My essential online-publications in one big list.
(Fr)agility in IT Management
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J. Dana Stoll (2015). Best Practice in Information Sciences. An epistemological critique
Best practice as an illusion of reductionist computer scientists.
Category fragility | Author Dana Stoll | File size 337.92 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). (Fr)agilität in IT-Service-Organisationen. Widerstände und Motivation
An essay introducing a psychological framework for dealing with conflict in IT-management, particularly at the threshold between agile and best-practice environments. (German language)
Category fragility | Author Dana Stoll | File size 368.39 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2013). (Fr)agiles IT Management
IT-Management an der Schwelle zwischen Agilität und Fragilität. Betrchtungen von Stabilität, Robustheit und Innovation.
Category fragility | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1001.94 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2012). The lengthy introduction to (fr)agility
A collection of texts from the old aliando.com website, compiled into a coherent piece of text.
Category fragility | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1.74 MB
Psychology, Epistemology, and Science
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J. Dana Stoll (2018). Angela Merkel: Pale, Post-Heroic, Powerful
Angela Merkel was the first female German chancellor and has been dominating the Forbes list of Most Powerful Women since 2006, replacing Condoleeza Rice. This study investigates Angela Merkel’s leadership style in different, relevant contexts.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 150.18 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). The Social Construction of a Growth Mindset - Presentation
Dwek's Growth Mindset: The Ultimate Psychology Fad? A critical presentation.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 16.61 MB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Mindfulness-Based Methods and ADHD. Do They Help
There's more to ADHD than attention training.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 138.09 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Bio-Psycho-Social Aetiology of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is not learned helplessness, but there is a joint underlying biological circuit.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 140.19 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Time-Outs and Torture
Some similarities cannot be denied.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 128.47 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Dweck's Growth Mindest. A Fad?
Dear Carol Dweck: We already call that "science"!
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 124.51 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Self-Efficacy and Competition. Not Everybody Can Learn Everything
The American Dream does have its resource limits.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 226.01 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Vygotsky. The Godfather of Social Learning
What Einstein did to physics, Vygotsky did to cognition.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 262.31 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Popper vs. Kuhn. The Relevance of Absolute Truth
Or: Popper's absolute fallacy.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 568.72 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Language as a Mediator Between Tool Use and Self-Consciousness
What makes us different from other mammals?
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 384.04 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). The Role of Age and Gender in Adult Transverse Patterning Tasks
Tasks based on meta-systemic knowledge are the thing to focus on in late adulthood.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 822.29 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Primal, emotional, and cognitive response in learning
A hierarchical approach at learning as a response to one's environment.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 372.71 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Metacognitive Learning Opportunities with Disability
Strategies for learning opportunities in the young and elderly.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 149.92 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Mediating Factors in Learned Helplessness
An energy/impulse aproach at modelling learned helplessness.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 157.73 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Empathic Care and Empathic Distress
Whereas empathic distress appears to be automatic, the development of empathic care is hard work.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 154.68 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Is Thinking Behaviour?
B. F. Skinner refused to accept the reality of any internal phenomena.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 427.53 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Are Teachers Superfluous? The Deep End of Constructivism
Traditional vs. Constructivist approaches to learning.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 262.95 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Researching Learning in Animal Models Remains Confined to Pre-Verbal Cognition
Can Animals Understand Language?
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 225.20 kB -
Stoll, J. D. (2017). An Illustration of Monist Constructivism - Narrative
An illustration of monist constructivism, combining approaches of materialist and social constructivism. Narrative file.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 46.48 kB -
Stoll, J. D. (2017). An Illustration of Monist Constructivism - Presentation
An illustration of Monist Constructivism, combining materialist and social constructivism approaches. Presentation file.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 32.69 MB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). The Mediating Role of Anxiety on the Relationship between Attachment Styles and Lifespan Development
Anxiety as the common driver in attachment theory and lifespan development.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 141.34 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Impact of language on cross-cultural research
The language of the researchers limits what they can observe in other cultures.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 139.82 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Impact of attachment types on relationships
An essay on attachment types regarding relationships.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 130.14 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). From Developmental Categories towards Cultural Trajectories
The second epistemological shift in psychology: From Freud's categories via Eysenck's linear traits towards cultural trajectories.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 133.69 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Down Syndrome. Biological vs. social pressures
A discussion of biological defaults.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 129.97 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Biolgical vs. social construction of personality. A Ficitious Big Five Inuit Study
Although this study contains fictitious data and setup, it can serve as an example paper and includes an in-depth discussion of personality traits in the light of indigenous societies.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 461.25 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2017). Attachment. Two sets of Personality Traits Interacting
The study of personality development advances with the philosophical and scientific context in which the respective theories are embedded.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 133.69 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2016). Statistical Significance.pdf
On absolute truth and explanatory principles.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 130.49 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2016). Opposition to Immigrants and the Political Establishment
A correlation between opposition against immigrants and distrust into what is perceived the class of professional politicians that is seen belonging to the elite of political establishment
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 129.32 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2016). Microbial Causes of Post-Dieting Weight Regain - A Critique.pdf
An essay on gut microbes and weight regain.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 139.77 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2016). Freud vs. Eysenck - From Categorical Triads to Linear Traits
Psychology's first epistemological shift from categorical to linear models.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 214.33 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2016). Approaches at Self-Reconstruction. From Freud's Object Dissociation to Rogers Subject Dissociation
Introducing two perspectives on dissociation: shifting objects and shifting subjects.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 257.11 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Thinking in Loops
Illustrating the difference of linear and looped causal thinking using analysing 3-node paths in the ancient Chinese 5-phase model.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 490.34 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). The Complex Etiology of Obesity in the Biopsychosocial Model
A holistic view upon obesity from habits to gut microbes.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 27.01 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). The Cognitive Nature of Prejudice - Deconstructing Anxiety-Inducing Mediating Factors.pdf
Three perspectives on prejudice: fight-or-flight response, neuro-prejudice, and the différance of social understanding.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 114.33 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Rooms of Consciousness
A short story on learning and paradigm shifts from a perspective deep inside the brain.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 107.48 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Psychological Thoughts on Hitler’s Waffen-SS and South-African Necklacing Mobs
Triggered by a discussion on South-African genocide, aggression, dominance, group-think within military groups, and a documentary on World War II, particularly the madness of Waffen-SS (Hitler’s elite guards). Particularly interesting are statements of denial or people who defended Hitler long after the war was over. Hinting at what drives people to such behavior was one soldier reflecting that in the end they had nothing left they really fought for.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 99.82 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Networking Social Security. The Effects of Prolonged Uncertainty in Restructuring Programs on Reconstruction of Employees Work Experience
Two case studies.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 320.60 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Mindscape Discrepancy. Structure, Agency, and Attribution in the Light of Job Loss--A Critique
Combining E. Tory Higgins' self-discrepancies with Maruyama's mindscapes, introducing the concept of mindscape discrepancies as socio-epistemological conflicts.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 91.76 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Mental Aggression
Aggression is a phenomenon perceived as pain. Violence thus becomes an expression of behavior that is targeted at producing emotions in other people. This article discusses verbal behaviour of parents inducing ideas in children that may count as agression.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 87.42 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). Corporate Blindness and Optimal Performance
A short essay including social bias.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 86.77 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). A Three-Factor Model for Alcohol-Related Aggression
Alcohol as an inhibitor of inhibition.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 79.40 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). A Cognitive Hierarchy of Wholes
Biologically, the causal chain contains molecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ (system), nerves (system) and person. Socially, this person participates in two-person interacts, family, community, culture, society and biosphere. However, the psychological axis of the person is reduced to “experience and behavior”. This article expands on the biopsychosocial model in the psychological dimension.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 111.38 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2015). A Biopsychosocial Analysis of Smoking
A holistic perspective on the habit of smoking.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 123.13 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2014). The sutra of Unmanagement
A short story on Management.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 821.12 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2014). From NAcc activation sustenance toward holistic models of anhedonia in depression
This article examines neurobiological research on anhedonia in major depressive disorder (MDD) from a holistic, biopsychosocial point of view.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 387.73 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2014). Empirical Hardness of Neuroscience Confined to Sensorimotor Systems
argue that the empirical hardness of neuroscience today remains confined to sensorimotor systems. Criteria for scientific research, when applied to the cognitive branch of neurosciences, pose more questions than they provide answers. Brain research has become a muse of contemporary pop-art, dominated by pseudoscience and sociologically looping back to the scientific process.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 173.99 kB -
J. Dana Stoll (2014). Dichotomies of the mind brain debate
The mind-brain debate is a discussion on the degree of independence of mental processes from the physiological environment in which they are experienced. It has been argued along several axes, each analyzing different properties of the mind in relation to the brain: reductionist vs. holistic, materialist vs. idealist, monistic vs. dualistic, and many more. A short discussion of the many.
Category science-psychology | Author Dana Stoll | File size 113.31 kB
The Art of Balls (Pool Billiards)
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The Art of Balls. Collected Texts from the Old Website
A collection of essay from the old "The Art of Balls" Website.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1.65 MB -
The Art of Balls - Part 7 - Banking
Part 7 gives an in-depth system for bank shots.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1.39 MB -
The Art of Balls - Part 6 - Perfect Position
Part 6 gives an in-depth discussion of position play with many examples using the terms and anchors introduced in part 1-3. In difference to other systems, the anchor point are diamonds, not the quadrants between them.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1016.97 kB -
The Art of Balls - Part 5 - Spin, Deflection & More Systems
Part 5 gives an in-depth discussion of spin, aiming on the equator and clock system, deflection, effects of low and high deflection shafts. In the secod part, many more systems for 2 or 3 rails are introduced.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 2.81 MB -
The Art of Balls - Part 4 - Follow Length & Cushion First Systems
Part 4 covers the length of rolling balls at arbitrary angles. In the second half, many helpful systems from carom that work on pool tables are introduced.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1.71 MB -
The Art of Balls - Part 3 - Perfect Aiming
Part 3 covers a system for shot-making based on fractional aiming with fixed aiming positions. It can be scaled from all the table to just a small table area, and incudes arbitrary angles.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 1.24 MB -
The Art of Balls - Part 2 - Precision Stun Shots, Follow & Draw Angles
Part 2 provides a precision system for stun shots, detailing how far the cue ball travels.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 916.84 kB -
The Art of Balls - Part 1 - Basic Technique, Perfect Follow & Draw
Part 1 includes a system to master follow and draw shots at defined lengths with high consistency and natural anchors.
Category art-of-balls | Author Dana Stoll | File size 3.10 MB
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