Much research has demonstrated a shape bias in categorizing and naming solid objects. This research has shown that when an entity is conceptualized as an individual object, adults and children attend to the object's shape. Separate research in the domain of numerical cognition suggest that there are distinct processes for quantifying small and large sets of discrete items. This research shows t...

Though it is not stated, we may assume that Dr. Goldbrunner is a theologian, for his critical estimation covers the relation of Jung's concepts to religion, anthropology, ethics, education, and the "cure of souls," and he is evidently most at home in the sphere of religion. It may be noted here that there is a curious naivete when the subject of psychotherapy is broached, which no doubt derives...

The tutorial connects two notions of information: the inverse relationship principle which relates informational content to the exclusion of possibilities, and information-structures based on a partial ordering on states of information. Jointly, these allow the formulation of several distinct precise notions of content-individuation.

This research proposes a new theory of direct causation and examines how this concept plays a key role in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events. According to the no-intervening-cause hypothesis, a causal chain can be described by a single-clause sentence and construed as a single event if there are no intervening causers between the initial causer and the final causee. Consis...

A developmental scheme has been proposed which recognizes clusters of variables of adolescent behavior in the area of heterosexual object relationship development. These periods-(I) stage of sexual awakening (13-15), (II) stage of practicing (14-17), (III) stage of acceptance (16-19), (IV) stage of permanent object choice (18-25)-reflect the developing capacity of object relationship and are a ...

The commentators are unanimous in their support for our general orientation to culture and development, and for the pathways we have identified, and they suggest ways to enrich our approach to theory, methods, and values. We view their main suggestions as relating to trade-offs: between theories that highlight generalizations or exceptions; between methods that rely on one-, two-, or multicultu...

Twelve participants were trained to be experts at identifying a set of 'Greebles', novel objects that, like faces, all share a common spatial configuration. Tests comparing expert with novice performance revealed: (1) a surprising mix of generalizability and specificity in expert object recognition processes; and (2) that expertise is a multi-faceted phenomenon, neither adequately described by ...

The critical theories on autobiography tend to marginalize women's autobiography-writing and often have a strong subjective as well as objective bias against it. This chapter is an attempt to prove that most of the critical theories established by the male tradition are not applicable to women's life writing due to biological, socio-political as well as psycho-cultural reasons; that women's aut...

The theme chosen for the Conference of the World Federation for Mental Health this year was "Problems of Growing Up in a Changing World". The Conference opened with a paper from its President, Dr. Margaret Mead, on "Growing Up in Different Cultures". She pointed out that the biological pattern of individuation was almost the same for all human babies, in whatever country they were born, and it ...