In this paper, the possibility of modeling the phenomenon “pluralistic ignorance” from social psychology, using epistemic/doxastic logic, is investigated. It is shown that the straightforward formalization of pluralistic ignorance does not capture the phenomenon completely. What is needed in addition is an assumption about the interplay between different agents’ beliefs or an assumption about h...

Occupational therapists have long been concerned with the process of articulating their identity. This paper describes in detail two approaches to that process: monistic and pluralistic. It demonstrates the advantages of a pluralistic professional identity.

A B S T R AC T Pluralistic organizations characterized by multiple objectives, diffuse power and knowledge-based work processes present a complex challenge both for strategy theorists and for strategy practitioners because the very nature of strategy as usually understood (an explicit and unified direction for the organization) appears to contradict the natural dynamics of these organizations. ...

In previous continuous opinion dynamics models based on bounded confidence assumptions, individuals can only influence each other’s opinions when those opinions are sufficiently close; subsequently, agents construct their self-opinions using opinions collected from other agents. All of these models lack the element of an agent’s inner self-attitude. In this paper we describe our proposal for a ...

This study's the question how well moral educators know their students' moral views, is part of the more general question whether they base their efforts to foster moral development on adequate understanding of children. The findings show that most teachers indeed seem to possess a stereotypical image of the student. In order to reduce pluralistic ignorance, I recommend that moral educators sho...