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Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:<br>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue;">However,
the actual locus of decision making can be substantially distorted by subjective
perceptions that selectively discount either the constraints in the environment
or the human agency. That is to say, people may selectively focus on human
agency and discount or disregard the environmental constraints, or do the
opposite – focus on the environment and forget the human agency. Such perceptions
are a matter of cognitive framing rather than deliberate deviousness. People
acquire different cognitive frames through socialization, and they simply
see things differently through these frames – just as changing the lenses
makes different things appear larger or smaller. In the individualist frame,
individual characteristics and motives receive a much greater weight that
environment constraints, which tend to be minimized or altogether ignored.
In the structuralist frame, by contrast, the attention is focused on the
environmental factors and constraints, while the individual characteristics
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<p>"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion
that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency
to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element
of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."<br>
<br>
Joanna<br>
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