Theme 9
People, behaviour & action
Human action
As a species, everything we have achieve in the world, everything we are achieving and everything we will achieve come about through human action. Why do we act as we do? What motivates? what constrains us? How do we decide to act? Individually? Or in groups?
‘Undersocialised man’ or autonomous actor?
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How do people behave? And, more importantly, why?
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Acting in ignorance knowingly and unknowingly
Information constraints and Dunning-Kruger incompetence
The concept of a mental constructs and what they tell us.
George Kelly
Bounded rationality: is it still a valid constuct?
Herbert Simon
Examining methodological individualism
George Kelly
Emo ergo sum; I shop, therefore I am
Have we in the developed world become simply Homo emptor? Shopping is more that a procuring activity. It is also a leisure activity, a distraction, a social activity, for some, a compulsion. And if we have, what does that tell us? If we have, is that a problem?
Make it stand out.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
