Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis it therefore not experimental science search law but interpretive one meaning. (Geertz 1973, p. 5) Le passage bien connu que nous donnons en exergue definit la comme une toile de significations tissee par les humains pour mieux s’y suspendre e...

Interpretive biases play a crucial role in anxiety disorders. The aim of the current study was to examine factors that determine the relative strength of threat-related interpretive biases that are characteristic of individuals high in social anxiety. Different (dual process) models argue that both implicit and explicit processes determine information processing biases and behavior, and that th...

A five-center collaborative study was undertaken to develop quality control and specific interpretive criteria for susceptibility testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae against 12 antimicrobial agents. MICs were determined for 248 pneumococcal clinical isolates (with an emphasis on resistant strains) by use of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS)-recommended broth micro...

In the spirit of trying something new, we abandoned the traditional interpersonal process recording for an entirely new way to teach students about communication--an interpretive research group. We propose the interpretive research group as a strategy for teaching communication and analysis that encourages active student-faculty participation, provides for more egalitarian student-teacher relat...