To feel is to know relations: James' concept of stream of thought and contemporary studies on procedural knowledge
Publication date: Available online 13 March 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Andrés Haye, Manuel Torres-Sahli The theory of William James concerning the temporal and dynamic nature of mind is analyzed as implying that thought is a flow of subjective experience that belongs to the material flow of living beings, and therefore, that knowledge is primarily affective and practical rather than declarative and contemplative. In this context, we will discuss contemporary theory and research relevant to the discussion about declarative and procedural knowledge, with the focus on a literature review in the neuros...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Domain generality and domain specificity in aesthetic appreciation
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Thomas Jacobsen, Susan Beudt Aesthetic appreciation is looked at with respect to domain generality and domain specificity. Within the classic cognitive paradigm, modality- and domain-specific receptive processes are explored. These are then complemented with central processing structures. These reveal domain-specific as well as domain-general processing. Extending the classic cognitive science approach, the role of emotion in aesthetic appreciation is also explored. While domain-specific models of aesthetic appreciation are clear...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Neurobiological foundations of aesthetics and art
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Edmund T. Rolls A theory of the neurobiological foundations of aesthetics and art is described. This has its roots in emotion, in which what is pleasant or unpleasant, a reward or punisher, is the result of an evolutionary process in which genes define the (pleasant or unpleasant) goals for action. To this is added the operation of the reasoning, syntactic, brain system which evolved to help solve difficult, multistep, problems, and the use of which is encouraged by pleasant feelings when elegant, simple, and hence aesthetic solut...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotions, values, and aesthetic perception
Publication date: Available online 23 March 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Pentti Määttänen Philosophical naturalism is a suitable background for an account of aesthetic perception as an alternative to traditional aesthetic theory. Pragmatist notion of habits as meanings gives a basis for a conception of emotions and values in the framework of organism environment interaction. Any object of perception may be a carrier of meanings if some habits are involved. This holds for linguistic expressions as well as for tones of color, doors and windows, museums, galleries and other non-linguistic sign-vehicles...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Aesthetic shapes our perception of every-day objects: An ERP study
Publication date: Available online 28 March 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): S. Righi, G. Gronchi, G. Pierguidi, S. Messina, M.P. Viggiano (Source: New Ideas in Psychology)
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Tensions in naturalistic, evolutionary explanations of aesthetic reception and production
Publication date: Available online 29 March 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Aaron Kozbelt Aesthetic universals may plausibly reflect biases in aesthetic reception that arose through evolutionary pressure. However, the role universals play in high-level aesthetic creativity is not well understood. After reviewing evolutionary aspects of aesthetics, some specific proposed aesthetic universals, and the nature of creativity in aesthetic domains, I examine a creative dynamic in which long-term pressure for novelty leads to inexorable tensions with canalized aesthetic biases. Examining the role of aesthetic uni...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Towards a unified model of aesthetic pleasure in design
In this study we test the Unified Model of Aesthetics (Hekkert, 2014), which posits that the aesthetic sense has evolved to identify and value prospects for safety and accomplishment. The principles of unity-in-variety, most-advanced-yet-acceptable and autonomous-yet-connected are considered manifestations of these conflicting urges at separate levels of stimulus processing. We empirically integrate these principles to gauge their unique contribution to the aesthetic experience, using two distinct surveys (study 1–300 respondents and 20 stimuli, study 2–60 respondents and 24 stimuli). Both surveys confirm the three pri...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Aesthetic interaction as fit between interaction attributes and experiential qualities
Publication date: Available online 8 April 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Eva Lenz, Marc Hassenzahl, Sarah Diefenbach Designing an aesthetic interaction is an important issue for Interaction Design (ID) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). While a number of frameworks exist, the experimental study of potential underlying principles remains rare. In this paper, we suggest that particular interaction attributes (e.g., “fast”) are systematically related to particular experiential qualities (e.g., “feeling competent”) and that interaction “feels better” if interaction matches the intended expe...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social strategies in self-deception
Publication date: December 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 47 Author(s): Roy Dings How do people deceive themselves? I argue that although self-deception tends to be conceptualized as something that happens ‘within an individual’, it can also be a process that is distributed across the social context of a self-deceiver. In this paper I will, first, conceptually distinguish different strategies of such ‘social self-deception’. Second, I will incorporate these into the two main conceptualizations of self-deception: intentionalism and deflationism. Finally, I will show how the proposed re-conceptualizat...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Complexity-thinking and social science: Self-organization involving human consciousness
Publication date: December 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 47 Author(s): Stephen A. Sherblom Complexity-thinking refers to a cluster of concepts popularized in several branches of science, primarily in the physical sciences but increasingly in the social sciences. There is reason to be cautious regarding how the concepts are used across disciplines and branches of science. This paper discusses self-organization in dynamic systems, tracing its roots in social science and critiquing current usage of the term with regard to systems involving consciousness - humans and groups of humans. A brief sketch of the lev...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The prospects for fictionalist inquiry in psychology
Publication date: December 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 47 Author(s): William E. Smythe This paper undertakes a critical appraisal of the prospects for fictionalist inquiry in psychology, which runs contrary to the traditional dissociation between fiction and knowledge-laden discourse. Following a review of the contested boundary between fiction and nonfiction, a portrait of essential aspects of fiction emerges, which includes authorial warrant, imaginative prescription, and performative engagement. The paper then proceeds to outline fictionalism as a philosophical approach, with reference to early and mo...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - April 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Null hypothesis significance testing and Type I error: The domain problem
Publication date: April 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 45 Author(s): David Trafimow, Brian D. Earp Although many common uses of p-values for making statistical inferences in contemporary scientific research have been shown to be invalid, no one, to our knowledge, has adequately assessed the main original justification for their use, which is that they can help to control the Type I error rate (Neyman & Pearson, 1928, 1933). We address this issue head-on by asking a specific question: Across what domain, specifically, do we wish to control the Type I error rate? For example, do we wish to control it...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Inviting affordances and agency
Publication date: April 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 45 Author(s): Rob Withagen, Duarte Araújo, Harjo J. de Poel Recently several authors have suggested that affordances are not mere possibilities for action but can also invite behavior. This reconceptualization of affordances asks for a reconsideration of the ecological approach to agency. After a portrayal of the role of agency in ecological psychology, we draw upon phenomenology to reveal what it means for an agent to be invited by affordances. We sketch a dynamical model of the animal-environment relationship that aims to do justice to this analysi...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cognitive and movement measures reflect the transition to presence-at-hand
Publication date: April 2017 Source:New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 45 Author(s): Dobromir Dotov, Lin Nie, Kevin Wojcik, Anastasia Jinks, Xiaoyu Yu, Anthony Chemero The phenomenological philosopher Martin Heidegger's proposed transition from readiness-to-hand to presence-at-hand and the hypothesis of extended cognition were addressed empirically in an experiment on tool use. It involved a video game of steering erratically moving objects to a target while performing a secondary cognitive task. A strong perturbation of the hand-pointer linkage in the video game induced the transition from ready-to-hand to present-at...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotion regulation, autobiographical memories and life narratives
Publication date: Available online 13 December 2016 Source:New Ideas in Psychology Author(s): Debora Pascuzzi, Andrea Smorti Few studies have examined the relationships between emotion regulation, autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative despite evidence that suggests that these constructs are linked. The lack of research is likely ascribed to the specificity of the construct of emotion regulation. The present review examines this area of investigation and indicates two directions for the research: first, emotion regulation is considered to be an effect of autobiographical narratives; thus, individuals en...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - December 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
