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Psychological Media Competence: Basic Content and Structure Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Irina Kyshtymova, Larisa Skorova
The authors suggest introducing the concept “psychological media competence” into psychological terminology. It has become necessary because of the new demands on the professional abilities of an educational psychologist in the new conditions when human development and education are greatly mediated by the new digital media: the Internet and TV. The article stresses the importance of diagnosing the
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Toward a Cultural Evolutionary Psychology: Why the Evolutionary Approach does not Imply Reductionism or Determinism Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Andrea Zagaria, Agata Ando’, Alessandro Zennaro
Does evolutionary psychology (EP) properly account for the sociocultural context? Does it underestimate both the developmental and the relational aspects of the human psyche? Is it instantiated in a mechanistic epistemology? Does it imply determinism or reductionism? The commentaries on our previous target article raised similar questions and we try to tackle them in the current response. Our “epistemological
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Retraction Note to: Personality, Stress, Smoking, and Genetic Predisposition as Synergistic Risk Factors for Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 H. J. Eysenck, R. Grossarth-Maticek, B. Everitt
A retraction note to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09602-2
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Plasticity-Led Evolution and Human Culture Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 David A. Wells
Some human traits arise via organic evolution while others are acquired from the prevailing culture via a process of social learning. A mainstream interpretation is that evolution amounts to a change in the relative frequency of gene variants in a population and that culture coevolves at arm’s length. Matters look different if one starts instead from the view that organisms are modified during evolution
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Progressive Education is the Opium of the Educators Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Eugene Matusov
Progressive Education, with its pedagogical desire to engage students in a taught curriculum in a meaningful way, is often viewed in opposition to Conventional Education. In this conceptual paper, I argue that despite and even because of this opposition, Progressive Education contributes to the stability of Conventional Education by making Conventional Education bearable for its teachers. I claim that
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You’re Going to Do What? Patients’ Myths Regarding Hypnotherapy as Described by South African Psychologists Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Clarina Du Plessis, Lindi Nel, Henry Taylor
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore and describe South African registered psychologists’ account of their patients’ myths regarding hypnotherapy. A social constructivist approach was employed to explore the descriptions of eight psychologists. This article converges on myths of participants’ patients and where they originate from, as described by the participants. Psychologists were selected
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Animal Creativity as a Function of Behavioral Innovation and Behavior Flexibility in Problem-solving Situations Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Luiz Henrique Santana, Miriam Garcia-Mijares
A natural approach of animal creativity through insightful problem-solving may offer a panel of how physiological, contextual, cultural and developmental variables related to each other to produce new behaviors. The spontaneous interconnection of acquire behaviors is an Insightful Problem-Solving model based on the new combination and/or chaining of behaviors that were previously and independently
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Identifying Psychological Perceptions of People Ignoring the Novel COVID-19 Warnings: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis in Isfahan, Iran Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Mehdi Nosratabadi, Zohreh Halvaiepour
Psychological factors are important for the prevention of disease. This study aims to identify the psychological perceptions of people who are ignoring the warnings of novel COVID-19 infection. A qualitative content analysis was carried out from May to July 2020. The interviewees were selected purposefully from Isfahan, Iran. The saturation point was achieved in 20 semi-structured interviews. The thematic
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Self-Construction in Immigration – I-Positioning through Tensional Dialogues to Powerful Foreign and Native Voices Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia
This paper explores proculturative semiotic dynamics underlying self-construction in emigration that reveals various forms of the self’s positioning through the processes of relating to the native and foreign socio-cultural environments. The self is conceptualised as the heterogeneous entirety of voices and self-related positions which are hierarchically organised. Hierarchical organisation implies
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Embodied Minds: Hearts and Brains in Psychiatry and Chinese Medicine Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Emily Baum
This article explores a debate that emerged within the Chinese medical community in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The debate, which centered on the respective roles played by the heart and brain in functions related to thinking, movement, and the onset of psychiatric disorders, concluded that neuropsychiatry’s overriding emphasis on the brain was shortsighted. Instead, participants resolved that
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Self – Regard of Individuals with Autism – How People from the Autism Spectrum Perceive Autism. A Netnographic Research Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-02-26 Jacek Jarosław Błeszyński
This research on adults with a diagnosis of autism is a multidirectional and multistage analysis. It is aimed at reviewing the current knowledge about the disorder as well as taking optimal actions towards social inclusion for people with ASD (autistic spectrum disorder). The research and analysis was facilitated by selecting subjects who have sufficient communication and social skills to be able to
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A Simple Configural Approach for Testing Person-Oriented Mediation Hypotheses Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Wolfgang Wiedermann, Alexander von Eye
Statistical methods to test hypotheses about direct and indirect effects from a person-oriented research perspective are scarce. For categorical variables, previously suggested approaches use configural frequency analysis (CFA) to detect extreme patterns (CFA Types/Antitypes) that are responsible for the observed direct and indirect effects. Existing methods rest on complex (log-linear) model comparison
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Parallelization: the Fourth Leg of Cultural Globalization Theory Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Björn Boman
Extending Pieterse’s (1996) tripartite cultural globalization theory consisting of homogenization, hybridization and polarization, the current article outlines a set of exemplifications and justifications of a fourth theoretical underpinning labeled parallelization. The theory implies that at a global scale, crucial events that appear paradoxical or contradictory occur at the same time, such as carbon
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On the Adaptive Value of Paranormal Beliefs - a Qualitative Study Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Tilmann Betsch, Paul Jäckel, Mareike Hammes, Babette Julia Brinkmann
Ten female and five male participants (age range 28–50 years) were recruited at esoteric fairs or via esoteric chatrooms. In a guided face-to-face interview, they reported origins and contents of their beliefs in e.g. esoteric practices, supernatural beings, rebirthing, channeling. Transcripts of the tape-recorded reports were subjected to a qualitative analysis. Exhaustive categorization of the narratives’
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MAGIC: a Proposed Model Based on Common Factors Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Anne Starreveld
The author offers an initial formulation of what an approach integrating common factors and the processes of change would look like. The dodo-verdict has been extant in the psychology literature for almost 100 years, and it is time to acknowledge the veracity of the dodo-bird verdict as we move toward therapeutic approaches focusing on factors the empirical approaches have in common. Although we now
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Meaning of Disability and Management of its Visibility: a Review of a Qualitative Inquiry on People with Oligodactyly Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Masakuni Tagaki
In this commentary, I discuss the contribution of the target article (Sulaeman et al. 2020) and suggest further study in terms of research on psychosocial issues of people with physical disabilities. The authors of the target article qualitatively analyzed the disability-related experiences of people with oligodactyly in a rural village in Indonesia, employing the theories of stigma (Goffman 1963)
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Selection of Young Animal Models of Autism over Adult: Benefits and Limitations Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Raju Paudel, Shamsher Singh
Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental broad-spectrum disorder characterized by social interaction, and aberrant restrictive and repetitive behavior. The complex pathophysiology and unexplored drug targets make it difficult to standardize and validate the animal models of autism. The review was purposed for determining the benefits of younger animal models over adult models of autism. Similarly, animal
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Wholeness and Collective Intention Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Haitao Liu
This paper argues that the relationship between the individual and the whole in holism can be solved from the two dimensions of emergence and identity. Emergence addresses whether the whole has irreducible properties, and identity explains the relationship between the individual and the individual as a collective member. From the perspective of emergence, collective intention is a combination of common
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Real-Time Assessment of Causal Attribution Shift and Stay Between Two Successive Tests of Movement Aids Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Takumi Ohashi, Makiko Watanabe, Yuma Takenaka, Miki Saijo
The development of welfare assistive devices for frail elderly people has attracted significant attention for its effort to improve the quality of life and reduce the burden on caregivers. However, it is challenging to conduct multiple user tests because of the significant burden on the elderly; thus, we need efficient ways to extract insight through different approaches. In this study, we aim to elucidate
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Ambiguity and Ambivalence: an Issue for the Subjective Dynamics in the Relation between Language and Affection Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Marina Assis Pinheiro, Gessivânia de Moura Batista
This article stems from an interest taken in discussing the usage of the terms ambivalence and ambiguity, which are very present in Psychology’s publications and savoir faire. It is important to reiterate that in common sense and even in scientific publications these terms are often used as synonyms or notions of little conceptual delimitation. The relevance of such differentiation is proposed once
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Bridging the Gap between the Meaning of Natural Language and Mental Content Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Shuquan Huo
Since Frege, mental content (conscious content) has been distinguished from the meaning of natural language and not regarded mental content as the meaning of language expression. This anti-psychological view cuts off the connection between the meaning of language and mental content, giving rise to the failures in solving the problems of mind. Instead of thinking about linguistic meaning and mental
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The Role of Affective Sensemaking in the Constitution of Experience. The Affective Pertinentization Model (APER) Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Sergio Salvatore, Raffaele De Luca Picione, Mauro Cozzolino, Vincenzo Bochicchio, Arianna Palmieri
The paper outlines a model of the basic cognitive process of the constitution of experience - the Affective Pertinentization Model (APER). The constitution of experience is intended as the basic cognitive process underpinning the meaning-maker’s experience of mental representations as self-contained, stable, substantive entities standing for something in the external reality. Framed within the general
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The Clay of Evolution: Megalomania in (Evolutionary) Psychology Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 José Carlos Loredo-Narciandi, Jorge Castro-Tejerina
This article is an attempt to reply to a number of theoretical and epistemological issues frequently addressed in contemporary evolutionary psychology. We adopt a critical approach to both the empiricist conceit so often underlying the discipline and its core premises around the relationship between mind and biological evolution. As an alternative we take a constructivist view from which we propose
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Historical Epistemology: a Research Approach in Psychiatry Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Ivana S. Marková
Drawing on a key issue raised in the paper by Scardigno and Mininni (2021), this commentary explores the question of historical research in psychiatry. Firstly, the importance of historical research is highlighted for both psychiatry as a medical discipline, and for descriptive psychopathology, the language of psychiatry. Of significance has been the construction of psychiatry as a hybrid discipline
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Towards a Wholistic Model of Identity: why Not a Meadow? Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Marc Antoine Campill
The focus of this study is set on the creation of a Ganzheitliche-theoretical approach that allows to understand the self-identification process and bases on my previous work (Campill 2020). It is essential in our times, especially because of the current globalization, to connect the cultural psychological development and to reach with the reconsideration of older theories to new approaches. The use
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Activity Theory for the De-Structuralized Modernity Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Irina A. Mironenko, Pavel S. Sorokin
The present paper discusses perspectives of Activity Theory (AT) in the context of contemporary globalizing world, describing which we refer to the notion “De-structuralized modernity” (Sorokin and Froumin 2020). Radical changes in everyday life challenge social sciences and humanities. Approaches are in demand, which have the potential to comprehend the changing human étant and éntre. We argue that
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Mindful Age and Technology: a Qualitative Analysis of a Tablet/Smartphone App Intervention Designed for Older Adults Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Francesco Vailati Riboni, Isabel Sadowski, Benedetta Comazzi, Francesco Pagnini
The global population is aging while modern healthcare systems are responding with limited success to the growing care demands of the senior population. Capitalizing on recent technological advancements, new ways to improve older adults’ quality of life have recently been implemented. The current study investigated, from a qualitative point of view, the utility of a mindfulness-based smartphone application
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Big and Small Stories from India in the COVID19 Plot: Directions for a ‘Post Coronial’ Psychology Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Parul Bansal
The paper has a dual focus. One, is to use India as a case study to reflect upon the political, economic and socio-cultural structures of the country and how they shape the particular vulnerabilities in the society which have been aggravated in the COVID19 crisis-scape. Stories about Indian democracy, Casteism and Untouchability, Hindutva and Islamophobia emerging from the pandemic scenario have been
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Creativity and Fiction: Interpretative Horizons on the Emergence of the New in the Relationship Between Individual and Culture Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 Marina Assis Pinheiro, Lívia Mathias Simão
This article aims to establish, in the light of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology, a contribution to the research of creative processes through a reflection on the emergence of the new in the relationship between self-other-world. It is intended to advance in the classic approaches to creativity, by focusing on the unusual and ambiguous, affective-singularizing and, simultaneously, everyday-cultural
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How to Develop Phenomenology as Psychology: from Description to Elucidation, Exemplified Based on a Study of Dream Analysis Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Tsuneo Watanabe
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodological concept of phenomenological elucidation to promote the development of phenomenology as psychology. After offering a minimal review of the historical relationship between phenomenology and psychology, the first section gives a brief overview of the descriptive phenomenological approach developed by A. Giorgi and other psychologists. However
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Embracing Diversity: the Complexities of Reckoning and Accepting Otherness Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Richard E. Webb, Philip J. Rosenbaum
Many within society are working to address issues of otherness and the ways people discriminate against others in various ways such as racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and classism. In this paper we do not pretend to offer a solution, but we wish to add to the understanding of the complexities at play. We consider the importance of how our developmental negotiation and resolution of early childhood
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A Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Early Executive Functions by Object Use and Gestures. A Case Study from 8 to 17 Months of Age at a Nursery School Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Cintia Rodríguez, Iván Moreno-Llanos
The two first years of life are critical in the development of Executive Functions (EF). However, very little is known about their early manifestations, how they develop, how they relate to other psychological constructions or the status of other people’s influence in this early development. The study of EFs has been carried out through standardised tasks, but some authors question their ecological
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Two Sides of the Same Coin or Two Different Currencies? Representations of Happiness and Unhappiness among Finnish Women Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Jennifer De Paola, Wolfgang Wagner, Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman, Josetta Lehtonen
This paper presents results from a study exploring representations of “happiness” and “unhappiness.” Word associations with these concepts were produced by 16–18 and 29–34-year-old women from Finland, the country that the United Nation’s World Happiness Report has ranked the “happiest” in the world. Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis show that participants in both age groups
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Speaking Pictures, Silent Voices: Female Athletes and the Negotiation of Selfhood Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Hannah Intezar
Combining Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1990) theoretical position on Architectonics and Erving Goffman’s (1979) writings on visual content analysis, the aim of this paper is to explore how female athletes are caught in a complex matrix of power, post – feminist neoliberalism, and self – presentation. The visual images they choose to portray are, therefore, perfect for determining how this cohort of women negotiates
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Transitions of bonding: The borders between hidden roots and visible roads in life course. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-09-26 Maria Elisa Molina
The article explores the phenomenon of transition in a particular human passage, which entails two affective processes, the experience of parenting and the transformation of the couple’s bond. Transition is analyzed as a field of self-movements and transitional-field-of-the-abject (Hermans and Hermans- Konopka 2010) where new self-positions are co-constructed around oneself and the relationship with
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CONNECTOME or COLLECTOME? A NEUROPHILOSOPHICAL Perspective. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Mehmet Emin Ceylan,Fatma Duygu Kaya Yertutanol,Aslıhan Dönmez,Pınar Öz,Barış Önen Ünsalver,Alper Evrensel
Human beings exist in a biological and social system from a micro to a macro level, by means of “collectivity”, a dynamic collaboration that they have established together with the elements in that system in a way to complement each other and realize a common goal. Many neuroscientific concepts used today to explain neuronal processes from which mental functions originate are far from searching answers
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Continuity and Discontinuity between the Psychological World and the Biological World. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Masayoshi Morioka
In this commentary paper I try to make complementarily more discussion on two question. First, the target paper (Zagaria, Andò, & Zennaro, 2020) points out the lack of continuity in the concepts used in psychology. The authors aim for a rigorous definition which is necessary to rebuild mud figures of psychology, but is that the only direction? Second, the evolutionary psychology seems to allow for
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Musings about Metaphors and Models: the Need to Put Psychology Together Again. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Nandita Chaudhary,Sujata Sriram
Zagaria, Andò & Zennaro (2020) raise several issues for the study of the human condition, highlighting the precarious status of psychology on account of a core weakness: The absence of consensus about fundamental concepts. Using the metaphor of a giant, albeit one with feet of clay, the authors develop an argument about how evolutionary psychology is the best possible candidate to advance a unified
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Offline World: the Internet as Social Infrastructure among the Unconnected in Quasi-Rural Illinois. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Danielle Schmidt,Séamus A Power
The United States continues to experience a persistent rural-urban digital divide. However, in this area of research, less attention has been paid to the divide in regions between these two demographic and geographic extremes. In this paper, we examine the perceived effects of internet inaccessibility in this in-between space, which we term “quasi-rural.” Using quasi-rural Illinois as a case study
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Cleaning Up or Throwing out the Psychological Insight with the Bath Water. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Line Joranger
In their article Psychology: a Giant with Feet of Clay, Zagaria, Andò and Zennaro aim to clean up the confusing and inconsistent conceptual landscape in current psychology. They find that evolutionary psychology with its dialectical focus on nature and nurture could be the unifying meta-theory that contemporary psychology is depending on in order to compete with harder sciences, such as biology and
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How Does Ambivalence Appear in Women’s Relationship to Cosmetics? Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Marina Spezzacatena, Giuseppina Marsico
Some studies have subtly demonstrated the existence of a tension of ambivalence in women’s subjective feelings while wearing makeup. This paper consists in analyzing how feelings of ambivalence towards cosmetics appear in women, and how women feel when they remove or put on cosmetics. The study consists of an online survey and a walk-along experience. The survey included 261 women, among these 229
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Recording the Users' Brain Waves in Manmade Religious Environments Based on Psychological Assessment of Form in Creation/Enhancement of Spiritual Sense. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Ali Sadeghi Habibabad,Jamal-E-Din MahdiNejad,Hamidreza Azemati
The present study tries analyzing the psychological effects of such an indicator as form (dome’s pattern) in architectural designing of the religious environments like mosques so as to investigate the creation/enhancement of spiritual sense and come up with the best pattern for the construction of such environments in an order of priority. The study makes use of a combined analysis method in such a
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The Myth of a Previous Asocial State: some Criticisms and Reflections. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Ángela Karina Ávila Hernández
The question about the origin of social behavior from the evolutionary perspective can be traced back to Darwin. However, the advance of research and discoveries made especially in the first half of the past century, as well as the theoretical positions disseminated by some of the representatives of the so-called «Neo-Darwinist» epistemological position, led to the inquiry about reciprocity and cooperation
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The Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches to Social Representations Theory - an Empirical Meta-Theoretical Analysis. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Annamaria Silvana de Rosa,Laura Arhiri
Part of a larger project aimed at performing an empirical meta-theoretical analysis of the entire corpus of scientific literature on Social Representations Theory (SRT), this research presents the state of the art of the anthropological and ethnographic approaches to SRT. Applying the Grid for Meta-Theoretical Analysis on 295 publications selected from the So.Re.Com“A.S. de Rosa”@-library, we compiled
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Un-Certainty as a Pragmatic Resource for Psychiatric Argumentation: a Diachronical and Diatextual Approach. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Rosa Scardigno,Giuseppe Mininni
Psychiatry is the science that aims to propose plausible theories in the description and explanation of “body-mind” pathologies. Since also the modern institution of science produces a type of discourse aimed at reducing human insecuritas through a progressive falsification of conjectures on how things are actually, it seems very important to monitor the discursive construction of un-certainty about
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On the Foundations of Psychology: the Problem Is Grammatical, Not Theoretical. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Martin B Smedlund
Zagaria et al. (Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, X 1–44, 2020) argue that psychology is a science marked by theoretical chaos and that it is possible to rectify this by letting the theoretical framework of evolutionary psychology serve as a foundation for psychology at large. While agreeing to the fact that psychology lacks direction, I maintain that this problem is not theoretical
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Evaluation of Decision-Making Chains and their Fractal Dimensions. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-07-14 Eugene Dulov
A decision-making process is a part of the decision-making theory, reasonably placing a major research interest on the question how the process is conducted and what affects the process itself in general. Naturally it is perceived as a sequence of steps, where things are moving forward little-by-little towards to the settled goal. An analysis could be done before (planning), during the process (control
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Existential Humanistic Leadership (EHL) as a Dialogical Process: Equality of the Non-equality in Organizations. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Enno Freiherr von Fircks
The paper is a novel extension of the Dialogical Self Theory (DST) to organizational psychology. In organizations there are rich conflicts and ambiguous situations in which joint meaning making is indispensable for future trajectories of the follower, the leader and the organization itself. This negotiation process is influenced by power imbalances within the organization, mostly between leader and
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The Game of Science and Puzzles of Paradigm. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Girishwar Misra,Raghubir Singh Pirta,Indiwar Misra,Nivida Chandra
Zagaria, Andó́ and Zennaro (in this issue) have offered that the discipline of psychology is fraught with conceptual chaos and a multiplicity of constructs. They have also assessed psychology to be a soft science, with much potential to be a hard science, should it allow itself to be unified by the principles offered by evolutionary psychology. With this approach, psychology would transition from its
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Imagination in General Psychology: Thinking with Luca Tateo's "A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding". Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Davood G Gozli
How should we understand imagination within the broader framework of general psychology? Turning to Luca Tateo’s (2020) recent book, A theory of imagining, knowing, and understanding, I begin with asking what imagination is. The question leads to seeing the interplay between imagination, perception, and conceptual organization. Identifying the affective dimension of imagination and how imagination
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From Clay Feet to New Psychology: Starting the Move. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Jaan Valsiner
This Special Issue sets the stage for constructive integration of psychology with relevant phenomena it needs to study, and with its interdisciplinary collaboration possibilities. Based on a regular submission of an analysis of the conceptual network of psychology (Zagaria et al. 2020) an international constructive discussion ensued, with charting out three potential future pathways to psychology as
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Inching Toward a Unified Metatheory for Psychology. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Michael F Mascolo
Zagaria et al. (2020) have aptly suggested that as a discipline, psychology is a giant with feet of clay. Drawing on the content of introductory textbooks, the authors show that there is little coherence and consensus about the meaning of key psychological terms – including such terms as psychology, mind, behavior. Drawing on evidence marking psychology is a “soft” science, the authors suggest that
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Psychology's Status as a Science: Peculiarities and Intrinsic Challenges. Moving Beyond its Current Deadlock Towards Conceptual Integration. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Jana Uher
Psychology holds an exceptional position among the sciences. Yet even after 140 years as an independent discipline, psychology is still struggling with its most basic foundations. Its key phenomena, mind and behaviour, are poorly defined (and their definition instead often delegated to neuroscience or philosophy) while specific terms and constructs proliferate. A unified theoretical framework has not
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Discursive and Non-discursive Symbolization during couple's Conflict. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Pablo Fossa,María Elisa Molina,Sofía de la Puerta,Michelle Barr
The purpose of this article was exploring the role of discursive and non-discursive symbolization - specifically gestures - in the negotiation of differences in couples´ interactions. Five married heterosexual couples were invited to hold a conversation about an unsolved problem in their relationship. A videographic analysis was carried out to explore gestures in dialogical sequences and Microgenetic
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Dialogues in Infertility: Exploring the Potential for Psychological Adaptation. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-11 Kristiina Uriko
The objective of this paper is to detail the process of psychological adaptation for a woman navigating the world after a diagnosis of age-related infertility. Infertility is a medical condition, but it occurs within a social and cultural context, thereby creating social and psychological dimensions. Discrepancies between a woman’s fertility ideals and her reality may be related to both personal preferences
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Self-Meaning of Oligodactyly: Health Communication Study of People with Oligodactyly in the Village of Ulutaue, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Sulaeman,Muhammad Rijal,M Ridwan
A health communication of the people with oligodactyly aims at exploring the meanings associated with deformities of physical organs in fingers and/or toes from birth. This study discusses how fifteen people with oligodactyly in the village Ulutaue, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, construct themselves having physical abnormalities and physical organs different from those of other people through communicating
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One Step Further: Where to Put the Subjectivity of Human Mind in Efforts of Integrating Psychology? Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Aruna Wu,Shuangshuang Xu
In this paper we tried to deepen Zagaria, Andò and Zennaro’s reflection on the problem of integrating psychology in their paper “Psychology: A Giant with Feet of Clay” (Zagaria et al. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 54, 3, 2020). Psychology obtained this question from the uniqueness of its objects and it is an unavoidable question because of the social reality of modernity. We went
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The Semiotic Paradigm in Psychology. A Mature Weltanschauung for the Definition of Semiotic Mind. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Raffaele De Luca Picione
The author discusses the relevance of the semiotic perspective for the psychological studies in order to deal with some critical issues. In the view of the author, the presumed weakness of psychology, its difficult to be acknowledged among hard sciences, and the lack of worldwide acceptance of its constructs cannot be solved by an evolutionary perspective that risk to cut off many relevant features
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The Embodied Dimension of Imagination. Expanding the Loop Model. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Fabienne Gfeller,Tania Zittoun
While the sociocultural embeddedness of imagination received the researchers’ attention over the last years, less research was dedicated to the embodied dimension of imaginary processes. Nevertheless, any person engaged in imagination is always also a body. Moreover, there is no clear limit between imagination in thought, and in exploratory external actions. The aim of the present paper is to contribute
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Mapping Cultural Values onto the Brain: the Fragmented Landscape. Integr. Psych. Behav. Sci. (IF 0.631) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Alexander Shkurko
Basic values are the core element of culture, explaining many important differences in social, economic and political effects. Yet the nature and the composition of cultural value systems remains highly debatable. An emerging field of cultural neuroscience promises to shed light on how societies differ in their value systems and on the low-level mechanisms through which they operate. A systematic review