mobley, Y. Wang, & M. Li (Eds.). Advances in Global Leadership (Vol 5). Bingley, UK: Emerald Books.
    In this chapter, we propose that society- and organization-level social context cues influence the endorsement of ethical leadership. More specifically, we propose that certain organizational culture values provide proximal contextual cues that people... Read more>>
    Feb 25 2010, 12:51 PM Type:Mine
    2/1/2009Culture, corruption, and the endorsement of ethical leadership.

  • Structured statistical models of inductive reasoning (2009)

    Psychological Review. Vol 116(1)
    "Everyday inductive inferences are often guided by rich background knowledge. Formal models of induction should aim to incorporate this knowledge and should explain how different kinds of knowledge lead to the distinctive patterns of reasoning found... Read more>>
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  • Systemic Wisdom, The 'Selving' of Nature, and Knowledge Transformation (2009)

    Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 28, Number 1
    Michael Bonnett Considerations arising in the context of burgeoning concerns about the environment can provoke an exploration of issues that have significance both for environmental education in particular and education more generally. Notions of the... Read more>>
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    1/1/2009Systemic Wisdom, The 'Selving' of Nature, and Knowledge Transformation

  • Wisdom for Sale? The Sophists and Money (2009)

    Classical Philology, 104 no.1, pp. 13–33
    by Håkan Tell Plato constantly accuses the sophists of teaching for money.1 For example, in the Hippias Maior (282c–d), Sokrates elaborates a distinction between the wise men of old, who did not think it right to charge fees, and the sophists of his own... Read more>>
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    1/1/2009Wisdom for Sale? The Sophists and Money

  • The Senate Electoral Cycle and Bicameral Appropriations Politics (2009)

    American Journal of Political Science, Volume 53 Issue 2, Pages 343 - 359
    The Senate Electoral Cycle and Bicameral Appropriations Politics Kenneth A. Shepsle 1 Robert P. Van Houweling 2 Samuel J. Abrams 3 Peter C. Hanson 4 We consider the consequences of the Senate electoral cycle and bicameralism for distributive politics... Read more>>
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    1/1/2009The Senate Electoral Cycle and Bicameral Appropriations Politics

  • Security Risks for Remote Intelligent Pharmacy-On-A-Chip Delivery Systems (2009)

    International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, (January), 2: 135-151.
    Published as the following authors: Wang, YanYan, Haynes, John D and Thaldorf, Carey. Read more>>
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    1/1/2009Security Risks for Remote Intelligent Pharmacy-On-A-Chip Delivery Systems

  • Conceptual representations in goal-directed decision making (2008)

    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2008 8:418-428
    Philippe N. Tobler Emerging evidence suggests that the long-established distinction between habit-based and goal-directed decision-making mechanisms can also be sustained in humans. Although the habit-based system has been extensively studied in humans... Read more>>
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    12/1/2008Conceptual representations in goal-directed decision making

  • Technique and Technology: Ethical Guidelines for the Role of Technology for Medical Science in Arab Countries (2008)

    Journal of the Arab Society for Medical Research, JASMR, 3 (2): 185 – 191 (December). JASMR
    Article available at http://www.asmr.eg.net Read more>>
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    12/1/2008Technique and Technology: Ethical Guidelines for the Role of Technology for Medical Science in Arab Countries

  • Memory in Our Body: Thick Participation and the Translation of Kinesthetic Experience (2008)

    American Ethnologist, Vol. 35 (4)
    Kim Samudra Jaida Anthropologists studying dance, sports, or other kinesthetic cultures may face the difficulty of rendering into analytic discourse those bodily practices consultants do not express verbally. Through thick participation, we may use our... Read more>>
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    11/1/2008Memory in Our Body: Thick Participation and the Translation of Kinesthetic Experience

  • Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom (2008)

    Springer, 2008.
    Michel Ferrari and Georges Potworowski, eds. Wisdom is valued as an ideal aim of personal development around the world. But we rarely see how wisdom is understood in different religious and philosophical traditions and different scientific disciplines... Read more>>
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    11/1/2008Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

  • Telemedicine and Information Technology for Disaster Medical Scenarios (2008)

    Encyclopaedia of HealthCare Information Systems, edited by Nilmini Wickramansinghe and Eliezer Geisler, Volume III, MRI-Z, pp 1303 – 1310, IGI GLOBAL Publishers, New York
    Authors are Jointly (lead author first): Haynes, John D & Mehnaz Saleem & Moona Kanwal Read more>>
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    11/1/2008Telemedicine and Information Technology for Disaster Medical Scenarios

  • Fostering wisdom: A psychological perspective (2008)

    Stange, A. & Kunzmann, U. (2009). Fostering wisdom: A psychological perspective. In M. Ferrari & G. Potworowski (Eds.), Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom (pp. 23-36), New York: Springer.
    Book Description: Publication Date: October 24, 2008 | ISBN-10: 1402065310 | ISBN-13: 978-1402065316 | Edition: 1 Wisdom is valued as an ideal aim of personal development around the world. But we rarely see how wisdom is understood in different religious... Read more>>
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  • Comparison of the Conceptualization of Wisdom in Ancient Indian Literature with Modern Views: Focus on the Bhagavad Gita (2008)

    Psychiatry 71(3)
    by Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. and Ipsit V. Vahia, M.D. Abstract: The study of wisdom has recently become a subject of growing scientific interest, although the concept of wisdom is ancient. This article focuses on conceptualization of wisdom in the Bhagavad... Read more>>
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    10/1/2008Comparison of the Conceptualization of Wisdom in Ancient Indian Literature with Modern Views: Focus on the Bhagavad Gita

  • Differential age trajectories of positive and negative affect: further evidence from the berlin aging study (2008)

    The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences; 63(5): 261-70.
    by Defining Wisdom grantee Ute Kunzmann In cross-sectional and longitudinal samples from the Berlin Aging Study, fellow researchers and I examined performance-based and self-evaluative indicators of functioning in two realms as predictors of individual... Read more>>
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  • The Fascination of Wisdom: Its Nature, Ontogeny, and Function (2008)

    Baltes, P.B., & Smith, J. (2008). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(1): 56–64.
    Abstract: Wisdom has intrigued both scholars and laypersons since antiquity. On the one hand, its seemingly ethereal yet obvious qualities are timeless and universal. On the other hand, these same qualities are evolving and responsive to historical and... Read more>>
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  • Do We Need a Scientific Revolution? (2008)

    Nicholas Maxwell (2008) Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 95-105. Available online at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15352/
    Many see modern science as having serious defects, intellectual, social, moral. Few see this as having anything to do with the philosophy of science. I argue that many diverse ills of modern science are a consequence of the fact that the scientific community... Read more>>
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    10/1/2008Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?

  • Neuroethics as a Brain-Based Philosophy of Life (2008)

    Neuroethics, 2: 3-11
    " Michael S. Gazzaniga, a pioneer and world leader in cognitive neuroscience, has made an initial attempt to develop neuroethics into a brain-based philosophy of life that he hopes will replace the irrational religious and political belief-systems... Read more>>
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    9/1/2008Neuroethics as a Brain-Based Philosophy of Life

  • Wisdom: A Course Book for College Students (in Chinese) (2008)

    Qingsong Zhang and Qinglin Zhang, WISDOM: A COURSE BOOK FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS (Daxuesheng Zhihuixue in Chinese, publisher: Xiandai Jiaoyu Publishing House, Beijing, September 2009.ISBN: 978-7-80196-464-9) is a text book for a college course which aims... Read more>>
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    8/1/2008Wisdom: A Course Book for College Students (in Chinese)

  • Communication praxis for ethical accountability: The ethics of the tree of action (2008)

    Laouris, Y., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2008). Communication praxis for ethical accountability: The ethics of the tree of action. Syst Res Behav Sci 25(2), 331–348.
    Abstract: This paper proposes the thesis that it is unethical to plan an action for social change without excavating the knowledge and wisdom of the people who are responsible for implementing the plans of action and the people whose lives will be affected... Read more>>
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    7/1/2008Communication praxis for ethical accountability: The ethics of the tree of action

  • Can Information and mobile technologies serve close the economic, educational, digital and social gaps and accelerate development? (2008)

    Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can Information and mobile technologies serve close the economic, educational, digital and social gaps and accelerate development? World Futures, 64(4), 254-275.
    Abstract: The emergence of information, and more recently, mobile broadband telecommunication technologies, was accompanied by the hype that they could serve to close the economic, educational, digital, and social gaps of our planet among the rich and... Read more>>