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Attachment and Epigenetics (Research)
(pay-wall unfortunately) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0033294120901846 Full paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8474999/
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Research Notes on Phenomenology
On PHENOMONOLOGY Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. As a philosophical movement it was founded in the early years of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl and was later expanded upon by a circle of his followers at the universities of Göttingen and Munich in Germany. Phenomenology, in Husserl’s…
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Reviewing Research Literature Regarding ADHD & Jungian Personality Type
RESEARCH ARTICLES REVIEWED: “The Relationship of Personality Style and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733411/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335474291_A_Balanced_Approach_to_ADHD_and_Personality_Assessment_A_Jungian_Model https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330546001_Jungian_Cognitive_Functions_Reported_MBT_as_Predictors_of_ADHD/link/5c4791dd92851c22a3897064/download https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-0906-6 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24929793/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24929793/
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Scott Barry Kaufman on Creativity
EXCERPT FROM “UNGIFTED” by Scott Kaufman, PhD (Chapter: Creativity) For years, cognitive neuroscientists treated inner chatter as noise, only serving the function of comparison with the mental activity of interest to the experimenter. But due to this “fortunate accident” of including the idle mind as a control condition, neuroscientists such as Nancy Andreasen, Marcus Raichle,…
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Theories to Explore when Attempting to Understand the Human Personality (a review)
Big Five (OCEAN): https://bigfive-test.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits Thomas & Chess Infant Temperaments: http://psych.colorado.edu/~colunga/P4684/temperament.pdf Jerome Kagan Temperamental Research (Hypervigilance/ trait shyness etc…) http://people.uncw.edu/hungerforda/Graduate%20Developmental/PDF/kagan1997.pdf Attachment Overview: https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/infant-attachment-what-we-know-now Bowlby & Ainsworth: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-attachment-theory-2795337 Infant Attachment Process and Styles: (Bowlby/Aimsworth, Main, Siegal & Shore): Mary Main: https://attachmentdisorderhealing.com/adult-attachment-interview-aai-mary-main/ Dan Siegal: https://www.psychalive.org/identifying-your-childs-attachment-style/ Allan Shore: http://allanschore.com/pdf/SchoreAttachHumDev.pdf Genetic theory of Sensitivity: Dandelion vs Orchid hypothesis (Thomas…
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Social Perception, Identity & Bias
One factor that influences how we perceive others is the current cognitive accessibility of a given personality characteristic—that is, the extent to which a particular characteristic can quickly and easily come into mind of the perceiver (i.e. stereotypical and familiar personality constructs are more easily identified). Characteristics that are more commonly encountered and/or familiar are…
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Default Mode Network
The default mode network (DMN) is a network of brain regions that are active when an individual is awake and at rest. More specifically, the DMN is an interconnected and anatomically defined brain system that preferentially activates when individuals focus on internal tasks such as daydreaming, envisioning the future, retrieving memories, and gauging others’ perspectives. It…
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Stability, Plasticity and the Big 5
While personality psychologists often focus on the Big 5 traits, which include extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience, these traits are defined by two higher-order meta-traits known as stability and plasticity (DeYoung et al., 2002). This higher-level conceptualization of personality is important because it can clarify systematic ties between early attachment security and…
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Is It Shock that Shapes Us?
Some initial thoughts about the nature of human consciousness in relation to social theory: I was 9 years old the first time I saw Moe slide his heavily calloused (albeit beautifully hosed) foot into a black leather 6-inch stilleto heel. I was shocked and slightly afraid. He was a man, and I had never seen…