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2. Anecdote as Philosophical Intervention: Hans Blumenberg’s Figure of the Absent-minded Phenomenologist
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Spencer Hawkins
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Literature ,Absent minded ,Notice ,business.industry ,Philosophy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Anecdote ,05 social sciences ,050601 international relations ,0506 political science ,Reductio ad absurdum ,Phenomenology (philosophy) ,comic_books ,Rhetoric ,050602 political science & public administration ,business ,comic_books.character ,Skepticism ,media_common - Abstract
This article discusses anecdotes functions’ to express philosophical anxieties and skepticism towards philosophical generalizations. By taking up Hans Blumenberg’s work on the rhetoric of philosophical discourse, this article examines an unpublished one-page story written by Blumenberg about his advisor, phenomenologist Ludwig Landgrebe. The story becomes absurd when Landgrebe (identified as “L.”) uses his pocket-watch to time a ferry trip, which he is only taking in order to go home and search his house for the selfsame pocket-watch. The article interprets the story as an illustration both of Heideggerian Being-in-the-World and of Landgrebe’s little-known variation on Heidegger’s model. Blumenberg’s anecdote conveys a reductio ad absurdum of the notion that we only notice objects when they are not handy ( zuhanden ). Besides critiquing Heidegger and Landgrebe, the anecdote exposes problems of phenomenology that an argument would express less satisfactorily.
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- 2017
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3. Autobiography as a Micrometer for Empire: How a Nineteenth-Century English Tailor was - and was not - an Absent-Minded Imperialist
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Christopher Ferguson
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Literature ,History ,Absent minded ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Empire ,Biography ,Context (language use) ,Law ,British Empire ,comic_books ,business ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
The relationship between the British empire and the metropolitan populace remains a recurring point of debate for historians. Autobiographies, such as that of the nineteenth-century tailor James Carter (1792–1853), offer a means of moving beyond the question of working-class knowledge of the empire, to understand the ways in which workers perceived the role and significance of the empire within the context of their own lives. Analysis of Carter's autobiography yields a vision of a worker who, while far from ignorant of the empire's existence, perceived it as a largely distant entity, except in those moments when its influence manifested directly in his own personal and economic affairs.
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- 2015
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4. Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing
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Andrea Wilson
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Computer Science::Computer Science and Game Theory ,Economics and Econometrics ,Absent minded ,Theoretical computer science ,Sequential game ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Information processing ,TheoryofComputation_GENERAL ,Decision problem ,Bounded rationality ,Salience (neuroscience) ,Confirmation bias ,Bounded function ,comic_books ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
Before choosing among two actions with state-dependent payoffs, a Bayesian decision-maker with a finite memory sees a sequence of informative signals, ending each period with fixed chance. He summarizes information observed with a finite-state automaton. I characterize the optimal protocol as an equilibrium of a dynamic game of imperfect recall; a new player runs each memory state each period. Players act as if maximizing expected payoffs in a common finite action decision problem. I characterize equilibrium play with many multinomial signals. The optimal protocol rationalizes many behavioral phenomena, like �stickiness,� salience, confirmation bias, and belief polarization.
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- 2014
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5. When the clown laughs back: Nabaneeta Dev Sen's global travel and the dynamics of humour
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Swaralipi Nandi
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Literature ,Pride ,Absent minded ,History ,Literature and Literary Theory ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Media studies ,Destinations ,Colonialism ,Power (social and political) ,Phenomenon ,comic_books ,Immigration law ,business ,comic_books.character ,Privilege (social inequality) ,media_common - Abstract
Though moving across borders is a common phenomenon in the contemporary globalised world, travel writing as a genre has still retained its significance as well as some of its traits from its colonial predecessors. Thus, while many “Western” travelogues in non-Western destinations still narrate the non-west as exotic, dangerous and often ludicrous, the non-Western traveller's visit to a Western land is often accompanied by a sense of pride, privilege and even bitter experiences of discrimination. This essay discusses how the Bengali writer Nabanita Dev Sen's travelogue “Dr. Dev Sen's Bidesh Yatra” projects the post-colonial voice that subverts the paradigmatic tension between the power and lure of the Western land, and the apparent powerlessness of the non-Western traveller. Using the humorous technique of self-caricature, Dev Sen narrates the vagaries of an absent minded, messy, Indian woman travelling alone to Europe and the USA, and creating havoc with the Western immigration laws. In doing so, Dev Sen ...
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- 2014
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6. The Absent-Minded Founder: Norway and the Establishment of the United Nations
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Norbert Götz
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History ,Absent minded ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Norwegian ,Supporter ,language.human_language ,Framing (social sciences) ,Foreign policy ,Political science ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,comic_books ,Development economics ,language ,comic_books.character ,Reputation ,media_common - Abstract
This article examines Norwegian policy vis-a-vis the United Nations (UN) through the end of 1945. From here it will become clear that framing foreign policy orientations of the 1940s along conventional lines exaggerates the commitment of Norwegian politicians to two grand ideas. The novel idea of Atlantic alignment, developed by Norwegian circles in London exile, was more ambiguous than generally acknowledged and left room for universal extension. By contrast, the alleged turn in the mid-1940s toward support of the UN was in the form of lip-service as opposed to action that would have engaged actors from Norway. The government outsourced policy-making on the issue to a small circle of experts and made no attempt to exert leadership in regard to UN matters. Norway's indifference toward the UN in the 1940s stands in marked contrast to the country's later reputation as a faithful supporter of the world organization.
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- 2009
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7. European Identities: From Absent-Minded Citizens to Passionate Europeans
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Lynn Jamieson and Sue Grundy
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Absent minded ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Identity (social science) ,Gender studies ,0506 political science ,050903 gender studies ,comic_books ,National identity ,050602 political science & public administration ,Nationality ,Survey data collection ,Residence ,Global citizenship ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,Citizenship ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
Conflicting prognoses for European identity are addressed using data from residents of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the everyday significance of being European; a theoretically informed focus on people in one city. A representative sample of established residents aged 18—24 years are compared with a sample of resident peers engaged in Europe-oriented work or study. Survey data provide an overview of their different understandings of Europe and patterns of identification with Europe, Britain, Scotland and Edinburgh. Using qualitative interviews, rationales for self-engagement with or disengagement from Europe are further interrogated and located in orientations to place of residence, nationality and citizenship.These data provide some further insight into the process by which some come to present themselves as passionate utopian Europeans, while for many being European remains emotionally insignificant and devoid of imagined community or steps towards global citizenship.
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- 2007
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8. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain by Bernard Porter
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Kavita Datla
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History ,Absent minded ,Sociology and Political Science ,Political economy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,comic_books ,Economic history ,Empire ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Published
- 2007
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9. The Absent-Minded Heroine or, Elizabeth Bennet has a Thought
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Susan C. Greenfield
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Cultural Studies ,Pride ,Philosophy of science ,Absent minded ,Psychoanalysis ,General Arts and Humanities ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Philosophy ,Character (symbol) ,Object (philosophy) ,Epistemology ,Property rights ,comic_books ,Narrative ,Prejudice ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet is confused in Darcy's presence and thoughtful about him (and much else) in his absence. This article argues that the contrast reflects both a general—and a particularly gendered—implication of early modern epistemology. Elizabeth's confusion in Darcy's presence suggests the general uncertainty accompanying any perception of a material object. But women's lack of basic property rights also renders the object world particularly absent and uncertain for them. For Austen, the narrative advantage of this uncertainty is that it creates the need for thought. Perhaps one reason the dispossessed heroine is such a fixture of the early modern novel is that she epitomizes the doubt that renders a character's mind complex.
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- 2006
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10. Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose. Edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. xxix + 360 pp. $49.95 cloth
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Thomas W. Cutrer
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Cultural Studies ,History ,Battle ,Absent minded ,Contemplation ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Religious studies ,Gospel ,Faith ,New Testament ,Spanish Civil War ,comic_books ,Servant ,Theology ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)William Porcher DuBose is a perhaps the "greatest theologian that the Episcopal Church in the United States of America has produced." One of Dubose's contemporaries, W. H. Moberly, identified him as "the wisest Anglican writer . . . on both sides of the Atlantic" and as "one of the foremost philosophical theologians of our time." A modern biographer, Robert Boak Slocum, has called him "the most original and creative theologian to appear in the more than 200-year history of the Episcopal Church" and, in fact, "the only important creative theologian that the Episcopal Church in the United States has produced." Among his numerous books, the best known are The Soteriology of the New Testament , (1892)/(1906) The Gospel in the Gospels , and The Reason of Life (1911).In 1861, however, "Willie" Dubose was an ardently pious young student at the South Carolina Diocesan Seminary in Camden, about to be pulled from the contemplative life of the seminary into the world of suffering and death. When his native state seceded from the Union in April 1861, DuBose initially took little interest in the conflict. "I surprise myself by my coolness on the subject" of the war, he wrote to his fiancee. So slight was his regard for the world outside of the seminar that "I sometimes reproach myself for feeling too little interest and excitement." Indeed, he felt that no service to his state or country could be more vital than the work of the ministry. "One who has devoted his life to God," he wrote, "can no longer call it his own" (17). Moreover, the bookish DuBose did not believe himself to be cut out for command. "The disposition, occupation and habits of a student are not the best preparation for such a position," he believed. "I am too contemplative, too absent minded, and can never remember the points of the compass." And perhaps most important, "having so long trained myself to regard myself as the 'servant of men,'" he found it "hard to become their master" (61).He soon realized, however, that officers would be required to organize and train the new companies being mustered into Confederate service, and by the end of the year DuBose was drilling recruits in Charleston. When he found the camp less godly than the seminary, his fiancee consoled him with the thought that "I do not think you will regret this unexpected lesson in the study of human nature. I feel that God is perhaps preparing you for great usefulness in the ministry." On the other hand, she regretted that he had "hardly time or opportunity for influencing your men in religious things, except by example" (24).Transferred to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, DuBose received his first wound at the Second Battle of Manassas. As the only officer of his regiment who was not killed or seriously wounded that day, he reorganized the shattered unit and commanded it during Lee's Maryland campaign where, at the battle of Turner's Gap, he was again wounded and was taken prisoner. Within a month he was exchanged, but no sooner had he rejoined his command than he received his third wound of the year in a skirmish at Kenston, North Carolina.While recovering, DuBose was, in May 1864, promoted to captain and reassigned as chaplain in Joseph B. Kershaw's brigade. Despite what might have been a rear echelon posting, DuBose was often at the front in the 1864 battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor and in the deadly siege of Petersburg where, he observed, "there continues to be a good deal of religious interest manifested in the brigade. …
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- 2012
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11. The Absent‐Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. By Bernard Porter. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 475. $26.95.)
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John McBratney
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History ,Absent minded ,Political science ,Political economy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,comic_books ,Economic history ,Empire ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Published
- 2007
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12. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
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Ian Phimister
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History ,Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,comic_books ,Ethnology ,Empire ,Ancient history ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Published
- 2005
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13. BOOK REVIEW: Bernard Porter.THE ABSENT-MINDED IMPERIALISTS: WHAT THE BRITISH REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT EMPIRE. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
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Antoinette Burton
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Cultural Studies ,History ,Absent minded ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Sociology and Political Science ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Media studies ,Empire ,Art ,Philosophy ,comic_books ,comic_books.character ,Classics ,media_common - Published
- 2005
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14. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: What the British Really Thought About Empire (review)
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Antoinette Burton
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Cultural Studies ,Literature ,History ,Absent minded ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Sociology and Political Science ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Empire ,Philosophy ,comic_books ,business ,comic_books.character ,Classics ,media_common - Published
- 2005
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15. BOOK REVIEW: Will Bennett.ABSENT-MINDED BEGGARS: THE VOLUNTEERS IN THE BOER WAR. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1999
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Gwyn Harries-Jenkins
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Cultural Studies ,Philosophy ,History ,Absent minded ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Sociology and Political Science ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,media_common.quotation_subject ,comic_books ,Art ,Religious studies ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Published
- 2002
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16. Sleeping Beauty and the absent-minded driver
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Bernard Walliser, Jean Baratgin, Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN), Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Cognitions Humaine et ARTificielle (CHART), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Paris School of Economics (PSE), Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Laboratoire de Conception et de Réalisation des Applications Complexes (CRAC), École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), and École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Decision Sciences ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Belief revision ,0502 economics and business ,Prior probability ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Natural (music) ,050207 economics ,Applied Psychology ,Absent-mindedness ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,media_common ,Probability ,Interpretation (philosophy) ,05 social sciences ,General Social Sciences ,06 humanities and the arts ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,Computer Science Applications ,Epistemology ,060302 philosophy ,Beauty ,comic_books ,Sleeping Beauty problem ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ,comic_books.character - Abstract
The Sleeping Beauty problem is presented in a formalized framework which summarizes the underlying probability structure. The two rival solutions proposed by Elga (Analysis 60:143-147, 2000) and Lewis (Analysis 61:171-176, 2001) differ by a single parameter concerning her prior probability. They can be supported by considering, respectively, that Sleeping Beauty is "fuzzy-minded" and "blank-minded", the first interpretation being more natural than the second. The traditional absent-minded driver problem is reinterpreted in this framework and sustains Elga's solution.
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- 2010
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17. The Life of an Absent-minded Professor
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Iain McLean
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Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,comic_books ,Art ,Adam smith ,Praise ,Religious studies ,comic_books.character ,media_common ,Aunt ,Natural theology - Abstract
Adam Smith led a quiet, uneventful life. As a child, he was initially sickly and protected by his widowed mother. As an adult, he was notoriously absent-minded. In 1767 a society hostess recorded in her diary: I said many things in his [AS’s] praise, but added that he was the most Absent Man that ever was … Mr Darner … made him a visit the other morning as he was going to breakfast, and, falling into discourse, Mr Smith took a piece of bread and butter, which, after he had rolled round and round, he put into the teapot and pour’d the water upon it; some time after he poured it into a cup, and when he had tasted it, he said it was the worst tea he had ever met with. (Lady Mary Coke, aunt of AS’s tutee the Duke of Buccleuch. Cited by Ross 1995, p. 226)
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- 2006
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18. Subjective experience and the attentional lapse: task engagement and disengagement during sustained attention
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Jonathan Smallwood, Rory C. O'Connor, Derek Heim, Marc Obonsawin, John Davies, Megan V. Sudberry, and Frances Finnigan
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Adult ,Male ,Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Environment ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Developmental psychology ,Task (project management) ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Perception ,Mind-wandering ,Task Performance and Analysis ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Attention ,Disengagement theory ,media_common ,Cognition ,Task engagement ,comic_books ,Female ,Psychology ,Skin conductance ,psychological phenomena and processes ,comic_books.character ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Three experiments investigated the relationship between subjective experience and attentional lapses during sustained attention. These experiments employed two measures of subjective experience (thought probes and questionnaires) to examine how differences in awareness correspond to variations in both task performance (reaction time and errors) and psycho-physiological measures (heart rate and galvanic skin response). This series of experiments examine these phenomena during the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART, Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley, & Yiend, 1997). The results suggest we can dissociate between two components of subjective experience during sustained attention: (A) task unrelated thought which corresponds to an absent minded disengagement from the task and (B) a pre-occupation with one's task performance that seems to be best conceptualised as a strategic attempt to deploy attentional resources in response to a perception of environmental demands which exceed ones ability to perform the task. The implications of these findings for our understanding of how awareness is maintained on task relevant material during periods of sustained attention are discussed.
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- 2004
19. BERNARD PORTER. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xxviii, 475. $26.95
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James Epstein
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Archeology ,History ,Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political economy ,Museology ,comic_books ,Economic history ,Empire ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Published
- 2007
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20. The Comparative Law and Economics of Penalty Clauses in Contracts
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Ugo Mattei
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Daughter ,Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Certainty ,Yesterday ,Excuse ,Work (electrical) ,Law ,comic_books ,Damages ,Comparative law ,Business ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
Imagine the following monologue by a father afflicted by a severe attack of nerves. "My daughter's wedding is scheduled for next month and I'm in deep trouble. She has expressed a strong desire to hold the party in our old country house. A long time ago, I promised her that I would organize the party there. But then I forgot to make arrangements with the builders. A lot of work needs doing to the house. There's no way she can hold the party there without the work being done. All the invitations have already been sent. If I don't get things sorted out my daughter will never speak to me again. Yesterday I rushed around looking for a building contractor. None of them could promise me that they'd finish the work on time. None of them ruled it out, of course, since they didn't want to loose a customer. But they made no promises. I can't take the risk because it would ruin my relationship with my daughter. I'd pay any money for the certainty. This situation of the absent minded father, late in organizing his daughter's wedding, is a typical one in which penalty clauses would be very helpful. He may eventually find a builder willing to rush the work, and willing to promise to have the job finished by the date of the wedding, but in return for a high extra price (say 900 dollars extra). But how can the father be sure that the contractor is not making the promise to attract a customer, charging 900 dollars more than the usual price and then finding an excuse for not meeting the deadline? Of course, if this happens the father can sue the builder for damages. It is equally obvious, however, that he will regard damages
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- 1995
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21. The Effect of Personality and Contact Upon a Personality Stereotype
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Walter R. Borg
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Absent minded ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Ethnic group ,Stereotype ,Minor (academic) ,Absorption (psychology) ,Education ,comic_books ,Nationality ,Personality ,Personality test ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,comic_books.character ,media_common - Abstract
THE INDIVIDUAL'S concept of self appears in many cases to be in fluenced by the personality stereotypes of society. We find many of these stereotypes described in the literature on racial and nationality minor ities (12, 14, 15, 16), where they are probably most pronounced. The tendency of the layman to apply stereotypes, however, is not limited to ethnic groups. Members of certain professions and occupations are also thought of as being typically of certain personality "types "u The absent minded professor and the crafty politician are examples of personality stereotypes of this nature. The artist and art student are frequently stereotyped as socially extroverted, emotionally unstable, hyperactive, and nervous. Although the research available indicates that artists and art students probably fall into no personality types (3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ), this pop ular stereotype persists. The present study seeks to compare the personality test scores of art students with the traits these students have checked as being "most characteristic of artists as a group", and also compares the stereo type for artists given by art students with that given by other college stu dents. The problem of the present study can be stated specifically in the following questions
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- 1955
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22. Parent-Student Communication: A Middle Level School Challenge
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Tom Creighton and Sherrel Bergmann
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Absent minded ,Middle level ,media_common.quotation_subject ,comic_books ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Criticism ,Girl ,Session (computer science) ,Psychology ,comic_books.character ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Sessions I and II: Parents Only; What Are Kids Really Like Today? In the first two sessions films and lectures were used to share up-to-date information on the characteristics of transescents and to give parents an opportunity to share concerns about parenting this age group. During the first session, facilitators asked each parent to write ten words that would describe their transescent boy or girl. These descriptions were then shared with the entire group. Words most frequently used to describe boys included: emotional, athletic, forgetful, absent minded, lacking self-confidence, nervous, warm, intelligent, self-centered, aggressive, creative, non-communicative, disorganized, childish, awkward, humorous, shy, and know-it-all. Words frequently used to describe girls included: social, sensitive, moody, bossy, mature, self-confident, loving, shy, intelligent, lazy, volatile, independent, curious, fashion conscious, does not like criticism, procrastinator, cruel, helpful, and creative. Parents saw girls at this age as being far more social than boys. Parents were also asked to list concerns
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- 1987
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