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Judgment under uncertainty: Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
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The article was published on 1982-01-01. It has received 478 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heuristics & Representativeness heuristic.read more
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Misconceptions Reconceived: A Constructivist Analysis of Knowledge in Transition
TL;DR: This paper used a critical evaluation of research on student misconceptions in science and mathematics to articulate a constructivist view of learning in which student conceptions play productive roles in the acquisition of expertise, and argued that this view overemphasizes the discontinuity between students and expert scientists and mathematicians.
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Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: A Dichotomy Between Descriptive and Prescriptive Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the dichotomy between two main streams of theorizing in the field of organizational learning: prescriptive writings on the learning organization and descriptive researches on organizational learning which tackle the question "How does an organization learn?"
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Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity
TL;DR: This article examined the theoretical implications of the observation that ethnic identities are socially constructed for explaining ethnic violence, distinguishing between two classes of mechanisms: individuals are viewed as the agents who construct identities, and constructivist explanations for ethnic violence tend to merge with analyses that stress strategic action by both elites and mass publics.
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The base rate fallacy reconsidered: Descriptive, normative, and methodological challenges
TL;DR: In this article, a thorough examination of the base rate literature (including the famous lawyer-engineer problem) does not support the conventional wisdom that people routinely ignore base rates, and the literature shows that base rates are almost always used and that their degree of use depends on task structure and representation.
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Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality
TL;DR: Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) as mentioned in this paper is a psychodynamic theory of personality that achieves a high degree of integration through a synthesis of the psychodynamic, emotional unconscious of psychoanalysis, the affect-free unconscious of cognitive science, and principles of learning theory.