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Tag Archives: Psychology
1966: Coleslaw
From a 1996 essay by Elisabeth Roudinesco, “Lacan and Derrida in the History of Psychoanalysis”: The first encounter between Lacan and Derrida took place…at a famous symposium held in Baltimore in October 1966, which, under the auspices of the Center … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Food and Drink, France, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Philosophy, Psychology, René Descartes, USA
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1307: Qualiter caput hominis situatur
This llustration from an early fourteenth century compendium shows the five functions of the brain: perception, imagination, estimation, cogitation, and memory. Drawn from the works of Thomas Aquinas and the Arabic philosopher Avicenna, the theory posits that sensory information enters … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, Art, Avicenna, France, Great Britain, Illustration, Philosophy, Psychology, Thomas Aquinas
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1956: The Hound of Heaven
In 1893, English poet Francis Thompson published a poem called “The Hound of Heaven.” The work is an extended metaphor: as a hound pursues a hare in a hunt, so does God pursue the human soul to restore it to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 1930's, 1950's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Christianity, Francis Thompson, Great Britain, Painting, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Robert Hale Ives Gammell, USA
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1961: The Disaster of Everyday Life
The distinction between “disaster” and “normal” conditions is implicit in most treatments of disaster behavior. The everyday, ongoing life of the society is usually equated with the “normal,” and those conditions that result from disaster are viewed as “abnormal” and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, Art, Books, Charles Fritz, Disasters, Illustration, Mental Health, Pierre Mion, Psychology, Trains, USA
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1938: Fire
Teresita Fernández: Fire (2005) Fire and heat provide modes of explanation in the most varied domains, because they have been for us the occasion for unforgettable memories, for simple and decisive personal experiences. Fire is thus a privileged phenomenon which … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Art, Books, Fire, France, Gaston Bachelard, Latino/as/x, Psychology, Teresita Fernández, Textiles, USA, Women
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2014: Is This Face Alive?
Using sets of morphed images created from animate (human) and inanimate (doll) faces, we found converging evidence across two studies showing that the motivation to connect with other people systematically alters the interpretation of the physical features that signal that … Continue reading
2018: Is This the Face of God?
In order to measure people’s visualizations of God’s face, we used a nascent technique known as “reverse correlation.” In reverse correlation, a face is repeatedly and randomly overlaid with visual noise to create many pairs of contrasting faces. Participants see … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Christianity, Psychology, Religion, USA
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2009: A Country Dentist
Participants were 40 Canadian-born psychology undergraduates (29 females and 11 males). They were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions. In the meaning-threat condition, participants read an absurd short story called ‘‘The Country Dentist.’’ The story is a modified … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Books, Canada, Dentistry, Franz Kafka, Medicine, Pink Floyd, Psychology, USA
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2006: WHEN I AM WITH PEOPLE I AM BOTHERED BY HEARING VERY QUEER THINGS
WHEN I AM WITH PEOPLE I AM BOTHERED BY HEARING VERY QUEER THINGS I went to the pillar-box I never saw a worse-looking house in town or in hunting zones “welcome to girly hell” turn her out because her necklace … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Books, Katie Degentesh, Mental Health, Poetry, Psychology, USA, Women
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2001: Nothing But Black Space
In a 2001 study, Tim and Virginia Kasser analyzed the dreams of people who had been assessed as either highly materialistic or non-materialistic. They asked the participants to share “the two most meaningful, memorable, or powerful dreams they remembered in … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 2000's, 21st Century, Art, Death, Dreams, Flight, Jacob Peeter Gowy, Materialism, Mythology, Netherlands, Painting, Psychology, Tim Kasser, USA, Virginia Grow Kasser
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