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Review Of "Patterns Of Community Structure In Colombo, Sri Lanka: An Investigation Of Contemporary Urban Life In South Asia" By N. S. Arachchige-Don, Jeanne Marecek
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Psychological Science In Cultural Context, Kenneth J. Gergen, A. Gulerce, A. Lock, G. Misra
Psychological Science In Cultural Context, Kenneth J. Gergen, A. Gulerce, A. Lock, G. Misra
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When one understands psychological science To be a by-product of the Western tradition, fashioned by particular cultural and historical conditions, the door is opened to a fresh consideration of the practice of psychology in the global context. By using examples from experiences in Turkey, New Zealand, and India, the reader is sensitized first to the problems inherent in the unreflective exportation of Western psychology. To presume Western concepts of the mind, along with its methods of study, not only lends itself to research of little relevance to other cultures, bur disregards and undermines alternate cultural traditions. Against these tendencies toward …
Tolerance: Should We Approve Of It, Put Up With It, Or Tolerate It?, Barry Schwartz
Tolerance: Should We Approve Of It, Put Up With It, Or Tolerate It?, Barry Schwartz
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Visual Aftereffect Of Texture Density Contingent On Color Of Frame, Frank H. Durgin
Visual Aftereffect Of Texture Density Contingent On Color Of Frame, Frank H. Durgin
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An aftereffect of perceived texture density contingent on the color of a surrounding region is reported. In a series of experiments, participants were adapted, with fixation, to stimuli in which the relative density of two achromatic texture regions was perfectly correlated with the color presented in a surrounding region. Following adaptation, the perceived relative density of the two regions was contingent on the color of the surrounding region or of the texture elements themselves. For example, if high density on the left was correlated with a blue surround during adaptation (and high density on the right with a yellow surround), …
Metaphor And Monophony In The Twentieth-Century Psychology Of Emotions, Kenneth J. Gergen
Metaphor And Monophony In The Twentieth-Century Psychology Of Emotions, Kenneth J. Gergen
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Attempts to define the emotions and elucidate their character have ornamented the intellectual landscape for over two thousand years. Two characteristics of this continuing colloquy are particularly noteworthy: first, the presumption of palpability and, second, the interminability of debate. In the former case, until the present century there has been little doubting the obdurate existence of the emotions. In the second book of the Rhetoric, Aristotle distinguished among 15 emotional states; Aquinas's Summa Theologiae enumerated 6 “affective” and 5 “spirited” emotions; Descartes distinguished among 6 primary passions of the soul; the eighteenth-century moralist, David Hartley, located 10 “general passions of …
Visual Learning In The Perception Of Texture: Simple And Contingent Aftereffects Of Texture Density, Frank H. Durgin, D. R. Proffitt
Visual Learning In The Perception Of Texture: Simple And Contingent Aftereffects Of Texture Density, Frank H. Durgin, D. R. Proffitt
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Novel results elucidating the magnitude, binocularity and retinotopicity of aftereffects of visual texture density adaptation are reported as is a new contingent aftereffect of texture density which suggests that the perception of visual texture density is quite malleable. Texture aftereffects contingent upon orientation, color and temporal sequence are discussed. A fourth effect is demonstrated in which auditory contingencies are shown to produce a different kind of visual distortion. The merits and limitations of error-correction and classical conditioning theories of contingent adaptation are reviewed. It is argued that a third kind of theory which emphasizes coding efficiency and informational considerations merits …