Understanding about human origins informs our understanding of what it means to be human. It is reasonable, therefore, to consider that an evolutionary perspective can provide insight into the nature and processes of human learning and education. This article reviews how ideas about evolution have influenced educational thinking in the past. It then considers how understanding of brain developm...

The significance of ‘‘being similar’’ in the inference of species relationships is refuted once again (see also Hennig, 1966, Phylogenetic Systematics, Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL). Without merit is Rieppel and Kearney s (Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 2002, 75, 59–82) claim that submitting the relational property of topological similarity, their preferred definition of character, to falsifying t...

Abstract Although management scholars have embraced grand challenges research, in many cases, been treated as merely a context for exploring extant theoretical perspectives. By comparison, our approach – robust action provides novel framework tackling challenges. In this invited article, we revisit 2015 model, clarifying and elaborating its key elements taking stock of subsequent developments. ...

We would like to express our deepest gratitude Wally Hopp, Mark Spearman, and the eight commentators—all luminaries in Lean—for their excellent Forum articles (Hopp & Spearman 2021, hereinafter, source “A”; Cusumano et al. “B”). These have stimulated thinking encouraged rich debate community. Over past 40 years, Lean Toyota Production System (TPS) from which it originated sourced much of resear...

In this article, we review some of the key attributes of useful theories and assess whether these attributes are present in several prominent Community Psychology theories. The field of Community Psychology often deals with complex systems and attempts to create change through the use of multiple mechanisms. It has provided researchers new ways of thinking about contextual factors and how parti...

Scientific inquiry often advances in triadic waves of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. We concur with Simonson [Simonson, I., (2008). Will I Like a “Medium” Pillow: Another Look at Constructed and Inherent Preferences. Journal of Consumer Psychology, this issue.] that BDT's antithesis of preference construction, positioned against the normative utility thesis, may have swung the pendulum too ...

The nature of the dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science (the DH) is further clarified in responding to various criticisms and objections raised in commentaries. Major topics addressed include the definitions of “dynamical system” and “digital computer;” the DH as Law of Qualitative Structure; the DH as an ontological claim; the multiple-realizability of dynamical models; the level at which ...

ROC plots are a common data representation for drawing conclusions from behavioral data about underlying mental representations and processes. According to broadly accepted conventions, the curvature, symmetry and detailed patterns of single curves are indicative of whether processing is mediated by continuous latent strengths, by discrete states, or by a dual-process mixture of the two. These ...

This article presents the views and assumptions of logical positivism approach and realistic approach in conducting social science research in general and business research in particular. Logical positivism has influenced research methodologies in social science, in particular “model building”. The main assumptions of logical positivism are concerned with observation and “verification principle...

I interpret and defend Sellars’ internalist view of perceptual justification which argues that perceivers have evidence for their perceptual beliefs that includes a higher-order belief about the circumstances in which those beliefs arise, and an epistemic belief about the reliability of beliefs that are formed in those circumstances. The pattern of inference that occurs in ordinary cases of per...