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Turn on the light on science : a research-based guide to break down popular stereotypes about science and scientists
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Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Ubiquity Press,

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"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of 'scientist'. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing 'nerdy' genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of an existing perception of what a scientist should look and be like. For example, the popular image of 'a scientist' overlooks the presence of women almost entirely unless attributed to specific subjects and/or with narrow character depictions. The implications can be far-reaching. Young people, being heavily swayed by what they see and hear in the media, may avoid scientific careers because of these limited or unflattering portrayals of the scientific community, regardless of whether they reflect real life. Based on findings from the Light'13 project, this book examines such stereotypes and questions whether it is possible to adjust people's perception of scientists and to increase interest in science and scientific careers through a series of specific actions and events."


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Psychology of Human Thought
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),

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The "Psychology of Human Thought" is an "open access" collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses. Chapters include concept acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem solving, metacognition, language, expertise, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, development of thought, affect and thought, and sections about history and about methods. The chapters are written by distinguished scholarly experts in their respective fields, coming from such diverse regions as North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Israel, and Australia. The level of the chapters is addressed to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.


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Psychosocial Risks and Health at Work from a Gender Perspective: A Current Overview
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact


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The Underrepresentation of Women in Science: International and Cross-Disciplinary Evidence and Debate
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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There is no shortage of articles and books exploring women’s underrepresentation in science. Everyone is interested--academics, politicians, parents, high school girls (and boys), women in search of college majors, administrators working to accommodate women’s educational interests; the list goes on. But one thing often missing is an evidence-based examination of the problem, uninfluenced by personal opinions, accounts of “lived experiences,” anecdotes, and the always-encroaching inputs of popular culture. This is why this special issue of Frontiers in Psychology can make a difference. In it, a diverse group of authors and researchers with even more diverse viewpoints find themselves united by their empirical, objective approaches to understanding women’s underrepresentation in science today. The questions considered within this special issue span academic disciplines, methods, levels of analysis, and nature of analysis; what these article share is their scholarly, evidence-based approach to understanding a key issue of our time.


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Pink is the new black : Stereotipi di genere nella scuola dell’infanzia
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ISBN: 8878855707 8878855685 8878855677 8878855693 Year: 2020 Publisher: Torino : Rosenberg & Sellier,

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Pinkizzazione è la recente tendenza a colorare di rosa tutto ciò che appartiene al territorio femminile: rosa i vestiti e i giocattoli delle bambine, rosa gli oggetti e gli accessori delle donne; ma rosa è anche il colore scelto dalle donne in marcia nello sciopero globale dell’8 marzo 2017. Il rosa è diventato un significante che serve a delimitare i confini di genere solo nel secolo scorso. Quando e perché è successo? Quando e perché è divenuto così di moda? La divisione dei colori - rosa per le femmine e blu per i maschi - è uno dei tanti dispositivi per il mantenimento dell’ordine di genere, un ordine rigorosamente binario che non prevede sconfinamenti e che ingabbia non solo il femminile, ma anche, o forse soprattutto, il maschile. Ancora oggi, i maschi devono mostrarsi diversi dalle femmine, ma si iniziano a intravvedere significativi segnali di cambiamento, che generano forme di resistenza. Perché le sfide all’ordine di genere fanno paura? Attraverso una ricerca sugli stereotipi di genere nelle scuole di infanzia genovesi, si è provato a rispondere a queste e altre domande, entrando nelle scuole, parlando con le insegnanti, facendo osservazione nelle classi e provando a catturare il punto di vista creativo di bambine e bambini.


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Migrations internes vers İstanbul : discours, sources et quelques realites
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ISBN: 2906053694 2362450236 Year: 2002 Publisher: Institut français d’études anatoliennes

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Quoique les deux-tiers de la population d’İstanbul soient nés hors du département, l’analyse des dynamiques migratoires à İstan­bul, entendues dans toutes leurs dimensions, même les plus contraires au sens et au discours communs, reste largement à faire. S’il existe quelques études (citées ci-dessous), elles sont rares, biaisées et souvent lacunaires, à l’excep­tion des remarquables travaux de Sema Erder (1996), Neşe Özgen (1999) et de Harald Schüler (1999, notamment en ce qui concerne les Stambouliotes originaires du département d’Erzincan). En outre, il semble que l’analyse des migrations se heurte à d’innombrables a priori et préjugés, qui ont pour effet de fausser toute approche, même celle qui se présente sous des atours scientifiques. C’est à la mise à jour de ces préjugés et de ces lacunes que nous devons travailler en premier lieu. Ce dossier n’est qu’une première synthèse, critique, dont la seule prétention est d’offrir des repères pour pouvoir enfin sortir des lieux com­muns en vigueur et approfondir sérieusement un « problème » dont tout le monde parle, mais dont l’analyse précise reste à faire.


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Psychological Responses to Violations of Expectations: Perspectives and Answers from Diverse Fields of Psychology
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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From Pavlov's dog expecting food when hearing a bell to stereotypes as expectations about other people’s behaviour, from Bandura’s self-efficacy as expectation for success and failure of one’s own behaviour to the "predictive brain" concept in current perception theories: expectations have been a central construct in different areas of psychological research. In each of these areas, specific concepts, theoretical approaches, and empirical methods have been developed to explain when and why expectations persist and when they do not. Many theories assume that expectations are likely to change in the face of disconfirming evidence. However, sometimes expectations persist even though they are empirically violated, suggesting that they can be “sticky” under certain circumstances. But what are these circumstances? And what are the psychological mechanisms that can explain why and when expectations persist or change after being confronted with expectation-violating evidence? Each contribution of the current book offers insights into individuals’ reactions to violations of expectations. They show that many pieces of the puzzle have been collected in the many sub-displiclines of psychology and that putting them together in an integrative fashion stays a fascinating enterprise.


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Gender Roles in the Future? Theoretical Foundations and Future Research Directions
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact


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New Perspectives on Imagology
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ISBN: 9004513159 9004450122 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill,

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With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European characters. Consisting of an instructive introduction and 21 articles, the book relates this sub-field of comparative literature to contemporary political developments and enriches it with new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives. The contributions offer [1] a reconsideration and update of the field’s methods, genres, and theoretical frames; [2] trans-/post-national, migratory, and marginalized perspectives beyond the European nation-state; [3] insights into geopolitical dichotomies such as Orient/Occident; [4] intersectional approaches considering the entanglements of national images with notions of age, class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity/race; [5] investigations of the role of national images in visual narratives and music.


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Cultures croisées : Références interculturelles des Allemands, des Italiens et des Français
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ISBN: 2111398861 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris : Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques,

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L’étude Cultures croisées analyse les références culturelles communes et réciproques − une approche de l’interculturalité − des Allemands, des Italiens et des Français en matière de patrimoine architectural, historique, littéraire, cinématographique, théâtral et lyrique et sur des références ou des figures de la culture populaire. Conduite auprès de 4 500 personnes dans les trois populations, cette enquête, inédite dans son domaine et par son ampleur, cherche à sonder le fondement commun des cultures en Europe, d’une culture européenne ou de l’identité culturelle européenne par la culture. Les résultats confirment la corrélation des connaissances et du niveau d’éducation, mettent en évidence la prégnance des stéréotypes sur les peuples et l’absence d’une véritable culture commune. L’existence de quelques références transnationales massivement partagées montre néanmoins que l’interculturalité, qui suppose la connaissance des autres peuples, n'est pas hors de portée. L’étude invite à repenser objectifs, méthodes et outils de l’interculturalité européenne. Mit einem Ansatz der Interkulturalität analysiert die Studie Kreuzung der Kulturen die gemeinsamen und gegenseitigen kulturellen Referenzen der Deutschen, Italiener und Franzosen in Bezug auf das architektonische, historische, literarische, lyrische, Film- und Theatererbe sowie Referenzen oder Persönlichkeiten der Volkskul- tur. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurden in den drei Ländern 4.500 Personen befragt. Die aufgrund ihres Themas und Umfangs einmalige Studie will das gemeinsame Fundament der Kulturen in Europa, einer europäischen Kultur oder der kulturellen europäischen Identität durch die Kultur erforschen. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen den engen Zusammenhang zwischen Kenntnis und Bildungsniveau, sie heben die Prägnanz von Stereotypen auf die Völker hervor und dass es keine wirklich gemeinsame Kultur gibt. Aber das Bestehen einiger weit verbreiteter transnationaler Referenzen belegt, dass die Interkulturalität, die…

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