Abstract: A basic principle associated with competent evaluation practice asserts that evaluators should possess the education, abilities, skills, and experience needed to undertake tasks proposed in an evaluation. For those training this also means teaching professional dispositions, because individual’s dispositions (i.e., beliefs values) influence how they will act as professionals. Personal...

Although theorists have proposed the existence of multiple distinct varieties of positive emotion, dispositional positive affect is typically treated as a unidimensional variable in personality research. We present data elaborating conceptual and empirical differences among seven positive emotion dispositions in their relationships with two core personality constructs, the ‘‘Big Five’’ and adul...

Flow theory offers an individualistic explanation of media enjoyment, while cooperative learning theory posits a social explanation for enhanced learning in groups. This classroom-based experimental study examines whether game players can experience both conditions and the influence of each on several types of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. We find that high quality cooperative lear...

The scientific knowledge related to online reading dispositions and factors affecting the occurrence of these is limited. Therefore, this treatise aims at studying impact metacognitive strategies on dispositions. To achieve goal, mixed method was employed using questionnaires semi-structured interviews. Students’ responses were keyed AMOS software. statistical analysis has shown students’ prefe...

combinatorial relations between them simply come along for free. Which among all these abstract possibilities are concretely instantiated by physics, for example by genuine causal connections between objects? Russell readily admitted this criticism (Demopoulos & Friedman, 1989; Seager, 2006), but Newman is actually endorsing Russell’s real proposal for an enhanced physicalism, in which causal d...

I argue that deeply ingrained dispositions to do evil not render moral perfection impossible. discuss various accounts of and the evidence from cognitive (neuro)science points towards a strong disposition for evil. Afterwards, three strategies can allow humans overcome their dispositions. These are: enhancement, avoiding triggering situations structural solutions.

We studied developmental trends in 5 important reasoning tasks that are critical components of the operational definition of rational thinking. The tasks measured denominator neglect, belief bias, base rate sensitivity, resistance to framing, and the tendency toward otherside thinking. In addition to age, we examined 2 other individual difference domains that index cognitive sophistication: cog...

This paper delivers some findings from the present-day cognitive sciences on man’s cognitive dispositions that support aspects of Veblen’s “instinct of workmanship,” which is an essential starting point of his evolutionary theory of institutional change. These cognitive dispositions partly govern which information will be subject to profound contemplation and be easy to disseminate within a pop...