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Individuality, Context, and the Search for Meaning

Child Development, 1994
A developmental systems approach incorporates clinical perspectives and offers a background for thinking about some of the ways we do research. Recent advances reveal both research opportunities and needs related to fostering child development in a pluralistic, democratic society.
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The meaning of spirituality for individuals with disabilities

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2005
To examine the experiences of people with disabilities regarding their spirituality and its meaning for them. This study asked: What are the differences in the meaning of spirituality in the lives of individuals with childhood onset disabilities when compared to those with adult onset disabilities?This qualitative study involved semi-structured ...
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What it means to respect individuality

Philosophical Studies, 2020
Using pure statistical evidence about a group to judge a particular member of that group is often found objectionable. One natural explanation of why this is objectionable appeals to the moral notion of respecting individuality: to properly respect individuality, we need individualized evidence, not pure statistical evidence.
Xiaofei Liu, Ye Liang
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Two meanings of “if”? Individual differences in the interpretation of conditionals

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2007
This work investigates the nature of two distinct response patterns in a probabilistic truth table evaluation task, in which people estimate the probability of a conditional on the basis of frequencies of the truth table cases. The conditional-probability pattern reflects an interpretation of conditionals as expressing a conditional probability.
Oberauer, Klaus, Geiger, Sonja M, Fischer, Katrin, Weidenfeld, Andrea   +3 more
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Meaning in Life for Individuals with Physical Disabilities

Psychological Reports, 2006
“What makes your life meaningful?” is a question previous researchers explored with people of various ages, but not of individuals who have significant physical impairments. In this study, 26 individuals with physical disabilities were asked to describe what makes their lives meaningful.
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Comparing Individual Means in the Analysis of Variance

Biometrics, 1949
The practitioner of the analysis of variance often wants to draw as many conclusions as are reasonable about the relation of the true means for individual "treatments," and a statement by the F-test (or the z-test) that they are not all alike leaves him thoroughly unsatisfied.
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Coping strategies and individual meanings of illness

Social Science & Medicine, 1992
Every person has a subjective understanding of their own illness. The personal attitude towards disease and the corresponding coping mechanisms go beyond biomedical factors to influence the course of the disease. Lipowski described eight different disease concepts which were supplemented by the theory of control conviction (external-internal control ...
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Data and grammar: Means and individuals

Theoretical Linguistics, 2007
Abstract 1. Introduction In the abstract of his target piece, Featherston states that ‘it is no longer tenable for syntactic theories to be constructed on the evidence of a single person's judgements’. In our commentary, we focus on this issue and on (what we perceive to be) Featherston's
Marcel Den Dikken, Judy B Bernstein, Christina Tortora, Raffaella Zanuttini   +3 more
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Meaning of an individual "Feynman path"

Physical Review D, 1980
In this article we give an operational meaning to an individual "Feynman path." In other words, we describe a process of dense measurements, made in temporal sequence, which check whether the particle moves along any given trajectory in space-time. We show that in this process the two assumptions of the space-time formulation of quantum mechanics, are ...
Y. Aharonov, M. Vardi
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Diversity as a Means of Individualizing Instruction

The Journal of Economic Education, 1981
Most educators will have had at least some experience of using student grades to differentiate among students by comparing their performance with others in their group. Many may have learned to discard nondiscriminatory items from their battery of tests by marking to a normal distribution with a predetermined mean and standard deviation.
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