Article history: Received 3 December 2015 Received in revised form 1 March 2016 Accepted 2 March 2016 Available online xxxx This study examined the relationship between recognition memory and intellectual humility, the degree to which people recognize that their personal beliefs are fallible. Participants completed theGeneral Intellectual Humility Scale, an incidental old/new recognition task, ...

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Enclosed please find a progress report reviewing the progress made in the first year of our NSIPP project “Optimal Land Initialization for Seasonal Climate Predictions” performed under NRA 98-OES-07. This report represents the work completed at GSFC; a separate report will be forwarded from the University of Texas to review their contribution. We thank you for the opportunity to participate in ...

Student engagement, and in particular intellectual engagement, has been identified as a key factor in learning at the high school level. While this type of engagement has an impact on student learning in fields related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), it also has a positive impact on the learning of other disciplines such as English, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences. Th...

Although the game of chess has often featured in psychological research, we know very little about people who play chess, especially about children who take up chess as a hobby. This study presents the personality profiles as measured with the Big Five model (BFQ-C; Barbaranelli, Caprara, Rabasca, & Pastorelli, 2003) of 219 young children who play chess and 50 of their peers who do not. Childre...

T HE most common view of the relation between humanism and science is that the two elements are antithetic. In my view humanism and science are complementary. And indeed, I believe that in the last analysis each includes the other which is not to say they are identical. But this antithetic view has a long and I suppose distinguished history dating back to virtually the very beginnings of modern...

As the research progressed, the research revealed that the difference between success and failure for a team was not dependent on factors such as intellect, but more on behaviour. The research team began to identify separate clusters of behaviour, each of which formed distinct team contributions or “Team Roles”. A Team Role came to be defined as: “A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelat...

Background Five years ago we began preliminary work to organize the difficult issues, associated with the six decade old confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians. With the support of a number of private foundations, we were able, on several occasions, to gather together in Pittsburgh participant groups of equal size, consisting of people who were interested in and knowledgeable about t...

The characters in Lord of the Flies possess recognizable symbolic significance, which make them as the sort of people around us. Ralph stands for civilization and democracy; Piggy represents intellect and rationalism; Jack signifies savagery and dictatorship; Simon is the incarnation of goodness and saintliness. All of these efficiently portray the microcosm of that society.