With respect to the Norman & Verganti paper:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:36 AM, cameron tonkinwise <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> This claim might need some qualification, if not evidence:
> "The more that researchers study existing human behavior, activities, and
> products, the more they get trapped into existing paradigms."
> page 16
I am NOT a believer in giving a citation to every statement in a
paper. This particular statement is supported by such a huge amount
of literature in the psychological sciences on prototypes,
stereotyping, and functional fixedness (look up the rather good
article in Wikipedia on this latter phenomenon, see URL below), that a
literature citation seems quite unnecessary. Moreover, if we tried to
be thorough, the citations might take up more space than the paper
itself. We could even cite Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness
Don
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