Theme 3: Post reflection

This theme has been the most giving and in that sense interesting in my opinion. As I'm surfing the blog posts and reading people's ideas and choices for the article, I think to myself: "now we're talking…"
It is intriguing to learn how people think and how they see when criticizing their own and (and mine) article and journal of choice. What's most rewarding is the front row seat to the versatility of aspects, opinions and theories that may (or may not) differ from one's own.
The fact that the topics of so many articles are interesting is just a bonus.

I for one have been able to shed some additional light on a few questions that I raised in the article of my choice by reading (mostly) other blog posts...
On a further note it's interesting how I now, dissecting pretty much every scientific article I come across, lacks a full "menu" of "what theory is". In many articles no clear conclusion is being drawn, perhaps in fear of one day being proven wrong... (...which is like the worst thing that could happen to a self-centered science-geek..)

 

Post- post reflection

After the second seminar I had further revelations on what and how to look for theories in articles. Looking for theories to apply to the article of my choice turned out to be quite difficult, as none of the existing theories (from last year's course) matched the exact approach taken in the paper. However, after apparently obsessing over this I found a new theory to match to my article;
Cognitive intuition theory.. or something like that...
As there are so many approaches to base an experiment or study on choosing a theory to define one's approach turns out to be quite long-winded.
But searching and searching and searching for theories slowly revealed more to the article than I had first realized. I feel a little more confident dissecting articles as I have a more stable foundation to base my criticism on (which naturally needs more experience in the field).

references

[Intuitive managerial thinking; the use of mental simulations in the industrial marketing context, M.Vanharanta, G.Easton, 2010, Industrial Marketing Management,Volume 39, Issue 3]

[On the use of the auditory pathway to represent image scenes in real-time, G. Bologna, B. Deville, T.Pun, 2009 Neurocomputing 72]