An article by Jim Giles published in New Scientist, and posted by the Center for Genetics and Society, surveys a variety of studies leading some people to see genetic factors in political inclinations, including liberal v. conservative, and likelihood to participate or not.
The studies include twin studies, gene studies and personality studies. This calls for [...]
Category Archives: Psychology
genetic factors in political orientation?
May 6, 2008 – 8:18 pm
Zimbardo: Abu Ghraib, Milgram, Prisoner Experiment (BookTV)
May 17, 2007 – 7:13 pm
Zimbardo cites the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and draws on the findings of his Stanford Prison Experiment, in which a group of student volunteers were arbitrarily divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a simulated prison environment.
Curriculum & the post-(cognitivist) synthesis
January 28, 2007 – 10:39 pm
If “cognitivism” is an ideology that represents learning and understanding as matters that can be understood, in a reductive way, as being, in their essence, just matters of “cognition,” it does not follow that advancing beyond cognitivism would mean taking up a newer ideology of “postcognitivism.”
constructivism v. postpositivism
January 24, 2007 – 1:29 pm
I am very interested in the general question of constructivism v. postpositivism, however, and I have a paper coming out soon that the reader would be interested in, I think. It should be published sometime this spring, and the citation will be: Whitson, James Anthony. “Education À La Silhouette: The Need for Semiotically-Informed Curriculum Consciousness.” Semiotica 164, no. 1/4 (2007): 235-329.
