This paper is the third in a series in which the social behavior of mentally disabled clients in community facilities was examined. In this report, social choice for various cognitive and physical characteristics and for exposure to others was investigated in five settings. Preferences were inferred from observed affiliation, self reports, and staff judgments. Clients tended to prefer peers who...

Although genius has been defined in the dictionary as requiring an IQ above 140, this definition depends on an arbitrary methodological decision made by Lewis Terman for his longitudinal study of more than 1500 intellectually gifted children, a study that occupies four of the five volumes of Genetic Studies of Genius. Yet, only the second volume, by Catharine Cox, studied bona fide geniuses, by...

grounds. From the mean score of a group you cannot say anything at all about the score of one exceptional member of the group, as Simonton must know. In another case Simonton assesses the relationship of educational level to rated eminence in Cox's sample of 301 eminent figures from history. He finds that, among the 192 "creators" (artists, scientists, etc.) in this sample, the most eminent had...

one of the issues discussed in details in philosophy is the end of humanity after death (according to the tendency of immortality) and the survival of the human population or accepting death and invalidity with destruction of the body. philosophers such as ibn sina, suhrawardi and mulla sadra explain the stages and types of souls after death, and the immortality of them. ibn sina after al-farab...

to testify the contrastive properties of two combinations of emotional intelligence (ei) index including emotional vs. cognitive subscale dyads among some one hundred and twenty university students (52 male & 68 female), this study was carried out to predict their success in their general english (ge) course during one academic semester. datasets were obtained through a self-report bar's o...

Man can solve problems without knowing how he solves them. This simple fact sets the conditions for all attempts to rationalize and understand human decision-making and problem-solving. Let us simply assume that it is good to know how to do mechanically what man can do naturally — both to add to man's knowledge of man, and to add to his kit of tools for controlling and manipulating his environm...

Your ‘Out of the Box’ columnist (Cannon, 2005) says he is unconfined, and hence able to commend the aphorism of the Tao Te Ching: ‘Be really whole, and all things will come to you’. I have no idea what this aphorism means. If it means anything, I doubt if it can be proved to be true or untrue, so I am not very interested in it. Is it wise for nutritionists to dispense with boxes entirely if, li...

An important allegory throughout the history of philosophy is Plato’s allegory of the cave. There are remarkable similarities between this allegory and an allegory from Islamic philosophy—that of western exile (al-ghurba al-gharbiyya) proposed by Suhrawardī. This paper seeks to consider fundamental components and issues within the two allegories, including the issue of the soul as the ...

In this talk I introduce three of the twentieth century’s main philosophies of mathematics and argue that of those three, one describes mathematical reality, the “reality”of the other two being merely virtual. What are mathematical objects, really? What, for example, is that thing that we call “the number one”, or “the set of all positive whole numbers”, or “the shortest path between two points...