This paper addresses the use of dispositions in the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO). IDO is an ontology constructed according to the principles of the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry and uses the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper ontology. After providing a brief introduction to disposition types in BFO and IDO, we discuss three general techniques for representing combinations of...

INTRODUCTION Cultural congruence is the idea that to the extent a belief or experience is culturally shared it is not to feature in a diagnostic judgement, irrespective of its resemblance to psychiatric pathology. This rests on the argument that since deviation from norms is central to diagnosis, and since what counts as deviation is relative to context, assessing the degree of fit between ment...

Objectives: This study examines the relationships between mindfulness, flow dispositions and mental skills adoption. Design: Cluster analytic approach. Methods: Participants in this study were 182 university student athletes. They were administered the Mindfulness/Mindlessness Scale [MMS; Bodner, T., & Langer, E. (2001). Individual differences in mindfulness: The Langer Mindfulness Scale. Poste...

Motivation: This paper extends Röhl & Jansen's (2011) model of dispositions by introducing a relation of parthood between dispositions to formalize multi-track dispositions. Results: We suggest axioms for parthood relations between dispositions and discuss possible applications to life sciences.

The following study aims to explore Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and its shaping re-shaping through exposure authentic oral input. used podcasts as an EFL teaching strategy where learners were expected confront their dispositions. For the purpose this study, mental illness issue was employed a controversial topic. research grounded theory approach multi-case design three unstructured interviews...

Abstract While many consumer behavior studies have investigated coping, few considered it as a source of positive benefits in addition to being matter necessity. In this paper, we draw on Bourdieu’s notion capital introduce the concept coping capital—the intentional or unintentional accumulation resources, such emotional and epistemic-competencies skills resulting from with adversity, that may ...

A persistent challenge for nominally behavioral viewpoints in philosophical psychology is how to make sense of psychological terms that appeal to the mental. Two such viewpoints, logical behaviorism and conceptual analysis, hold that psychological terms appealing to the mental must be taken to mean (i.e., refer to) something that is publicly observable, such as underlying physiological states, ...

There is speculation that women receive different medical care than men because physicians have stereotyped views about women's symptoms and treatment preferences. This paper asks if men and women who visit physicians for mental distress receive comparable medical care and, if not, whether medical considerations or psychosocial ones explain the differences. Data are from a large national survey...