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Record Nr.

UNINA9911114804303321

Autore

Andrea Bender

Titolo

Diversity and Universality in Causal Cognition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Causality is one of the core concepts in any attempt to make sense of the world, and the explanations people come up with shape their judgments, emotions, intentions and actions. This renders causal cognition a core topic for the social as well as the cognitive sciences. In the past, however, research has been split into diverging paradigms, each pertaining to a distinct (sub)discipline and focusing on a specific domain, thus creating a rather fragmented picture of causal cognition. Furthermore, most of this previous research paid only incidental attention to culture as a possibly constitutive factor, leaving important questions unanswered: Is causality always perceived in the same way? Are causal explanations affected by the concepts to which people refer and/or the language they use? Is causal cognition domain-specific, and if so, how does it differ from agency construal? Is causal reasoning always based on the same cognitive mechanisms, or does the cultural background of people shape how they process respective information - and perhaps even their willingness to search for causal explanations in the first place? By soliciting contributions that address questions like these, this research topic aimed at assessing the extent to which causal cognition may vary across species, cultures, or individuals at various stages of their development, and at integrating different perspectives across a broad range of disciplines. Originating from the work of a research group funded by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, Germany, the scope of this research topic was



broadened by inviting additional contributions from researchers with expertise in different fields of causal cognition, agency construal, and/or cultural impacts on cognition. In order to fully exploit the potential of cognitive science, we explicitly encouraged submissions from scholars from all its classic sub-disciplines (i.e., anthropology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology) as well as scholars from comparative psychology, cognitive archeology, economics, and any other discipline interested in causal cognition. We welcomed empirical findings as well as theoretical contributions, with an emphasis on those factors that do - or may - constrain, trigger, or shape the way in which humans and other primates think about causal relationships and inform us about both the diversity and the universality of causal cognition.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911154851903321

Titolo

The contours of police integrity / / editors, Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, M.R. Haberfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Sage Publications, c2004

ISBN

9781322417530

1322417539

9780761925866

0761925864

9781452262987

1452262985

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

HaberfeldM. R <1957-> (Maria R.)

KlockarsCarl B

Kutnjak IvkovićSanja <1965->

Disciplina

174/.93632

Soggetti

Law enforcement

Police ethics

Police misconduct

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1 - The Contours of Police Integrity; 2 - Ethics and the Police; 3 - An Exploratory Study of Quebec's Police Officers' Attitudes Toward Ethical Dilemmas; 4 - Police Integrity in Croatia; 5 - Policing Integrity; 6 - Sustaining Police Integrity in Finland; 7 - Police Integrity in Hungary; 8 - Police Integrity in Japan; 9 - Integrity Perceptions and Investigations in The Netherlands; 10 - Police Misconduct; 11 - The Heritage of Police Misconduct; 12 - Police Integrity in Slovenia; 13 - Out of Step; 14 - Homogeneity in Moral Standards in Swedish Police Culture

15 - Police Integrity in the United States of AmericaIndex; About the Editors; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting a comprehensive overview of the potential for police misconduct worldwide, leading criminal justice scholars have compiled survey and case data from 10 countries chronicling police integrity and misconduct.