creators_name: Howard, Newton creators_name: Guidère, Mathieu type: other datestamp: 2006-04-16 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:23 metadata_visibility: show title: The Clash of Perceptions ispublished: unpub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: ling-sem subjects: percep-cog-psy subjects: behav-anal full_text_status: public keywords: Perception, international affairs, linguistics abstract: This study challenges Samuel Huntington’s well-known clash of civilizations paradigm based on a philosophical reasoning of cognitive proofs. The authors propose the clash of perceptions, an alternative paradigm that better reflects the complexity of individual and collective interactions. Building on case studies and recent cognitive science and informatics research, this paradigm offers greater insight into the dynamics of international relations. In the first section, the authors explain the conceptual and methodological limits of Huntington’s paradigm before proposing in the second section a new approach geared toward individual and group phenomena aiming to model the clash of perceptions. New concepts such as percepts, misperception, misconception and perception prototypes are introduced in order to explain this complex process. These concepts help better understand the complexity of conflict among individuals, groups and nation states. date: 2006-03 date_type: published refereed: FALSE citation: Howard, Dr. Newton and Guidère, Dr. Mathieu (2006) The Clash of Perceptions. (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/4838/1/CADS_pubs_clash_0306_final.pdf