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The future as an academic discipline.

Ciba Foundation symposium

[No authors listed]
PMID: 1044503
Ciba Found Symp. 1975;(36):1-232.

No abstract available.

Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms.

Ciba Foundation symposium

Cosmides L, Tooby J.
PMID: 9386910
Ciba Found Symp. 1997;208:132-56; discussion 156-61. doi: 10.1002/9780470515372.ch8.

Scientists have been dissecting the neural architecture of the human mind for several centuries. Dissecting its computational architecture has proven more difficult, however. Within the cognitive sciences, for example, there is a debate about the extent to which human...

Language as a psychological adaptation.

Ciba Foundation symposium

Pinker S.
PMID: 9386911
Ciba Found Symp. 1997;208:162-72; discussion 172-80. doi: 10.1002/9780470515372.ch9.

Language is the remarkable faculty by which humans convey thoughts to one another by means of a highly structured signal. Language works by two principles: a dictionary of memorized symbols, that is, words, and a set of generative rules...

Health education, cancer and postgraduate training.

Ciba Foundation symposium

Joyson G.
PMID: 1052053
Ciba Found Symp. 1976;(43):143-56. doi: 10.1002/9780470720257.ch11.

Cancer as a term encompasses a multitude of diseases and is consequently misunderstood. Today, it is still considered sinister and, too often, synonymous with death. It is a complex subject, exciting and challenging, yet the myths associated with cancer...

Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity.

Ciba Foundation symposium

Kacelnik A.
PMID: 9386907
Ciba Found Symp. 1997;208:51-67; discussion 67-70. doi: 10.1002/9780470515372.ch5.

The task of evolutionary psychologists is to produce precise predictions about psychological mechanisms using adaptationist thinking. This can be done combining normative models derived from evolutionary hypotheses with descriptive regularities across species found by experimental psychologists and behavioural ecologists....

Proceedings of a symposium on the origins and consequences of obesity. Kingston, Jamaica, 28-30 November 1995.

Ciba Foundation symposium

[No authors listed]
PMID: 9081798
Ciba Found Symp. 1996;201:1-268.

No abstract available.

Research and medical practice: their interaction. Introduction.

Ciba Foundation symposium

Black D.
PMID: 1052061
Ciba Found Symp. 1976;(44):1-2.

No abstract available.

Major mental handicap: methods and costs of prevention.

Ciba Foundation symposium

[No authors listed]
PMID: 251499
Ciba Found Symp. 1978;(59):1-226.

No abstract available.

The economic and psychosocial consequences of obesity.

Ciba Foundation symposium

Rissanen AM.
PMID: 9017282
Ciba Found Symp. 1996;201:194-201; discussion 201-6. doi: 10.1002/9780470514962.ch12.

Obesity is a multifaceted problem with wide-reaching medical, social and economic consequences. These are partly determined by the wealth and disease pattern of the population. In less-developed societies overweight may be advantageous and socially acceptable. In affluent societies obesity...

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