Searching for their selves

Do preschoolers save to benefit their future selves?

Using a new paradigm for measuring children’s saving behaviors involving two marble games differing in desirability, we assessed whether 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds saved marbles for future use, saved increasingly on a second trial, saved increasingly with age, and were sensitive to the relative value of future rewards. We also assessed whether performance on the saving paradigm was related to theo...

Possible Selves

The concept of possible selves is introduced to complement current conceptions of self-knowledge. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming, and thus provide a conceptual link between cognition and motivation. Possible selves are the cognitive components of hopes, fears, goals, and threats, and th...

True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity

Identifying Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Graduated Students' Search Strategies during their Information-searching through the Web

Purpose: the aim was to identify users' search strategies and the rate of using search strategies on the web. Method: It is a practical survey. The statistical population included all the postgraduate students in the first semester at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. 95 students were selected by stratified random sampling method. To gather the data, log files were used. Findings: 12 search strat...

Storytelling for recreating our selves - Zenetic computer

We present an interactive storytelling system that aims to help us “recreate” our conscious selves by calling on traditional Japanese concepts and media. “Recreating our selves” means the process of reconciling our conscious ‘daily self’ and our ‘hidden self’. This requires deep stimulations which are difficult to achieve through conventional logic based interactions. Users create, enter and dy...