American Behavioral Scientist
October 24, 2026
Nina Bandelj, Annie Wang
In 1983, Paul DiMaggio together with Walter Powell published what would become one of the most influential articles in social science. “The Iron Cage Revisited” stipulated new drivers of collective rationality in organizational fields that departed from Weber’s emphasis on bureaucratic rationalization and disenchantment of society. In recent years, scholars have argued that forms of enchantment...
American Behavioral Scientist
August 24, 2026
Oleg Maltsev, Maryna Illiusha
Contemporary theories of consciousness have generated increasingly sophisticated explanations of perception, cognition, embodiment, information processing, and subjective experience. More recently, growing attention has been devoted to the temporal dimensions of conscious life, including anticipation, memory, duration, and lived temporality. Despite these advances, comparatively little...
American Behavioral Scientist
August 10, 2026
Oleg Maltsev, Iryna Lopatiuk
The study of consciousness has traditionally focused on perception, awareness, information processing, memory, and subjective experience. While these approaches have generated significant advances in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology, they have devoted comparatively limited attention to the temporal structures through which consciousness is organized. Existing...
American Behavioral Scientist
August 10, 2026
Leonid Gudkin, Iryna Lopatiuk
The scientific study of consciousness has produced an extensive range of theoretical frameworks addressing perception, information processing, memory, subjective experience, and neural correlates of awareness. Despite substantial progress in cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, a fundamental problem remains insufficiently explained: the transformation of cognition into...
American Behavioral Scientist
July 31, 2026
Harvey W. Kushner
Marshall McLuhan’s work on media and technology remains highly relevant to contemporary discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on human consciousness. This article examines McLuhan’s conception of media as extensions of human faculties and explores his contention that media technologies reshape not only patterns of communication but also modes of perception, cognition, and...
American Behavioral Scientist
September 11, 2012
M. Corbin
9 citations
I argue that psychedelic substances served as a doorway through which spirituality entered the scientific laboratory to an unprecedented degree by making spirituality more accessible to scientific methodologies. From a feminist sociology of knowledge perspective, these controversial sciences represent a unique opportunity to investigate the politics of knowledge constituting these traditionally...