Phenomenology and Meaning Attribution

Authenticity: Attribution, Value, and Meaning

Consumers and scholars show increasing interest in authenticity in products, services, performances, and places. As typically used, authenticity is an attribution that is socially constructed and appears in many domains of social life. The interest in authenticity presumes that its attribution conveys value and emerging evidence agrees. Authenticity, however, carries some very different meaning...

Dutch elementary school children’s attribution of meaning to written pseudowords

Grade two through six elementary school Dutch children were asked to perform a lexical decision task including 90 pseudowords constructed by changing one or two letters in a Dutch word. Subsequently, the children were asked about the meaning of pseudowords they had not crossed out and that they, apparently, had considered to be words. Multiple regression analyses on the lexical decision task sh...

Disturbances in the spontaneous attribution of social meaning in schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia patients show disturbances on a range of tasks that assess mentalizing or 'Theory of Mind' (ToM). However, these tasks are often developmentally inappropriate, make large demands on verbal abilities and explicit problem-solving skills, and involve after-the-fact reflection as opposed to spontaneous mentalizing. METHOD To address these limitations, 55 clinically stable...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

attribution theory and personality traits among efl learners

هدف از این تحقیق یافتن ارتباط بین نحوه نگرش زبان آموزان به موفقیت و شکستشان و نوع شخصیت آنها است. 216 زبان آموز، 111 پسر و 105 دختر، در سطح متوسط که در آموزشگاه زبان انگلیسی شکوه مشغول به تحصیل بودند در این پژوهش شرکت کرده اند. شرکت کننده ها دو پرسشنامه neo-ffi و atfll را تکمیل کرده اند. نتیجه نشان داد که: احساسات با توافق پذیری و وظیفه شناسی ارتباط مثبت و با روان نژندی ارتباط منفی دارد. تصور ا...