Colonial mentality is a term used widely by ethnic studies scholars and by the Filipino American community to refer to a form of internalized oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The authors propose that colonial mentality is a construct that is central to the understanding of the psychology of contemporary Filipino Americans. Drawing on larger scholarship from postcolonial studie...

Free mentality, a strong belief that everything online should be free, has been ironed into people’s minds. This concept also significantly affects the development of e-commerce. However, despite the importance of this “free mentality” concept, a lack of systematic investigations inhibits our understanding of this issue. Based on the decomposed theory of planned behavior, this study focuses on ...

A novel Customized Agro-industrial Produce Design (CAPD) scheme is highlighted to monitor the plant factory production systems. The expected outcome is to provide every consumer with a produce that matches his or her unique mentality. The new challenges of CAPD are consisting of non-linear and complex interaction between the bio-response parameters and human mentality process involved. As the s...

tion to the book Dr. William Healy says, "For final diagnosis of the mentality of the individual, the Binet test score is simply one out of several main facts to be taken into consideration. Not even all mental abilities are represented in this system, to say nothing of their not being thoroughly tested at each age level, and many items of the physical background inevitably form part of the pro...

We often speak as though collectivities can be in mental states. Israel fears further attacks from Hezbollah; Microsoft intends to unveil a new product in the spring; and, Starbucks believes that it needs to present a friendlier and less overtly monopolistic image. However, two major difficulties stand in the way of understanding such ascriptions of mentality literally. First, there is a preval...

As commonsense would have it, dogs, cats, elephants, dolphins, chimps, and many other species of nonhuman animals are minded creatures: they can feel hunger, thirst, fatigue, agitation, pain and pleasure; they can try or want to do things; they can be startled, surprised, puzzled, or scared by this or that; they can have more or less specific interests, wants, and expectations; and, though lang...