In a recent reply to our article in Cognition (1984), E. Stabler criticized us on two main points: our construal of transformational grammar (TG) as a “first level” theory; and our claim that a first level construal of TG is crucial, for its psychological relevance. We’d like to dispute both of these points, and in so doing re-emphasize the psychological relevance of modern transformational gra...

It has commonly been argued that certain types of mental descriptions, specifically those characterized in terms of propositional attitudes, are part of a folk psychological understanding of the mind. Recently, however, it has also been argued that this is the case even when such descriptions are employed as part of scientific theories in domains like social psychology and comparative psycholog...

Different perspectives on the spiritual and transpersonal are discussed in relation to historical developments in human thought that occurred during the ‘axial period’ (c. 800–200 BCE). Key aspects of post-axial ontology and soteriology are identified, and ‘ascending’ and ‘descending’ currents in postaxial soteriology are compared. It is argued that previous use of the term ‘descending current’...

How do people understand the minds of others? Existing psychological theories have suggested a number of dimensions that perceivers could use to make sense of others' internal mental states. However, it remains unclear which of these dimensions, if any, the brain spontaneously uses when we think about others. The present study used multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) of neuroimaging data to iden...

John Nemiah was interested in the impact of emotionally traumatic events on mental and bodily processes and in conceptualizing the psychological defenses and deficits that contribute to the development of psychological and somatic symptoms. He viewed dissociation as the central psychological mechanism in the formation of a spectrum of symptoms, and conceptualized alexithymia as a deficit in the...

Last chance tourism (LCT) has received significant attention within the academic literature and popular press because of its controversial nature bringing travelers to threatened places. However, little theory been applied understand why gravitate toward this type tourism. Hence, work combines value–belief–norm (VBN) model planned behavior (TPB) framework explain intentions participate in LCT. ...

Affordance and the brain's mirrored systems are closely linked, according to neuroscientific psychological findings. In spite of this, there many aspects both standalone their representations that we still do not fully comprehend. this paper, provide an analysis goal-oriented neurophysiological selection representation in affordances. We aim at discussing different affordance regulations prefro...

In this paper we explore the connections between ethics and decision theory. In particular, we consider the question of whether decision theory carries with it a bias towards consequentialist ethical theories. We argue that there are plausible versions of the other ethical theories that can be accommodated by “standard” decision theory, but there are also variations of these ethical theories th...

A behavioral dimension of impulse versus constraint has long been observed by personality psychologists. This article begins by reviewing processes underlying this dimension from the perspectives of several personality theories. Some cases of constraint reflect inhibition due to anxiety, but some theories suggest other roots for constraint. Theories from developmental psychology accommodate bot...