Worse Picture Research Articles

The living well of our soul

Abstract Bright flooding sunlight, fresh cut flowers in generous crystal vases, and pristine clean shelves of philosophical and psychological books in several languages welcome the visitor to Liliane Frey-Rohn's upper-story modern apartment in Zurich. Even for as amateurish a photographer as our editor, it was hard to take a bad picture of her clear features—with her luminous hair, intimate eyes and warmly curious smile. This was a young, cosmopolitan woman of 88, with a classical education and dedication to the twin ideals of scholarship and the birthing of the new consciousness of her culture. She was very pleased with the recent publication in English of her book, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Psychological Approach to His Life and Work, and was happy to talk about its evolution through her studies and close association with Carl Jung

線図形と言語表現との関係についての一考察 : 使用語彙と伝達の優劣

Although it is three dimensional objects called buildings or environments that architects and architectural engineers make, on processes of design and production they communicate each other and make various calculation by using language, drawings and pictures. Computers can easily deal with numbers, words and texts of language, but can not easily do with drawings and pictures. What relation exists between drawings and language? If pictures and three dimensional objects are described easily and precisely by language, computers that use many commands would be efficient in CAD; Computer Aided Design. From this point of view, it was experimented how people transmit drawings by verbal expression, and relation between the expression and proficiency of the transmission has been considered. This is a first paper of the experiment and here the followings will be made known; firstly fundamental glossaries for description of drawings have been collected; secondly any fast and good transmission method has not been found out; thirdly on the other hand side in the case of bad pictures made by the receivers, there is absolute failure in the process.

Evaluative Responses of Preschool Children

The abstract concepts good and bad are loaded with evaluative meaning. Evaluation is important as an ingredient of attitude learning, and the child's understanding of good and bad is also significant in early personality development. 50 children, aged 2-6 were shown 12 sets of multiple-choice pictures. Each set of 4 alternatives contained 1 good activity, or 1 bad activity, or all neutral activities. The growth in the ability of the child to select the loaded pictures is a regular curve starting at chance near age 2 and approaching the point of all correct near age 6. Bad pictures are more readily identified than good at all ages beyond 2 years, 5 months. The results are discussed in relation to the children's language capacity. It is suggested that bad is acquired before good because early socialization provides a concept-formation environment more fitting to the learning of bad.

Quantum Electrodynamics without Dead Wood

In quantum electrodynamics one can obtain a Hamiltonian which gives reasonable field equations in the Heisenberg picture, but which does not allow of solutions of the wave equation to represent physical states in the Schr\"odinger picture. The inference is that the Heisenberg picture is a good picture, the Schr\"odinger picture is a bad picture, and the two pictures are not equivalent. The usual proof of the equivalence of the two pictures fails because the state vector of the Schr\"odinger picture does not remain in Hilbert space. One can set up quantum electrodynamics entirely in the Heisenberg picture and thereby avoid the worst difficulties encountered in the Schr\"odinger picture. The theory takes a logical form and is not merely an assembly of working rules. It can be applied to the calculation of the anomalous magnetic moment and the Lamb shift, and is then similar to the usual calculations of these effects, with a good deal of dead wood cut away. There is a problem concerned with the general interpretation of quantum mechanics when one cannot use the Schr\"odinger picture and some postulates are proposed for dealing with it.