Abstract Situated normativity is the ability of skilled individuals to distinguish better from worse, adequate inadequate, appropriate inappropriate, or correct incorrect in context a particular situation. consists situated appreciation expressed normative behaviour, and can be experienced as bodily affective tension that motivates individual act on possibilities for action offered by concrete ...

The notion that maternal reflective functioning, namely the mother's capacity to hold her baby and his mental states in mind, plays a vital role in the intergenerational transmission of attachment is investigated (Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, & Target, 2002; Fonagy et al., 1995; Slade, this volume). A parent's capacity to understand the nature and function of her own as well as her child's mental s...

Two full reflective subcategories of %/i are constructed whose intersection is not reflective.

Functional imaging studies consistently support the role of the medial prefrontal cortex to be a part of a functional network of reflective self-awareness. The current study introduces a new linguistic task which (1) directly compares self-reference and other-reference, and (2) separates pre-reflective from reflective aspects of self-awareness. Twenty-six healthy volunteers evaluated trait adje...