The Greek essential

From the ancient culture, the peaceful image of the single lines and the simple things, light and colour comes from underground, and from the findings of the philosophy of the essential human society living in straight arts.

Angular heat deception

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…” Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965). The angular heat deception shows the process of no way out of a heating planet, and the typically cornering structure of human action.

Brains conditional statements

“The two main psychological theories of the ordinary conditional were designed to account for inferences made from assumptions, but few premises in everyday life can be simply assumed true … But what is the probability of the ordinary conditional and how is it determined? … Our account can explain why most people give the conditional probability as the probability of the conditional, but also why some give the conjunctive probability.” David E. Over, Jonathan St B.T. Evans (2003) The Probability of Conditionals: The Psychological Evidence 
Mind & Language 18 (4), 340–358.

Evaluation sight

“Decision making is characterized by the need to learn about and balance the pros and cons of various options the then, with use of this information, make a choice. This process typically involves making tradeoff across multiple dimensions of value and subjectively weighing the anticipated gains and losses.” Lichtenstein, S. Gregory, R. and Irwin, J. What’s bad is easy: taboo values, affect and cognition. Judgment and Decision Making, V.2 (3) 2007, pp. 160-188.

Envy veins

“ … envy is reasonably defined as an unpleasant, often painful emotion characterized by feelings of inferiority, hostility, and resentment caused by an awareness of a desired attribute enjoyed by another person or group of persons.” Smith, R.H. and Hee, K.S. Comprehending Envy. Psychological Bulletin. 2007 Jan Vol 133(1) 46-64

Social cells

“ The construction of a citizen's social network serves as a filter on the macro environmental flow of political information. In this way, the consequences of the larger environment of opinion depend on the existence of micro environments which expose citizens to surrounding opinion distributions.” Political Environments, Cohesive Social Groups, and the Communication of Public Opinion
Robert H. et al. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 1025-1054.

Value by feelings

“In reaction to the Cartesian account of emotions as sensations, a number of contemporary philosophers have suggested that we explain them in terms of evaluative judgments. Thus, fear is not to be construed as a set of chills, shudders, and the like –introspectively identifiable events of feeling. Rather, it essentially involves a belief that danger looms- perhaps as a cause of sensation or its physiological underpinnings, but at any rate, as a necessary element of genuine cases of fear.”
Emotions and Reasons: An inquiry into emotional justification. Greenspan, P. Routledge, 1989.

Mind desert

“One condition of moral judgment is that matters beyond a person’s control cannot bear on what he deserves. For example, to be born in Pakistan cannot make you deserve to fare less well than if you had been born somewhere else. Nor can you deserve credit for winning a lottery through sheer luck, or blame for bleeding when you are cut.” ‘Luck and Desert’, Norvin Richard, Mind, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 378 (Apr., 1986), pp. 198-209.

Africa is moving

“The World Economic Forum (WEF) began a meeting on Africa on June 13 with warnings that the continent faces being left further behind as its growth rates fail to match those elsewhere in the world. Africa is forecast to grow 6.2% in 2007, having achieved 4.9% over five years from 2001 and 5.5% last year alone” Africa Still Trailing World In Growth. By Mariette le Roux, France-Presse.

The mix of specific emotions

“… we propose a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice. We posit that each emotion is defined by a tendency to perceive new events and objects in ways that are consistent with the original cognitive-appraisal dimensions of the emotion.” Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice. Lerner, J.S. and Keltner, D. Cognition & Emotion, Volume 14, Issue 4 July 2000, pages 473 – 493.

Human out of rock

From the deep rose rock emerges a human, thinking abruptly on the dance of fire and dust. The attitude is one of reflection, of going way back to the basics, to the Earth which holds the power of development but it is usually ignored from the point of view of society’s transformation.

The power in the cell

“Research reported this week by three different groups shows that normal skin cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state in mice. The race is now on to apply the surprisingly straightforward procedure to human cells.” David Cyranoski, ‘Simple switch turns cells embryonic’, Nature 447, 618-619 (7 June 2007)

Encoding

“People encode goal-directed behaviors, such as assembling an object, by segmenting them into discrete actions, organized as goal-subgoal hierarchies … Hierarchical encoding facilitates observational learning by organizing perceived actions into a representation that can serve as an action plan.” Hard, Bridgette Martin; Lozano, Sandra C.; Tversky, Barbara, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2006 Nov Vol 135(4) 588-608

Ancient modern spirit

From the ancient times somebody or something is looking at modern times. It cannot be recognized it but it is always present in the human evolution. New figures use to be the resemblance of old masters, of old societies. New challenges are never new. The cumulative process is inescapable to the human evolution.

Rules of evidence

“Understanding of statistical tests can be improved by abandoning the term significance, which means reliability to psychologists … The importance of a result depends on magnitude of association, not on whether the event has a nonzero chance of recurring … Better uses of statistics would focus on the magnitude of effects and error estimates.” Sandra Scarr (1997) 
RULES OF EVIDENCE:. A Larger Context for the Statistical Debate 
Psychological Science 8 (1), 16–17.

Amnesia and change

“This paper examines the effect of memory loss on the continuity of behavior … In a stable environment, relative to a full-recall scenario, memory loss increases the probability of following old policies (inertia). In a volatile environment, memory loss can decrease this probability (impulsiveness). The model provides a memory-loss explanation for some documented psychological biases ...” David Hirshleifer, Ivo Welch (2002) 
An Economic Approach to the Psychology of Change: Amnesia, Inertia, and Impulsiveness 
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 11 (3), 379–421.