In this paper we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability, and sample attrition. We discuss the results of our analysis and implications of our findings for the collection of data in similar contexts.

The present paper reports the results of a fMRI subtraction study of the pattern of cortical activation induced by an ideational praxis paradigm in six normal right-handed subjects. The control task consisted of a sequence of complex meaningless hand movements. A complete study was done for each hand in each subject. The left intraparietal sulcus was the only structure activated in all subjects...

This research examines dynamics and change in the Iranian family during the recent half- century especially subsequent to the Islamic revolution in 1979. Developmental positions and changes are discussed and consideration is given to the extent to which family dynamics and change have been influenced by structural changes or ideational forces. We will focus on ideational forces based on a new a...

Among the creative thinking abilities that have been identified by Guilford and others (Guilford, 1957a; Wilson, Guilford, Christensen, & Lewis, 1954), fluency abilities are clearly the most accessible to objective measurement. Dealing as they do only with the quantitative aspect of creative thinking— how many ideas, solutions, and the like can be produced—they are perhaps not as central to the...

This paper provides a critique of IMP modeling and other schools of network analysis as captive of logocentric thought and colonized by modernist discourse, which relies upon the unchallenged assumptions of reason, rationalism and anthropocentric progress through scientism. IMP modeling is a welcome relief from narrower forms of economic rationalism in its attempted integration of social influe...

Adopting a social cohesion framework, we consider how the shared education model in Northern Ireland reflects distributive, ideational and relational dimensions of cohesion, processe...

Covid-19 has exerted a significant impact on people’s life and health. Former coronavirus-related studies are mainly done through the lens of cognitive linguistics, especially Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor Theory. This study focuses ideational grammatical metaphors in American news, taking New York Times as corpus for qualitative quantitative analysis. The combines current issues concernin...