Behavioural sciences

A man’s life can change as it goes on. Started out with four men on the ship Lady Vain after it came to a clash. Pendick urged there were only three men; one men drowned attempting to be a part of their group. After a few days of not being able to stand the starvation and thirst, Helmar, thought of a plan but Prendick did not agree until the next day. A fight starts between the two other men, and Prendick tries to help Helmar, then both men fell overboard leaving Prendick all alone. After two…

winner, English chemist, Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood, once said, “[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.” Dr. Ashley Murray and Dr. Sarah Parcak, two scientists featured in National Geographic Education’s “Real-World Geography” segment, both fulfill Sir Cyril Herman Hinshelwood’s idea of science as they both work to improve the world by using imaginative solutions to solve real-world mysteries. Dr. Ashley Murray discovers the solution to use human…

Ignorance Is Not Bliss Knowledge is the characteristic people obtained through millennia of trial and error that has allowed humans to become the dominant species and control the Earth. People’s natural curiosity initiated science and technological movements in the early years of humankind's history that have given us new understandings and perspectives of the world. However, before humans had time to move their focus from basic survival to more intellectual endeavors, they were ignorant…

Part A: The Science of Persuasion The tutorials with the most useful information are the one written by Cialdini in his two tutorials, Cialdini 2012, Principles of persuasion, and Cialdini 2001, Harnessing the science of persuasion. The author asserts that influencing other people in any workplace is not through magic or luck; instead, it involves more of science (Cialdini 2001). Again, he was able to know that the abilities of individuals to identify and understand the factor affecting their…

Although evil within the field of public affairs cannot be simply explained or delineated as evinced jointly by Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour through their text Unmasking Administrative Evil, the significance of this subject area is crucial to both administrators and the public given the detrimental repercussions evil actions may have on organizational, political, societal and legal spheres. The disturbing effects of such evils are present to this day yet, given the perceived “notion of…

Loannidis who works in the department of Hygiene and Epidemiology for the University of Ioannina, stated “most public research findings are false”, Loannidis went on to use that phrase as the title of his work. In Goldstein’s piece The Experience of Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach written…

scientific discourse. Turns out, science is inherently rhetorical; everything in science is the result of discourse between opposing factions trying to determine which is the more accurate depiction of how something works in this world, not to mention the inherent subjectivity of some fields of science (mostly the social sciences since humanity is subjecting itself to…

in a time era where millennials are the deciding factor for many causes. Millennials are more socially engaged in society and the progression of our society, stem cell research is a scholarly topic that many young people who are not interested in science are unaware of. Young people are the future of a rapidly growing technology society, I hope my paper can influence these young people to take a step in the right direction. People against the cause is a vital target audience because they are the…

Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of critical common sensism and unwavering faith in the scientific method makes him stand out as a revolutionary philosopher. In this paper, the epistemological philosophies of Peirce, G. E. Moore, and Wittgenstein will be discussed in order to arrive at a more complete theory of knowledge. Peirce’s pragmatic theory of truth, though in need of some modification, best captures knowledge and conquers Cartesian skepticism. First, an important distinction must be…

Animal experimentation in fields of product safety and pharmaceutical development is a controversial subject. Those opposed to experimentation often cite the suffering of the animals, the existence of alternate testing methods, and the unproven benefits to human beings, as support for their reasoning, well those in favor of experimentation believe that the benefits to humanity cannot be gained any other way and substantially outweigh the harm done to the animals. In the article, “Why Animal…