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21 sie 2023 · A key model feature is that phases of devaluation and/or idealization are consolidated by rationally attributing counter-evidence to external factors. For example, when another person is idealized, their less-than-perfect behavior is attributed to unfavorable external circumstances.
14 lip 2021 · We show how a resulting idealization and devaluation of others can be stabilized by attributing unexpected behaviour to fictive external factors.
When viewing people as all good, the individual is said to be using the defense mechanism idealization: a mental mechanism in which the person attributes exaggeratedly positive qualities to the self or others. When viewing people as all bad, the individual employs devaluation: attributing exaggeratedly negative qualities to the self or others.
20 maj 2020 · Idealization is ubiquitous in human cognition, and so is the inclination to be puzzled by it: what to make of ideal gas, infinitely large populations, homo economicus, perfectly just society, known to violate matters of fact?
idealization and abstraction, there is not much consensus on what these things are, and what exactly they achieve. Here I will take the opportunity to offer some general ideas about idealization, abstraction, and the relations between them, emphasizing applications to evolutionary theory.
21 sie 2023 · A key model feature is that phases of devaluation and/or idealization are consolidated by rationally attributing counter-evidence to external factors. For example, when another person...
idealizations in biology surely because there are many ways of understanding the relationship between models, ideal conditions and the real world. A quick survey of the biological literature shows that idealizations are routinely used in different contexts: for example, they could be used for model construction, in the constitution of concepts or
