Towards an ecological approach to emotions and the individual differences therein
Publication date: December 2018Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 51Author(s): Rob WithagenAbstractIn the present paper, I aim to develop a Gibsonian approach to our emotional responses to the environment. To that end, the relationships between affordances, emotions, and information will be explored. After laying out Gibson's original concept of affordances as possibilities for action, I sketch a recent view that holds that affordances often invite or solicit actions. It is argued that Dewey's theory of emotions is a natural ally of this concept of inviting affordances. Focusing on the emotions of fear and anger, I wi...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Components of cultural complexity relating to emotions: A conceptual framework
Publication date: December 2018Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 51Author(s): Radek Trnka, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, Peter TavelAbstractMany cultural variations in emotions have been documented in previous research, but a general theoretical framework involving cultural sources of these variations is still missing. The main goal of the present study was to determine what components of cultural complexity interact with the emotional experience and behavior of individuals. The proposed framework conceptually distinguishes five main components of cultural complexity relating to emotions: 1) emotion language, 2) concep...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Did humans evolve to innovate with a social rather than technical orientation?
Publication date: December 2018Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 51Author(s): William von Hippel, Thomas SuddendorfAbstractThe quality and frequency of human technical innovation differentiates us from all other species, and has played a primary role in creating the cognitive niche that we occupy. Yet, despite the centrality of technical innovation to human culture and our daily lives, most people rarely if ever innovate new products. To address this discrepancy we consider our evolutionary history, and how it might have created a species whose members are both highly innovative and highly unlikely to invent new prod...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Frequentist and Bayesian inference: A conceptual primer
The objective of this paper is to describe some of the most prominent issues plaguing frequentist inference, including NHST. In addition, some Bayesian benefits are introduced to show that it offers solutions to several problems inherent in frequentist statistics. The overall aim is to provide a non-threatening, conceptual overview of these concerns. The hope is that this will facilitate greater awareness and understanding of the need to address these matters in empirical psychology. (Source: New Ideas in Psychology)
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When robots appear to have a mind: The human perception of machine agency and responsibility
Publication date: Available online 27 November 2017Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Sophie van der Woerdt, Pim HaselagerAbstractAn important topic in the field of social and developmental psychology is how humans attribute mental traits and states to others. With the growing presence of robots in society, humans are confronted with a new category of social agents. This paper presents an empirical study demonstrating how psychological theory may be used for the human interpretation of robot behavior. Specifically, in this study we applied Weiner's Theory of Social Conduct as a theoretical background for studying at...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does it matter when we want to Be alone? Exploring developmental timing effects in the implications of unsociability
Publication date: Available online 3 February 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Robert J. Coplan, Laura L. Ooi, Danielle BaldwinAbstractUnsociability is a characteristic that refers to individual differences in the non-fearful preference for solitude. There is continued debate pertaining to the potential costs and benefits of solitude for our well-being. In this essay, we consider various approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of unsociability, and explore its implications for socio-emotional functioning. Further, we propose a somewhat speculative theoretical model of developmental timing effects f...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Prenatal influences on the development and stability of personality
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): John E. Krzeczkowski, Ryan J. Van LieshoutAbstractThe brain rapidly develops during the prenatal period; therefore, intrauterine conditions can affect neurodevelopment, behavior and health across the lifespan. The developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis posits that physiological alterations are made by the fetus to adapt to prenatal conditions. Research examining links between perinatal adversity and neurodevelopment has focused mainly on the risk for mental health problems. However, these disorders are likely the pr...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Personality development in the context of individual traits and parenting dynamics
Publication date: Available online 16 March 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Berenice Anaya, Koraly Pérez-EdgarAbstractOur conceptualization of adult personality and childhood temperament can be closely aligned in that they both reflect endogenous, likely constitutional dispositions. Empirical studies of temperament have focused on measuring systematic differences in emotional reactions, motor responses, and physiological states that we believe may contribute to the underlying biological components of personality. Although this work has provided some insight into the early origins of personality, we still lac...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Evolving enactivism: Basic minds meet content, Daniel D. Hutto, Erik Myin. MIT Press (2017), 360pp. € 27.21 (Amazon.de), ISBN: 9780262036115
Publication date: Available online 4 April 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Duilio Garofoli (Source: New Ideas in Psychology)
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Culture and shyness in childhood and adolescence
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Xinyin ChenAbstractShyness refers to anxious reactivity in challenging social situations. Whereas shyness is believed to be biologically rooted, individual socialization experiences play a role in shaping its development. In this paper, I discuss issues related to culture, different forms of shyness, and adjustment. Cultural beliefs and values, particularly those related to socialization goals, are reflected in adults' and peers' attitudes toward children's shy behavior, which ascribe meaning to the behavior and, at the same time, regula...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Personality development among Indigenous youth in Canada: Weaving together universal and community-specific perspectives
Publication date: Available online 3 May 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Jacob A. Burack, Erin Gurr, Emily Stubbert, Vanessa WevaAbstractIn trying to cobble together a mosaic of information to better understand the disparate and complex issues affecting personality development of the Indigenous youth of Canada, we highlight the need for multiple perspectives. We suggest that pertinent theories from academic psychology, especially those of sociocultural theory and social identity theory, are useful in framing evidence relevant to understanding personality development among Indigenous youth in Canada, but also ...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
On the bifurcation of temperamental shyness: Development, adaptation, and neoteny
Publication date: Available online 3 May 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Louis A. Schmidt, Kristie L. PooleAbstractIn the present paper, the authors use Tinbergen's (1963) seminal four question framework regarding ontogeny, causation, function, and phylogeny to understand individual differences in human shyness. We argue that there are at least two shyness subtypes, an early appearing fearful shyness, and a later emerging self-conscious shyness (Buss, 1986) that develop into avoidant and conflicted shyness, respectively, in early childhood and remain relatively stable into adulthood. We proffer that each shyn...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Epineuromics: Implications for development
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2018Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Jonathan D. Moreno, Jay SchulkinAbstractWe note a curious absence in the nomenclature of neuroscience. In neuroscience, neuromics is the study of the totality of neurons in an organism. But the nervous system cannot be fully understood without an account of its interactions with influences that are independent of it. The term we recommend, epineuromics, highlights the continuity and permeability of neural changes within the larger environment. Epineuromics captures the appreciation that the brain is labile but constrained, that it is p...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition?
Publication date: August 2018Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 50Author(s): Laura Aymerich-FranchAbstractEmerging technologies such as virtual reality and robots are evolving to increasingly integrate the user into the interface. During this temporary merge, users experience a digital or a robotic body of an avatar as their own. Embodied cognition sustains that the body and its interactions with the environment play an important role in cognition. I argue that the adoption of mediated embodiment technologies to explore cognitive development might substantially contribute to demonstrating the postulates of embodied co...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
