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Theory
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Theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking. Depending on the context, the…
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Abductive reasoning
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Highly Cited
2020
Highly Cited
2020
Outline of a Theory of Practice
P. Bourdieu
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Richard Nice
On Violence
2020
Corpus ID: 60583231
Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology…
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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
The Theory of Justice
Dan W. Brockt
2017
Corpus ID: 55396002
Moral and value judgments are viewed by many people as at base subjective, nonrational, and incapable of proof. In academic moral…
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Review
2011
Review
2011
INTERSECTION THEORY
L. Nicolaescu
2011
Corpus ID: 12251801
I provide more details to the intersection theoretic results in [1]. CONTENTS 1. Transversality and tubular neighborhoods 1 2…
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Review
2002
Review
2002
A theory of interest
J. G. Hülsmann
2002
Corpus ID: 14915926
In a recent survey on interest theory, Professor Sennholz (1996, p. 127) reminded his readers that, as “was the case a century…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Varieties of Capitalism
P. Hall
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D. Soskice
2001
Corpus ID: 154230132
Scholarship on varieties of capitalism (VofC) explores the ways in which the institutions structuring the political economy…
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Review
1986
Review
1986
The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion
R. Petty
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J. Cacioppo
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
1986
Corpus ID: 14259584
Review
1982
Review
1982
Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency.
A. Bandura
1982
Corpus ID: 3377361
This article addresses the centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Self-per- cepts of efficacy influence…
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Human Problem Solving.
Nick Axten
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A. Newell
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Herbert A. Simon
1973
Corpus ID: 62537074
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
L. Festinger
1957
Corpus ID: 143173821
Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes. It holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a…
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Highly Cited
1948
Highly Cited
1948
Theory of Superconductivity
K. Cheng
Nature
1948
Corpus ID: 4122775
IN two previous notes1, Prof. Max Born and I have shown that one can obtain a theory of superconductivity by taking account of…
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