BACKGROUND Medical students in academic difficulty are often described as lacking insight. The Self Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS) is a tool for measuring insight which has been validated in medical students. We investigated whether self reflection and insight scores correlate with academic performance in Year 4 medical students from a six year undergraduate medical degree, and whether sel...

The present work proposes the use of social media as a tool for better understanding the relationship between a journalists’ social network and the content they produce. Specifically, we ask: what is the relationship between the ideological leaning of a journalist’s social network on Twitter and the news content he or she produces? Using a novel dataset linking over 500,000 news articles produc...

The National Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) policies in the United States have been one of the major policies against sex offense since 2006. In this paper, we attempt to assess the policies within a framework of four types of failure in criminal justice reform by Berman and Fox – Theory, Marketing and Politics, Implication, and Self-Reflection. According to the evaluation, t...

Self-tracking physiological and psychological data poses the challenge of presentation and interpretation. Insightful narratives for self-tracking data can motivate the user towards constructive self-reflection. One powerful form of narrative that engages audience across various culture and age groups is animated movies. We collected a week of self-reported mood and behavior data from each user...

Aggressive driving increases the risk of accidents, and it is normally a consequence of the impatience, frustration, or anger of drivers. In this paper, we present a case study showing the feasibility of using participatory sensing to enable drivers to report and gain awareness on aggressive driving behavior. We describe the design and development of the Driving Habits System prototype, a mobil...

Presently, much discussion is going on about whether human beings possess a free will; whether human behaviour is intentional and goaldirected or rather automatic and primarily a product of neuronal processes; whether human beings can be held responsible for their behaviour; andto what degree behaviour is based on rationality and self-reflection. These discussions do more or less explicitly dea...

This paper describes the qualitatively different views of users that Finnish IS designers have. This view is a basis for the IS-user relationship. A method of empirical research for investigating human beings’ views of the surrounding world, phenomenography, is presented. The preliminary results of the analysis indicate that IS designers tend to give meaning to users through the intentions of t...

In this contribution we start with a critical reading of assumptions that have led to the postulation of a dialogical and polyphonic self. We critically review the empirical basis for these assumptions as resulting from therapeutically informed techniques according to which clients/participants are led to engage in particular modes of self-reflection and conclude that the positions, valuations,...

In a modified dictator game, I test experimentally the robustness of social preferences to (1) information about others’ behavior and (2) self-reflection about the morally right behavior. I find that whereas information has a strong effect on people’s moral judgments, it has virtually no effect on their revealed preferences. In contrast, self-reflection changes social preferences substantially....

Case study method of didactic situations is a modern procedure of effective development of professional abilities in future teachers. I have been using the method for many years in future teachers training in the field of preparation of subject methodologies. A case study does not develop only the subject and didactic competences of future teachers. The self-evaluation and self-reflection proce...