As a scientific discipline, anthropology had to establish methodological principles that guaranteed somehow the objectivity of knowledge that integrated diverse focuses to explain and justify the biological and social differences of human groups. This is the way descriptive-comparative methodological principle was established and conditions…

The National School of Anthropology and History forms part of all a traditjon in education and the anthropological national research. Upon approaching some look on their origins and first years, we reaffirm the education we must review the idea and…

The studies of the primate behavior have grown exponentially in the last 70 years (Strum & Fedigan, 2000). The first approaches towards modern studies in north american anthropology appeared with the works by Washburn, who stated that the knowledge of our nearest filogenetically…

Enabling is defined as the set of conditions that permits an active response form when the contact with the stimulus events occurred under reactive modalities. Thirty undergraduate students of psychology participated. Experiment 1 evaluated the enabling effect of the verbal…

Recibir un diagnóstico de una enfermedad grave como el cáncer implica una sorpresa catastrófica debido a que las expectativas del futuro se desmoronan, los proyectos pierden sentido a la luz del conocimiento del diagnóstico (Gómez, 2006), lo cual provoca una…

A lot of knowledge has already been produced concerning to what is called “creativity”. On the perspective of the Behavior Analysis, “creativity “ has been considered as a behavior, being this understood as a system of relationships that establishes among…

In this issue we continue to publish review articles focused mainly in mid-latitudes and the Latin American area, as a way of celebrating the 25th anniversary of Atmósfera. In this occasion, Chilean researchers P. Monsalves Gavilán, J. Pincheira Ulbrich and…

We have systematized the effects associated with climate change on urban spaces in Chile reported between 2000 and 2012. The method was based on a review of scientific articles in three databases (Scopus, Web of Knowledge and Scielo) using 32…

Based on a text on Einstein’s theory of relativity, the difference between reading science and doing science is outlined. The complexity of the reading process of scientific literature is also explained through its comprehension, which passes through three phases (reading…

Desde la aparición de los primeros Sistemas Expertos o Sistemas Basados en Conocimiento, aproximadamente en la década de 1960, el uso de estas herramientas se ha extendido de manera extraordinaria. Más allá de las aplicaciones que estas herramientas, derivadas de…