Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) - The Consciousness Library

Identifying Consciousness in Other Creatures: Three Initial Steps.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) April 17, 2024 Alejandro Heredia Cedillo, Dennis Lambert, Ezequiel Morsella

Identifying consciousness in other creatures, be they animals or exotic creatures that have yet to be discovered, remains a great scientific challenge. We delineate the first three steps that we think are necessary for identifying consciousness in other creatures. Step 1 is to define the particular kind of consciousness in which one is interested. Step 2 is to identify, in humans, the key...

DOI: 10.3390/bs14040337 Full text Consciousness Encapsulation Evolution Passive frame theory +1

The Impacts of Background Music on the Effects of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Positive Emotions.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) March 4, 2024 Quan Tang, Jing Han, Xianglong Zeng 3 citations

Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) has been widely used in promoting mental health, with positive emotions as an important mechanism. The current study explored the impact of background music on the effects and difficulties of LKM practice. Two hundred participants were randomly divided into six groups, wherein LKM plus music with harmony only, LKM plus music with harmony and melody, and LKM...

DOI: 10.3390/bs14030204 Full text Background music Compassion Loving-kindness meditation Positive emotions +1

Values in Action: Unveiling the Impact of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement on Domestic Consumption Choices.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) March 4, 2024 Zerui Zhao, Lu Huang

Against the backdrop of a global emphasis on supporting local businesses and fostering domestic consumption, this study aims to shed light on the influence of personal values on the intentions behind domestic-product consumption. Drawing from the Schwartz value theory, we explore how values of self-transcendence, which embody benevolence and universalism, versus self-enhancement, characterized...

DOI: 10.3390/bs14030203 Full text Consumer behavior Domestic-product consumption Norm-activation model Personal values +2

Self-Consciousness as a Construction All the Way Down.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) March 1, 2024 Massimo Marraffa, Cristina Meini 2 citations

Contemporary mind and brain sciences provide theories and data that seem to confirm a hypothesis about human nature that we might formulate as follows. Human life is conditioned by a need that is no less important than elementary biological needs (such as survival and reproduction) or universal forms of social competition: the need to build and, indeed, defend a subjective identity whose...

DOI: 10.3390/bs14030200 Full text Narrative self Physical self Self-consciousness construction Subjective identity +1

About the Need for a More Adequate Way to Get an Understanding of the Experiencing of Aesthetic Items.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) November 6, 2023 Claus-Christian Carbon

We live in times when neuroscientific methods have become standard methods that many researchers can easily use. While this offers excellent opportunities to understand brain activities linked with aesthetic processing, we face the problem of using sophisticated techniques without a proper and valid theoretical foundation of aesthetics. A further problem arises from sophisticated methods often...

DOI: 10.3390/bs13110907 Full text Aesthetic theory Dynamics Ecological validity Empirical aesthetics +2

Impact of Long-Term Shaolin Zen Meditation on Emotional Processing in Aging: A Visual ERP Study.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) June 19, 2023 Huang Gu, Tiantian Liang, Zhaoyang Xin et al.

The aging process is always accompanied by a decline in cognitive and emotional functions. Although previous studies have identified the positive effects of different meditative practices on emotional and cognitive functions, few studies have investigated the most primitive Chinese meditation-Shaolin Zen meditation. In particular, data are extremely limited regarding the brain mechanism of the...

DOI: 10.3390/bs13060513 Full text Erp Shaolin zen meditation Aging Cognition +1

Measuring Mindfulness in Business School Students: A Comparative Analysis of Mindful Attention Awareness Scale and Langer's Scale.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) January 30, 2023 Mohammed Laeequddin, K Abdul Waheed, Vinita Sahay

Research studies have established that mindfulness helps in psychological well-being, stress reduction, chronic pain management, behavioral therapy, and other areas including organizational development. Mindfulness often refers to a state of consciousness, but mindfulness can also be understood as a personality trait. State mindfulness is referred as the individual's capacity to cultivate a...

DOI: 10.3390/bs13020116 Full text Langer’s mindfulness/mindlessness scale Measuring mindfulness

The Experience of Self-Transcendence in Social Activists.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) January 11, 2023 Carol Barton, Rona Hart 24 citations

Every day the wellbeing of disadvantaged individuals and communities is being transformed through the activities of self-transcendent social activists. The positive contagion generated by their actions is felt globally through influence, replication, leadership training and education. These people are visionary, brave, and describe their lives as joyful, deeply fulfilled, and impactful. Seeking...

DOI: 10.3390/bs13010066 Full text Prosocial behavior Self-transcendence Social activism

Pre-Molecular Assessment of Self-Processes in Neurotypical Subjects Using a Single Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Evoking Autobiographical Memory.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) October 5, 2022 Jorge Emanuel Martins, Joana Simões, Marlene Barros et al. 2 citations

In the last 20 years, several contributions have been published on what concerns the conceptual and empirical connections between self-processes. However, only a limited number of publications addressed the viability of those processes to characterize mental health in neurotypical subjects with a normative pattern of neurodevelopment. Furthermore, even fewer experiments focused explicitly on...

DOI: 10.3390/bs12100381 Full text Cognitive behavioral intervention Conscious experience Mental health profiling Neurophenomenology +4

Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Functional Connectivity Changes in Older Adults Participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) February 14, 2022 Aleeze Sattar Moss, Diane K. Reibel, Nancy Wintering et al.

There is a growing interest in the potential beneficial effects of mindfulness meditation training in protecting against age-related physical, emotional, and cognitive decline. The current prospective, single-center, single-arm study investigated if functional magnetic resonance imaging-based changes in cerebral blood flow and brain functional connectivity could be observed in 11 elderly adults...

DOI: 10.3390/bs12020048 Full text Depression Mindfulness Brain Cerebral blood flow +2

Sliding Scale Theory of Attention and Consciousness/Unconsciousness.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) February 10, 2022 Brad Bowins

Attention defined as focusing on a unit of information plays a prominent role in both consciousness and the cognitive unconscious, due to its essential role in information processing. Existing theories of consciousness invariably address the relationship between attention and conscious awareness, ranging from attention is not required to crucial. However, these theories do not adequately or...

DOI: 10.3390/bs12020043 Full text Attention Awareness Cognitive unconscious Unconsciousness

Ketamine-Assisted and Culturally Attuned Trauma Informed Psychotherapy as Adjunct to Traditional Indigenous Healing: Effecting Cultural Collaboration in Canadian Mental Health Care.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) August 31, 2021 Sherry-Anne Muscat, Geralyn Dorothy Wright, Kristy Bergeron et al. 5 citations

Ketamine therapy with culturally attuned trauma-informed psychotherapy in a collaborative cross-cultural partnership may provide a critical step in the operationalization and optimization of treatment effectiveness in diverse populations and may provide a foundation for an improved quality of life for Indigenous people. Decolonizing Indigenous health and wellbeing is long overdue, requiring an...

DOI: 10.3390/bs11090118 Full text Ketamine First nations Indigenous health Colonialism +3

Mother Schema, Obstetric Dilemma, and the Origin of Behavioral Modernity.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) December 6, 2019 Richard Parncutt 8 citations

What triggered the emergence of uniquely human behaviors (language, religion, music) some 100,000 years ago? A non-circular, speculative theory based on the mother-infant relationship is presented. Infant "cuteness" evokes the infant schema and motivates nurturing; the analogous mother schema (MS) is a multimodal representation of the carer from the fetal/infant perspective, motivating fearless...

DOI: 10.3390/bs9120142 Full text Behavioral modernity Evolutionary psychology Language Mother schema +5

Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) February 9, 2018 Tommi Himberg, Julien Laroche, Romain Bigé et al. 84 citations

Collective dance improvisation (e.g., traditional and social dancing, contact improvisation) is a participatory, relational and embodied art form which eschews standard concepts in aesthetics. We present our ongoing research into the mechanisms underlying the lived experience of "togetherness" associated with such practices. Togetherness in collective dance improvisation is kinaesthetic (based...

DOI: 10.3390/bs8020023 Full text Agency Coordination Embodiment Enactivism +7

Carl gustav jung, quantum physics and the spiritual mind: a mystical vision of the twenty-first century.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) December 1, 2013 Diogo Valadas Ponte, Lothar Schäfer

We describe similarities in the ontology of quantum physics and of Carl Gustav Jung's psychology. In spite of the fact that physics and psychology are usually considered as unrelated, in the last century, both of these disciplines have led at the same time to revolutionary changes in the Western understanding of the cosmic order, discovering a non-empirical realm of the universe that doesn't...

DOI: 10.3390/bs3040601 Full text Mysticism Archetypes Cosmic consciousness Non-empirical reality +5

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