Learning could well have had nothing to do with it.Steven Pinker's provocative new book is full of catchy examples like this that he uses to highlight two radically different ways of conceptualising and explaining our behaviour: one with an eye to culture, learning and the social sciences, the other with an eye to nature, genetic inheritance and experiment.
Data demonstrate the ambiguity of racism, while confirming that Australian youth from various racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds consistently conceptualise, explain, and classify racism, whilst minimising some forms of racism, including racist humour.
Ludmilla Jordanova observes that this theoretical position opens up myriad intellectual and analytical possibilities: '[b]y stressing the ways in which scientific and medical ideas and practices are shaped in a given context, it enjoins historians to conceptualise, explain and interpret the processes through which this happens' (Jordanova, 2004: 340).
These stages of Text Charting (comprehending) rhetorical analysis (understanding) and map construction (conceptualising) are explained and discussed; a framework of functional predicates is proposed, and the process of conceptual mapping is illustrated.
In analysing the role of research in diffusion of innovations, Greenhalgh et al. [ 8] found that "researchers in different traditions had conceptualised, explained and investigated diffusion of innovations differently and had used different criteria for judging the quality of empirical work.
"We explored Linguistic Relativity: the idea that because we think in words, the institution of language directly shapes the way its speakers conceptualise their world," Escott explains.
On the one hand, the effectiveness of mechanical strain [21] and strain rate [22] on bone are well documented and have been conceptualised, e.g. in the 'mechanostat' theory [2], to explain the structural adaptation of bones to changing mechanical demands.
Proximal predictors are conceptualised as those that predict behaviour, while distal influences help explain it [ 32].
This study conceptualised the social psychological processes underlying two fleet safety initiatives, and hypothesised that these processes could be used to explain the effects of the fleet safety initiatives on changes in attitudes.
Last, but not least, professional well-being should be better conceptualised and investigated.
Emotional intelligence (EI) might be associated with performance, is conceptualised and measurable.
