A multidisciplinary approach to cybersecurity education facilitates sound critical and analytic thinking and good communication. Students are introduced to a broader perspective and learn to think more openly and within alternative systems of thought. They are better prepared to recognize and assess assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, new materialism, and similar contemporary philosophies, proposing alternative theories to understand the world relations within, became more prevalent effective in last two decades. However, expect several solitary examples; these do not seem be having a transformative effect on design disciplines, theory, practices. This paper initially introduces...

This paper raises concerns that natural language front ends for computer systems can limit a researcher's scope of thinking, yield inappropriately complex systems, and exaggerate public fear of computers. Alternative modes of computer use are suggested and the role of psychologically oriented controlled experimentation is emphasized. Research methods and recent experimental results are briefly ...

Recent publications have highlighted alternative analytical thinking strategies to inform and facilitate improved intelligence analysis. Red teaming, fast and slow thinking, divergent thinking, as well as other strategies have been identified as essential to understanding today's radically different, nontraditional landscape that analysts and collectors are expected to operate in: to understand...

Counterfactuals are conjectures about what would have happened, had an alternative event occurred. "Counterfactual" means contrary to the facts. Counterfactual reasoning involves thoughts on what might have been, what could have happened, had some matter ‒action, outcome, etc.‒ been different in the past. It provides lessons for the future by virtue of contemplating alternatives; it permits tho...

Adolescence and early adulthood are developmental time periods during which creative cognition is highly important for adapting to environmental changes. Divergent thinking, which refers to generating novel and useful solutions to open-ended problems, has often been used as a measure of creative cognition. The first goal of this structural neuroimaging study was to elucidate the relationship be...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between optional thinking (the ability to generate alternative solutions to interpersonal problems) in deliberate self-harm (DSH) patients and repeated self-harm. DESIGN A prospective study of the association between optional thinking in interpersonal problem solving and repeated DSH within 12 months. METHOD A non-consecutive sample (N=152) of DSH p...

In this public conversation, Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens talk about their work in the field of Archipelagic American Studies intersections with Mobility Studies. They discuss archipelagic thinking, islands insular, borderwaters, alternative mapping, ways which thinking archipelago foregrounds relational entanglements mobilities. The conversation was part workshop “Archipelag...