Gilles Deleuze deploys this concept throughout his work, beginning with Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962, in English 1983), where he sets Nietzsche against the models of thinking at work in Kant and Hegel.
Sam's results simply reflect the application of a new model of thinking about problems called Functional medicine -- it's a way to get to the root of health problems and treat the underlying causes of what ails you instead of suppressing symptoms with medications.
"We owe a great deal to this movement and the women's health movement that came before it, the reproductive justice movement, in part because it's a different model of thinking about the relationship between patient and healthcare provider".
Developing an entire new model of thinking about knowledge dissemination is certainly an intellectually interesting problem, with commensurate awards available to the startup that finds the right model.
Furthermore, heuristics like viability (Lago 2008) and representativeness, properly used, are associated with a fast, exemplar-based non-analytical model of thinking (Norman et al. 2007) which has been linked to expert reasoning.
Your allusion to what occurred at Penn State fits into this model of thinking, but with a few extra levels of complexity.
Children and carer views on associations between aggression seen and exhibited aggression inform two distinct models of thinking: the child model of others but not me and the carer model of nature and nurture.
Cognitive science has long sought to explore the ways in which information is processed by the brain and to generate from this overarching constructs and models of thinking and learning.
In the social-model way of thinking, the environment disables the individual and needs fixing.
Dehaene met Changeux and began to work with him on abstract models of thinking and memory.
