Science, engineering, and all other learned disciplines, as well as our socio-politicaleconomic organizations are artifacts—results of our imagination and ingenuity. Modern corporation—a marvel of organizational engineering—would not be possible without imagination. To run organizations, in the face of the centrifugal forces of divergent self-interest and inherently dispersed information, we ne...

The present experiments suggest that imagery perspective--first person (own) versus third person (observer's)--influences source-monitoring judgments. Imagination inflation (Garry, Manning, Loftus, & Sherman, 1996) occurs when imaginary experience with events is mistaken for real experience. In Experiment 1, the perspective used to visualize real past events depended on memory test wording ("re...

Thomas Beddoes's and Humphry Davy's accounts of the nitrous oxide experiments carried out at the Pneumatic Institution in 1799 include extravagant descriptions of its mind-altering effects. Many people, both at the time and subsequently, have considered these descriptions to be the product not of the gas but of its subjects' overheated imaginations. To what extent were these effects 'all in the...

Was America’s “new era” of faster productivity and profits growth a figment of fevered imaginations or a genuine advance? Our detailed examination gives grounds for cautious optimism about the longer term. Trend productivity growth could stay above 2% a year, as long as labour and product markets remain vigorously competitive. If so, trend company earnings could grow close to 3% a year in const...

in the history of philosophy, the basic role of imagination in human perception as an intermediary between sensation and intellect has been left unnoticed. imagination has often been regarded as subjective and illusory. although imagination is one of the initial faculties of the soul that has been known, its duty is described only as preservation and ideation of sensible objects in the time of ...

We find symmetry attractive. It interests us. Symmetry is often an indicator of the deep structure of things, whether they be natural phenomena, or the creations of artists. For example, the most fundamental conservation laws of physics are all based in symmetry. Similarly, the symmetries found in religious art throughout the world are intended to draw attention to deep spiritual truths. Not on...