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Time perspective across cultures and across time -research projects updates

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These days besides my activities linked to organizing our Network’s next meeting in Copenhagen this August: Celebrating Time, which will run from 15 to 19 August, I’m also working on finalizing two research projects that we started some time ago.

We are still working with Evgeny Osin on figuring out how to make sense out of the data we have from 33 countries using the ZTPI measure. As always with these type of convenience data sets, some things work and some other don’t. But we are making some progress and we hope to finalize the study during our open data lab session during the conference. So if you’re interested in learning how to deal with such data sets, or you have some good advice – you’re more than welcome to drop by. Check out the program of the conference to know when the session will be scheduled.

And as earlier announced in our Network updates – Aleksandra Kostic is editing a new book with current research in time perspective field. Britt Wiberg, me, Grazia Carelli and Marie Wiberg are working on a chapter for that book: Developing empirical profile of the balanced time perspective (BTP) and exploring its stability over time. It has been a very interesting and insightful project involving case studies and a lot of work! Aleksandra has set up a deadline for us – May 25th, so we are doing our best to meet it.

Academic writing: Introduction and Discussion

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In most cases when I evaluate student’s papers or when I supervised my MA and PhD students, the two most common challenges are with the Introduction section or Discussion.

Academic writing: Introduction and Discussion

There are tons of useful information available on the internet about how to write the different parts of an academic paper. Recently I stumbled upon one, which I really liked, especially the short version of it:

The Sections of the Paper

 Experimental process  Section of Paper
What did I do in a nutshell?  Abstract
 What is the problem? Introduction
 How did I solve the problem?  Materials and Methods
 What did I find out?  Results
 What does it mean?  Discussion
 Who helped me out?  Acknowledgments (optional)
 Whose work did I refer to?  Literature Cited
 Extra Information Appendices (optional)

See the full guide here. Unfortunately I didn’t find who the authors were. And on another note, although this guide is from the biology department and they claim that in humanities papers are very different and it might be so. However, in social sciences we follow the same structure when writing papers (we really really try to be scientific, but I have my doubts).

New article: Personal time perceptions and their impact on cooperation across nations

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our project, inspired by the summer school on social simulations and complex systems in 2009, has finally produced the results! it’s been a long process and I’m so thankful to everyone who participated in it one way or another! science is always a collaborative effort!

you can find our paper, Simulating Irrational Human Behavior to Prevent Resource Depletion in PLOS ONE

 

TP Network: Our book is out!

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it seems like our book is finally out!

Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application: Essays in Honor of Philip G. Zimbardo

Editors: Maciej Stolarski, Nicolas Fieulaine, Wessel van Beek

ISBN: 978-3-319-07367-5 (Print) 978-3-319-07368-2 (Online)

find it here

 

Our second cross-cultural article became chapter in the book.

Sircova, A., van de Vijver, F. J., Osin, E., Milfont, T. L., Fieulaine, N., Kislali-Erginbilgic, A., & Zimbardo, P. G. (2015). Time Perspective Profiles of Cultures. In Time Perspective Theory; Review, Research and Application (pp. 169-187). Springer International Publishing.