[Xmca-l] Re: Appeal for help

[Andy Blunden]

Perfect Alex! Thank you.

Andy

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Andy Blunden
http://home.mira.net/~andy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 

On 5/07/2016 4:00 PM, Nektarios Alexi wrote:
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> For your request on similar information about
> changes in a person's character following their emigration
> to another country?  I have used his theory for my PhD 
> thesis on acculturation effect for help seeking intentions 
> for mental ilness.
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> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-0597.1997.tb01087.x/abstract;jsessionid=3F23F698365AD798272D11D57C859C71.f04t02
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> Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation - Berry - 2008 
> ... 
> <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-0597.1997.tb01087.x/abstract;jsessionid=3F23F698365AD798272D11D57C859C71.f04t02>
> onlinelibrary.wiley.com
> How to Cite. Berry, J. W. (1997), Immigration, 
> Acculturation, and Adaptation. Applied Psychology:An 
> International Review, 46: 5–34. doi: 
> 10.1111/j.1464-0597.1997 ...
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> *From:* xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu 
> <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Andy 
> Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 July 2016 3:08:22 PM
> *To:* eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> *Subject:* [Xmca-l] Appeal for help
> Comrade and friends, I need some help.
>
> I am setting about developing a new approach to virtue
> ethics. Virtues are everywhere taken to be deep-seated
> attributes of a person's character; my aim is to make the
> starting point instead from virtues defined as deep-seated
> attributes of a project, which you can take to mean "social
> context" or "system of activity" if you wish. I don't need
> advice about issues and problems of ethics, but it is in in
> the nature of virtue ethics that it always has strong
> implications for psychology as well as social theory, to the
> extent that I think I can make a great deal of progress by
> calling on psychological data.
>
> Can people point me to research(ers) about how a person's
> character changes with social context (e.g. home/work), any
> evidence of the well-known phenomenon in which a person
> promoted above the ability suffers a moral degeneration; any
> suitable and reliable data about the differing character
> (not just preferences or cognition, but virtues) of people
> from one culture or another? or similar information about
> changes in a person's character following their emigration
> to another country?
>
> URLs appreciated, or whole books, I don't have access to a
> university library or JSTOR.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
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> Andy Blunden
> http://home.mira.net/~andy <http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy>
> http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 
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