Finding a place to be our-selves: Narratives of young black women activists

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Situated Selves: Learning to Be a Learner

To view learning and cognition as situated is usually understood to involve rethinking cognitive and learning processes in terms of their framing by context, communication and social practice—in contradistinction to traditional views which focus upon the "isolated, individual subject" in confrontation with a cognitive or learning task. There is, however, a danger in counterposing, in simplistic...

Psychological aspects of natural language. use: our words, our selves.

The words people use in their daily lives can reveal important aspects of their social and psychological worlds. With advances in computer technology, text analysis allows researchers to reliably and quickly assess features of what people say as well as subtleties in their linguistic styles. Following a brief review of several text analysis programs, we summarize some of the evidence that links...

Précis of Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency.

Does it make sense for people to hold one another responsible for what they do, as happens in countless social interactions every day? One of the most unsettling lessons from recent psychological research is that people are routinely mistaken about the origins of their behavior. Yet philosophical orthodoxy holds that the exercise of morally responsible agency typically requires accurate self-aw...

Activists warn: don't fall victim to our HIV successes.