Helen E. Clark (1912–2001)

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Conceptual Structure : Helen E Moss , Lorraine K Tyler & Kirsten

words, and the activation of those features is also more consistent over different occurrences of the word. This leads to more stable patterns of activation, providing a basis for the better performance on concrete than abstract words when the input to the system is noisy, as in patients with deep dyslexia (Plaut and Shallice, 1993) or word meaning deafness (Tyler and Moss, 1997). Conversely, i...

Andrew E . Clark Social comparisons , health and well - being

Health and well-being are socially-determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The existence of such comparison effects with respect to income may help to explain the social gradient in health.

Clark Glymour

Twenty years ago, Nancy Cartwright wrote a perceptive essay in which she clearly distinguished causal relations from associations, introduced philosophers to Simpson’s paradox, articulated the difficulties for reductive probabilistic analyses of causation that flow from these observations, and connected causal relations with strategies of action (Cartwright 1979). Five years later, without appr...

Katerina Clark