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learning to be a good ancestor | neo-generalist founder - WayFinders Network (wayfinders.network) founder - ShootXP (@shootxp.com) co-creator - myfastestmile c.i.c. markupton.life

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Mark @markupton.life · 18/02/2026
"The best things you ever do on a football field only become known to you seconds after you have done them. You can feel briefly like pure movement, a natural force. You are more embedded in the world than ever This intoxicating headspace is football’s spiritual secret" www.mmowen.me/camus-absurd...
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Camus's Absurd Love of Football — M. M. Owen
In football, one of the greatest French authors of the 20th century located the most potent and valuable forms of consciousness. In the game’s drama of the flesh, he felt himself witness to the fullne...
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David Farrokh @davidfarrokh.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Here is the accepted version of my thesis. A huge thanks to my supervisory team and everyone who supported me. A few chapters are already published some are still in review, so this is a sneak peek for anyone interested in the empirical findings. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) An Ecological Dynamics Perspective on Flow in Sport
PDF | This thesis utilises an ecological dynamics perspective to investigate the concept of flow experiences in the domain of sport. The study of flow... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Call for papers: 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) in Omaha, NE, June 23–26, 2026 icpa2026omaha.com (please RT!)
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ICPA - ICPA 2026
Welcome to the 2026 International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). This year, we meet in Omaha, Nebraska, bringing the international ecological psychology community together in a setting th...
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Andrew Beaven @theteesra.com · 20/01/2026
A review of Ian Renshaw & Stephen Rollnick's Dynamic Coaching - a playbook for cricket coaches. #coaching #CricketCoaching #BookReview
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REVIEW: Dynamic Coaching — A Playbook for Cricket Coaches
I have very much enjoyed reading Dynamic Coaching — A Playbook for Cricket Coaches by Ian Renshaw assisted by Stephen Rollnick. Ian Renshaw’s presentations to the ECB Coaches Association Conference in 2017 were one of my earliest practical introductions to the constraints-led approach, and provided a justification of my own preference for games-based learning. I have been waiting for this book since then!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Can’t wait for this amazing evening of conversation on 11 Feb at @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, on AI Narratives & Counternarratives with @abeba.bsky.social @amoorelouise.bsky.social, FT’s @johnthornhill.bsky.social & our own Alex Taylor. Join online or in Edinburgh - register to hold your space!
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
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Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
brianmccormick.substack.com/p/the-basket...
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 19/09/2025
From aspiring youth to professionals expanding their repertoire, our platform provides highly relevant and unique insights to help players improve across a range of shooting situations and contexts... #ShootXP #PlayerDevelopment #PracticeAnalytics #Gamification #AAA #XP #LevelUp
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 09/09/2025
Watch and listen to our founder Mark Upton (@markupton.life) discuss with Chris Oliver how our shooting platform creates "action learning" opportunities for coaches & staff wanting to explore advanced practice design, player development etc... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QuL...
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ShootXP Overview - Mark Upton & Chris Oliver
YouTube video by ShootXP
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 04/09/2025
Our founder @markupton.life joined Chris Oliver on the Basketball Immersion Podcast to talk all things coaching, player development etc "that uncertainty as a coach, you need to be adaptable & comfortable with some of that uncertainty - that is a challenge" basketballimmersion.com/the-basketba...
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The Basketball Podcast: EP 388 with Mark Upton on Better Coaching and Skill Development - Basketball Immersion
ShootXP founder and skill acquisition expert Mark Upton shares insights on better coaching and skill development.
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 29/08/2025
🏀🏀🏀 ShootXP v2.0 - "plays nicely in a larger sports tech ecosystem" We value integration & interoperability, so this one's for those who want to use ShootXP alongside other video analytics tools like Angles, Sportscode etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtTv...
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ShootXP v2 - integration & interop
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 26/08/2025
Coaching, Pedagogy & Motor Learning A series of short discussions between our founder @markupton.life and @brianmccormick.bsky.social , recorded almost 10 years ago covering ideas and topics that have only become more prominent in 🏀🏀🏀 circles today... see thread for links...
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 22/08/2025
Last week we unveiled the next generation in shot charting - showing the shooters movement leading up to the shot (www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7w5...) yellow lines = movement without ball orange lines = with ball Can anyone guess the player & game!? (this chart just shows their made 3's)
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 22/08/2025
ShootXP v2.0 - the most powerful platform available for those advanced 🏀🏀🏀 coaches and practitioners applying contemporary player development & skill acquisition principles & frameworks More here - youtube.com/watch?v=7HOp... Get in touch - info@shootxp.com #PracticeAnalytics
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 20/08/2025
When it comes to player development, below are three common problems we've seen in 🏀🏀🏀/team sports. Bringing 20+ years of experience in this area, we work with coaches, analytics & performance staff to co-create solutions to these problems. Get in touch - info@shootxp.com
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 20/08/2025
In just 60 seconds learn what version 2.0 of our 🏀🏀🏀 platform can do in relation to shooting & player development... Get in touch - info@shootxp.com 🔈SOUND ON🔈 youtube.com/watch?v=ipKO... #Basketball #PlayerDevelopment #PracticeAnalytics #Gamification #AAA #XP #LevelUp #AI
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ShootXP v2 - 60 sec summary
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 18/08/2025
ShootXP v2.0 - Shot Tagger 🏀🏀🏀 This addition is VERY useful for basic live tagging of shots during a game or practice, that can later be linked to video & enhanced with contextual shooting & player movement data. Short screen demo.... 🔈SOUND ON🔈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x99...
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ShootXP v2.0 - Shot Tagger
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 15/08/2025
Get in touch if you would like to learn more about how v2.0 of the ShootXP platform can enhance 🏀🏀🏀 shooting expertise and player development! 🚀🚀🚀 #ShootXP #Basketball #PlayerDevelopment #PracticeAnalytics #Gamification #AAA #XP #LevelUp #AI
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 15/08/2025
ShootXP v2.0 - Badge System 🏀🏀🏀 "it adds this layer of personalised feedback & motivation that goes beyond just numbers, recognising the whole player development picture" Watch the demo below for more... 🔈SOUND ON 🔈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_wY... #Basketball #PlayerDevelopment #Gamification #AI
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ShootXP v2.0 - Badges
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 14/08/2025
ShootXP v2.0 - Activities & Constraints 🏀🏀🏀 "it gives coaches & players an incredibly powerful tool to understand shooting & skill development under specific constraints" Watch the demo below for more 🔈SOUND ON 🔈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HOp... #Basketball #PlayerDevelopment #PracticeAnalytics
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ShootXP v2.0 - Activities & Constraints
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 13/08/2025
📣 v2 of the ShootXP platform provides many new features. With *Shot Charting 2.0*, we capture the shooter's movement path prior to the shot, providing rich insights for practice design & player development (orange line = with the ball, yellow = without the ball) www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7w5...
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Shot Charting 2.0 preview - shot location + shooter movement
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ShootXP @shootxp.com · 12/08/2025
📣 We've just dropped v2.0 of our 🏀🏀🏀 platform! "level up" shooting & player development through a unique blend of cutting-edge tech, practical basketball wisdom & contemporary thinking in the fields of: * skill acquisition * psychology * gaming shootxp.com
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Mark @markupton.life · 05/06/2025
Journals are the Problem "I often hear scientists say they can’t abandon journals because they will lose their funding. As a funder, I’m letting you know that we’re not just comfortable with new publishing strategies, we require it." asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...
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Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications
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Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
How should we identify talent and retrospectively evaluate our talent identification & selection? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/talent-ide...
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Mark @markupton.life · 28/02/2025
@shootxp.com is a little side-project/consultancy I've been evolving over the last year...
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Alex Lascu @handle.invalid · 02/02/2025
A wandering, circular conversation about #coaching this time, where I sort of lose hope and then maybe find it again? I don't even know anymore, but I'm realising that my ability to admit that is important. skillacqlascu.substack.com/p/merry-go-r...
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merry go rounds
I want off this ride, but I can't leave
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Mark @markupton.life · 25/01/2025
Embracing Ensembles Ensembles of evidence Ensembles of knowledge systems Ensembles of ideology Ensembles of disciplines Ensembles of interventions medium.com/centre-for-p...
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Embracing ensembles
Embracing ensembles means drawing on different perspectives, disciplines, and methods to enrich insight and action.
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Alex Lascu @handle.invalid · 19/01/2025
I love the notion that we are human becoming (rather than beings, which are static and unchanging and only now), so my ~fortnightly newsletter is now 🌿 The Thought Garden 🌿 which is a more accurate way to describe the open, genuine, expressive way I write now 🥹 skillacqlascu.substack.com
A logo featuring the title "The Thought Garden" written around a sketch of flowers and the outline of a house, with purple and cream blobs of colour
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Alex Lascu @handle.invalid · 16/01/2025
"I want to be captivating, not captive to what people think we should do, be, write." A journey through joy, creativity and criticism this time 💫 skillacqlascu.substack.com/p/there-is-s...
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there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words
i will keep making things
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Mark @markupton.life · 14/01/2025
No time to listen. You must shout. No time to learn. You must preach. No time for humility. You must fly high on hubris. ...unless, that is, we refuse to play the game and choose instead to break the chain. elifshafak.substack.com/p/empathy-is...
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Empathy is Weakness, Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace
A debate on TV, shared afterwards on You Tube, already watched by millions.
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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Speech by Peter Drucker given at Bennington College (20 May, 1943) about the nature of individuality and society. Drucker begins the essay revisiting the thought of Kierkegaard and the question he posed of how human existence is possible. Full text available here: ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/coll...
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Mark @markupton.life · 08/01/2025
Backyard Games share.snipd.com/snip/312c031...
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Those at the highest level played backyard games 3x as much | 1min snip from The Constraints Collective
Those at the highest level played backyard games 3x as much
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Mark @markupton.life · 23/12/2024
"To understand Brazilian football & why we were admired worldwide for the dreams we painted through our art with the ball at our feet, we must first understand the Brazilian people" medium.com/@Jozsef_Bozs...
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The Most Beautiful Football on Earth: What We Are, Why We Destroy Ourselves
“Our mulatto football (…) is an expression of our social formation, (…) democratic like nothing else and rebellious to excesses of internal…
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Andrew Beaven @theteesra.com · 18/12/2024
"Interest is an invitation to exploration."👏 It is so important that coaches do not suppress interest & exploration in pursuit of "perfection". #SportsCoaching - be a fire starter!
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Mark @markupton.life · 16/12/2024
"There were no written rules; codes of conduct were implicit and shared through quotidian practice. A programme without formality, an establishment without walls – an institution of the most durable kind. ...it worked, and all participants benefited." aeon.co/essays/what-...
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What San Francisco carpooling tells us about anarchism | Aeon Essays
How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott
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Mark @markupton.life · 11/12/2024
"My feeling is that football in 2024 is absolutely incredible. Yet also underwhelming. Variety is the missing piece." www.thetimes.com/article/c813...
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How Pep Guardiola and data destroyed game’s beautiful variety
Ever felt like Premier League clubs now all play the same? You may be right, as The Times’s data team reveal the stats behind top flight’s growing and underwhelming uniformity
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Mark @markupton.life · 09/12/2024
"When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests & new ideas or topics. You can go deeper into a narrow topic, & end up learning about the big topics: gender, culture, economics, nationalism, colonialism" www.personalcanon.com/p/research-a...
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research as leisure activity
my favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs ✦ plus favorite Fluxus artists and early programs
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Mark @markupton.life · 08/12/2024
"I’ve become more patient. Making the training more enjoyable for both the players & I has been key” "I learned that listening to players is just as important as providing instructions" "The children are responding much better to positive reinforcement” www.australia.basketball/news/4181412...
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Year 2 Report: Basketball Australia Community Coach Mentoring Program
The second year of the Basketball Australia Community Coach Mentoring Program has demonstrated considerable success in enhancing the capabilities, confidence, and community engagement of participating...
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Andrew Beaven @theteesra.com · 04/12/2024
I think the theory still provides a lot of the “what” & “why”, but experience brings the “when” & “with whom”, if that makes sense? Theory provides the tools in the toolbox; experience guides which tools to use. So both types of knowledge are required. I wrote this (back in 2017). #CricketCoaching
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Three years with the Legends and Masters – cricket coaching with 4-year olds
Back in 2014, I started coaching at the MCC Cricket Academy, and was assigned to support a coach delivering a “Little Legends” session for a group of 3-5 year olds. Not really cricket, …
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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Jean-Francois Lyotard on the mercantilisation of knowledge. From his book 'The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge' (published in 1979). Sounds familiar?
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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Branching out How you branch out in life determines who you end up feeling a sense of belonging with.
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Mark @markupton.life · 01/12/2024
Bad Apples? (individual) Bad Barrels? (local context) Bad Barrel-Makers? (cultural & systemic) www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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'Deep down I was broken': Former Australian volleyball players speak up about 'environment of fear' at the AIS
Former members of the Australian women’s indoor volleyball team have outlined allegations of harm while training for the Sydney Olympics. Players are speaking out for the first time after Volleyball A...
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Mark @markupton.life · 30/11/2024
Probably nothing...😉 "the findings challenge the notion of sporting talent and expertise as well as the prevailing selection methods and talent development programs." idrottsforum.org/feature-lund...
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Early and structured talent development systems in sport: Why are researchers so hesitant?
Previously available only in Swedish, Tommy Lundberg’s article on early and structured talent development systems in sport is now published in English as well. Recently, some Swedish football clubs ha...
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Joe Baker @bakerjtoronto.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Any sport science peeps on here yet? I'm looking for folks to follow.
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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Being Human. A poem based on our book The Neo-Generalist. Co-authored with Richard Martin. Drawing by Vivien Leung.
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Mark @markupton.life · 27/11/2024
"Generative dialogue invites us to meet each other with compassion, to explore the unknown together, and to find in each other the courage to envision a resilient, more unified future ...a pathway toward meaningful connection, wisdom, and action" davependle.medium.com/the-crucial-...
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The Crucial Importance of Generative Dialogue
Introduction: Navigating the Polycrisis Through Transformative Conversations In a world dominated by soundbites and polarized exchanges…
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David Farrokh @davidfarrokh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ok, gunna try to start posting here a bit so thought I'd give a little context. My content generally reflects what I'm currently reading or thinking about. Stated most broadly, my area of interest is co-adaptation (relationship of mutual constraint spanning cooperation and competition.
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David Farrokh @davidfarrokh.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A few reflections on coaching and culture. bigpicturesoccer.substack.com/p/local-cons...
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Local Constraints on a Global Game
After playing college soccer in New York, I began my career coaching in nearby Northern New Jersey.
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Brian McCormick @brianmccormick.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Which experts are right? To whom should we listen? brianmccormick.substack.com/p/generaliza...
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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you are interested in the psychology of worldviews, I can recommend this research article by Mark E. Koltko-Rivera.
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(PDF) The Psychology of Worldviews
PDF | A worldview (or "world view") is a set of assumptions about physical and social reality that may have powerful effects on cognition and behavior.... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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