Social Representations: The Beautiful Invention

Creative Combination of Representations Scientifi c Discovery and Technological Invention

Human creativity operates in many domains, including scienti! c discovery, technological invention, artistic imagination, and social innovation. What are the cognitive processes that produce these creative results? Are there psychological mechanisms common to such diverse products of creativity as Darwin’s theory of evolution, Edison’s lightbulb, van Gogh’s paintings of sun" owers, and Bismarck...

Social Representations and Social Identity 3 Groups and Social Representations

Doise (in press) has emphasised that researchers have focused empirical work on only one aspect of the theory of social representations. They have mainly been concerned either with describing the content of existing representations or they have been interested in examining how anchoring and objectification operate. They have left largely unexplored Moscovici’s hypotheses concerning the ways in ...

AIDS. Social Representations. Social Practices

Since the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), most research efforts and publications have focused on the medical aspects of AIDS. Unfortunately, much of the earlier work on the social effect of HIV infection has been overshadowed by sophisticated technology. This book, a collection of papers from the November 1988 United Kingdom Conference on the Social Aspects of AIDS, is...

Survival of the beautiful

Correspondence to: Tam Hunt; Email: [email protected] Submitted: 04/29/13; Accepted: 04/29/13 Citation: Hunt T. Survival of the beautiful: A conversation with David Rothenberg about evolution and beauty. Commun Integr Biol 2013; 6: e24857; http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cib.24857 With respect to beauty, there is a growing awareness that even though determinations of beauty in particular ca...

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