Additional considerations when measuring adaptive control in conflict tasks
Publication date: August 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): Christopher D. ErbAbstractA recent review article by Braem et al. (2019, Trends in Cognitive Sciences) summarises some of the major challenges associated with investigating the dynamics of cognitive control in conflict tasks and recommends steps that researchers can take to minimise these challenges. This commentary highlights two further considerations for researchers studying the dynamics of cognitive control. First, researchers should consider analysing effects stemming from trial n - 2 to identify (a) how the congruency sequence effect em...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Developing a short-term phenomenological training program: A report of methodological lessons
Publication date: August 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): Katsunori Miyahara, Takuya Niikawa, Hiro Taiyo Hamada, Satoshi NishidaAbstractWe discuss our attempts to develop a short-term phenomenological training program for training naïve participants in phenomenological skills. After reviewing existing methodologies for collecting phenomenological data and clarifying the benefit of the short-term training approach, we present two training programs and two experiments that tested their effectiveness. Experiment 1 tested the two-stage training program, which consists of (i) the illusion training which...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The link between mental health, crime and violence
This study examines the relationship between mental health, violence and crime in a more representative community-based sample. One hundred and twenty-one individuals with and without a mental health disorder reported their involvement in crime and completed an aggression questionnaire. The results revealed that there is no statistically significant difference in terms of violence and crime involvement between individuals with a mental health diagnosis and those without. Moreover, the study did not find any statistically significant associations between specific mental health disorders and specific crime offences. The find...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A review of literature on the link between action observation and action language: advancing a shared semantic theory
Publication date: August 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): Christel Bidet-Ildei, Sophie-Anne Beauprez, Arnaud BadetsAbstractUnderstanding each other is a core concept of social cohesion and, consequently, has immense value in human society. Importantly, shared information leading to cohesion can come from two main sources: observed action and/or language (word) processing. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework for the link between action observation and action verb processing. Based on the activation of common semantic representations of actions through semantic resonance, this model can ...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meaning and the mediation of emotional experience: Placing mediational meaning at the center of psychological processes
Publication date: August 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): Marc ClaràAbstractThis paper outlines a framework to understand and further study how meaning mediates psychological processes. Central to this paper is the concept of mediational meaning: a representation of “me in the world,” socially distributed as a cultural artifact, that “encodes” emotion and motivates social activity. It is suggested that the emotional encoding of mediational meaning can be understood through the study of its structure, which is conceptualized on two levels: a conceptual level, called the “view,” and a nar...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The development of our sense of self as a defense against invading thoughts: From Buddhist psychology to psychoanalysis
Publication date: August 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): Andreas MayerAbstractIn interdisciplinary debates on the nature of the self, no-self accounts often refer to Buddhist psychology, arguing that the self is an illusion arising from our identification with mental content. What is often missing, however, is a developmentally, motivationally and emotionally plausible reason why this identification happens in the first place. It is argued that directing attention to our ongoing thought activities and their effect on our mind reveals their often invasive character. This is supported by psychoanalyt...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - December 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meditative introspection promotes the First-person's science of consciousness via intuitive pathways: A hypothesis based on traditional Buddhist and contemporary Monist frameworks
Publication date: August 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 58Author(s): J. Shashi Kiran Reddy, Alfredo Pereira, Edilene de Souza Leite, Sisir RoyAbstractWhat forms the basis for validating any knowledge? Should it be always verified based on the objective and analytical methods that we adapt according to our progressive advancements in science or is there any other way of conceiving knowledge? This is the context where modern sophistication should embrace an ancient perspective. Recently, there have been great advancements in the science of consciousness and meditation. Meditation received much attention as a pra...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - December 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Clarifications about Lonergan's “authenticity” for application in psychology
Publication date: April 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 57Author(s): Daniel A. Helminiak, Barnet D. Feingold, Michael J. DonahueAbstractBernard Lonergan's analysis of intentional human consciousness—in contrast to “psyche,” another aspect of human mentality—stretches toward precision that is generally lacking in the social sciences. Incorporated into current psychology, this analysis could advance this field and other social sciences to the status of genuine science: explanatory and even normative or prescriptive. Built on that analysis, the notion of authenticity encapsulates the supposed “native spo...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - December 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Wisdom and memory: Autobiographical memories as the foundation for the recall of wisdom incidents
This article explores how autobiographical memory serves as the foundation for people's accounts of their wisdom. Two complementary approaches to wisdom are introduced: an intrapersonal or person-based approach, which defines wisdom as personal qualities or personality traits, and an interactionist or endeavor-based approach, which focuses on wisdom incidents—people's displays of wisdom in real-life situations. The literatures on autobiographical memory and on wisdom suggest that, when wisdom is defined as personal qualities or personality traits, its foundation in autobiographical memory is self-concept. However, when w...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Adultcentrism Scale in the educational relationship: Instrument development and preliminary validation
Publication date: April 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 57Author(s): Eleonora Florio, Letizia Caso, Ilaria CastelliAbstractThe term “adultcentrism” refers to a paradigm of thought that leads adults to provide inadequate or distorted responses to children’s needs (Furioso, 2000), despite the belief of acting in children’s best interest. Our understanding of adult-child relationship could be subjected to such adultcentric bias, thus preventing the acknowledgement of the deeply reciprocal qualities of the encounter between the culture of adults and the one of children. Several authors have focused on the i...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Expressivist to the core: Metaaesthetic subjectivism is stable and robust
Publication date: April 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 57Author(s): Nathaniel Rabb, Alex Han, Lucy Nebeker, Ellen WinnerAbstractTwo common observations about aesthetics are in tension: that people generally consider aesthetic judgments subjective, and that people generally behave like objectivists (arguing over judgments, making choices based on judgments of trusted critics, rejecting strong assertions of aesthetic equivalence). This tension would be resolved if the first observation turned out to be false—if people endorsed subjectivism weakly, flexibly, or rarely. We tested whether people can be pushed to ...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Breaking the reading code: Letter knowledge when children break the reading code the first year in school
Publication date: April 2020Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 57Author(s): Hermundur Sigmundsson, Monika Haga, Greta Storm Ofteland, Trygve SolstadAbstractThe aim of this study was to examine when children learn to read and how learning to read depends on a foundation of alphabetic knowledge. 356 children aged 5–6 years completed assessments of letter-sound knowledge, i.e. the names and sounds of uppercase and lowercase letters of the Norwegian alphabet. Each child was tested at the start, the middle and the end of the school year. The time that each child broke the reading code was also recorded. The results indic...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What is personality? Two myths and a definition
This article addresses the longstanding problem that the field of personality psychology remains in need of a consensus formulation of its core subject matter, that of the nature of “personality” itself. Part 1 of the article presents some reminders about the traditional pre-empirical status of concepts in science. Part 2 introduces and calls into question two widely accepted but nonetheless questionable propositions about the nature of personality: (a) that the term refers to an underlying causal entity within a person, and (b) that the study of personality is the study of the whole person. Part 3 presents a definitio...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
