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Does Action vs. State Orientation Really Matter in The Susceptibility to Sunk Cost Fallacy? A Conceptual Replication Study

Studia Psychologica, 2021
The theory of action versus state orientation suggests that state-oriented people are more susceptible to sunk cost fallacy than action-oriented people because they ruminate about past costs and are reluctant to change their course of actions.
Miroslava Galasová, Matúš Grežo
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REMARKS ON GENDER – EXPRESSING GENDER IN ENGLISH, AND SOME OF THE MAIN ISSUES THAT LEARNERS (AND TEACHERS) HAVE TO COPE WITH [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2011
The present paper focuses on a number of specific issues (most of which are in fact challenges, misconceptions and rough ideas) that are subject to what is generally called the feminist approach to linguistics.
Constantin Manea, Maria-Camelia Manea
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Deisidaimonia: The Hellenistic concept of superstition [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
This paper attempts to reexamine the notion of superstition in a concrete historical period: from the moment it first appeared in the early Hellenistic period (and named deisidemony, deisidaimonίa) till the Early Roman Empire, when this original meaning ...
Dželebdžić Dejan
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Did Jesus Commit a Fallacy?

Informal Logic, 1995
Jesus has been accused of committing a fallacy (of denying the antecedent) at John 8:47. Careful analysis of this text (1) reveals a hitherto unrecognized valid form of argument which can superficially look like the predicate-logic analogue of denying ...
Aaron Ben-Zeev
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Comparing the outcomes of the technology‐enhanced learning of sectional anatomy with and without preceding demonstrations: A study about the worked‐example effect in anatomy education

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The examination of anatomical cross‐sections can facilitate the understanding of spatial and clinical anatomy. Visualization technologies, with dynamic and interactive displays, can be used to learn sectional anatomy in a mostly self‐directed manner.
Guilherme Reis Borges Coelho Fonseca, George Lim Tipoe, Fraide Augustin Ganotice Jr   +2 more
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The Cogent Reasoning Model of Informal Fallacies

Informal Logic, 1999
An infonnal fallacy is a reasoning error with three features: the reasoning employs an implicit cogent pattern; the fallacy results from one or more false premises; there is culpable ignorance or deception associated with the falsity of the premises.
Daniel N. Boone
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Single‐subject designs in character education: Methods for rigorous, contextual, and practitioner‐led research

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
wiley   +1 more source

The One Fallacy Theory

Informal Logic, 1995
My One Fallacy theory says there is only one fallacy: equivocation, or playing on an ambiguity. In this paper I explain how this theory arose from rnetaphilosophical concerns. And I contrast this theory with purely logical, dialectical, and psychological
Lawrence H. Powers
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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
wiley   +1 more source

The fallacy of inscrutability [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018
Contrary to the criticism that mysterious, unaccountable black-box software systems threaten to make the logic of critical decisions inscrutable, we argue that algorithms are fundamentally understandable pieces of technology. Software systems are designed to interact with the world in a controlled way and built or operated for a specific purpose ...
openaire   +4 more sources