Reconceptualizing Managerial Judges

Reconceptualizing schizophrenia.

The recent emphasis for research on psychiatric disorders focuses on supposed underlying processes and their biological elements. Although such a direction may be fruitful, it would be a mistake to ignore more integrated approaches for understanding the mysteries of schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders. The complexity of the biopsychosocial paradigm should not lead to ignoring its poten...

Reconceptualizing Procedural Knowledge

Reconceptualizing second-person interaction

Over the last couple of decades, most neuroscientific research on social cognition has been dominated by a third-person paradigm in which participating subjects are not actively engaging with other agents but merely observe them. Recently this paradigm has been challenged by researchers who promote a second-person approach to social cognition, and emphasize the importance of dynamic, real-time ...

Evaluating Judges

Much of the interest in empirical studies of judges lies in the comparison of actual to ideal behavior. When we ask what makes a good judge or whether a judge rightly decided a case, we implicitly compare the judge's decisions to a normative standard. In some instances, the content of the normative standard is uncontroversial and its application straightforward. Hence, a trial judge who sentenc...

Reconceptualizing Adolescent Sexual Behavior

conceptualized in a negative and pro blematic context,” with the intent of preventing diseases and unplanned pre gn a n c i e s .5 For these and other re a s o n s , adolescent sexuality is typically conceptualized and studied as a dichotomy: Adolescents have had sex or they have not. H o w e v e r, the dichotomous sex–no sex view does not take into account the psychological and social context ...