On Hope: A Recollection

A Study on Social Hope: A Grounded Theory Research

The present study aims to use the interpretive approach to investigate “social hope” from an emic point of view among Isfahan city residents. The research method is qualitative which uses grounded theory strategy. Based on the purposeful sampling method (Successive Theoretical Sampling) 20 people up to 15 years old participated in the present study and their interpretations of social hope were ...

Illusory Recollection 1 Running Head: ILLUSORY RECOLLECTION Illusory Recollection

Higham and Vokey (1999, Experiment 1) demonstrated that identifying a briefly displayed word prior to presenting that item in the clear for recognition, enhanced the bias to respond “old” relative to misidentification and that this effect was independent of item selection artifacts. Three experiments investigated the phenomenology associated with this illusion of memory using the standard R/K p...

Gabriel Marcel on Hope

According to Gabriel Marcel, being cannot be approached directly through a conceptual way, because it belongs to the real territory of mystery rather than that of problem. One of the most important concepts in Marcel’s philosophy is that of hope. Marcel’s conception of hope relies upon a distinction between “having” and “being.”  We do not have a belief; we are in a belief. Similarly, ...

Noncriterial Recollection: Familiarity as Automatic, Irrelevant Recollection

Recollection is sometimes automatic in that details of a prior encounter with an item come to mind although those details are irrelevant to a current task. For example, when asked about the size of the type in which an item was earlier presented, one might automatically recollect the location in which it was presented. We used the process dissociation procedure to show that such noncriterial re...

On Hope as a Moral Virtue