Implicit connections with nature

Connections with Nature and Environmental Behaviors

The influence of environmental attitudes on environmental behaviors has long been discussed. However, few studies have addressed the foundation of such attitudes. In the present study, we explored primitive belief underlying environmental attitudes, i.e., connections with nature, and its relationship with pro-environmental behaviors. Specifically, we used scales, a computerized Implicit Associa...

The Nature of Implicit Prejudice

On the nature of visual-oculomotor connections.

Recent results are reviewed describing the behavior of extraocular muscle motoneurons in the alert, behaving monkey during a variety of eye movements, namely, saccades, fixation, pursuit and vergence movements, and vestibular stabilizing movements. Combining this with recent results on the behavior of vestibular neurons, it is possible to present a fairly complete picture of the neuronal arrang...

On the nature of implicit categorization.

Current categorization models disagree about whether people make a priori assumptions about the structure of unfamiliar categories. Data from two experiments provided strong evidence that people do not make such assumptions. These results rule out prototype models and many decision bound models of categorization. We review previously published neuropsychological results that favor the assumptio...

Critical Thinking and Computer Science: Implicit and Explicit Connections

Critical thinking is an essential skill for an educated society. Our experience as computer science educators in an environment with an explicit emphasis on critical thinking has led us to investigate the connection between the two. We describe examples of how critical thinking skills can be developed throughout the computer science curriculum, and suggest future avenues where the connection be...