Owen Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 284530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9833-9998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ways of Being and Logicality
Ontological monists hold that there is only one way of being, while ontological pluralists hold that there are many; for example, concrete objects like tables and chairs exist in a different way from abstract objects like numbers and sets. Correspondingly, the monist will want the familiar existential quantifier as a primitive logical constant, whereas the pluralist will want distinct ones, such as for abstract and concrete existence. In this pap…
Outcome unpredictability affects outcome-specific motivation to learn
Outcome predictability effects in associative learning paradigms describe better learning about outcomes with a history of greater predictability in a similar but unrelated task compared with outcomes with a history of unpredictability. Inspired by the similarities between this phenomenon and the effect of uncontrollability in learned helplessness paradigms, here, we investigate whether learning about unpredictability decreases outcome-specific m…
Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar
A new fossil site in a previously unexplored part of western Madagascar (the Beanka Protected Area) has yielded remains of many recently extinct vertebrates, including giant lemurs ( Babakotia radofilai , Palaeopropithecus kelyus , Pachylemur sp., and Archaeolemur edwardsi ), carnivores ( Cryptoprocta spelea ), the aardvark-like Plesiorycteropus sp., and giant ground cuckoos ( Coua ). Many of these represent considerable range extensions. Extant …
Rock art from Andriamamelo Cave in the Beanka Protected Area of western Madagascar
Stylistically unique black rock drawings have been discovered in Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar. Several image groupings comprise naturalistic scenes with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and therianthropic figures. These complex images are not similar to the polychrome painted symbols previously described from the Isalo region of SW Madagascar. Eight instances were noted where images and themes suggest Ptolemaic Egyptian mythological charac…
The only mind worth having; Thomas Merton and the child mind
The only mind worth having; Thomas Merton and the child mind." Practical Theology, 12(4), pp. 458–459
Superstition predicts perception of illusory control
Superstitions are common, yet we have little understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that bring them about. This study used a laboratory-based analogue for superstitious beliefs that involved people monitoring the relationship between undertaking an action (pressing a button) and an outcome occurring (a light illuminating). The task was arranged such that there was no objective contingency between pressing the button and the light illuminating …
Disrupted attentional learning in high schizotypy: Evidence of aberrant salience
The relationship between learned variations in attention and schizotypy was examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants low on a negative subscale of schizotypy exhibited an explicit bias in overt attention towards stimuli that were established as predictive of a trial outcome, relative to stimuli that were irrelevant. The same participants also showed a bias in learning about these stimuli when they presented in a novel context. N…
Militarizing Japan: Patriotism, Profit, and Children's Print Media, 1894-1925
The January 1922 issue of Shonen kurabu (Boy's Club) carried the first episode of an exciting new "hot-blooded novel" (nekketsu shosetsu) drawn from the fertile imagination of noted children's writer Miyazaki Ichiu. For fourteen consecutive issues Miyazaki enthralled Japanese children with depictions of Japanese valour and the Yamato spirit (Yamato damashii) locked in a titanic struggle against a duplicitous and rapacious foreign enemy. The fate …
Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans
Forthcoming in American Journal of Primatology
Population genetics of crab‐eating macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) on the island of mauritius
Protein polymorphisms of the crab‐eating macaque ( Macaca fascicularis ) on the island of Mauritius in the southwest Indian Ocean were examined electrophoretically for 201 blood samples. All of the variant types detected were those found previously in the Asian populations. Genetic variability of the island population was estimated to be P poly = 16% and H = 6.5%, which was lower than that of the Asian populations. A tendency that a small number …
Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War
Clinical examinations on crab-eating macaques in mauritius
Superstition predicts perception of illusory control
Superstitions are common, yet we have little understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that bring them about. This study used a laboratory-based analogue for superstitious beliefs that involved people monitoring the relationship between undertaking an action (pressing a button) and an outcome occurring (a light illuminating). The task was arranged such that there was no objective contingency between pressing the button and the light illuminating …
Clinical examinations on crab-eating macaques in mauritius
Forthcoming in American Journal of Primatology
Population genetics of crab‐eating macaques ( Macaca fascicularis ) on the island of mauritius
Protein polymorphisms of the crab‐eating macaque ( Macaca fascicularis ) on the island of Mauritius in the southwest Indian Ocean were examined electrophoretically for 201 blood samples. All of the variant types detected were those found previously in the Asian populations. Genetic variability of the island population was estimated to be P poly = 16% and H = 6.5%, which was lower than that of the Asian populations. A tendency that a small number …
Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War
The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans
Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868-1939
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
Militarizing Japan: Patriotism, Profit, and Children's Print Media, 1894-1925
The January 1922 issue of Shonen kurabu (Boy's Club) carried the first episode of an exciting new "hot-blooded novel" (nekketsu shosetsu) drawn from the fertile imagination of noted children's writer Miyazaki Ichiu. For fourteen consecutive issues Miyazaki enthralled Japanese children with depictions of Japanese valour and the Yamato spirit (Yamato damashii) locked in a titanic struggle against a duplicitous and rapacious foreign enemy. The fate …
Disrupted attentional learning in high schizotypy: Evidence of aberrant salience
The relationship between learned variations in attention and schizotypy was examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants low on a negative subscale of schizotypy exhibited an explicit bias in overt attention towards stimuli that were established as predictive of a trial outcome, relative to stimuli that were irrelevant. The same participants also showed a bias in learning about these stimuli when they presented in a novel context. N…
The only mind worth having; Thomas Merton and the child mind
The only mind worth having; Thomas Merton and the child mind." Practical Theology, 12(4), pp. 458–459
Superstition predicts perception of illusory control
Superstitions are common, yet we have little understanding of the cognitive mechanisms that bring them about. This study used a laboratory-based analogue for superstitious beliefs that involved people monitoring the relationship between undertaking an action (pressing a button) and an outcome occurring (a light illuminating). The task was arranged such that there was no objective contingency between pressing the button and the light illuminating …
Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar
A new fossil site in a previously unexplored part of western Madagascar (the Beanka Protected Area) has yielded remains of many recently extinct vertebrates, including giant lemurs ( Babakotia radofilai , Palaeopropithecus kelyus , Pachylemur sp., and Archaeolemur edwardsi ), carnivores ( Cryptoprocta spelea ), the aardvark-like Plesiorycteropus sp., and giant ground cuckoos ( Coua ). Many of these represent considerable range extensions. Extant …
Rock art from Andriamamelo Cave in the Beanka Protected Area of western Madagascar
Stylistically unique black rock drawings have been discovered in Andriamamelo Cave in western Madagascar. Several image groupings comprise naturalistic scenes with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and therianthropic figures. These complex images are not similar to the polychrome painted symbols previously described from the Isalo region of SW Madagascar. Eight instances were noted where images and themes suggest Ptolemaic Egyptian mythological charac…
Outcome unpredictability affects outcome-specific motivation to learn
Outcome predictability effects in associative learning paradigms describe better learning about outcomes with a history of greater predictability in a similar but unrelated task compared with outcomes with a history of unpredictability. Inspired by the similarities between this phenomenon and the effect of uncontrollability in learned helplessness paradigms, here, we investigate whether learning about unpredictability decreases outcome-specific m…
Ways of Being and Logicality
Ontological monists hold that there is only one way of being, while ontological pluralists hold that there are many; for example, concrete objects like tables and chairs exist in a different way from abstract objects like numbers and sets. Correspondingly, the monist will want the familiar existential quantifier as a primitive logical constant, whereas the pluralist will want distinct ones, such as for abstract and concrete existence. In this pap…
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