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• 15 mai 2019

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Thought

  Doctoral posts – Mirror and light – reflection and illumination: The practices of the construction of ideas trhough analogy in vernacular literature of the 12th-15th centuries

  Swiss National Research Fund at the University of Geneva

  Le projet porte sur le domaine de la littérature vernaculaire médiévale. Il s’agira d’explorer les métaphores du miroir et de la lumière dans des textes latins et vernaculaires dans une approche sémiotique et fondée sur la psychologie cognitive, afin d’accéder à une meilleure compréhension des pratiques de la construction et de la tradition des idées.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Leiden

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Psyche

  Post-doctorate researcher – The psychology of the ancient world: cognition, social psychology, emotions

  Anchoring Work Package B

  The concept that is central in “Anchoring Innovation” is “anchoring”, connecting what is perceived as new to what is deemed already familiar. “Anchoring” has a substantial social-psychological component. It may depend on the way in which relevant social groups categorize conceptually and linguistically what they perceive as new; it relates to the way in which new input (of whichever nature) is processed cognitively, including what emotional reactions such input elicits; and to the way in which “the new” fits into the value systems of such groups (this includes the ways in which they relate to the past).

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