Thailand is famously named ‘The Land of Smiles’. This is an investigation into Thailand’s collective happiness. Click on the link below to open the essay. Picture by J.S.Kompa. (SWB = Subjective Emotional Well-Being as opposed to Reflective Life-Evaluation) Thailand’s Happiness
Holism versus Reductionism
About the influence of General Systems Theory (GST) on the Biopsychosocial Model. Holism versus Reductionism, Joana Stella Kompa
Changing Corruption Behavior – Analysis and Recommendations
The following script describes corruption behavior, analyzes its origins and concludes potential strategies for behavioral change. Click on the link below to open the PDF. Changing Corruption Behaviour
Rites of Passage into Adulthood in Thai Culture: Biological Base, Behavioural & Cognitive Perspectives
One of the most striking properties that any visitor to Thailand immediately notices is the relatively small difference in body-build among the male and female population. An ethnologist friend of mine recently joked that the slim and small Asian biology makes many Western visitors look like Frankenstein by comparison. Possibly lower levels of androgens and genetic make-up in combination with Buddhist customs, advocating kindness and empathy, create a cycle where nature and nurture mutually reinforce stable cultural expressions (Glassman &…
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Analyzing the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE)
The SPE was one of the most popularized psychological experiments of all times: Can decent American college students turn into submissive prisoners and sadistic guards in a mere six days simply by taking over a prescribed social role in a mock-up prison? The following script is a critical analysis of Philip Zimbardo’s experiment which appears to be self-serving from the beginning, lacking the rigor of a scientific study and a prudent sense for ethical standards. A Research…
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Disadvantages of Teacher-Centered Learning
Statement Outline Teacher- and instructor- centred learning is an inefficient solution for education as compared to more active learning styles, in particular when applied throughout an organization or on a nation-wide scale as the leading pedagogical approach. Abstract The following assignment outlines key arguments on the disadvantages of teacher-centered learning in the context of larger organizations and public education. It is outlined why under the influence of globalization education requires new pedagogical approaches if…
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On the Philosophy of Cultures and Travelling
The concept of other worlds reflects the fact that life can evolve in many ways, not just one destined path. If we think of cultures as a plethora of potentially-given psycho-physical pathways (from our genes to our behavior, the environments we create to our symbolic rituals) of human evolution then cultures represent the ‘Other Self’ to us. Cultures remind us that, given different circumstances, our very identity could have developed entirely differently. Cultural diversity represents…
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Stages of Rational Knowledge
Please click on the link below for the PDF Stages of Rational Knowledge The initially posed question was: Does all knowledge have a rational epistemic foundation? It is explained what such a foundation must be like and it is evaluated how extensive our knowledge renders in the light of this requirement.This script has been written during my course ‘Theory of Knowledge’ at Oxford University. The inspiration for this script came from my mentor Prof.Howard Barrows…
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