The figurative painter accesses very complex levels of knowledge. To produce a painting requires, first, a deep analysis of the image of the reality and, afterwards, the study of the reconstruction of this reality. This is not about a process of copying, but a process of the comprehension of the concepts that appear in the representation. The drawing guides us in the process of the production o...

The assessment and implementation of development projects has been disconnected from relevant concepts in social psychology, especially those relating to understanding the interactions between local communities. This disconnection given rise prevalence several fallacies about human behaviour amongst project staff, decision makers environmental impact practitioners. playing-out these influences ...

Both psychology and psychiatry are dominated by individualistic accounts of paranoia (and indeed, other forms of distress). As a corrective to these, this paper provides a social account of paranoia grounded in a minimal notion of embodied subjectivity constituted from the interpenetration of feelings, perception and discourse. Paranoia is conceptualised as a mode or tendency within embodied su...

Both psychology and psychiatry are dominated by individualistic accounts of paranoia (and indeed, other forms of distress). As a corrective to these, this paper provides a social account of paranoia grounded in a minimal notion of embodied subjectivity constituted from the interpenetration of feelings, perception and discourse. Paranoia is conceptualised as a mode or tendency within embodied su...

Past research has found that high sensitivity to punishment is associated with a vulnerability to experience negative emotions (Carver & White, 1994) and lowered self-control (Segarra, Molto, & Torrubia, 2000). Separate lines of research have found that negative emotions may contribute to a loss of self-control (Tice, Bratslavsky, & Baumeister, 2001). Two studies were conducted to test whether ...

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We consider the following two-player game, parametrised by positive integers n and k. The game is played between Painter and Builder, alternately taking turns, with Painter moving first. The game starts with the empty graph on n vertices. In each round Painter colours a vertex of her choice by one of the k colours and Builder adds an edge between two previously unconnected vertices. Both player...