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  1. The Optimism Bias: Is It Adaptive In Academic Settings?

    The Optimism Bias: Is It Adaptive In Academic Settings?

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Caryl Ochse --- University of South Africa,
    This study investigated whether optimism was adaptive or maladaptive in an academic context. Participants were 715 psychology students with a large open and distance education university in South Africa (age range 20 to 61, average age 31 years, women =...
  2. The moving structure of reality in Gadamer’s method of interpretation: A philosophy of life in the making of history

    The moving structure of reality in Gadamer’s method of interpretation: A philosophy of life in the making of history

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Andrew Fuyarchuk --- Yorkville University, Canada
    The reorientation in hermeneutics from matters of textual interpretation and historically effected consciousness to “hermeneutic realism” and immanent metaphysics has created questions about our place in both history and nature. They are as mutually exclusive of one another as linear...