Monday, July 24, 2017

27.2. Epistemological implications of a reduction of theoretical implausibility to cognitive dissonance

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The Aronsonian re-interpretation of cognitive dissonance as caused by ideas in conflict with self-image forestalled some obvious applicati...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

27.1 Cognitive-dissonance theory applied to writing styles

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See my other blog Disputed Issues.  "The Role of Suggestion in Persuasive Writing: 'What is Classic Prose?' Revisited"
Sunday, February 26, 2017

27.0. Cognitive Dissonance: The Glue of the Mind

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Two of the most significant framework theories in social psychology in the past half century have been Leon Festinger's theory of cognit...
Monday, June 22, 2015

26.0. Consciousness, communication, and the pursuit of happiness

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Happiness requires conscious awareness Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman reports as his most important insight: events affect ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

25.0. Authorized police prevarication as a clue to the nature of the state

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One-hundred-fifty militarized riot police, bearing assault rifles and worse, faced off in Ferguson against unarmed protesters. Shallow refor...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

24.0. Abstract construal is offline thinking

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The foundation of construal-level theory doesn’t seem to be a “framework” matter ( per this blog’s subtitle), but I will treat it so by c...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

23.0. The death penalty and Hegel’s law of quantity into quality: The incoherence of executions

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If the gruesome Oklahoma execution portends the death-penalty’s demise, the reason may have more to do with the obnoxious applause of apolog...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

22.0. The concept of belief and the nature of abstraction: A social propensity account

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Belief , puzzling to philosophy, is part of psychology’s conceptual framework. The present essay provides a straightforward yet novel theory...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

21.1. Status inflation and deflation: Prestige, the essence of status, permits broad alliances

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Is status a positional good? As the concept of social status itself attains higher status (through employment in evolutionary psycholo...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

21.0. The dismal employment picture: A social-status-theory explanation

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Most economists agree automation costs jobs, but the reason it does is unclear. Economists had theorized that automation would create more j...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

15.3. Why ideology types and the political spectrum match: The theory of ideological concealment

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4th in Ideology Types series The correspondence problem in general The unanticipated correspondence between ideology types and seg...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

11.6. Belief–opinion confusion and the contradictions of capitalist investment markets: Fictional-market socialism

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(Part 7 of Belief-versus-opinion series .) Economic recessions, like the one we hope we’re recovering from, have varied causes, but any ...