This paper describes some epistemic cultural considerations which shape the uses of psychology. I argue study mind is bound by metaphysical background given locale and era in it practiced. The setting psychology takes place will what worth observing, how to be studied, data interpreted, nature ultimate explanatory units. To demonstrate conceptual constraints, discuss metaphor use In addition, c...

1) British Academy Centenary Research Project, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK 2) new address: Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK 3) Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig D-0...

In a structural time series regression model, binary variables have been used to quantify qualitative or categorical quantitative events such as politic and economic structural breaks, regions, age groups and etc. The use of the binary dummy variables is not reasonable because the effect of an event decreases (increases) gradually over time not at once. The simple and basic idea in this paper i...

Department of Psychology, Early Childhood and Comparative Psychology, University of Berne, Switzerland, Department of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Leipzig, Germany, Anthropological Institute &Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Journal of Psycholo...

The introductory essay to this collection correctly observes that there are many "challenges for rapprochement" between anthropology and (the rest of) cognitive science. Still, the possibilities of fruitful interchanges provide some hope for the parties getting back together, at least on an intermittent basis. This response offers some views concerning the "incompatibility" of psychology and an...

a School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A. b Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany c Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. d Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. e Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Unive...