This critical cultural analysis of trends in the field of social emotional learning (SEL) in the
United States considers how ideas concerning emotional skills and competencies have …

The ability to understand proverbial sayings, such as a rolling stone gathers no moss has
been of great interest to researchers in many areas of psychology. Most psychologists …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to
do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation have drawn from different …

SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal
entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses …

Theorists of child development, for the most part, have taken white, middle class, Euro-
American children as the norm. These" typical" children, however, are exposed to two major …

Large language models (LLMs) are highly adept at question answering and reasoning
tasks, but when reasoning in situational context, human expectations vary depending on the …

This book is about cultural models. Cultural models are defined as molar organizations of
knowledge. Their internal structure consists of a'core'component and'peripheral'nodes that …

According to the theory of internal organs in traditional Chinese medicine, the gallbladder
has the function of making judgments and decisions in mental processes and activities, and …

This book is the third volume in a series that provides a hands-on perspective on the
evolving theories associated with Roger Schank and his students. The primary focus of this …