Regional Problems as Expressions of Social Thought

Linguistic Modality as Expressions of Social Power

The semantics of the linguistic modals is argued to be determined mainly by the power structure of the participants in the interaction. In the deontic uses of the modals, another determining factor is the expectations of the participants’ attitudes towards the relevant action. By viewing the evidence as a power in its own right, our analysis can be generalized to the epistemic uses in a coheren...

The Chaotic Mind: A study of children with thought disorders and social contact problems

Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues

agency biological determinism biomedicine/biomedical model Cartesian dualism class (or social class) epidemiology/social epidemiology eugenics lifestyle choices/factors new public health public health/public health infrastructure reductionism social construction/ constructionism social Darwinism social institutions social model of health social structure sociological imagination state structure...

Food for Thought 1 Running Head: THOUGHT SHAPE FUSION AND SOCIAL ANXIETY Food for Thought: Manipulating Thought Shape Fusion and its Effect on Social Outcomes

Thought shape fusion (TSF) is a cognitive distortion associated with eating psychopathology in which individuals believe that simply thinking about fattening food leads to weight gain. The current study sought to determine if it was possible to manipulate the distorted beliefs underlying TSF and, if so, whether this impacted negative affect and social outcomes. Findings provided some support th...

A Thought on Fermi Problems for Actuaries

on more and more computing facilities. However, this is an unsustainable solution as the industry practice continues to move toward more detailed modeling and financial reporting involving more stochastic components. In the foreseeable future, the costs of such nested simulations will be prohibitive even for the most resourceful companies. The running time of simulations can still be too long f...