Homelessness and beggary are social problems, particularly for urban community. The Indonesian government has long used rehab centers to train vagrants beggars be fully functioning members of society. Future-mindedness is one the life-attitudes that homeless learn adopt. Using case study approach, this qualitative psychological research explores future-mindedness among undergoing programs. Data...

Evidence suggests that politically right-leaning individuals are more likely to be closed-minded. Whether this association is inherent or subject change has been the of debate, yet not formally tested. Through a meta-analysis, we find evidence changing between conservatism and facets closed-mindedness in U.S. international context using 341 unique sa...

Using cooperation in chimpanzees as a case study, this article argues that research on animal minds needs to steer a course between 'association-blindness'--the failure to consider associative learning as a candidate explanation for complex behaviour--and 'simple-mindedness'--the assumption that associative explanations trump more cognitive hypotheses. Association-blindness is challenged by the...

After years of neglect, Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) re-examined the problem of imperfect recall and its implications for game theory. They introduced the notion of absent-mindedness through a decision-making problem called the absentminded driver's paradox. This simple game precipitated a vigorous discussion with different researchers having strong opinions about whether the paradox actuall...

This paper explores how open-mindedness and its exercise can be social in nature. In particular, it argues that an individual regarded as open-minded even though she does not conduct all of the intellectual tasks required by herself; is, delegates some these to her epistemic peers. Thinking about such terms only opens up possibility there are different surprising ways for open-minded, but also ...