Research on the psychology of terrorism has argued against the idea that most terrorist behavior is caused by mental illness or by a terrorist personality. This article suggests an alternative line of inquiry - an individual psychology of terrorism that explores how otherwise normal mental states and processes, built on characteristic attitudes, dispositions, inclinations, and intentions, might...

When explaining the reasons for others' behavior, perceivers often overemphasize underlying dispositions and personality traits over the power of the situation, a tendency known as the fundamental attribution error. One possibility is that this bias results from the spontaneous processing of others' mental states, such as their momentary feelings or more enduring personality characteristics. He...

This paper offers a state-of-the-art working definition for the concept of Critical Thinking (CT hereafter) in an attempt to provide a framework for the development of an operational definition for this complex concept. Having studied various definitions and models, proposed for CT by major figures in the field, the key defining features of this rich concept were identified and classified. Base...

Abstract The Ontario Review Board (ORB) makes and reviews dispositions that limit the freedoms of individuals found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a “mental disorder.” Their must be responsive risk NCR pose public. To assess how is measured, authors studied twenty-six publicly accessible court files pertaining appeal ORB dispositions. hospital reports, ORB’s dispositions, transcripts h...

During the past fifty years, futures studies have assumed an increasingly explicit professional nature. Practices have become more tailored to the needs of customers and methods have become more robust. On the other hand, theories able to support and guide practice have remained somewhat underdeveloped, as shown by the finding that most practitioners still adhere to the distinction between fact...

Appeals to dispositionality in explanations of phenomena in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, require that we first agree on what we are talking about. I sketch an account of what dispositionality might be. That account will place me at odds with most current conceptions of dispositionality. My aim is not to establish a weighty ontological thesis, however, but to move the discussion ahead...

Mathematical cognition, paragon of abstraction, is marked by systematic associations between number and space, often described as “mental number lines.” In three experiments, we demonstrate a novel effect: a sagittal (back-to-front) number line for negative and positive integers. In a paradigm requiring full-body movements, participants judged numerical magnitude (Exp. 1-2) and parity (Exp. 3)....

purpose: this study intends to investigate the demographic differences of critical thinking dispositions in the employees of the central library, museum, and documents center of astane qudse razavi. methodology: in this study, carried out via descriptive method, the participants were 163 employees of the organization of libraries. they were asked to complete a researcher-made questionnaire and ...

one aspect of self-knowledge is consisted of interaction between soul and actions, ethics and knowledge. according to sadrā's opinion, soul is united with its acquired knowledge and long-term dispositions. the main principles of the theory include:nivocal of entity, (principality of existence) and its gradation) substantial motion of soul,identity of the knower and the known,bodily conting...