Analysis of gestation, presence, influence and impact of "mental note" in cognitive processing underlying social movements: feminism, socialism and anticolonialism

When human beings reason we do it based on mental representations in the form of pictorial images that make up a model of common characteristics with what we are thinking about ("theory of mental models"). Laboratory tasks in experimental psychology have shown that these models are likely to be modulated by the so -called "mental notes." The simplest and clear example of these mental notes is denial. To exemplify it, if we asked the reader to "not imagine an elephant", the subject would probably imagine an elephant and add the mental note of I should not imagine this. Mental notes go beyond denial. Its effect and influence have been studied both in clinical therapy contexts and in more social reasoning contexts. This project aims to analyze the possible mental notes inserted in certain social movements such as feminism, socialism and movements of anticolonialism. The objective is clear, analyze how these movements transmit the information they want in the form of mental notes and verify their influence on the subsequent reasoning of citizens on daily issues. To this end, the methodology used will revolve around the analysis of qualitative discourse of both historical texts and the current speeches of key actors present on social networks (Facebook). In a second phase, the influence of these mental notes on "neutral" reasoning can be verified and you can verify whether these pieces of information modify these reasoning in tasks of the experimental psychology laboratory.

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