{"title":"Embodiment as a synthesis of having a body and being a body, and its role in self-identity and mental health","authors":"Lars-Gunnar Lundh, Lo Foster","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The experience of embodiment is a central theme in phenomenological philosophy and has recently received increasing attention also within psychological science. In the present paper we argue (1) that the experience of embodiment represents a fundamental synthesis of <em>having</em> a body (the body as an object) and <em>being</em> a body (the body as felt “from within”); (2) that this synthesis is basic to an individual's experience of self-identity; (3) that each individual, as an existential task, has to develop their specific version of the embodiment synthesis; (4) that these syntheses can be more or less harmonious or disharmonious, and that disharmonious syntheses are associated with psychological distress and psychopathology. Different phenomenological accounts of possible variants of disharmonious embodiment, as found in the literature on eating disorders, are discussed and compared. Finally, some research implications and clinical implications are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"74 ","pages":"Article 101083"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000114/pdfft?md5=4969361bcb11c43b48e65d4192d4d082&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000114-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On ecological literacy through implicated participation","authors":"Carl T. Woods , Keith Davids , Duarte Araújo","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Philosopher-activist Heather Menzies advocates for an approach to ecological literacy that goes beyond knowing about the interconnected goings on of the world from afar by foregrounding the import of relating <em>with</em> a locale through prolonged periods of <em>implicated participation</em>. Here, we offer further insight to these views across three sections. First, following a brief excursus, we show how Menzies' views of implicated participation focus less on the explication of facts <em>about</em> the world, more as enabling us to be taught <em>by</em> its goings on. It is, in other words, to study <em>with</em> and learn <em>from</em> the beings and things which surround us. Second, we incorporate Menzies' views with the ecological approach to psychology, drawing specifically on the concept of <em>affordance</em>. This helps us take up with the practical challenge of fostering Menzies' views in places tightened by privatisation, commodification and homogenisation: factors over-constraining the ways people can engage with the affordances of a locale. Thus, section three leans on key ideas from Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens to reposition ‘leftover spaces’ as <em>arenas for ecological literacy</em>: thrivingly loose ecologies enriched with affordances determined over varying timescales of implicated participation. To think with these ideas, two cases are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101079"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000072/pdfft?md5=e192c74dda684089176e4c0cf940a69d&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000072-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140015941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining theoretical modelling and machine learning approaches: The case of teamwork effects on individual effort expenditure","authors":"Simon Eisbach , Oliver Mai , Guido Hertel","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Machine learning modelling of psychological processes is often considered as competing alternative to theoretical modelling. In contrast, the current study explores potential synergetic effects of these two general approaches both for predictive accuracy and theoretical understanding. Theoretical models have high explanatory value but can have weak predictive power. Machine learning models have high predictive power but low transparency and require large amounts of data and computational power. The combination of machine learning and theoretical models may yield both higher predictive accuracy as well as higher explanatory value and lower requirements of data and computational power as compared to either of the two approaches alone. We examine our assumptions in the field of team motivation, using archival performance data from 1,425,926 individual and relay races of swimming competitions. While the results revealed better prediction of the machine learning model, an exploration of the machine learning model with explainable artificial intelligence methods offered new insights also for the theoretical model. Finally, the combination of machine learning and theoretical modelling required less computational power than the machine learning approach alone, but not less data for building the model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101077"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000059/pdfft?md5=907ddafb617c621310f557901c81a4b4&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000059-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139935367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yannick Hill , Margaret Morison , Abbey Westphal , Solène Gerwann , Bernard P. Ricca
{"title":"When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note","authors":"Yannick Hill , Margaret Morison , Abbey Westphal , Solène Gerwann , Bernard P. Ricca","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101076","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditionally, resilience has been viewed as a general positive adaptation to stressors. However, the hallmark of resilience – returning to the previous state following a perturbation – may also have severe downsides, which are often overlooked. Specifically, it may be unrealistic to return to the previous state or resilience may cause a person to become stuck in an undesirable state. In this article, we first call for a more nuanced theoretical conceptualization of resilience. To do so, we draw on insights from dynamical systems theory help to clearly define the role of a stressor and the idealized pathway to adapt to it. Then, we exemplify the potential downsides of resilience in the context of trauma and social adversity, learning, and goal-disengagement. In conclusion, researchers and practitioners should become more cautious with the term resilience and provide nuanced accounts for what they mean to avoid potentially harmful consequences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101076"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000047/pdfft?md5=2019863753d5be99b38da2cb91ba5901&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X24000047-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139744394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leslie Greenberg, Juan Pascual-Leone, Janice Johnson
{"title":"Schematic processing and emotional change: Implications for treatment","authors":"Leslie Greenberg, Juan Pascual-Leone, Janice Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper lays out a model of mental schemes and schematic processes and uses it to offer an alternative \"schematic synthesis\" model of psychological change—a model that is at variance with most conventional theories. We argue that a theory of the <em>internal</em> workings of the mind, which provides a theoretical <em>explanation</em> of how clients' in-session experiences and performances are constructed, moment-by-moment, would enhance therapists' effectiveness and provide a guide for intervention. In this paper we describe how Pascual Leone's Theory of Constructive Operators (TCO) (Pascual-Leone & Johnson, 2021) can be applied to understand therapeutic change. TCO describes a mind that works by scheme activation, in combination with mental operators that act on schemes, to facilitate their synthesis. It offers a theoretical view of the internal workings of the mind that can causally <em>explain</em> how change occurs. This differs from standard accounts of mechanisms of change, such as learning or insight, which predominantly provide <em>descriptions</em> of how change occurs from an external vantage point. We use the TCO model to explain how emotional change takes place in therapy by a developmental process of transformation by “synthesis” of schemes, rather than by learning or insight. We illustrate application of the model in the context of a therapy transcript.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101075"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139718611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Ideas in PsychologyPub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s12070-023-04170-w
Ritu K Sheth, Devika S Shere, Athira Vishnurag, Deepika A Choudhary, Subramanyam Iyer
{"title":"Rare Case of Nasal Tip Schwannoma - A Case Report.","authors":"Ritu K Sheth, Devika S Shere, Athira Vishnurag, Deepika A Choudhary, Subramanyam Iyer","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04170-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04170-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Schwannoma is a benign neurogenic neoplasm which is arising from schwann cells of peripheral nerve sheath. It can occur in anywhere in the body. Schwannoma of sinonasal tract is extremely rare. Here we report a rare case of schwannoma of nasal tip. A 45 year old male presented with a swelling of tip of the nose, causing cosmetic deformity with no other associated symptoms. Surgical excision of the mass done by using external rhinoplasty approach. Histolopathology report of specimen showed a well circumscribed schwannoma with Antoni A and Antoni B areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"23 1","pages":"1421-1424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10908948/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76952848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yannick Hill , Adam W. Kiefer , Raôul R.D. Oudejans , Anke S. Baetzner , Ruud J.R. Den Hartigh
{"title":"Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance","authors":"Yannick Hill , Adam W. Kiefer , Raôul R.D. Oudejans , Anke S. Baetzner , Ruud J.R. Den Hartigh","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although stressors are frequently linked to several negative health outcomes, experiencing stressors may be necessary for enhancing performance. At present, the literature is lacking a unified, comprehensive framework that accounts for both positive and negative outcomes following stressors. Therefore, we introduce the framework of hormesis, which has been applied in biological research for decades. According to hormesis, small-to-medium doses of a stressor can stimulate an organism's response, while large doses cause detrimental effects. In this article, we argue that these dose-response dynamics can be found in various domains of performance psychology (i.e., eustress and distress, psychological momentum, emotions, motivation, confidence, cognitive performance, training, skill acquisition, adversity, and trauma). Furthermore, hormesis also accounts for the inter- and intra-individual variability commonly found in responses to stressors. Finally, from an applied perspective, leveraging hormesis may stimulate new psychological interventions that mimic the well-known effects of (toxic) vaccinations at the level of behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101073"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139406334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring artificial intelligence approach to art therapy assessment: A case study on the classification and the estimation of psychological state based on a drawing","authors":"Seong-in Kim , Kee-Eung Kim , Seunghwan Song","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The art therapy assessment involves the classification of the psychological state of the drawer into several groups (e.g., normal or abnormal) and the estimation of it in numeric (e.g., psychological examination score) based on the interpretation of his or her drawing. Based on a qualitative approach to these tasks, a statistical approach relying various quantitative features of drawings has broadened the scope and methods in the analysis of the psychological states through drawings. In this paper, we explore an artificial intelligence approach and discuss its superiority over the statistical approach and also identify its limitations. The synergistic effects of the interdisciplinary framework combining qualitative, statistical, and artificial intelligence approaches is expected to make a critical contribution to the development of art therapy assessment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101074"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139406335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinician-administered interviews should not be considered the ‘gold standard’ method of assessing psychological distress","authors":"Philip Hyland , Mark Shevlin","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2023.101072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2023.101072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Clinician-administered interviews are widely considered the ‘gold standard’ method of assessing psychological distress. We challenge this assumption by noting that there is no empirical evidence demonstrating that psychological distress scores derived from clinician-administered interviews more accurately reflect true psychological distress scores than those derived from self-report questionnaires. Furthermore, we argue that the clinician-administered interview method is not well-suited to measuring subjective experiences of psychological distress and is likely to generate higher levels of measurement error compared to self-reports due to there being two sources of measurement error: the interviewee and the interviewer. Contrary to popular opinion, we argue that the self-report method is superior to the clinician-administered interview method for assessing subjective psychological distress.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101072"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138581923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can essences mix? An essentialist theory of genetic hybrids in the human and animal domain","authors":"Wolfgang Wagner , Nicole Kronberger","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2023.101061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2023.101061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reviews research on biological essentialist beliefs and what these entail for perceiving genetic hybrids. It is suggested that hybrid perception results from the characteristics of essentialist reasoning, according to which living beings are endowed with a specific identity as a member of a natural kind. The most important elements of attributing an essence onto an individual are its perceived causal power to determine group membership, being immutable, discrete with regard to an individual's membership in exactly one category, making members of a category appear homogeneous, and ensuring intergenerational stability. Mixing two essences as in genetic engineering strips the hybrid of an unambiguous identity in perception, and results in its devaluation. Such devaluation seems to occur on a non-conscious level and across cultures. The basic claims not only hold for animals but also apply to the human domain and to inter-ethnic procreation, primarily for respondents with conservative worldviews.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101061"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X23000545/pdfft?md5=a0c8e8e23a95fb780790d76adef35a31&pid=1-s2.0-S0732118X23000545-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138555993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}