scholarly journals The Communication Argument and the Pluralist Challenge

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Shawn Tinghao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Specific Function ◽  
Moral Communication ◽  
Gary Watson ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract Various theorists have endorsed the “communication argument”: communicative capacities are necessary for morally responsible agency because blame aims at a distinctive kind of moral communication. I contend that existing versions of the argument, including those defended by Gary Watson and Coleen Macnamara, face a pluralist challenge: they do not seem to sit well with the plausible view that blame has multiple aims. I then examine three possible rejoinders to the challenge, suggesting that a context-specific, function-based approach constitutes the most promising modification of the communication argument.

Context-specific function of the LIM homeobox 1 transcription factor in head formation of the mouse embryo

Development ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 142 (11) ◽  
pp. 2069-2079 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Fossat ◽  
C. K. Ip ◽  
V. J. Jones ◽  
J. B. Studdert ◽  
P.-L. Khoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Mouse Embryo ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Head Formation ◽  
Context Specific

Effect of nestlings’ age on parental responses to a predatory snake in Parus minor

Behaviour ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 155 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung Moon Ha ◽  
Keesan Lee ◽  
Eun Jeong Yang ◽  
Woo Joo Kim ◽  
Ho Kyeong Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alarm Calls ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Nest Cavity ◽  
Ancestral Function ◽  
Parus Minor ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Evolutionary Emergence ◽  
Parental Responses

Abstract Predator-specific alarm calls may have a variety of context-specific functions. Parents of the oriental tit, Parus minor, use the ‘jar’ call in response to the presence of a snake near the nests, and the nestlings respond by escaping the nest cavity. This specific function can be observed only when nestlings are able to fledge. Do tits use the ‘jar’ call only in a situation when nestlings are physically able to jump out of the nest? We measured parental responses to live snake in 8 nests. The use of ‘jar’ call by parents was not modified by the ability of their nestlings to escape out of the nest. This suggests that fledging in response to ‘jar’ call by old nestlings evolved later than the evolutionary emergence of referential snake alarm calls, and that the ancestral function of ‘jar’ call was probably not related to triggering of fledging in old nestlings.

scholarly journals Cell type and context-specific function of PLAG1 for IGF2 P3 promoter activity

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1959-1966 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONIRA AKHTAR ◽  
CLAES HOLMGREN ◽  
ANITA GÖNDÖR ◽  
MATTIAS VESTERLUND ◽  
CHANDRASEKHAR KANDURI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Promoter Activity ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Cell Type ◽  
Context Specific

scholarly journals Context-Specific Function of S6K2 in Th Cell Differentiation

2016 ◽  
Vol 197 (8) ◽  
pp. 3049-3058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Pai ◽  
Craig M. Walsh ◽  
David A. Fruman
Keyword(s):  
Cell Differentiation ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Th Cell ◽  
Context Specific

Validation of the Procrastination at Work Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-776
Author(s):  
U. Baran Metin ◽  
Toon W. Taris ◽  
Maria C. W. Peeters ◽  
Max Korpinen ◽  
Urška Smrke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Negative Links ◽  
Office Employees

Abstract. Procrastination at work has been examined relatively scarcely, partly due to the lack of a globally validated and context-specific workplace procrastination scale. This study investigates the psychometric characteristics of the Procrastination at Work Scale (PAWS) among 1,028 office employees from seven countries, namely, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Specifically, it was aimed to test the measurement invariance of the PAWS and explore its discriminant validity by examining its relationships with work engagement and performance. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis shows that the basic factor structure and item loadings of the PAWS are invariant across countries. Furthermore, the two subdimensions of procrastination at work exhibited different patterns of relationships with work engagement and performance. Whereas soldiering was negatively related to work engagement and task performance, cyberslacking was unrelated to engagement and performance. These results indicate further validity evidence for the PAWS and the psychometric characteristics show invariance across various countries/languages. Moreover, workplace procrastination, especially soldiering, is a problematic behavior that shows negative links with work engagement and performance.

Ambulatory Assessment

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer ◽  
Timothy J. Trull
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Affective Valence ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Questionnaire Studies

Convergent experimental data, autobiographical studies, and investigations on daily life have all demonstrated that gathering information retrospectively is a highly dubious methodology. Retrospection is subject to multiple systematic distortions (i.e., affective valence effect, mood congruent memory effect, duration neglect; peak end rule) as it is based on (often biased) storage and recollection of memories of the original experience or the behavior that are of interest. The method of choice to circumvent these biases is the use of electronic diaries to collect self-reported symptoms, behaviors, or physiological processes in real time. Different terms have been used for this kind of methodology: ambulatory assessment, ecological momentary assessment, experience sampling method, and real-time data capture. Even though the terms differ, they have in common the use of computer-assisted methodology to assess self-reported symptoms, behaviors, or physiological processes, while the participant undergoes normal daily activities. In this review we discuss the main features and advantages of ambulatory assessment regarding clinical psychology and psychiatry: (a) the use of realtime assessment to circumvent biased recollection, (b) assessment in real life to enhance generalizability, (c) repeated assessment to investigate within person processes, (d) multimodal assessment, including psychological, physiological and behavioral data, (e) the opportunity to assess and investigate context-specific relationships, and (f) the possibility of giving feedback in real time. Using prototypic examples from the literature of clinical psychology and psychiatry, we demonstrate that ambulatory assessment can answer specific research questions better than laboratory or questionnaire studies.

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