Within the field of the cognitive sciences (CSs), frequently happened that some form of “linguistic” representations (symbols, propositional representations, and so on) have been opposed to representations of some different kind. In this paper I claim that such an opposition, in spite of its prima facie intuitive strength, cannot be stated in a precise and general way. The possible characterisa...

a measurement of entrepreneurial intention and locating factors that nurture it are among one of the determining factors that lead to the emergence of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, provide a better understanding of the quality of circumstances that bring about free enterprise and thus contribute to a more accurate prediction of the possibility of its occurrence. among factors that are inf...

Evidence exists that individuals possess habitual ways of approaching tasks and situations associated with particular patterns in cognitive processes including decision making, problem solving, perception, and attention. Such approaches are conceptualized as cognitive style, a concept first formally introduced by Allport almost eight decades ago and defined as an individual's typical or habitua...

Magicians often rely on misdirection to fool their audience. A common way to achieve this is for the magician to provide a plausible and intuitive (but false) account of how an effect is performed in order to prevent spectators from uncovering the truth. We hypothesized that analytical thinkers would be more likely than intuitive thinkers to seek alternative explanations when observing a mental...

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between learners’ cognitive styles and their instructional preferences. The sample consisted of 240 business studies students at a UK university. Subjects’ cognitive styles were assessed using the Cognitive Styles Analysis (which assesses the wholist-analytical and verbaliser-imager dimensions of style) and their instructional preferences...

INTRODUCTION In clinical populations paranoid delusions are associated with making global, stable and external attributions for negative events. Paranoia is common in community samples but it is not known whether it is associated with a similar cognitive style. This study investigates the association between cognitive style and paranoia in a large community sample of young adults. METHODS 269...

In cognitive radio, the cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) plays a key role in determining the performance of secondary networks. However, there have not been feasible approaches that can analytically calculate the performance of CSS with regard to the multi-level quantization. In this paper, we not only show the cooperative false alarm probability and cooperative detection probability impacted...

Despite the importance of psychological essentialism as an account of categorisation, it is unclear what import findings of individual difference have. The present study is designed to investigate individual differences in relation to deference, a key indicator of essentialist thought. This replicates previous findings of individual differences in deference, and demonstrates a strong associatio...