The processes of socialization the individual in conditions substitution biosphere by technosphere are analyzed. It is concluded that rapid rate change aligned with evolutionarily developed mechanisms adaptation. This causes deterioration human health and results inability people to protect themselves from negative effects anthropogenic world. At this conjuncture, correction adaptation, as well...

OBJECTIVE The philosophy of chiropractic can be framed as an attempt to correct the problems inherited from the Western Enlightenment. Its origins can be found in the long tradition of Western philosophy. The purpose of this article is to describe in a broad context chiropractic's roots in premodernity and establish the structural and hermeneutical differences between chiropractic's original ph...

Research on mindset theory (GollwitTer & Baye4 1999) observed that people in an implemental mindset show an orientation towards positive illusionary self-evaluations, whereas people in a deliberative mindset opt for accura.te self-evaluations. In the present study, we tested whether these self-evaluative orientations and the associated search for certain types of self-relevant information (feed...

Two studies investigate receptiveness to opposing views in conflictual dialogue. Study 1 uses a factor-analytic approach to demonstrate that being in a receptive mindset is distinct from attitude strength and the Big Five trait of Openness (Costa & McCrae, 1985; 1992). Study 2 tests the impact of a broadly utilized conflict resolution ritual, namely sharing food with an opponent, on both recept...

Mindset theory (Gollwitzer, 1990) proposes that deliberative mindsets are marked by more open-minded processing of information, whereas implemental mindsets are characterized by more closed-minded processing. Accordingly, deliberative and implemental mindsets should diVer in selective processing of incidental information when performing a central task. In three experiments, participants in deli...

When people see patterns in the world, they often assume that there is some type of centralised control, even when it does not exist. This ‘centralised mindset’ could act as a braking function on the spread of organic networks — if people are not able to think about and understand the decentralised interactions that underlie organic networks, they will not be able to conceive, design, implement...

Three studies document the effect of cultural mindset cued by national identity on consumers' response to nutrition information. French, but not American consumers experience nutrition and taste as incompatible and rate even healthy food more negatively if nutrition information is provided. This effect is triggered by the distinctive cultural mindset of food enjoyment cued by a salient French i...

the purpose of this research was to determine the attitude of agricultural advisory and technical engineers towards anreo. the population of this study included 127 engineers in songhor township. based on their job tenure and field of study, a purposeful sample of 45 engineers participated in this study. this study was conducted using q methodology. it is a combination of qualititative and quan...

15 September/October 2000 M EDUCAUSE r e v i e w 14 EDUCAUSE r e v i e w M September/October 2000 Jason L. Frand is Assistant Dean and Director, Computing and Information Services, and Adjunct Professor of Information Systems, Anderson School of Management, UCLA . A Web discussion board to explore additional attributes of the information-age mindset has been set up at <http://www.anderson.ucla....