most studies on motivation are done in Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) cultures. We compared how hard people in six countries worked in response to monetary incentives versus psyc
The 'messiness' itself is seen as antithetical to the scientific stan- dards in some more traditional views that ethnographers are supposed to uphold. This will be discussed particularly in Chap. 4, but is evident throughout the other chapters as well. 2.2 Moving beyond the Mess While ...
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In a splash of scientific curiosity, researchers from Brown University have dived into the mechanics of the belly flop. They’ve emerged with insights that could ripple through the field of marine engineering. Their research didn’t just skim the surface. The air-to-water impact dynamics resonate...
She was previously a senior writer for Live Science but is now a freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, and regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor, the monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the ...
told me that the CIA used Cameron’s data to develop new kinds of torture, which the US adopted as “enhanced interrogation” techniques in the wake of 9/11. “You could put a scientific spin on it and claim that’s why it worked,” she said. “But it always boiled down to medieval...
Self-experimentation in medicine Scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on her- or himself. Semantic Satiation Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives...
Do some nations receive high scores on the GCI merely because they have not adopted “modern” ideas such as a technological advances, political freedom, and scientific reasoning? Some components of modernity are surely related to collectivism. In fact, Foucault's (1977) popular definition of ...
Knuth gave a presentation at the first Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference in Huntsville Alabama, sponsored by the Scientific Coalition for Ufology. I was there for the talk and knew immediately that he had to be on the show. Knuth’s paper, “Constraints on Societies Engaged in ...
which further contributes to a general worldview tendency underlying the Weird that bespeaks of both a lack of a (relatively) complete comprehension of the world, particularly from a scientific perspective, and constitutes a counter-thesis to the readability of the world that was a common literary...