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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 .
Attribution (psychology) Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called Attribution theory. [ 1]
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 ...
Reciprocity (social psychology) In social psychology, reciprocity is a social norm of responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions. As a social construct, reciprocity means that in response to friendly actions, people are frequently much nicer and much more cooperative than predicted by the self-interest ...