We describe the parallels between findings from cognitive science and neuroscience and Common-Sense Models in four areas: (1) Activation of illness representations by the automatic linkage of symptoms and functional changes with concepts (an integration of declarative and perceptual and procedural knowledge); (2) Action plans for the management of symptoms and disease; (3) Cognitive and behavio...

Typically, psychosomatic medicine has seen disease as an endpoint and has focused on the role of psychological factors in etiology or on the psychopathological consequences of illness. In contrast, the illness perception approach begins with the patient's experience of their illness and the main emphasis is on the patient's own model of their condition. Just as people construct representations ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the social representations of illness among people with chronic kidney disease undergoing haemodialysis. METHOD Descriptive, qualitative research, anchored on the social representations theory. This study was conducted in the municipality of Ponta Grossa, Paraná State, Brazil, with 23 adults with chronic kidney disease. Data were collection between February and November ...

The present paper, which is intended for a diverse audience of evaluation researchers, applied social scientists and research funders, provides a broad overview of the conceptual and statistical issues involved in using multi-site randomized trials to learn about and from variation in program effects across individuals, across policy-relevant and theoretically-relevant subgroups of individuals ...

We study the double cosets of a Lie group by a compact Lie subgroup. We show that a Weil formula holds for double coset Lie hypergroups and show that certain representations of the Lie group lift to representations of the double coset Lie hypergroup. We characterize smooth (analytic) vectors of these lifted representations.