Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
May 6, 2026
Steven J. Haase
As Tsikandilakis et al. (2025) illustrate, an intense back and forth scientific debate on the existence and scope of unconscious processing has existed for at least 2000 years and within the field of psychology for well over 100 years. The focus of my commentary highlights important contributions from signal detection theory, which my work was based upon, beginning over 30 years ago (Haase,...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
February 2, 2026
Vadim Saunanen
This paper presents the Cubic Model of Intelligence — a phenomenological and cognitive approach to understanding seven interrelated aspects of the mind: logic,emotion, intuition, memory, ethics, social context, and temporal foresight. The model is derived from observation of internal thinking processes and proposes to view these aspects not as separate functions but as facets of a unified...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
November 15, 2025
Minoru Matsui
4 citations
This paper addresses the longstanding ambiguity of terms such as self , identity , and subjectivity in psychology and philosophy. Rather than adding yet another definition, it introduces Metaqualia Theory (MTQ) as a structural grammar that generates these notions as derivative effects of the Q–M–T cycle: Qualia (Q) as raw experiential material, Metaqualia (M) as interpretive stances, and...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
October 30, 2025
Dominik Stefan Mihalits
1 citation
Extreme experiences lie at the edges of human existence-and precisely for that reason, they demand the attention of psychology and psychotherapy science. However, in this context, extremes are often interpreted as pathological deviations from an assumed norm. This article argues for a conceptual re-evaluation: extremes should not be understood primarily as symptomatic distortion or disorders,...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
October 1, 2025
Mohammad Dawood Rahimi
In the present work of intellect, we introduce a novel approach to selfhood, the Onto-Rhythmic Self, situated within a participatory ontology in which Consciousness and Time function not as substrates but as expressive modalities of Being. Through a comparative critique of Husserl's transcendental ego and Dennett's narrative self, we classify four axes of limitation: the Who of subjectivity,...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
April 22, 2024
Lars‐gunnar Lundh
6 citations
Most present-day research on mindfulness treats mindfulness as a variable that is studied in relation to other variables. Although this research may provide us with important knowledge at the population level and mechanism level, it contributes little to our understanding of the phenomenon of mindfulness as it is experienced and enacted at the person level. The present paper takes a...