Finding oneself while discovering others: An existential perspective on volunteer tourism in Thailand

Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others

Reflecting on Oneself and on Others: Multiple Perspectives via SenseCam

Six households were given multiple SenseCams, a lifelogging device, to use over the course of one week. This paper presents an exploration of how the resulting image streams were used to trigger reflections, both on the users’ own lives and on those of each other, and to offer new insights into the everyday. Further, reflection was invited not only by the images that were captured, but also whe...

Seeing and hearing others and oneself talk.

We studied the modification of auditory perception in three different conditions in twenty subjects. Observing other person's discordant articulatory gestures deteriorated identification of acoustic speech stimuli and modified the auditory percept, causing a strong McGurk effect. A similar effect was found when the subjects watched their own silent articulation in a mirror and acoustic stimuli ...

Attributing awareness to oneself and to others.

This study tested the possible relationship between reported visual awareness ("I see a visual stimulus in front of me") and the social attribution of awareness to someone else ("That person is aware of an object next to him"). Subjects were tested in two steps. First, in an fMRI experiment, subjects were asked to attribute states of awareness to a cartoon face. Activity associated with this ta...

An Attachment Perspective on Coping with Existential Concerns