Cultivating successful personal and professional relationships requires the ability to accurately infer the feelings of others—that is, to be empathically accurate. Some are better at this than others, a difference which may be explained in part by mode of thought. Specifically, empathically accurate people may tend to rely more on intuitive rather than systematic thought when perceiving others...

INTRODUCTION Under the influence of Enlightenment epistemo-logical thought, the social sciences have exhibited a distinct tendency to prefer deterministic1 explanations of social phenomena. In the sociology of knowledge, for example, " foundational " researchers seek to arrive at objective knowledge of social phenomena through the application of " social scientific methodolog[ies] based on the ...

The authors suggest that, just like other attitudes, attitudes toward art may be malleable, and may thus also depend on situational factors. In particular, the authors propose that thinking styles vary within the situation and that an abstract versus concrete thinking style has an influence on attitudes toward conventional (e.g., Mona Lisa by da Vinci) versus unconventional (e.g., Fat Corner by...

this question has always been put forward in the mind of curious people why some countries have developed termed in spite of very few natural resources and facilities while other countries have not developed in spite of having more suitable resources and facilities. various factors such as economy, culture, geography, etc. are perhaps a background to answer this question, but there is a more im...

Although social media is fi nding its way into classrooms in a variety of ways, the literature demonstrates that its use in nursing is lagging (Ferguson, 2013). This article describes how the TwitterTM concept of using 140 characters or fewer can be effectively implemented by nursing faculty and students while staying within the school’s learning management system. PEET is an acronym that stand...

Recent research has changed how developmental psychologists understand counterfactual thinking or thoughts of what might have been. Evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking develops over an extended period into at least middle childhood, depends on domain-general processes including executive function and language, and dissociates from counterfactual emotions such as regret. In this artic...

Based on Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) and a series of experimental and correlational studies, Dijksterhuis and his colleagues conclude that when making complex choices/decisions, conscious thought—deliberation while attention is directed at the problem—leads to poorer choices/decisions than “unconscious thought”— deliberation in the absence of conscious attention directed at the problem. UT...

The paper reviews and argues for the importance of insights from the transdisciplinary ‘complexity theory’ for Sociology. Complexity theory addresses issues that lie at the heart of classic Sociological theory. These include: the tension between general theory and explanation of specific phenomena; emergence, that is, the relationship between microand macro-levels of analysis; and the concept o...

F or the most part Ludwig von Mises's writings on society and social evolution have been ignored by the participants in the current revivals of both Austrian economics and classical liberal political philosophy. When his social theory has been addressed, Mises appears to his critics (Barry 1987, p. 59) as "a child of the Enlightenment wrongly deposited in the twentieth century." But this assess...