The empathic, physiological resonance of stress
From Social Neuroscience Abstract Physiological resonance between individuals is considered fundamental to the biological capacity for empathy. Observers of pain and distress commonly exhibit increases in reported distress, autonomic arousal, facial mimicry, and overlapping neural activity. An important, unstudied question is whether physiological stress can also resonate. Physiological stress is operationalized as activation of the ...
Cyborg Anthropology and/as Endocolonisation
From Digital Journalism By Udo Krautwurst Abstract Paul Virilio’s ‘war model’ of social analysis proposed the concept of endocolonisation. The concept has two aspects: one macrosocial, wherein a war economy is carried over into peacetime, restraining potential development in civil society; the other microsocial, such that the human body is increasingly becoming a site of ...
My face in yours: Visuo-tactile facial stimulation influences sense of identity
From Social Neuroscience Abstract Self-face recognition is crucial for sense of identity and self-awareness. Finding self-face recognition disorders mainly in neurological and psychiatric diseases suggests that modifying sense of identity in a simple, rapid way remains a “holy grail” for cognitive neuroscience. By touching the face of subjects who were viewing simultaneous touches on a ...
The Evolution of Evolution, by Phin Upham
By contributor Phin Upham The word evolution has changed its meaning over the past century with the introduction of Darwinian theories. Despite this shift in usage, many of the connotations and shades of meaning of older usages have carried over to today. The word evolution is sometimes used today as a crude amalgamation of two ...
Intersubjective science
From the Journal of Consciousness Studies. By M. Velmans Abstract The study of consciousness in modern science is hampered by deeply ingrained, dualist presuppositions about the nature of consciousness. In particular, conscious experiences are thought to be private and subjective, contrasting with physical phenomena which are public and objective. In the present article, I argue ...
Color Charts, Esthetics, and Subjective Randomness
Article via the journal Cognitive Science. By Yasmine B. Sanderson Abstract Color charts, or grids of evenly spaced multicolored dots or squares, appear in the work of modern artists and designers. Often the artist/designer distributes the many colors in a way that could be described as “random,” that is, without an obvious pattern. We conduct ...
Forensic science – A true science?
Article via the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences. By Frank Crispino, Olivier Ribaux, Max Houck, and Pierre Margot Abstract While the US jurisprudence of the 1993 Daubert hearing requires judges to question not only the methodology behind, but also the principles governing, a body of knowledge to qualify it as scientific, can forensic science, based ...