Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science最新文献

Crises are not all sudden and spectacular - some are incremental and manifest in unlikely places. We explore how one person's experience and imagination of the climate crisis developed across 24 years of online diary writing. This longitudinal analysis captures the subtle shifts in people's experience close to real time, allowing us to theorise when and how the climate crisis is manifested, felt, and imagined. We move beyond the common definition of crisis as an exceptional disruption in time, recognising that it can also be a slow and elusive process, and instead ask which events bring the climate crisis to the forefront of people's experience. The analysis highlights three periods with imaginative transformations, detailing a temporal realignment and gradual differentiation. Moving from a distant cloud on the horizon into the present, the diarist's imagination increasingly gains concrete and apocalyptic form. In tandem, we trace fluctuations in eco-emotions to challenge static and linear categorisations, suggesting that the dichotomy between indirect and direct manifestations is intimately entangled through time and scaffold the imagination. Our research attempts to provide a dynamic and contextually sensitive approach to study and understand how the climate crisis is experienced and imagined over time.

The Covid-19 pandemic brought about an unprecedented global health crisis, which caused a seismic disruption of people's lives, their habitual practices, systems of meanings, and relationship to the past and the future. This contribution will explore how a group of 17 participants who wrote a collective diary during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Slovenia (March-May 2020) experienced the crisis as a personal and collective rupture, and what were the functions of the imagination in managing uncertainty, constructing new meanings, and ultimately adapting to the novel situation. Based on the diary data, we find that the global pandemic crisis was experienced as a rupture along four central dimensions: temporality, spatiality, sociality, and embodiment. Drawing on the conceptualisation of the imagination in sociocultural psychology, we have identified the functions of the imagination in different stages of adaptation to the rupture (e.g., experiencing the rupture, meaning-making, distanciation, symbolic mobility, temporal projection), and observed how people use symbolic resources to make sense of the situation, cope with the uncertainty, and construct new imaginings of the future. We thus posit that the imagination plays a central role in repairing ruptures, both in terms of semantic reconfiguration and guiding future-oriented action.

Time is an essential manifestation of human motivation. Its existence is fundamental for mental causation and free will. Despite time's unwavering importance, an unresolved debate exists regarding the actuality of time, known as the problem of time, in physics and philosophy. It asks whether time characteristics, including passage and duration are veridical. In physics, there are different perspectives regarding time. Classical approaches based on relativity theories and 4-dimensional block universe consider time to be illusory (i.e., based on an imaginaryconstruction of human mind). However, recent approaches, including the process theories (e.g., extended versions of relativity theory) assert that time is actual. Similarly, in philosophy, there are differing perspectives regarding time. Some philosophers believe that time as a passing phenomenon is unreal, whereas others argue that it is actual and exists as a reality of the world, separate from human imagination. Bergson and subsequent philosophers argue that time is actual and duration is a continual process through which one realizes his/her existence. In the motivation literature, duration is generally used as a measure of motivation. Cognitive evaluation and self-determination theories use duration in the form of free-choice behavior as a measure of intrinsic motivation (i.e., inherent interest). Motivational congruence theory (MCT) introduces overall motivation (i.e., the dialectical and dynamic interaction between intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and context) and extends the concept of duration to assess it. The paper explains how MCT addresses the problem of time by solving mental causation and free will problems and illustrating duration as a reflection of overall motivation. This perspective on time matches advanced approaches in physics and philosophy.

The aim of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the psychological problem of human attention and its development. At the center of the theoretical analysis is attention as a Higher Psychic Function, determined not by biological factors, but by cultural-historical ones. We believe that the results of the analysis can contribute to a better understanding of the development of this psychical function in order to address pedagogical and psychological challenges related to the development of attention and in particular to attention deficits (not only) in primary school pupils. This is necessary as their importance is growing now and in the future, which also makes it necessary to discuss the value of medicinal treatment critically. By characterizing the cultural-historical nature of attention, its connection with interests and needs as well as with the development of abstract thinking and the formation of concepts, it becomes evident that the development of attention, interests and (cultural) needs first of all result from learning in the dialectical unit with pedagogical activity. This also clarifies the importance of adequate educational approaches and the role of medicinal intervention for attention deficits.

This article-and this special issue-focuses on situated psychology. The purpose of this article is to provide a brief theoretical outline of what situated psychology is. If the reader wonders why they are not immediately familiar with the term 'situated psychology,' there is a simple explanation: it is a new concept (except for Phillip Cushman's argument that psychology should be "historically situated" (Cushman, 1990). However, despite the novelty of the name for the concept, it draws on a wide range of psychological traditions-ecological psychology, situated learning theory, 4E cognition, critical psychology, and more. The ambition of this article is thus to unfold a multifaceted theoretical perspective that understands situatedness as involving environment/culture/relations/context, but also as something other than just a framework within which human behavior unfolds.

This paper focuses on understanding how cultural influences, social expectancy, and personal beliefs shape the perception of altered states of consciousness and how these mental states have been interpreted as a way to communicate with the spiritual world. Altered states of consciousness are commonly encountered in religious, spiritual, and therapeutic (e.g., hypnosis) practices. While neurophysiological aspects of altered states of consciousness are an important part of understanding the nature of human consciousness, the cultural meaning that these states of mind assume in different communities is equally fundamental. The phenomenon of spirit possession is a meaningful example of how sociocultural factors influence and shape the perception of altered states of consciousness. An understanding of the meaning of spirit possession as a tool to "exorcise" individual trauma or to address communal fears and turmoil is provided here. From the historical concept of the supernatural nature of physical and mental illness through the discussion of rituals aiming at casting out or taming the possessing spirit, this paper wants to provide an understanding of how sociocultural factors have been determinant in embedding altered states of consciousness in religious and spiritual practices, and how these states are of therapeutic value for mental wellbeing.

Japan is renowned for its cutting-edge lifestyle and remarkable progress in sci-tech, becoming ahead of many other countries that sets apart on the global stage. Alongside this evident progress, there are unnoticed detrimental effects on individuals such as psychological suffering experienced by millions of Japanese due to extreme work pressure. Various stress-related problems are significant that greatly impacts their personal lives. One such agonizing concern is Hikikomori which means severe social isolation. The celebrated Japanese author, Haruki Murakami, offers insights into the contemporary life through subtle yet poignant narration that deftly captures the essence of society in his narratives. Although his characters do not directly reflect the people around him, they embody the broader difficulties and challenges in the society, hinting at potential solutions frequently. Steering through his novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, the current research paper delves into Hikikomori exploring its inferences of social isolation in Japan. By applying New Historicism, the study examines how Haruki Murakami's work highlights this rife issue and its repercussions on society, connecting to SDG 3. It furthermore investigates the cardinal causes of this issue among Japanese youth as observed in 2014, also discussing the effects of this issue today.

This paper introduces a theoretical framework of the Reflective Inner Speech Cycle (RISC), which is a model that places inner speech at the center of human behavior. It shows how individuals interpret cues from their personal environment through inner speech, which in turn shapes their reactions. The RISC model has three main parts: environment, inner speech cycle, and reaction. Before a reaction takes place, a person has to complete the inner speech cycle by gathering information in the perception part, analyzing it in reflection, making corrections (response planning), and taking action. The inner speech cycle is passed as many times as it is necessary for collecting enough information for a reaction to occur and to be sent to a person's environment.The RISC model has similarities with existing theories, but it provides a more dynamic understanding of the relationship between internal thoughts and external actions. The RISC model stands out by being a flexible, simple, and responsive model for analyzing human behavior.This article explains what the RISC model is and explores its purpose. It also explains its uniqueness and necessity, compares it with similar theories, and brings out its place in the broader landscape of human behavior theories.

Human development is a dynamic process impacted by numerous ecological systems, such as microsystems, mesosystems, ecosystems, and macrosystems. Ecological systems theory stresses several individuals in a person's environment, i.e., the researcher and the subject or the leader and individual. Leaders are significant to human development by managing values such as empathy, responsibility, participation, and democratic leaders. They should be consistent, reliable, and dependable in forming relations with unconditionally supportive followers. The Ecological Systems Model of Human Research and Development posits a combined leadership theory involving transformational and transactional models to enhance integrated human development. This methodology can create more stable, innovative, and productive organizations, eventually reflecting all stakeholders' wellness and prosperity. The theory of wholeness under Gestalt theory promotes leaders' adoption of integrative policies. Through evaluating roles, changing settings, grasping people's path of growth, and developing interventions in alignment with people's values and organizational agendas, leaders may navigate such systems and create lasting competitive advantage. The ecological systems model of human development is critical for leaders to comprehend and navigate the intricate dynamics of environmental systems and their influence on human development. Extending this research may traverse new horizons of HRD to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Clinical trial number Not applicable.