Previous research suggests that members of East Asian cultures show a greater preference for dialectical thinking and sensitivity to context information than do Westerners. We suggest this difference is rooted in a greater chronic Fear of Isolation (FOI) in East Asians than in Westerners. To support this hypothesis, we manipulated FOI in a group of Westerners and assessed their relative prefere...

People use dialectical thinking to be holistic, reconcile contradictions, and emphasize changes when processing information and managing problems. Using a questionnaire survey, this study examined the relationship between dialectical thinking and creative personality in the Chinese culture, which encourages a holistic and collective thinking style. Undergraduates majoring in different subjects ...

Defeasible argumentation is one of the approaches that addresses the challenges arising when we reason defeasibly, with several formalisms in the literature reaching a mature state. Considering that most of these theories eventually shifted their semantics towards dialectical characterizations, we believe that a sufficiently generic model of the process of reasoning in dialectical terms could a...

Theorizing about good teaching is complicated by the preparadigmatic state of learning theory, the existence of separately conceived and independently coherent notions of learning championed in various branches of psychology (e.g., behavioral, developmental, cognitive, sociocultural). Historically, educators have responded by partnering with one or another of the schools (usually the dominant o...

Finding more effective treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is important to lessen the suffering, stigma, and heavy use on the mental health system. Art Therapy may help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Borderline Personality Disorder according to current trends and neurobiological findings on how the trauma response works in the...

Background and purpose: together with drug treatment can be benefited of dialectical behavior therapy improvement in people with schizophrenia.this study investigates the impact of dialectical behavior therapy on patients with negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Materials and methods: The study population includes all men who have schizophrenia in the center bahar of year 1393. They were random...

Previous research suggests that members of East Asian cultures show a greater preference for dialectical (vs. nondialectical) thinking than do members of Western Cultures. We suggest this difference is rooted in a greater chronic fear of isolation (FOI) in East Asians than in Westerners. To explain this hypothesis, we manipulated fear of isolation in a group of Western college students and asse...