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Publication date: April 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 53Author(s): (Source: New Ideas in Psychology)
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - March 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do children know what they know? Metacognitive awareness in preschool children
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Eleonora Papaleontiou LoucaAbstractThis metacognitive ability of young children is of great interest because of its relation to children's ability to notice and reflect on their own mental states.Since Piaget's early work, young children have been considered as having little or no awareness of their mental activity. Traditionally, there was a belief of a general lack of introspective awareness and that preschoolers show little understanding of cognitive cueing (Gordon and Flavell, 1977). More recent research, however, (Louca-Papaleontiou, Mel...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - February 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The misleading Dodo Bird verdict. How much of the outcome variance is explained by common and specific factors?
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Giulio de Felice, Alessandro Giuliani, Sibel Halfon, Silvia Andreassi, Giulia Paoloni, Franco F. OrsucciAbstractThe literature on psychotherapy research makes use of the so-called "Dodo Bird Verdict" to show that therapeutic change owes more to common factors than to specific techniques. According to the bulk of the empirical literature, common factors explain 30–70% of therapy outcome variance, while specific factors account for between 5% and 15%. This formulation is based on the assumption that common and specific factors are independent...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - February 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
From symptoms of psychopathology to the explanation of clinical phenomena
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Tony Ward, Samuel ClackAbstractOur understanding of mental disorders has focused on syndromes and symptom clusters rather than on the nature of the symptom and signs themselves. This paper argues that understanding the composition of symptoms is a valuable way of identifying, describing, classifying, and explaining what disorders are. We begin by discussing the different phases of scientific inquiry and the role that phenomena detection plays in advancing the goals of science. Second, we explore the nature of symptoms, arguing for the epistem...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - February 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The fame monster: Unintended consequence of fame for psychological science
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Christopher J. FergusonAbstractScientific fields often assign fame to certain individuals and studies to delineate a narrative about the field's importance, success, and contribution to knowledge. However, such assignations of fame can result in a situation wherein assumptions of scientific merit may follow from fame, rather than fame following from clear scientific merit. This can result in several problems for the field including conflicts of interest in peer review, resistance to disconfirmatory results, politicization of some research are...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Positive and negative valences of the Human body in schizophrenia: A pilot study of emotional narrative regarding the front and back
This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to explore a crucial, largely unexamined, aspect of the embodied experience of emotions: the front-back axis of the body image in its association with positive or negative emotional words (e. g., Joy, Pleasure, Tenderness, Anger, Anxiety, Fear, and so on). We demonstrate that this spatial axis (front-back) of the body image constitutes two principal emotional narratives. One views the front of the body as conflictual and dangerous, and the other apprehends the back as more reassuring, pleasurable and calming. This kind of emotional narrative,...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Is morality the last frontier for machines?
Publication date: Available online 11 January 2019Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Bipin IndurkhyaAbstractThis paper examines some ethical and cognitive aspects of machines making moral decisions in difficult situations. We compare the situations when humans have to make tough moral choices with those in which machines make such decisions. We argue that in situations where machines make tough moral choices, it is important to produce justification for those decisions that are psychologically compelling and acceptable by people. (Source: New Ideas in Psychology)
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Agreement in the ultimatum game: An analysis of interpersonal and intergroup context on the basis of the consensualistic approach to negotiation
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Alexios Arvanitis, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Alexandra HantziAbstractThe main paradigm in the study of negotiation is the decision-making approach, which emphasizes an individual-based factor of behavior, self-interest. Focusing on the ultimatum game, we reviewed the segment of the empirical literature that emphasizes social-contextual mechanisms, particularly interpersonal communication and intergroup relations. We found that, through communication, proposals are treated as justifiable claims and that the social context provides different n...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Can artificial intelligences be moral agents?
Publication date: Available online 8 January 2019Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Bartosz Brożek, Bartosz JanikAbstractThe paper addresses the question whether artificial intelligences can be moral agents. We begin by observing that philosophical accounts of moral agency, in particular Kantianism and utilitarianism, are very abstract theoretical constructions: no human being can ever be a Kantian or a utilitarian moral agent. Ironically, it is easier for a machine to approximate this idealised type of agency than it is for homo sapiens. We then proceed to outline the structure of human moral practices. Against th...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Dynamic Systems Theory of epistemic curiosity
Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Ahmet SubaşıAbstractThe article offers a unified theory of epistemic curiosity within dynamic systems framework. It focuses on complex motivational dynamics leading to epistemic curiosity preferences, which are complexly determined by a combination of motivational, affective and cognitive sub-systems operating within an epistemic ecology. Each sub-system is delimited and modelled as an interacting dimension of the multidimensional causality of the system. The theory focuses on personal variations rather than population averages and offers a...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Reconsidering human dignity in the new era
Publication date: Available online 2 January 2019Source: New Ideas in PsychologyAuthor(s): Katerina ZdravkovaAbstractDignity is one of those human values, which have dramatically changed in the last few decades. This paper tries to raise awareness of the risks of massively used inventions and new technologies and their possibility to threaten human dignity. It briefly introduces the technologies that symbolize the new era by explaining their birth, current applications, benefits and challenges, and examines the decisive factors that might compromise human rights. Human dignity is concisely re-evaluated, paying attention to...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Emotions, social activity and neuroscience: The cultural-historical formation of emotion
This article challenges the use of cognitive-behavioural psychological models underpinning many of the dominant and popular accounts of emotion in the neurosciences. Acknowledging that neurobiology is important for any understanding of emotion, an alternative model of neuropsychology is sought in the work of theorists of the cultural-historical school, particularly A. N. Leontyev and A. R. Luria. The importance of their work in stressing the key role of intentional social activity, culture, and language in the formation of human neuropsychological functions is developed into a theory of emotions that can provide an alterna...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: January 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 52Author(s): (Source: New Ideas in Psychology)
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - November 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A theoretical foundation for ecopsychology: Looking at ecofeminist epistemology
Publication date: January 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 52Author(s): Patric PlesaAbstractIn this paper, I address shortcomings in psychology's attempts at engaging with environmentalism, and provide a theoretical foundation from which psychologists can be more ecologically aware and contribute toward environmental and conservational efforts. I draw from feminist epistemology, and more specifically, ecofeminism, for nuanced and holistic ways to think about our place in, and ethical responsibility to the environment. Ecofeminism provides the necessary conditions for an ethical ecology that can translate into a ...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - October 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Schadenfreude deconstructed and reconstructed: A tripartite motivational model
Publication date: January 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 52Author(s): Shensheng Wang, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Philippe RochatAbstractSchadenfreude is the distinctive pleasure people derive from others' misfortune. Research over the past three decades points to the multifaceted nature of Schadenfreude rooted in humans’ concerns for social justice, self-evaluation, and social identity. Less is known, however, regarding how the differing facets of Schadenfreude are interrelated and take shape in response to these concerns. To address these questions, we review extant theories in social psychology and draw upon evi...
Source: New Ideas in Psychology - October 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
