ness will here be regarded, therefore, not only as a property possessed to a greater or lesser degree by all (conscious or unconscious) mental processes, but as the basis of man’s capacity to move successfully in a world very imperfectly known to him – an adaptation to his ignorance of most of the particular facts of his surroundings. (Hayek 1973:30; emphasis added) Entrepreneurs must formulate...

Although they are perhaps the most commonly-used and popular research methods, case studies and other qualitative forms of social science research have long been criticized for their lack of generalizability to the larger population and lack of sampling controls. These criticisms may be aptly addressed and solutions constructed by evaluating the rules of scientific method within case research e...

Differential profiles of language impairments in genetic developmental disorders have been argued to reveal the component parts of the language system and perhaps even the genetic specification of those components. Focusing predominantly on a comparison between Williams syndrome and Specific Language Impairment, we argue that the detailed level of behavioural fractionations observed in these di...

Wakefield’s Harmful Dysfunction Analysis (HDA) for distinguishing disorders from nondisorders has received much attention in the literature. Although the analysis has many strengths, Wakefield (1999a; 1999b) fails to appropriately capture the nature of the disorder construct thereby leading to much confusion. A solution is offered suggesting disorder can be thought of as a utilitarian construct...

Psychological universals, or core mental attributes shared by humans everywhere, are a foundational postulate of psychology, yet explicit analysis of how to identify such universals is lacking. Drawing on the emerging field of cultural psychology, this article offers a conceptual and methodological framework to guide the investigation of genuine universals through empirical analysis of psycholo...