Systemic Metaphors Promote Systems Thinking

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2362-2367

  Thibodeau, Paul H ^a   Winneg, Anna ^a   Frantz, Cynthia M ^a   Flusberg, Stephen J ^b  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; framing; intervention; metaphors; systems thinking

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS THINKING;

DECISIONS MAKINGS; FRAMING; HOLISTIC THINKING; INCOME INEQUALITY; INTERVENTION; METAPHOR; NOVEL METHODS; SYSTEM THINKINGS; TARGET DOMAIN;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84995983192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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