Estrangement

Estrangement and Relationship

THE existentialist approach to psychiatric problems has gained considerable popularity amongst some groups of European psychiatrists, notably in Western Germany, France, Spain and Italy. In Britain and America the few papers that have appeared on this topic have not always been enthusiastic. The problems of psychiatry and psychology are slowly being formulated in ways that lend themselves to th...

Cultural estrangement: the role of personal and societal value discrepancies.

Study 1 examined whether cultural estrangement arises from discrepancies between personal and societal values (e.g., freedom) rather than from discrepancies in attitudes toward political (e.g., censorship) or mundane (e.g., pizza) objects. The relations between different types of value discrepancies, estrangement, subjective well-being, and need for uniqueness also were examined. Results indica...

Sequential detection of temporal communities by estrangement confinement

Temporal communities are the result of a consistent partitioning of nodes across multiple snapshots of an evolving network, and they provide insights into how dense clusters in a network emerge, combine, split and decay over time. To reliably detect temporal communities we need to not only find a good community partition in a given snapshot but also ensure that it bears some similarity to the p...

Symbolic Integration, Not Symbolic Estrangement, For Double-Digit Numbers

Symbolic and non-symbolic number representations are thought to share common neural substrates. However, recent studies have shown that the two numerical systems are more distinct than previously thought. These disparate findings may be explained by the use of sequential presentations of symbolic and non-symbolic quantities, the use of magnitude-reliant tasks, or the use of limited number range...

Evaluation Research and the Performance Management Movement: From Estrangement to Useful Integration?