[Ailist] RE: I need an new word

[Lionel Boxer]

Have a look at Prof Rom Harre's positioning theory.

Positioning occurs during every social encounter and it is from elements such as "how people elicit feelings of  confidence capabilityand happiness (etc) in a conversation partner" that positioning happens.  In the various writings of positioning theory you may find what you are looking for.

How about "projection (and) reception theory" - how about "proception theory".  Have a look at:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-5914.00090
Raya Jones (1999) Direct Perception and Symbol Forming in Positioning 
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 29 (1), 37*58.

Some other words that come to mind:
- cognition (from tri-component attitude model)
- sensory (from perceptual developmental theory)


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>>> Edith Hunter <edithhunter2001 at yahoo.com> 23/03/2007 8:24 am >>>
How about "Yodaologist?"  The force is with you, you
have every thing you need inside.


--- "Arnett, Sarah" <Sarah.Arnett at mosescone.com>
> This brings to mind TA days(Transactional Analysis)
> - "I'm OK, You're OK"
> 
> Cheri Torres
> How about rapportology?  (Though this sounds a bit
> like studying dinasaurs).
> 
> From: Mike Sands [mailto:msands at dccnet.com] 
> Subject: I need an new word
> 
> I need a word to describe a field of study - I think
> we will have to invent
> a new word as I don't think it exists yet.  The word
> might become the name
> of a new social science.
> 
> A working defiinition of the word will be something
> like "the study of how
> people elicit feelings of  confidence capabilityand
> happiness in a
> conversation partner".  
> 
> This is a serious (and fun?) request.  There are
> many things people do to
> help conversation partners feel confident,
> effective, and happy in the
> moment. If we were to formalize the study of such
> practises we might find we
> got more of them.
> 
 
> Mike