Cognitive Attitudes and Values in Science

persian true and false cognates in english: students and teachers’ attitudes, awareness, and instruction

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

Bad Attitudes: Rethinking the Role of Propositional Attitudes in Cognitive Science

Mental representation is a central concept in cognitive science. It is the causal story involving “symbolic structures” that form the explanatory schema of classical cognitive science. Objects that populate the particular ontology of a scientific theory must have an instrumental role in explaining the processes in question. As such, it is requisite that the explanatory vehicles within a theory ...

Society, science, and values.

Knowledge and Attitudes of Emergency Contraception among Medical Science Students

Background: Emergency contraception  (EC) has been available in Iran, however there has been little research into the extent of knowledge of the actions, effectiveness and attitudes of students about it .The aim of this study was to detect the Knowledge and attitudes of university students towards emergency contraception . Methods: A survey of 130 university students was conducted at Shahrekord...

Public attitudes and values in priority setting

There is growing recognition that critical decisions concerning investments in new health care technologies and services should incorporate society's values along with the scientific evidence. From a normative perspective, public engagement can help realize the democratic ideals of legitimacy, transparency, and accountability. On a more pragmatic level, public engagement can help stakeholders u...