---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:20 PM Subject: "integrative complexity" ? To: [email protected] Some links below lead me to think : How politics may be controlled not by "what" is learned at school, but what modes of thinking and operating are being imposed or incentivized through various learning, living, interacting environments, including monetary systems... ( " compartmentalized thinking " ? ) Hence how to change politics based on opening up experiences to integrative complexity and or other modes of perception and decision making ? Using specific games ? Using overlapping narrative visualization tools ? Certain approaches to de-schooling ? ... ///// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_complexity *Integrative complexity* is a research psychometric<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics> that refers to the degree to which thinking and reasoning involve the recognition and integration of multiple perspectives<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_%28cognitive%29> and possibilities and their interrelated contingencies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency> . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism According to research by Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians tend to exhibit cognitive errors and symptoms of faulty reasoning. Specifically, they are more likely to make incorrect inferences from evidence and to hold contradictory ideas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink> that result from compartmentalized thinking. They are also more likely to uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs, and they are less likely to acknowledge their own limitations.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism#cite_note-Altemeyer.2C_B._1996-1> Nevertheless, there is no connection between authoritarianism and either low or high intelligence. Measured against thefive factor model<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits> of personality, authoritarians generally score lower on openness to experience<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience> and slightly higher on conscientiousness<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness> . -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens