Word: interactionalism
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...Economics is one of the few departments to require its students to receive help from a professor. Students in the sciences often interact most with postdocs, rather than full professors. Even small departments, such as Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, sometimes scramble to find advisers due to imbalances between students’ interests and professors’ expertise...
...report suggests that organizations connect women interested in running for office with others who have successfully been elected to political positions. In addition, the authors recommend providing frequent opportunities for politically-minded women to interact and build contacts...
...avatar's attractiveness affected human behavior, both online and off. Thirty-two volunteers were randomly assigned an attractive or unattractive avatar (attractiveness was rated by undergrads in a survey beforehand) and instructed to look at them in a virtual mirror for 90 seconds. Then they were asked to interact with other avatars, controlled by the experimenters, in a classroom-like setting. Overall, subjects using good-looking avatars tended to display more confidence, friendliness and extroversion, just as in the real world: they approached avatar strangers within three feet, and in conversations tended to disclose more personal details. Ugly-duckling avatars...
...traditionalism isn’t the answer, though, we’ve got to be careful of too-hopeful radicalism as well. Down the road at MIT, Simmons Hall, an award-winning building which opened in 2002, was designed with deliberately contorted spaces to force students to interact. Architects and critics love the design for its innovative and playful use of space...
...Yale Law School. And then there was Redman the saxophonist, who listened to jazz constantly and supposedly only practiced when he jammed with his friends at the Berklee College of Music or the New England Conservatory.And as far as Redman was concerned, his two selves were too different to interact. In his words, “Never the twain shall meet.”“I kind of had constructed this myth for myself that, in order to be creative, I couldn’t be analytical,” Redman says. “In order...