On common ground in Scandinavia

Common ground

The fundamental message of Garrett Hardin's essay 'The Tragedy of the Commons' [1], recently re-visited in these pages by Peter Kareiva [2], is unassailable. If resources are available to all without restraint, they will be over-exploited. That is a simple tenet of population biology, encapsulated in theories of competitive interaction between individuals, and is an explanation for the well-kno...

Common Ground

This article explores the importance of the relationship between a teacher of meditation and his or her student. Mindfulness meditation is receiving a lot of attention in the psychotherapy literature currently. It is generally viewed as a technique that is taught in groups and then practiced individually by clients or participants. What does not appear to be generally understood is that the tea...

Common Ground in Production 1 DRAFT: DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION. Running head: COMMON GROUND IN PRODUCTION Common Ground in Production: Effects of Mutual Knowledge on Word Duration

A key issue in models of lexical production is whether a model of hearer knowledge influences speakers’ productions. In this study we investigate whether the durational shortening of repeated words is a consequence of mutual knowledge, or if it is a byproduct of speaker internal processes. In a study of spontaneously produced narrations, in Experiment 1 we demonstrated that repeated words are s...

On Coordination and the Common Ground

Emerging Common Ground

In the last decade or so, the understanding of countertransference has become an emerging area of common ground among psychoanalysts of diverse theoretical perspectives. This convergence can be traced to the development of two key concepts—projective identification and countertransference enactment. Projective identification has evolved from a patient's intrapsychic fantasy in Klein's original ...