Knowing You, Knowing Me (KYKM): an interactive game to address positive mother-daughter communication and relationships

The Effectiveness of Parent Verbal Communication Training in Reducing Conflicts and Improving Mother-Daughter Relationships among Seventh and Eighth Grade High School Girls in Yazd

This research was undertaken to examine the effectiveness of parent verbal communication training in improving mother-daughter relationships. This quasi-experimental study had a pretest-posttest control group design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of the mothers of female seventh and eighth graders in Yazd in the first semester of 2018-19 academic year with a total popula...

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Networks of Cooperation

The Language of Game Theory: Putting Epistemics into the Mathematics of Games, by Adam Brandenburger

Dedicated to my daughter Lucy Brandenburger 11 years old and who happily explained epistemic game theory to me while we were playing cards one day. Adam: “Lucy, hold up your cards. I can see your hand.” Lucy: “Dad, it doesn’t matter if you see my cards. You don’t know my strategy.” to my late mother Ennis Brandenburger who passed on to me her love of language in all its forms. and to my wife Ba...

Recollections of Heinz von Foerster, a rhetorical genius

On a cold day between Christmas and New Year 1961, in search of a place to study, I met Heinz in his office at the Biological Computer Laboratory. I knew of him through a network of designers who, like me, were interested in issues that conventional curricula did not address. Heinz greeted me, a total stranger, with the enthusiasm usually reserved for an old friend. To my surprise, he knew of t...

Knowing Afghanistan: Can there be an end to the saga?

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...