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Nilanjana Dasgupta is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of social contexts on implicit stereotypes - particularly on factors that insulate women in STEM fields from harmful stereotypes which suggest that females perform poorly in such areas. Dasgupta is a professor of Psychology and is the Director of the Institute of ...
Guṇa ( Sanskrit: गुण) is a concept in Hinduism, which can be translated as "quality, peculiarity, attribute, property". [ 1][ 2] The concept is originally notable as a feature of Samkhya philosophy. [ 3] The guṇas are now a key concept in nearly all schools of Hindu philosophy. [ 4] There are three guṇas ( triguṇa ), according to ...
Hyperbolic discounting leads to choices that are inconsistent over time—people make choices today that their future selves would prefer not to have made, despite using the same reasoning. [51] Also known as current moment bias or present bias, and related to Dynamic inconsistency. A good example of this is a study showed that when making food ...
Surendranath Dasgupta was born to a Vaidya family in Kushtia, Bengal (now in Bangladesh ), on Sunday, 18 October 1885, corresponding to Dashami Shukla (i.e., the tenth day) of the month of Āśvin [1] [2] and coinciding with the festivals of Dussehra and Durga Visarjan. [3] His ancestral home was in the village Goila in Barisal District.
Champions of the Earth (2022) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2023) Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta GBE FRS FBA (born 17 November 1942) [ 1] is an Indian-British economist who is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, [ 1] and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge .
Ecopsychology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field that focuses on the synthesis of ecology and psychology and the promotion of sustainability. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is distinguished from conventional psychology as it focuses on studying the emotional bond between humans and the Earth. [ 2][ 4] Instead of examining personal pain solely ...
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009. [ 1] The book was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist (general non-fiction) . The use of "nurture" as a synonym for "environment" is based on the ...
Field theory (psychology) In topological and vector psychology, field theory is a psychological theory that examines patterns of interaction between the individual and the total field, or environment. The concept first made its appearance in psychology with roots in the holistic perspective of Gestalt theories.