Narrative metaphor: Integrating insights in cognitive science into a toolset for intentionally shaping vocational pursuits

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Roth
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Abstract Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
Conscious Processes

Divining meaning in the world around us and integrating that into the stories we tell about who we are and what motivates us is essential to both our cognitive processing and overall well-being. At the same time, our conscious processes are dependent on inputs from our social and physical environment for the raw materials needed to develop abstract thought through metaphor. The overlap between these two concepts is the narrative metaphor, and its power to shape the development of both our self-concept and intuition demands pedagogical attention. This article lays out the roots of a theory of the narrative metaphor, and provides examples of possible integrations in the classroom.

Mediterranean Cropping Systems: The Importance of Their Economic and Environmental Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Maria Pergola ◽  
◽  
Assunta Maria Palese ◽  
Alessandro Persiani ◽  
Pasquale De Francesco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Olive Tree ◽  
Well Being ◽  
C Sequestration ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the lives of people, as well as the production and economic systems throughout the world. The flow of raw materials and products, the supply of labor and manpower, and the purchasing power have all been changed to the detriment of individual health and well-being. Such a situation requires placing even more emphasis on the search for virtuous agricultural systems compatible with the goals of economic and environmental development so clearly defined at the world level in the last decades. The present study aimed to assess the environmental and economic performance of some typical Mediterranean crops grown under different agronomical management regimes, such as strawberry, hazelnut, apricot tree, kiwifruit, peach, olive tree, and grapevine, to emphasize the importance of the mentioned issues even in the current pandemic situation. Life cycle assessment (LCA) was used to investigate the environmental profile of the studied crops, while lifecycle costing (LCC) was performed to assess and compare the economic aspects. From the environmental perspective, the hobby-organic olive systems were the most eco-friendly cropping systems, emitting 0.031 to 0.105 kg CO2eq per kg olives, while the organic hazelnut system had the greatest impact (1.001 kg of CO2eq per kg). Apricot, kiwifruit, and peach systems used N and P inputs most effectively, while strawberry systems efficiently used fossil fuels. Olive HO-2, kiwifruit, and peach cropping systems had the lowest budgets, with the costs amounted to 0.12 € kg-1 per fruit for Olive HO-2 and 0.28 € kg-1 per fruit for both kiwifruit and peach. On the contrary, organic strawberry cultivation was the most expensive (4.77 € kg-1). The variability in results due to the large differences between contexts, such as landscape, technical knowledge, and crop management, characterized the studied agricultural systems. To easily identify sustainability classes and to diminish the impact of farming practices, a considerable effort should be expended to combine LCA with LCC, C sequestration estimates, and some other useful indicators for the environmental quality evaluation.

scholarly journals Failure to Share Reality and its Consequences for Self-Concept Clarity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alysson Light ◽  
Matthew Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Network Diversity ◽  
The World

Shared Reality Theory argues that people are motivated to perceive the world in similar ways to people around them to fulfill epistemic and relational motives. However, most research on shared reality has focused on dyads. Taking a broader perspective, disagreement with members of one’s social networks may threaten shared reality, with downstream consequences for confidence in core cognitive structures, including the self-concept. In four studies, we manipulated (Study 1) and measured (Studies 2-4) perceived disagreement within an individual’s social network. Results revealed that, especially when epistemic and social motives were high, disagreeing with or perceiving disagreement in one’s social network was associated with lower self-concept clarity, which mediated negative consequences for well-being. Comparing network disagreement to network diversity, we found that disagreement better explained effects on self- concept clarity. These results suggest that one’s broader social network can impact attempts to share reality, with consequences for the self and well-being.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI PHOTO OF THE YEAR WORLD PRESS PHOTO (WPP) 2005-2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Kusrini Kusrini
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Abstract Representation ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The World ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
Photo Study ◽  
Annual Award

Abstrak                                                                                                             Photo of the Year dari kontes foto World Press Photo (WPP) merupakan penghargaan tahunan yang diberikan Yayasan World Press Photo.  Penghargaan tersebut untuk menghormati kreativitas fotografer dalam karya visual dan ketrampilan membuat gambar yang menangkap dan mewakili suatu peristiwa, yang di dalamnya terdapat isu besar atau penting bagi foto jurnalistik. Kajian foto ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui bagaimana representasi peristiwa yang terdapat pada foto pemenang Photo of the Year World Press Photo 2005-2016. Data-data dikumpulkan dengan metode dokumen dan arsip serta literatur. Foto-foto yang dikaji dipilih melalui purposive sampling yang sesuai dengan tujuan penelitian. Sarana tambahan yang digunakan untuk memilih foto adalah kial (gerak-gerik) subjek foto yang atraktif atau terdapat “aksi” yang mencolok secara visual. Dari foto terpilih, dianalisis melalui teori representasi dengan menggunakan pendekatan semiotika dari Roland Barthes tentang foto jurnalistik. Dari analisis foto dapat ditemukan jika foto-foto disajikan dengan pengolahan teknik yang kuat dan profesional sehingga kesan visual yang muncul tidak hanya dramatis, tetapi juga ironis. Foto-foto pemenang World Press Photo of the Year tersebut mampu menyajikan moment sesaat, namun menentukan (decicive moment) sehingga konstruksi peristiwa mampu menjelaskan lebih dari tampilan visualnya, juga sarat dengan konteks lingkungan fisik dan sosial. Kata kunci: representasi, Photo of the Year, World Press Photo, jurnalistik  Abstract Representation of Photo of The Year from World Press Photo (WPP) 2005-2016.Photo Of the Year from the World Press Photo (WPP) photo contest is an annual award given by the World Press Photo Foundation to honor the creativity of the photographer in the visual work and the skill in creating an image that captures and represents an event containing a big or important issue for photojournalism. This photo study was conducted to find out how the representation of events contained in the winning photo Photo of the Year World Press Photo 2005-2016. The data was collected by document and archive method along literature. Whereas the photos reviewed, be elected through purposive sampling in accordance with the objectives of the study. An additional means applied to select the photo was gesture (movement) showing an attractive photo subject or visually striking "action". The selected photographs were analyzed using theory of representation and semiotics approach from Roland Barthes about photojournalism. From photo analysis, it could be discovered that the photos were presented with a powerful and professional processing technique, so that the visual impression appearing was not only dramatic, but also ironic.  Photographs of World Press Photo Of the Year winners were able to present decicive moment, allowing construction of events explaining more of the visual appearance, also loaded with the context of social and physical environment. Keywords: representation, Photo of the Year, World Press Photo, journalistic

scholarly journals The proliferation of informal sector activities in Congo: Case of the city of Brazzaville

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2322-2328
Author(s):  
NZOUSSI KEVIN ◽  
Li Jiang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Well Being ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Bretton Woods Institutions ◽  
Everyday Problems ◽  
The City ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The underground of the countries of Africa south of the Sahara is full of enormous potentialities and raw materials of all kinds. But the population of Africa in general and of Africa south of the Sahara, in particular, remains the poorest in the world. A contrast which can be justified by the political and economic instability, the corollary of which is poor management, the drop in the standard of living. The economic potential of these countries does not reflect the level of populations that generally languish in enormous poverty without real livelihoods. Beginning in the 1980s, a large-scale economic crisis shook virtually all African countries because of the stringent restrictions and measures imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, notably the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In order to cope with the increasingly difficult living conditions, the populations of which were the main victims, that is to say, the populations will gradually organize themselves and several activities will emerge. These activities are part of the informal sector. It is, therefore, a sector that brings together unemployed people looking for employment and societal well-being who organize themselves to face everyday problems. This means that it is a lucrative sector that is constantly absorbing unemployment in Congo in general and Brazzaville in particular.

scholarly journals Racial Inequality, Neighborhood Effects, and Moving to Opportunity

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Dionissi Aliprantis
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Physical Environment ◽  
New Research

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) was a housing mobility program designed to investigate neighborhood effects, the influences of the social and physical environment on human development and well-being. Some of the results from MTO have been interpreted as evidence that neighborhood effects are not as strong as earlier evidence had indicated. This Commentary discusses new research suggesting that neighborhood effects are, on the contrary, as strong and policy relevant as suspected before the experiment. This Commentary also discusses why the interpretation of the MTO data is important: If neighborhood effects drive outcomes, then addressing racial inequality requires concerted efforts beyond ending racial discrimination.

scholarly journals Kesesakan sebagai Prediktor Kesejahteraan Psikologis: Sebuah Studi di Kampung Biru Arema Kota Malang

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Agung Minto Wahyu ◽  
Luky Karisma ◽  
Qoni’atur Ridwan ◽  
Anita Hariyanti ◽  
Mochammad Sa’id
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Probability Sampling ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
The World

Every human who lives in the world has aspirations for prosperity in his life. This well-being is not only materially, but also psychological well-being. However, the increasing density of the physical environment will potentially lead to the perception of crowding and have an impact on the psychological well-being of individuals. This study aims to investigate the effect of distress on psychological well-being in the community in Kampung Biru Arema Malang. This study uses a quantitative correlational design with regression analysis to determine the effect of the crowding variable on the psychological well-being variable. Respondents selected as samples in this study were 38 people who were residents of Kampung Biru Arema. The samples were conducted research using non-probability sampling technique is purposive sampling. Data collected by using two scales, the scale of distress and the psychological well-being scale. The results of this study indicate that adversity has a significant negative influence as a predictor of psychological well-being in communities in Kampung Biru Arema Malang (t hitung= -3,213; p<0.05; R Square = 0,223). This study concludes that individuals who perceive the density as crowding will decrease their psychological well-being.

scholarly journals La mente in architettura

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Neural Systems ◽  
The World

Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and neuroscience can learn from each other.

scholarly journals Report of the Board of Directors to the Congress of Colombia - July 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Carrasquilla-Barrera ◽  
Arturo José Galindo-Andrade ◽  
Gerardo Hernández-Correa ◽  
Ana Fernanda Maiguashca-Olano ◽  
Carolina Soto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
The World

In Colombia, as well as in the rest of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has seriously damaged the health and well-being of the people. In order to limit the damage, local and national authorities have had to order large sectors of the population to be confined at their homes for long periods of time. An inevitable consequence of isolation has been the collapse of economic activity, expenditure, and employment, a phenomenon that has hit many countries of the world affected by the disease. It is an unprecedented crisis in modern times, not so much for its intensity (which is undoubtedly immense), but because its origin is not economic. That is what makes it so unpredictable and difficult to manage. Naturally, its economic consequences are enormous. Governments and central banks from all over the world are struggling to mitigate them, but the final solution is not in the hands of the economic authorities. Only science can provide a way out. In the meantime, the economic indicators in Colombia and in the rest of the world cause concern. The output falls, the massive loss of jobs, and the closure of businesses of all sizes have become daily news. Added to this, there is the deterioration in global financial conditions and the increase in the risk indicators. Financial volatility has increased and stock indexes have fallen. In the face of the lower global demand, export prices of raw materials have fallen, affecting the terms of trade for producing countries. Workers’ remittances have declined due to the increase of unemployment in developed countries. This crisis has also generated a strong reduction of global trade of goods and services, and effects on the global value chains. Central banks around the world have reacted decisively and quickly with strong liquidity injections and significant cuts to their interest rates. By mid-July, such determined response had succeeded to revert much of the initial deterioration in global financial conditions. The stock exchanges stopped their fall, and showed significant recovery in several countries. Risk premia, which at the beginning of the crisis took an unusual leap, recorded substantial corrections. Something similar happened with the volatility indexes of global financial markets, which exhibited significant improvement. Flexibilization of confinement measures in some economies, broad global liquidity, and fiscal policy measures have also contributed to improve global external financial conditions, albeit with indicators that still do not return to their pre-Covid levels.

Russian Citizens' Representations of the Country's Position in the Geopolitical Space of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, and the World

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Victor F. Petrenko ◽  
Olga V. Mitina ◽  
Kirill A. Bertnikov
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Commonwealth Of Independent States ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Implicit Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Invariant Factors

The aim of this research was the reconstruction of the system of categories through which Russians perceive the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, and the world as a whole; to study the implicit model of the geopolitical space; to analyze the stereotypes in the perception of different countries and the superposition of mental geopolitical representations onto the geographic map. The techniques of psychosemantics by Petrenko, originating in the semantic differential of Osgood and Kelly's “repertory grids,” were used as working tools. Multidimensional semantic spaces act as operational models of the structures of consciousness, and the positions of countries in multidimensional space reflect the geopolitical stereotypes of respondents about these countries. Because of the transformation of geopolitical reality representations in mass consciousness, the commonly used classification of countries as socialist, capitalist, and developing is being replaced by other structures. Four invariant factors of the countries' descriptions were identified. They are connected with Economic and Political Well-being, Military Might, Friendliness toward Russia, and Spirituality and the Level of Culture. It seems that the structure has not been explained in adequate detail and is not clearly realized by the individuals. There is an interrelationship between the democratic political structure of a country and its prosperity in the political mentality of Russian respondents. Russian public consciousness painfully strives for a new geopolitical identity and place in the commonwealth of states. It also signifies the country's interest and orientation toward the East in the search for geopolitical partners. The construct system of geopolitical perception also depends on the region of perception.

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