Body, Emotions, Mind – Mechanisms of Film Reception Revisited

Mind-Body Parallelism Revisited

This article addresses the links and interactions between the neuroscience parallel line of theories and the parallel line of mental activity and thinking. An argument is made that the most fundamental biological entity, the human genome, provides a pathway of mind-body functional coordination via a double helix metaphor. Brief selections of neuroscience and psychological theories associated wi...

Mechanisms of Mind-Body Interaction and Optimal Performance

The White Savior Film and Reviewers’ Reception

This article documents the collective interpretations of film reviewers, a position typically associated with individual aesthetic judgment rather than socially shared scripts of explanation. Drawing on the reviews of a feature film with implicit racial content, produced in the context of a supposedly “color-blind” era, this article documents how reviewers constitute a racialized interpretive c...

States of mind: Emotions, body feelings, and thoughts share distributed neural networks

Scientists have traditionally assumed that different kinds of mental states (e.g., fear, disgust, love, memory, planning, concentration, etc.) correspond to different psychological faculties that have domain-specific correlates in the brain. Yet, growing evidence points to the constructionist hypothesis that mental states emerge from the combination of domain-general psychological processes tha...

Coping and Film Reception A Study on the Impact of Film Dramas and the Mediating Effects of Emotional Modes of Film Reception and Coping Strategies

This study investigated the impact of film dramas on the emotional and cognitive state of recipients, as well as mediating effects of different modes of film reception. Furthermore, associations between the modes of reception and individual favored coping strategies were examined. One hundred fifty nondepressive and nonsuicidal adults living in Austria watched one of three films featuring the d...