Envy Research Articles

A Problem Based Learning (PBL) Application for the Teaching of Mathematics and Chemistry in Higher Schools and Tertiary Education: An Integrative Approach.

In this paper, we present the concept of problem-based learning as a tool for learning Mathematics and Chemistry, and in fact, all sciences, using life situations or simulated scenario. The methodology involves some level of brain storming. Here, active learning takes place and knowledge gained by students either way through a collaborative learning situation becomes personalized within the group. This underscores the need for the integration of the curricular of some basic concepts in Mathematics and the sciences in general from the school level; thus it makes it easier for students in the tertiary educational level to learn higher and applicable concepts. Three cases were discussed involving PBL namely: Graphical interpretation of experimental readings in a Chemistry/science laboratory as it enhances or makes use of basic mathematical knowledge, calculus in Chemistry and lastly, the integration of curricular for Mathematics and the basic sciences at higher secondary and lower university levels. Problem-based learning method then becomes an enviable tool which can be used in teaching both Mathematics and Chemistry at the secondary and tertiary levels. Key words: Problem-based learning, active-learning, personalized knowledge, collaborative learning, calculus, integration of curricular.

Subjective Well-Being of Performing Artists and Its Relationship with Self-Efficacy

The idea of subjective well being has intrigued philosophers and thinkers for a very long time. Subjective well-being is an area of study which deals with understanding the complete range of well-being. Most people in surveys around the world report predominantly positive feelings (Diener & Diener, 1996). Since most people are not sad and unhappy most of the time, it is important to study positive forms of well-being rather than just the absence of well-being.Subjective wellbeingSubjective well being refers to how people evaluate their lives, and includes variables like satisfaction with life, lack of depression, stress and anxiety as well as the study of positive moods and emotions. Subjective well-being involves components like global life satisfaction, contentment with specific life domains, presence of frequent positive affect, and a relative absence of negative affect. Positive affect is generally divided into joy, elation, contentment, pride, affection, happiness and ecstasy while negative affect includes guilt, shame, sadness, anxiety, worry, anger, stress, depression, and envy. Life satisfaction includes satisfaction with current life, satisfaction with past, satisfaction with future, significant others' views of one's life etc.A person is said to have high subjective well being if she or he experiences life satisfaction and pleasant emotions, and experiences unpleasant emotions only infrequently. In contrast, a person is said to have low subjective well being if he or she is dissatisfied with life, experiences little joy, and frequently feels negative emotions.Ryan and Deci (2000) proposed that what constitutes a good life is people thinking they're living good lives. In fact, it's people's evaluation of their own lives; whether they perceive many pleasant things, engage in interesting activities and are satisfied with their life in general, that contributes to happiness (Ryan & Deci, 2000).According to Diener (1984), the field of subjective well being has several cardinal characteristics: first, it is concerned with well-being from the perspective of the respondent and hence, importance is given to the respondent's own views of his life. Second, the researcher is mainly interested in long-term levels of satisfaction and affect, though, short-term moods and emotions are also studied.Transient factors such as current mood and even current weather conditions affect judgment of life satisfaction (Schwarz & Strack, 1991). However, despite these temporary perceptions, subjective well being is moderately stable across situations (Diener & Larsen, 1984) and across the life span (Costa & McCrae, 1988; Magnus & Diener, 1991).As shown by many researchers demographic factors are often only weakly correlated with subjective well being. Campbell, Converse, and Rodgers (1976) found that all demographic factors together accounted for less than 20 percent of the variance in subjective well being. Many variables such as education, ethnic status, and age often correlate at very low levels with reports of subjective well being. However, some demographic variables do consistently predict subjective well being. For instance, married people of both sexes report more happiness than those who are never married, divorced, or separated (e.g., Lee, Seccombe, & Shehan, 1991).The personality traits of extroversion and neuroticism have been given the most theoretical and empirical attention, given that extroversion is strongly correlated with subjective well-being and neuroticism is strongly correlated with negative affect (Costa & McCrae, 1980; Watson & Clark, 1984; Diener & Lucas, 1999). According to Watson and Clark (1984), extroverts have a temperamental predisposition to experience positive affect, whereas neurotics are predisposed to experience negative affect. A study of the happiest 10% of college students showed that those found to engage in laige amounts of social activity were the happiest (Diener& Seligman, 2002). …

Rawls and the Forgotten Figure of the Most Advantaged: In Defense of Reasonable Envy toward the Superrich—ERRATUM

Rawls and the Forgotten Figure of the Most Advantaged: In Defense of Reasonable Envy toward the Superrich—ERRATUM

The Envy of Erudition

The Envy of Erudition

Victims punish but witnesses envy

Victims punish but witnesses envy

Status of kinship relations and [seley-rahem] in everyday family relationship

This survey conducted with purpose of investigating “status of kinship relations and [seley-rahem] in everyday family relationship”. Study population is 18 age above of Tehran citizens. Sample size was 400 person that obtained with Cochran formula. Results indicate that 56.6 percent of respondents have relationship with relatives through face to face relation, 26.1 percent through phone, 6 percent of them through message and 1 percent through emailing and enveloping letter have relations with family and relatives. Also finding show that 31.6 percent of respondents visit close relatives at least once a week, 23.6 percent more times in a week, 22.3 percent every day, 14.3 percent monthly, 5.5 percent once in two or more month, 2 percent once in a year and 3 percent of respondents never visit the relatives. Results indicate that 95.5 percent of sample study believes that the visiting relatives and [seley-rahem] have been decreased. 40.8 percent of respondents said that cause of decreasing relationship with relatives is economic problems and increasing costs, 18.9 percent of them involvement and everyday life problems, 12.6 of them percent having not more free times, 9.9 percent increasing envy and jealousy and immoderation and indulgence, 6.8 percent of them thechnogical advancements and modernizing the life and increasing relations through message, 3 percent of them lowering amour between people, 1.9 percent weakness of religiosity are causes of lowering relationships between relatives. Findings show that 33.6 percent of 65 percent of peoples that visit close and face to face said that have relationships with relatives in holidays. Result of regression analysis show that affecting factors (positive attitude on seley-rahem and achieving social support) in degree of relationship with relatives have explained 23 percent of total correlation.

Second Sight/The House Of Envy

Second Sight/The House Of Envy

Note sull’“antipedagogia” in Leopardi

Leopardi’s pedagogy includes a theoretic line of scepticism and pessimism, against official pedagogical points of view. Education produces a wicked man; childhood (the happiest age of life) uses up in exhaustion of the study. Leopardi is in opposition to reason, but he exalts nature, energy and passions. Educational relationship is uncertain because teacher envies young student and bears him a kind of grudge.

Envy up, scorn down: how status divides us

Envy up, scorn down: how status divides us

Envy and Generalized Loss Aversion

We suggest that, beside the classical endowment and disappointment effects, also envy can be modeled as Kahneman-Tversky loss aversion in a reference-dependent preference framework. In a risk-free setting especially suited to test for envy, a decomposition of referencedependent utility into basic utility and a disappointment evaluation function is achieved, where basic utility is recovered by diagonalization. This feature sets our approach apart from disappointment theories of Sugden (JET 2003) and Bleichrodt (JMP 2009). Empirical evidences on the ultimatum game confirm this model and shows the presence of both inequality aversion on one’s disadvantage (envy), and on one’s advantage (Bellamare et al. Econometrica 2008). We propose a common measure of loss aversion and envy for reference dependent preferences, which generalizes the index of Kobberling and Wakker (JET 2005). The class of constant loss aversion/envy coincides with that of Kahneman and Tversky. We show that Arrow-Pratt absolute risk aversion increases by the relative marginal loss aversion. This inspires further tests of the loss aversion theory of envy.

Introduction: And Now for Something Completely Different-Business School Envy?

Introduction: And Now for Something Completely Different-Business School Envy?

Depravation, Luxury, Envy

Depravation, Luxury, Envy

Prophetic Ways for Coping with Behavioral Disorders

There is a considerable significant increase in behavioral disorders among people of various age groups. The prevalence of behavioral disorders is mainly due to socio-cultural changes, ignorance, love with this world, stress at the personal, social and organizational level, etc. Spiritual remedies have proven to be of tremendous benefit and value to the human beings at large. From the point of view of Islam, behavioral disorders are due to the deviations from the Islamic traditions. Husain (2006) has discussed anger, conceit, envy, gossiping and false suspicions, hypocrisy, and ignorance, love of worldly wealth, miserliness, ostentation, and pride and boastfulness and suggested the coping strategies for these evils and vices in the light of Islamic traditions.

One Envy or Many?: Commentary on Paper by Julie Gerhardt

One Envy or Many?: Commentary on Paper by Julie Gerhardt

I Am So Sorry for Your Misfortune

This two-part study conducted in Japan used functional MRI to determine the neuroanatomic locations of envy and schadenfreude (a rewarding feeling

Evidence-Based Surgery

The Surgical Clinics have an envied reputation for reliability and overview, and this issue is no exception.

Amputee Envy

Amputee Envy

Schadenfreude and Gloating: Localized?

Some evidence suggests that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex plays a role in recognizing social competitive emotions. To explore its role in envy and

Envy to My Twin

Envy to My Twin

Into the Past, by Phillip Tobias : book review : SAMJ forum

Extracted from text ... March 2006, Vol. 96, No. 3 SAMJ SAMJ FORUM 194 Into the Past. By Phillip Tobias. Pp. xv + 277. Illustrated. Softback R159. Hardback R220. Picador Africa and Wits University Press. 2005. ISBN 1-7701001-5-6 (Softback). ISBN 1-770102-2-9 (Hardback). Phillip Tobias is arguably South Africa's best known, and most highly regarded, scientist. The breadth of his interests and achievements is remarkable, yet while many of us will know of some of these - for this reviewer, his work on fossil hominids - until now few would have known their full extent. But now, and still with an energy the envy ..