The article examines the impact of the sense of rightness on selfmanagement as an important aspect of personal development and effectiveness in professional and everyday activities. The sense of rightness, as an internal conviction that actions are in line with personal values and ethical norms, has a significant impact on decision-making, motivation and selforganisation. The key aspects of this impact are analysed: increased confidence in decisions,motivation to achieve goals, reduced stress and anxiety, and improved planning and time management. Practical aspects of integrating a sense of rightness into personal management processes are considered in order to increase efficiency and achieve harmony between internal beliefs and external actions.

The article explores the concepts of the sense of rightness and inner compass as critically important elements of personality structure. Based on the theories of prominent psychologists such as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, Viktor Frankl, and George Kelly, as well as Ukrainian authors including Tetiana Bondarenko, Olena Hromova, Anatolii Kochehryhin, Liudmyla Petranovska, and Sonia Lyubomyrska, the article analyzes the functional and structural features of the sense of rightness. The sense of rightness is defined as a combination of moral values and beliefs that shape personality and influence behavior. It is emphasized that the inner compass is the foundation of self-awareness, helping individuals navigate complex ethical and moral dilemmas. Social environment, cultural traditions, and family upbringing play an important role in the formation of this compass, contributing to the development of moral values. The article examines the dynamic nature of the sense of rightness, which may change depending on new experiences and social context. The results of the study indicate the importance of awareness of one's values for achieving psychological well-being and social adaptation. The conclusions may serve as a basis for further research in the fields of psychology, education, and social development, as well as for practical recommendations in working with individuals.

The article investigates the problem of organizing the "sense of rightness" in the structure of personality in the context of modern challenges, particularly the war in Ukraine, which has led to deteriorating psychological health, increased stress levels, and the emergence of various psychological symptoms. The authors emphasize the importance of internal harmony and authenticity of personality in the conditions of an increasing pace of life and informational influence. The concept of Carl Rogers' "organismic tendency," which focuses on the internal sense of rightness supported by a therapeutic environment, is examined. Approaches of other theorists, such as Leslie Greenberg, Robert Elliott, Erik Erikson, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Viktor Frankl, regarding the formation and maintenance of the "sense of rightness" are also analyzed. The study highlights the necessity of new therapeutic methods to support psychological resilience and personality development under modern stress factors, particularly through emphasizing the integration of emotions, self-awareness, and the search for deep meaning in life and the sense of rightness.

The paper addresses theoretical considerations focusing on the career choice motives of early childhood education teachers in the light of a review of previous research, and it presents the research problem along with an analysis of results. The aim of this study was to determine the motives for choosing the profession of early childhood education teacher by students of early childhood pedagogy, graduating with a bachelor’s degree, and early childhood education teachers working in the profession for no more than five years. A diagnostic survey method was used, with a questionnaire technique. The results indicate that the choice of early childhood education teachers is a product of internal and external motives, with the former having a dominant role. Meeting psychological needs (including the desire to work with children, personality predispositions) is combined with pragmatic qualities – e.g. days off, low weekly working hours. Both groups surveyed recognize the problem of low professional prestige and the financial unprofitability of the teaching profession. The motivations for studying early childhood pedagogy are personal predispositions, interests and directional talents. The sense of rightness regarding the choice of a professional path increases with the acquisition of practice, which corresponds to the sense of preparation for the profession. The current system of pedagogical internships does not provide sufficient practical preparation for a job as an early childhood education teacher.

The Etiquette of Equality

Abstract Recent advances in entrepreneurial investment decisions research implied that early-stage investment decisions, given their extreme uncertainty and unpredictability, were results of investors’ intuition processes. In other words, investors manage the high risks of early-stage investment decisions by finding justifications of future value against risk in the invested entrepreneurial projects. Although some studies have discussed the decision-making process of mid- and late-stage venture capital, there is still a lack of discussion on the early-stage investment decision-making mechanism. In this paper, we draw on regulatory fit theory to theorize how the fit of regulatory focus between investor and entrepreneur could lead to the investor’s early-stage investment decisions in terms of investment amount and speed. Across three experimental studies, we found empirical support for our proposed model. Specifically, investors who have similar regulatory focus with the entrepreneurs are more likely to invest a larger amount of funds at a faster speed. We further found that investor’s sense of rightness mediates the relationship between regulatory fit and investment decision, and investor’s previous investment experience plays a moderating role.

Background/ObjectiveNot Just Right Experiences (NJREs) are currently considered as one of the motivators of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but the ways through which NJREs affect OCD symptoms remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to examine the putative mediational role of Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) in the association between NJRE severity and OCD symptoms in patients with OCD. MethodSixty-two patients with OCD completed self-report measures of NJREs, OCD symptoms, and IU. ResultsIU mediated the relationship between NJRE severity and OCD symptoms. Furthermore, NJRE severity emerged as moderator of the path, suggesting that the mediational role of IU is stronger when the severity of NJREs increases. ConclusionFindings support the importance of NJREs in OCD, as well as the specific contribution of IU in the maintenance of this disorder.

In her paper Expelled Again from Eden: Facing Difference through Connection, delivered in Plymouth in 1998, Mary Grey said the story of the Garden of Eden was a dilemma for Feminist Theologians. This because it both bears responsibility for the Fall of relationship between God and Man and the misogyny that has ensued through the ages but also underpinning the desire to return to a supposed golden age of matriarchy with the re-emergence of the Goddess and a related ecological and egalitarian epoch of harmony. Grey makes a connection between the Lost Garden myth and the second wave feminist ideal of global sisterhood of the 1960s. Reflecting on her paper and updating it later, Grey concluded she still felt the challenge of years ago: the sense of rightness of connection and mutuality, yet the crucial need to embrace difference.

Frontolimbic affective bias and false narratives from brain disease

If bioethics seeks to affect what people do and don't do as they respond to the practical issues that confront them, then it is useful to take seriously people's sense of rightness. Rightness emerges from the fabric of a life-including the economy of its geography, the events of its times, its popular culture-to be what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls a predisposition. It is the product of a way of life and presupposes continuing to live that way. Rightness is local and communal, holding in relationship those who share the same predisposing sense of how to experience. Rightness is an embodied way of evaluating what is known to matter and choosing among possible responses. Bioethics spends considerable time on what people should do and on the arguments that support recommended actions. It might spend more time on what shapes people's sense of the rightness of what they feel called to do.

Climatologists, Theologians, and Prophets: Toward an Ecotheology of Critical Hope

This paper examined the principles of the disciplines of the Applied Arts and Design and their roles and place in Technology and Industry. These principles which is believed to be “intuitive”“instructive “, “natural” and help makes up part of what might be referred to as, “that unique sense of rightness “. The paper revealed that the same Design drawing meant for a new concept car in Engineering design also is tenable for design concepts or projects in the Applied Arts and Design. This informed the need and thrust of this paper which was predicated on the consideration of establishing that the role/place of the Applied Arts as a component factor in Design is innately and intrinsically connected to the resultative man-made material culture and society. The paper also established that the principles and practice of problem solving skills and initiatives such as drawing, drafting (draught-manship), modeling or sculpting (in clay or industrial plasticine) styling and prototype creation realized by moulding/shaping of the clay material to assume any contour, shape, form or topology of the given object helps to achieve the ultimate desired product design. This paper recommends that for any design to succeed it must emplace (strictly) the Applied Arts principles as a major component factor in the Design and the Technological process of manufacture of any given design initiative (product/object). Key Words : Algorithmic/ Heuristic Approaches, Industrial Plasticine, Play dough, Polymer Clay, “Partipris “, Salt dough, Styling.

Ethical issues deal with questions of value. Sport should be treated in ethical questions also. The theme of this study is how people ought to act within the context of sport. The purpose of this study was to draw a dis-tinct line between sport and violence. This paper set out on the phenomenological research in order to reduce the abstractness of modern sport which have a tolerate attitude toward violence. This study traced to the origin of violence, examined the relationship with sport. And if we don`t give up our body, this paper will submit a proposal in the sense of rightness, because of sport is our culture we have to pass down to future generation.

A major challenge for Dual Process Theories of reasoning is to predict the circumstances under which intuitive answers reached on the basis of Type 1 processing are kept or discarded in favour of analytic, Type 2 processing (Thompson 2009). We propose that a key determinant of the probability that Type 2 processes intervene is the affective response that accompanies Type 1 processing. This affective response arises from the fluency with which the initial answer is produced, such that fluently produced answers give rise to a strong feeling of rightness. This feeling of rightness, in turn, determines the extent and probability with which Type 2 processes will be engaged. Because many of the intuitions produced by Type 1 processes are fluent, it is common for them to be accompanied by a strong sense of rightness. However, because fluency is poorly calibrated to objective difficulty, confidently held intuitions may form the basis of poor quality decisions.

Introduction. This paper proposes the hypothesis that aesthetics plays an important role in the construction and maintenance of delusional ideas in schizophrenia. Method. A selective review of the literature on the cognitive science of aesthetics, beginning with the work of William James on the stream of thought, was undertaken together with a review of some of the cognitive neuroscience literature on delusion formation in schizophrenia. Results. It is suggested that delusion formation has some similarities to to the creative process, but commences with a proto-psychotic anomalous experience in which an aberrant Jamesian fringe experience is generated. The consequence of such deviation from standard or expected conscious experience is to direct processing resources in a search for meaning, but under conditions of reduced prefrontal cortex monitoring and control mechanisms. Lowering of the usual constraints exercised by prefrontal cortex regulatory mechanisms causes the search for explanation or interpretation to be characterised by low self-reflection, temporal distortion and low volitional control, permitting relatively unfiltered ideas that do not conform to convention to emerge in consciousness. The combination of aberrant Jamesian fringe experience and reduced prefrontal regulatory mechanisms evoke idiosyncratic contextual associations and drive a hypersensitive salience assignment system in the search for meaning, out of which process nascent delusional beliefs emerge. These are accompanied by a ‘sense of rightness’ in the Jamesian fringe which signals the presence of a ‘good fit’ between the proto-psychotic anomalous experience in the centre of consciousness and the contextual associations evoked. Conclusion. The ‘sense of rightness’ or ‘good fit’ is responsible for the aesthetic qualities of the delusion and, it is proposed, accounts for the incorrigibility of the delusions.

Cognitive Theory, Conscience, and Law

ABSTRACT This article describes a qualitative inquiry into the experiences of Native Hawaiian women living through and beyond a diagnosis of breast cancer. Native Hawaiian women have increased incidence and mortality breast cancer rates compared with other ethnic groups in Hawaii. Health promotion programs targeted at Native Hawaiians have often failed because of cultural inappropriateness. A lack of knowledge about the culture is frequently a part of this failure. Therefore, the specific purpose of this study was to examine the lived experience of a selected group of Native Hawaiian breast cancer survivors, uncover the connections between their narratives and their personal and cultural milieux, and generate knowledge about the Native Hawaiian woman's breast cancer experience that would be useful in planning future health promotion outreach efforts. The study consisted of interview data collected from 11 Native Hawaiian female participants, ranging from 44 to 82 years of age. An interpretive phenomenological analysis of the data identified recurrent contexts and themes. The three major contexts in their stories were discovery, transformation (physical, emotional and spiritual), and life realignment. Themes included the importance of spiritual connection, an altruistic desire to reach out and assist others in a similar situation, and a context of familial silence about cancer history. These elements can assist in formulating health promotion and intervention activities for this population. Interwoven with these themes was the Native Hawaiian concept of pono–a sense of rightness and balance, and the crucial importance of the participants' Native Hawaiian identity and cultural heritage.

The most profound event of spiritual self-knowledge is a moment of communion with God, situated in history and memory yet also in some way transcending them, so that such a moment creates a radically transformed memory that has significant historical impact. This is at the root of what we call vocation, that is, a core sense of rightness and joy in setting out upon a specific historical path in one's life. This essay explores the unfolding of Therese's experience of this over the course of a lifetime. Specifically, it traces the lifelong course of Therese's relationship with the story of Jeanne d'Arc, which she closely associated with her own experience of vocation. The claim of the essay is not that the story of Jeanne d'Arc was the only significant aspect of history and memory that contributed to Therese's experience of vocation. Rather, the limitation of focus makes possible a relatively succinct case study of history, memory, and interiority in evolving interaction with one another.

The Creek colony of Thurii, founded in southern Italy around 444, BCE, was apparently planned to be a model polis. Any reconstruction of that plan must be speculative, but the stories about Thurii suggest that its design incorporated three entities not usually linked — a democratic constitution, an orthogonal street layout, and a rhetorically‐oriented educational system. In trying to understand what these things might have had to do with one another, I examine the thought of three individuals who, sources tell us, participated in the colony: the rhêtor Pericles, who apparently instigated the project; the designer Hippodamus, who supposedly laid out its streets; and the sophist Protagoras, who reportedly wrote its laws. If indeed these three collaborated on Thurii, what they may have sought there was a “bounded”; democracy, a community of free and equal citizens, governed by open, transparent, and agonistic means but guided by an unmistakable sense of rightness, something manifest not only in the town's constitution but in its educational system and built space as well.

From the Publisher: When something works well, you can feel it; there is sense of rightness to it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the single most important component of design. This recognition is at the heart of David Gelernter's wittily argued essay, Machine Beauty, which defines beauty as an inspired mating of simplicity and power. You can see it in Bauhaus chair, the Hoover Dam, or an Emerson radio circa 1930. In contrast, too many contemporary technologists run out of ideas and resort to gimmicks and features; they are rarely capable of real, structural ingenuity. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of computers. You don't have to look far to see how oblivious most computer technologists are to the idea of beauty. Just look at how ugly your computer cabinet is, how unwieldy and out of sync if feels with the manner and speed with which you process thought. The best designers, however, are obsessed with beauty. Both hardware and software should afford us the greatest opportunity to achieve deep beauty, the kind of beauty that happens when many types of loveliness reinforce one another, when design expresses an underlying technology, machine logic. Program software ought to be transparent: it should engage what Gelernter calls a thought-amplifying feedback loop, creative symbiosis with its user. These principles, beautiful in themselves, will set the stage for the next technological revolution, in which the pursuit of elegance will lead to extraordinary innovations.