Atkinson, Quentin D Jacquet, Jennifer
Published in
Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
In the face of a slow and inadequate global response to anthropogenic climate change, scholars and journalists frequently claim that human psychology is not designed or evolved to solve the problem, and they highlight a range of "psychological barriers" to climate action. Here, we critically examine this claim and the evidence on which it is based....
Brick, C Hood, B Ekroll, V De-Wit, Lee
The reliance in psychology on verbal definitions means that psychological research is unusually moored to how humans think and communicate about categories. Psychological concepts (e.g., intelligence, attention) are easily assumed to represent objective, definable categories with an underlying essence. Like the "vital forces" previously thought to ...
Brick, C Hood, B Ekroll, V de-Wit, L
Published in
Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
The reliance in psychology on verbal definitions means that psychological research is unusually moored to how humans think and communicate about categories. Psychological concepts (e.g., intelligence, attention) are easily assumed to represent objective, definable categories with an underlying essence. Like the "vital forces" previously thought to ...
Mann, Sarah L Contrada, Richard J
Published in
Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England)
Essentialist theory (ET) links biological attributions for mental illnesses to pessimistic prognostic beliefs and stigma. The commonsense model (CSM) provides a nuanced framework for studying illness beliefs as shaped by experience. ET-informed hypotheses linking causal and prognostic beliefs and stigmatizing attitudes concerning depression were te...
Pillow, Bradford H Vilma, Taneisha Low, Natalie
Published in
Psychological reports
We examined the influence of categorization and stereotyping on young children's (N = 96; 39 to 71 months of age) use of gender to make generalizations regarding novel biological and behavioral characteristics. Participants were asked to sort pictures of children according to either gender, common gender stereotypes, or shirt color. Then participan...
Gustafsson, Jakob
The question of what religion is could very well be asked of religious studies teachers by their students. It is, however, a difficult question to answer since there is a lack of consensus regarding the meaning of the term religion in the scientific field. An overview of research on the topic shows a lack of studies regarding religious studies teac...
Chaly, Vadim
This paper offers a contextual, textual and conceptual study of Kant’s notion of humanity and its current interpretations. Its argument is directed against the interpretation of humanity as merely “the capacity to set oneself an end - any end whatsoever”. Kant’s sources, his usage of the word ‘Menschheit’ and its conceptual functions suggest a more...
Macioce, Fabio
The notion of vulnerable groups is as much used in normative texts as it is criticised in philosophical and political scholarship. This article analyses the criticisms that have been levelled at this notion, and proposes, as an alternative, two possible ways of interpreting it. The two possible meanings of group vulnerability are able to respond to...
Wiktorin, Pierre
Students on introductory courses in secular religious studies and teacher training programs at Swedish universities often understand and conceptualize religion in an essentialist way. Whilst an essentialist understanding of religions is adequate in confessional training programs, it becomes an obstacle in secular higher secondary education and teac...
南, 根祐
特集 : 東アジアの民俗学 --歴史と課題-- / 金廣植 訳 / Special Issue : Histories and agendas of East Asian Folklore Studies / 韓国民俗学は西欧のfolklore概念が日本経由で植民地朝鮮に移入される1920年代にスタートする。そして解放後,1950〜60年代の中興期を経て1970年代に至り,韓国民俗学のフレームが整備される。その要点は,民俗は,一つの民族の基層文化であり,その外見は変わっても真髄は変わらない。だが,この基層の固有民俗が日帝植民地化と西欧近代化などの余波で湮滅の危機を迎えている。その風前の灯火の民俗事象を一日でも早く救済し,民族文化の本質と正体性(アイデンティティ),原型などを探求するのが民俗学...