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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Conceptualizing gender differences in behavior
ABC News: Male Domination of the Internet Is Over, Study Finds The study says 68 percent of men and 66 percent of women now go online. Since women make up a larger portion of the population, that means they outnumber … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Feminism, Technology and life
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Towards a cognitive morphology of the folktale
Propp and other formalists had many things figured out quite right. Then the structuralists came and elevated emergent properties to the level of meaning creation. This post is an analogy in the sense that it compares the idea of the … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Linguistics, Literature and narrative
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Creation of meaning and music analogies
Now, here’s an analogy that occured to me as I was pondering the indeterminacy of the meaning of some technical term in social science (I think it was metaphor). But it occurred to me that creating meaning (in the Brunerian … Continue reading
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New category: Feminism
I realized that I needed another category dealing with issues related to the position of women in society and cognition. I decided to call it feminism in protest against the frequent dilution of the concept by labeling it ‘gender studies’ … Continue reading
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Complexities of representation of women in traditional narrative
Christmas season’s TV brings a lot of classic stories back to people’s narrative environment. Many of these contain complex and multilayered representations of humanity’s quest for self-understanding. These narratives play other roles, as well, connected to the psychological well-being of … Continue reading
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Parents’ role in education – framing in practice
BBC – Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour -Phone-in: parents and schools A recent survey from the Department of Education shows that parents are increasingly unhappy with their local schools. Satisfaction levels have fallen by 10% during the past year and … Continue reading
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Individuality and culturality of psychotherapeutic needs
BBC – Radio 4 – All in the Mind It’s just under a year since the Tsunami devastated coastal communities around the Indian Ocean . Raj reports from his recent visit to the Tamil Nadu region of India with the … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Philosophy, Social Science
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Determinism and evidentiary value of belief based on personal experience
BBC – Five Live – Mark Kermode film reviews included this and last week an interesting exchange. First, the reviewer claimed that watching the film The March of the Penguin makes it possible to assume some level of intelligent design … Continue reading
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Expertise and suitability for policy responsibilities
Another great interview on onthemedia.org. This one dealing with the reliability of expert predictions (in the media and in general). On The Media– THE GUESSING GAME PHILIP TETLOCK: When an expert has very, very strong opinions on an issue, when … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Society and politics
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New home
My Week in Thought has found a new home right here.
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