День: 28.09.2015

HISTORICAL CHALLENGES

I want to acknowledge in closing that while I emphasize momentum, I am not ignoring the unfinished feminist agendas concerning sexuality, the body, and violence, as well as economic and political rights. I recognize, for ex­ample, that as market economies expand globally, they draw women from rural areas into the world of urban sexual commerce […]

(MALE) CULTURE

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth, Simone de Beauvoir The relation of women to culture has been indirect. We have discussed how the present psychical organization of the two sexes dictates that most […]

Attributional Biases

For many years, we have known that college students typically produce informational distortions when making causal attributions about problem solving (e. g., Gilbert & Malone, 1995). This is typically called correspondence bias. In this case, youth rely more on dispositional information in explaining behav­ior and ignore compelling situational information such as extenuating circumstances. For example, […]