The idea of action research and social change was the last conceptual topic to engage Kurt Lewin’s attention and energy prior to his untimely death in February 1947. In this article we commemorate the 60th anniversary of his 1946 paper ‘Action research and minority problems’. In the present article, eight principles of action research which were extracted from Lewin’s writings are presented and...

Plan and situated action relationship has been an active area of debate in recent years in various fields of study yet such relationship has a propensity for ambiguity. It would be a limited/desperate argument to claim that plans can capture every level of detail. Needless to say, a model cannot exceed or equal reality. Given that a clear mismatch/incongruence or gap exists between plans and ac...

1. Life and work Kurt Gödel was a solitary genius, whose work influenced all the subsequent developments in mathematics and logic. The striking fundamental results in the decade 1929-1939 that made Gödel famous are the completeness of the first-order predicate logic proof calculus, the incompleteness of axiomatic theories containing arithmetic, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the...

Integrating social statics and dynamics into a single mathematical theory is one of the hard problems that could cross-fertilize AI and cognitive science. How perception, language and action are situated by context and grounded in reality remains one of the grand challenges of AI and cognitive science (see the special issue of Artificial Intelligence, 2005, 167). There are claims that it has be...

Beside the point: Motor adaptation without feedback-based error correction in task1 irrelevant conditions 2 3 4 Sydney Y. Schaefer, Iris L. Shelly, and Kurt A. Thoroughman 5 6 Program in Physical Therapy, School of Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering 7 Washington University, St. Louis, MO 8 9 Corresponding author: Dr. Kurt A. Thoroughman 10 Department of Biomedical Engineering 11 ...

Vol. XLVIII (August 2011), 741 –754 *Didem Kurt is a doctoral student (e-mail: [email protected]), and J. Jeffrey Inman is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty and the Alfred Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Jennifer J. Argo is Cormie Professor of Marketing, University of Alberta (e-mail: Jennifer...