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Fri Dec 5

• Kurt Lewin's Change Theory: Few people have had as profound an impact on the theory and practice of social and organizational psychology as Kurt Lewin. Though I never knew him personally I was fortunate during my graduate school years at Harvard's Social Relations Dept. in 1949-50 to have been exposed to Alex Bavelas and Douglas McGregor, who, in my mind embodied Lewin's spirit totally. As I will try to show in this essay, Lewin's spirit and the assumptions that lay behind it are deeply embedded in my own work and that of many of my colleagues who practice the art of "Organiza tion Development.&q uot; This essay will attempt to spell out some of Lewin's basic dictums and show their influence in my own and others' contemporary work. I will endeavor to show how my own thinking has evolved from theorizing about "planned change" to thinking about such processes more as "managed learning." ;
• Liberman & Trope: The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now (pdf): "People directly experience only themselves here and now but often consider, evaluate, and plan situations that are removed in time or space, that pertain to others' experiences, and that are hypothetical rather than real. People thus transcend the present and mentally traverse temporal distance, spatial distance, social distance, and hypotheticalit y. We argue that this is made possible by the human capacity for abstract processing of information. We review research showing that there is considerable similarity in the way people mentally traverse different distances, that the process of abstraction underlies traversing different distances, and that this process guides the way people predict, evaluate, and plan near and distant situations.&qu ot;

Thu Dec 4

• H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
• Education for the 21st Century: Balancing Content Knowledge with Skills | Britannica Blog: "Clarion calls for more attention to 21st-century skills brings to mind a familiar pattern in the history of education: pendulum swings between an emphasis on process (analysis, critical thinking, cooperative learning) which fosters concern that students lack knowledge and generates a back-to-basics movement that emphasizes content, which fosters concern that student are merely parroting facts with no idea of how to use their knowledge, and so on. In calmer moments, everyone agrees that students must have both content knowledge and practice in using it, but one or the other tends to get lost as the emphasis sweeps to the other extreme. To watch a successful balancing act, keep an eye on Massachusetts. "
• Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains?
• The secret life of the brain - life - 05 November 2008 - New Scientist
• IBM gaat menselijk brein simuleren in opdracht van Darpa | Core | Tweakers.net Nieuws
• Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind: Looks like Lakoff and Johnson are right then.
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