Humility in Personality and Positive Psychology [PDF]
, 2020 A case could be made that the practice of philosophy demands a certain humility, or at least intellectual humility, requiring such traits as inquisitiveness, openness to new ideas, and a shared interest in pursuing truth.
Church, Ian M., Samuelson, Peter
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has upended lives and thrown the taken for granted into disarray. One of the most affected groups were teachers and students, faced with the necessity of school closures and—where logistically feasible—an urgent ...
Magdalena Jelińska +2 more
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Behavioral and psychological diagnosis for universities students after the corona pandemic closures
International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS), 2023 With the coronavirus's rapid spread, most countries have taken preventive measures to limit this spread. Therefore, this paper aims to explore university students' behavioral and psychological variables. To achieve this, the researchers used the descriptive survey approach to the 3,152 Jordanian university students (2,194 female and 1,058 male). We put
Ghazi El Kailani +3 more
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Developing the Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): testing the stimulus features that influence embedding [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background The Embedded Figures Test (EFT, developed by Witkin and colleagues (1971)) has been used extensively in research on individual differences, particularly in the study of autism spectrum disorder.
Lee de-Wit +4 more
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Intergroup reconciliation between Flemings and Walloons : the predictive value of cognitive style, authoritarian ideology, and intergroup emotions [PDF]
, 2017 Testifying to the gap in fundamental research on positive intergroup outcomes, we investigated reconciliation attitudes in a non-violent intergroup context (i.e., the linguistic conflict in Belgium). By incorporating both important predictors of negative
Bostyn, Dries +4 more
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Von "Erziehung statt Strafe" zur "Stählung des Charakters"
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2019 This paper provides a historical analysis of the development of “psychotechnics”, a branch of early applied psychology, in the context of the Austrian reformatories in Kaiserebersdorf and Hirtenberg from 1929 to 1945.
Martin Wieser
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The call of the unlived life: On the psychology of existential guilt
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This paper examines the psychology of existential guilt with Martin Heidegger and Rollo May’s conceptualizations as the point of departure. The concept of existential guilt describes preconditions for responsibility and accountability in life choices and
Per-Einar Binder
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Psychological Closure Does Not Entail Cognitive Closure
Dialectica, 2017 According to some philosophers, we are “cognitively closed” to the answers to certain problems. McGinn has taken the next step and offered a list of examples: the mind/body problem, the problem of the self and the problem of free will. There are naturalistic, scientific answers to these problems, he argues, but we cannot reach them because of our ...
Maarten Boudry +2 more
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Personality effects on cardiovascular reactivity: need for closure moderates the impact of task difficulty on engagement-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity [PDF]
, 2012 An experiment assessed the joint effect of dispositional need for closure (NFC) and task difficulty on engagement-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity.
Baeriswyl, Eric +2 more
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Allport's prejudiced personality today: need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice [PDF]
, 2011 In the long history of psychological research on prejudice, Allport's (1954) book The Nature of Prejudice is undoubtedly the foundational work, advancing ideas that remain highly influential and relevant to this day.
Roets, Arne, Van Hiel, Alain
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