According to the Sensitivity-to-mean-intentions model, dispositional victim sensitivity involves a suspicious mindset that is activated by situational cues and guides subsequent information processing and behavior like a schema. Study 1 tested whether victim-sensitive persons are more prone to form expectancies of injustice in ambiguous situations and whether these expectancies mediate the rela...

Socio-cognitive approaches to leadership study remain the frontrunner in research; this study presents a model, which shows the quality of coworker exchange and organizational hope significantly influence workplace empowerment. The mode clearly presents the power of reciprocal behavior from leader influence tactic and statistical significance of coworker exchange quality, which responds as an i...

Kuhn (1965) and others have pointed out that when a major paradigm shift is occurring in an area, there tends to be a large number of new, competing, and most often partial models generated by the "new view" of "old" phenomena. The overgeneration of models leads to several major problems that cause great confusions, which in turn stagnates the new emerging paradigm. One strategy to prevent emer...

Attempts to augment the function of the human brain inevitably involve in some way what Block (1995) calls phenomenal consciousness—bodily sensations and perceptual experiences—the redness of a strawberry, the smell of newly-baked bread. At present there is no consensus among scientists about what such sensory experiences are. This Opinion piece points out some problems with one of the major th...

conceptualization COGNITIVE WORK BEHAVIOURAL WORK Figure 1: The Learning Cycle and The Cognitive and Behavioural Work involved in Learning The learning cycle emphasizes that there is both behavioural and cognitive work involved in learning (Huber, 1991). So we can learn from our actual experiences (concrete experience) and experiment and practice to find out what works best (active experimentat...

The current study draws on motivated information processing in groups theory to propose that leadership functions and composition characteristics provide teams with the epistemic and social motivation needed for collective information processing and strategy adaptation. Three-person teams performed a city management decision-making simulation (N=74 teams; 222 individuals). Teams first managed a...

We present integration mechanisms for combining heterogeneous components in a situated information processing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a human and display some understanding of its surroundings. These mechanisms include an architectural schema that encourages parallel and incremental information processing, and a method for binding information from disti...