• Drawing on a number of earlier themes from the course, she then discusses several implications of the fact our limited ability to rationally regulate our non-rational responses to representations makes fiction both potentially powerful, and potentially dangerous. (yale.edu)
  • The autism spectrum is a range of neurodevelopmental conditions generally characterized by difficulties in social interactions and communication, repetitive behaviors, intense interests, and unusual responses to sensory stimuli. (medicspark.com)
  • Just looking for causal reltionships & how certain theories in human behavior in one area might be used in another. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • This borrowing from the behavioral sciences by advertising teachers] has been extensive and includes theories used in explaining behavior as well as methods useful in investigating it. (ucla.edu)
  • Or in other words, we acquire our habits of behavior through exposure to other actors. (blogspot.com)
  • Very briefly: game theory is a formalism invented to describe games between a set of rational actors. (antiyudkowsky.com)
  • Rational actors play "games" in which a series of outcomes are laid out on a board, measured out in game-chips called Utility. (antiyudkowsky.com)
  • Mazzoni further explains that the idol or image which is the object of the imitative arts arises from human artifice or fantasy. (literariness.org)
  • In the Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle understands human nature to be a composite nature made up of body and soul, where the soul has an irrational and a rational element (1177b28, 1178a19). (shu.ac.uk)
  • She next turns to the text itself and outlines in detail Plato's argument that since we are vulnerable to non-rational persuasion, and since a powerful source of such persuasion is imitative poetry, such poetry must be censored by the state. (yale.edu)
  • Acknowledging that poetry is an imitative art, Mazzoni seeks to define it according to its medium, its subject matter, its efficient cause, and its final cause. (literariness.org)
  • While Mazzoni has insisted that the imitative arts such as poetry deal with objects of fantasy, he nonetheless rejects "the opinion of many" that the subject matter of poetry is merely "the fabulous and false. (literariness.org)
  • So our topic today is the general question of what sort of non-rational persuasion is legitimate for a government to engage in if we're willing to accept the kind of social contract argument that we were considering in the last few weeks of the course. (yale.edu)
  • I did not realize at the time that it was largely an imitative kind of learning, reproducing what was told to me, not a creative kind of learning that encouraged me to produce new ideas. (iirp.edu)
  • So, while all the arts may involve some kind of imitation, states Mazzoni, what distinguishes the imitative from other arts is that they have no other end or purpose beyond that of representation ( DCD , 41). (literariness.org)
  • There appears to be some indication that it will offer us all the optimistic, can-do kind of confidence-building sci fi that this civilization desperately needs, after decades of stylishly-imitative cynicism. (blogspot.com)
  • But crucially, the unadorned will ("I will henceforth stand straight") cannot in fact determine subsequent behavior. (blogspot.com)
  • Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS), a chronic, familial, neuropsychiatric disorder of unknown etiology, is characterized clinically by the presence of motor and vocal tics that wax and wane in severity over time and by the occurrence of a variety of neurobehavioral disturbances including hyperactivity, self-mutilatory behavior, obsessive compulsive behavior, learning disabilities, and conduct disorder. (baillement.com)
  • In particular, what we'll look at in today's lecture, is on the one hand Plato's argument that in the ideal state there would be rather radical censorship of what sort of fictional representations were permitted, and Cass Sunstein's argument that one of the duties of the government is to establish norms that affect people implicitly in how it is that they structure their behavior. (yale.edu)
  • This description better covers the actual working behavior of the people who self-describe with these labels. (ibiblio.org)
  • It was only as a young practitioner that I began to sense, on a rational level, the difference between the promise of socialism and the reality. (iirp.edu)
  • On the contrary, rational and emotional sense is untrue, useless and imprecise, since it could not prove and it is non-empirical. (nerdyseal.com)
  • How does communication influence knowledge or change opinions, attitudes or behavior? (oregonstate.education)
  • The nearest subject area to recognizable university study that the degree courses entail is the field of buyer behavior. (ucla.edu)
  • One could in principle, according to VN&M, apply the math of game theory to analyze an economic field and make objective, rational predictions, just as if one could know the positions of all molecules in a physical system one could calculate their position a step further in advance. (antiyudkowsky.com)
  • Which would suggest - again - that the rational content in ads is perhaps the least important stuff. (typepad.com)
  • Each player in the game knows that the other is perfectly rational, and has perfect knowledge of the game. (antiyudkowsky.com)
  • Andreev, N. P. Pilnik, and I. G. Pospelov, "Strong turnpike property in the model of modern Russian banking system with rational expectations," Zh. (zbmath.org)
  • and cross-relations of prosocial behavior and the moral self-concept in early childhood. (socialdevlab.org)
  • One of the early leaders of the philosophical movement now called the Scottish Enlightenment, Hutcheson was a proponent of moral sense theory, the position that human beings make moral judgments using their sentiments rather than their "rational" capacities. (argumentame.com)
  • Reflect in your clinical journal take the feelings you had during the grief of the sprog, as articulately as the feelings and behaviors that you noticed in the juvenile, siblings, parents, and nursing staff. (fosite.ru)
  • So, once some banker has apparently (but not really) solved his cost-pressure problem by unwise lending, a considerable amount of imitative "crowd folly", relying on the "social proof", is the natural consequence. (valueinvestingworld.com)
  • and problem behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online study during the lockdown period in Germany. (socialdevlab.org)
  • In our modern world, we no longer celebrate puberty rites (the Jewish traditions of bar mitzvah and bas mitzvah are an exception, but only barely), but young boys and girls still find ways to mark the transition, including the move to middle school, the first date, sharing of "skin mags" among boys or makeup among girls, and other attempts to try on "adult" behaviors. (blogspot.com)
  • behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level. (socialdevlab.org)
  • Lobby Level) "Do Sexually Violent Media Indirecdy Contribute to Antisocial Behavior? (nih.gov)