This article presents data from a focus group study of social workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) investigates how perceive experience relevance their education transition to work NAV. The practical fields became more important after Bologna Process started 2000. Research shows discrepancy between what learn during professional expectations they face when starting w...

Based on ethnographic research from two distinct French settings, the author examines the lying of doctors, and the lying of patients. The first situation is that of medical practitioners, specialists in the treatment of alcoholism, who affirm to ex-drinkers that it is impossible to drink normally again after treatment, without falling back into dependency, whilst knowing of the existence of co...

Historically, there has been a perceived association between the moon and human biology and behaviour that can be traced back to at least Roman times. The idea that the moon can in some way influence human biology or behaviour is a phenomena that has now come to known as the “Transylvanian effect” in the academic literature. Many mental health professionals continue to hold the belief that luna...

We investigate violations of consequentialism in the form of the stochastic dominance property. The property is shared by many theories of choice and implies that the decision-maker prefers receiving the best outcome for sure over all lotteries that involve multiple outcomes. We run experiments to demonstrate that dominated randomization can be attractive. In treatments where decision-makers ar...

Introduction I have not written about architecture in Cybernetics and Human Knowing, although my last column was about design (and architecture is at very least an artefact of design). Yet I have earned my living teaching architecture. Architecture can provide a very rich model of (almost) everything, allowing the teacher to teach (almost) anything they chose! In a world where the academic poss...

Amnesic patients acquired a mirror-reading skill at a rate equivalent to that of matched control subjects and retained it for at least 3 months. The results indicate that the class of preserved learning skills in amnesia is broader than previously reported. Amnesia seems to spare information that is based on rules or procedures, as contrasted with information that is data-based or declarative--...